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[rkish]

Originally Posted by shinseiRomeo

Review is live:





The Makioka Sisters Blu-ray Review

The review looks really good...should have my copy today...will digest it this Saturday morning.

Glad we've gotten some Ichikawa...for those w/o region free players, I hope "The Burmese Harp" is next.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by BazMoney81

Just watched Mystery Train for the second time, it is one of those films that certainly gets better with each veiwing.

Jarmusch is an acquired taste for some...I love Mystery Train. I have to thank my wife for turning me on to Jim Jarmusch.

I'd like to see "Night on Earth" next, though I think it'll be "Down by Law".

[scottpcusa]

Originally Posted by rkish

The review looks really good...should have my copy today...will digest it this Saturday morning.

Glad we've gotten some Ichikawa...for those w/o region free players, I hope "The Burmese Harp" is next.

Indeed! My copy of "The Makioka Sisters" will be here today, too. I won't be able to watch it until tomorrow evening (long day with evening meetings tonight), but I'm really looking forward to finally seeing it.

[Banned User]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

I agree a score can grate, and thereby ruin a filmwatching experience, but I find most silent scores are mediocre at best (though I like the jazz score for Kino's Sherlock Jr.). But the first silents I ever saw were on weird crappy cable channels like Tempo that aired public domain prints of stuff like Nosferatu, Caligari, and Metropolis without any musical soundtrack, so I'm comfortable with just turning the sound off if I don't like the music. Sometimes, like with the Jean Painlevé films, I'll put some random music on and occasionally get really great, coincidental moments where the music seems perfect for the film.

Pretty much any early German Expressionist movie (like Faust, Caligari, Hands of Orlac, Nosferatu) goes perfect with Mussorgsky's 'Night on Bald Mountain'

I wish the price of High and Low would drop. I usually preorder Kurosawa films, but not at $30. The killer is at 25 I can even deal with 27, but not 29.99.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Ah yes, the terrible "read/watched it in school syndrome." It's one of the reasons why I hate Romeo & Juliet so much, the play and the Baz Lurhmann film. I studied it in grade 9, 11, and first year undergrad. Everytime they showed the Lurhmann film out of sheer laziness. Blergh. However, I'd still hate the film and play without the constant bombardiment of it in school; Shakespeare has way better stuff.

Don't judge the play by those who show it off--Baz Luhrmann would make ANYONE hate Shakespeare.
(Get it, Mercutio's now a drag queen...You go, girl!--And you can tell the Nurse is a comic character, because the camera zooms down her throat, laugh, it's funny! )
That's like hating Hamlet because of the Kenneth Branagh version.

In my day, lazy high school Shakespeare videos meant period-accurate Franco Zeferelli, end of story. (Which also applied to the Richard Burton/Liz Taylor "Taming of the Shrew".)
And if a generation has never heard of the '68 R&J (yes, with "the Brady Bunch music", get over it), that's what rentals are for--Think it's still on Instant Netflix.

YouTube - ‪Romeo and Juliet‬‏

[biglou114]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Ah yes, the terrible "read/watched it in school syndrome." It's one of the reasons why I hate Romeo & Juliet so much, the play and the Baz Lurhmann film. I studied it in grade 9, 11, and first year undergrad. Everytime they showed the Lurhmann film out of sheer laziness. Blergh. However, I'd still hate the film and play without the constant bombardiment of it in school; Shakespeare has way better stuff.

I almost felt that with To Kill A Mockingbird, I had to read it in Grade 6, 9, and 10th (or was it 11th?). The only thing that stopped me from despising it is that it is such a good story, and the book is so well written (and the movie is so well made).

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Harry Caul

No W.C. Fields?

No, Universal's still got him, and the last we saw was two bulk-bundle boxsets, and still awaiting a third we're likely never going to get. (What, no "Mississippi", "If I Had a Million", and "Million Dollar Legs"??)
They've also still got "The Bank Dick", so that ex-Criterion's never likely to happen...Wouldn't mind seeing the PD Six Shorts, though.

And leaving aside the whole question of when Universal's ever going to get around to Blu'ing vintage catalogue, we're still waiting to see what happens with those single reissues of the Marx Brothers boxset--
If the Marxes are only just now getting out of their cheapo Universal catalog-box, WC has a lot longer to wait.

[Harry Caul]

Originally Posted by EricJ

No, Universal's still got him, and the last we saw was two bulk-bundle boxsets, and still awaiting a third we're likely never going to get. (What, no "Mississippi", "If I Had a Million", and "Million Dollar Legs"??)
They've also still got "The Bank Dick", so that ex-Criterion's never likely to happen...Wouldn't mind seeing the PD Six Shorts, though.

And leaving aside the whole question of when Universal's ever going to get around to Blu'ing vintage catalogue, we're still waiting to see what happens with those single reissues of the Marx Brothers boxset--
If the Marxes are only just now getting out of their cheapo Universal catalog-box, WC has a lot longer to wait.

I know same old thing I have the W.C box sets. You can talk all day long about Chaplin on Blu-ray, doesn't bother me at all. But Marx Brothers on Blu, those words would put a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Don't judge the play by those who show it off--Baz Luhrmann would make ANYONE hate Shakespeare.
(Get it, Mercutio's now a drag queen...You go, girl!--And you can tell the Nurse is a comic character, because the camera zooms down her throat, laugh, it's funny! )
That's like hating Hamlet because of the Kenneth Branagh version.

In my day, lazy high school Shakespeare videos meant period-accurate Franco Zeferelli, end of story. (Which also applied to the Richard Burton/Liz Taylor "Taming of the Shrew".)
And if a generation has never heard of the '68 R&J (yes, with "the Brady Bunch music", get over it), that's what rentals are for--Think it's still on Instant Netflix.
YouTube - ‪Romeo and Juliet‬‏

I dislike the play for reasons other than Lurhmann. I'm more into MacBeth, Henry IV Pts. I & II, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Measure for Measure. I don't mind the Zeferelli version, but I'm still not a fan of the play.

[BohemianGraham]

Just ordered Senso. Hopefully my parents won't be too upset that I ordered Lonesome Dove for them at the same time.

[Barrysupreme]

Received today:

Wages Of Fear
Stagecoach
Hunger
Fat Girl
Insignificance
Yi Yi
Summer Hours

Can't wait to get stuck in to them all, although I think Insignificance will be watched first

[blkhrt]

From Criterion's Twitter feed:

"We've got a newsletter going out today, (with a hint that will make a lot of you very happy) sign up!"

I wonder what the hint will be.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

From Criterion's Twitter feed:

"We've got a newsletter going out today, (with a hint that will make a lot of you very happy) sign up!"

I wonder what the hint will be.

If they are going off of Facebook requests, look for it to be Badlands, a David Lynch movie, or some Hollywood movie made after 1990.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

If they are going off of Facebook requests, look for it to be Badlands, a David Lynch movie, or some Hollywood movie made after 1990.

(And every anime movie released before 1998. )

Originally Posted by blkhrt

I wonder what the hint will be.

No hints yet, but in the meantime, how about some Louis Malle reasons?

YouTube - ‪Three Reasons: Zazie dans le métro‬‏

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

If they are going off of Facebook requests, look for it to be Badlands, a David Lynch movie, or some Hollywood movie made after 1990.

Or more Wes Anderson on blu...maybe Rushmore.

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

If they are going off of Facebook requests, look for it to be Badlands, a David Lynch movie, or some Hollywood movie made after 1990.

Yeah definitly sounds like this could be an interesting hint for sure. I know there was always a rumor they were working with WB's on a couple titles possibly. WB's never loans out their films, but I think as much as many films are going the way of MOD and a lot of films fall by the wayside it seems like a good fit to make money from certain titles that WB's may feel they can't make a lot of money from on a catalog release. You stamp Criterion label on it and it can really boost sales to an extent. (I rambled with wishful thinking. Badlands, The Devils, Blow UP)

Then again it could just be a title that many would love to have upgraded to BLU.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

From Criterion's Twitter feed:

"We've got a newsletter going out today, (with a hint that will make a lot of you very happy) sign up!"

The bolded line in Criterion's tweet means everyone but SpiderBaby, CassavetesGodard, and Greg.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

The bolded line in Criterion's tweet means everyone but SpiderBaby, CassavetesGodard, and Greg.

Yes, unless there is another awesome person that is on them to release Out of the Blue. My only hope in that bolded line is something from Rivette, seeing that he is highly requested. But since Criterion is on Malick right now (even pimping out their Days of Heaven release from a post about Hopper's Out of the Blue playing in New York) I bet it's Badlands.

[jmcy2k]

Tomorrow is my b-day, and for the second year in a row I hope Criterion will give me a gift (and thrill SpiderBaby) by announcing a release I want ... last year it was The Thin Red Line, this year it's Carlos.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by jmcy2k

Tomorrow is my b-day, and for the second year in a row I hope Criterion will give me a gift (and thrill SpiderBaby) by announcing a release I want ... last year it was The Thin Red Line, this year it's Carlos.

Carlos will be this year no doubt (actually surprised myself it's not out yet). I'm thinking they might be holding it back for a loaded November again (a title that will make them money even if I don't buy it).