The Criterion Collection

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by joie

Wild at Heart and Raisin in the Sun.

Whats the hint for Wild At Heart? surely they can't release that before Mulholland Dr

[The Great Owl]

Red Sun, perhaps?

[joie]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Whats the hint for Wild At Heart? surely they can't release that before Mulholland Dr

Exploding Head. They aren't releasing Mulholland Dr.

There is another Lynchian clue: The deer in the bush.

[Show spoiler]After eating roadkill, Alvin Straight sees deer watching him at his campsite.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Dustin Putman

Could there be a Jacques Demy boxset in our future? Sure looks like it. In bottom right, I see Bay of Angels, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and possibly Donkey Skin.

THAT'S what that is! If so, a welcome addition.

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Bit of a reach but is the dude in the box referring to Mulholand Dr?

Oh, good lord, no: (As in, "wrong")

[Show spoiler]

Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (Kitchen Scene) - YouTube

Let's have no more of that, shall we?

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Whats the hint for Wild At Heart?

Originally Posted by joie

Exploding Head.

Oh, now you're just trolling, aren't you?
As for the raisin...well, the Will Vinton retrospective sounded like Criterion, but could be Raisin in the Sun.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by joie

Exploding Head. They aren't releasing Mulholland Dr.

There is another Lynchian clue: The deer in the bush.

[Show spoiler]After eating roadkill, Alvin Straight sees deer watching him at his campsite.

That is for Scanners?

[Mansinthe]

i hope one of the angels has some sake hidden in his pocket (Drunken Angel Kurosawa upgrade)

[joie]

Originally Posted by EricJ

THAT'S what that is! If so, a welcome addition.



Oh, good lord, no: (As in, "wrong")

[Show spoiler]Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (Kitchen Scene) - YouTube

Let's have no more of that, shall we?




Oh, now you're just trolling, aren't you?
As for the raisin...well, the Will Vinton retrospective sounded like Criterion, but could be Raisin in the Sun.

Didn't a head explode in Wild at Heart?

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by EricJ

THAT'S what that is! If so, a welcome addition.



Oh, good lord, no: (As in, "wrong")

[Show spoiler]Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (Kitchen Scene) - YouTube

Let's have no more of that, shall we?




Oh, now you're just trolling, aren't you?
As for the raisin...well, the Will Vinton retrospective sounded like Criterion, but could be Raisin in the Sun.

Ah not seen that film, and REALLY want Mullholland Dr Criterion haha

[Abdrewes]

Maybe the three dancing people refers to Mulholland Drive...and the exploding head to Scanners...and the angel with a bell to The Rapture...

[joie]

Criterioncast seems to be sleeping in this a.m.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Maybe the three dancing people refers to Mulholland Drive...and the exploding head to Scanners...

Well there is a Jazz band, and there some jazzy type music in Mullholland and party scenes

[ZeTi]

Ants = PHASE IV hopefully.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by ZeTi

Ants = PHASE IV hopefully.

OMG yes please!!!!!

And maybe have have a Saul Bass style cover art, rather than the crappy artwork released for the film (Saul bass wasn't allowed control over the artwork.... the irony.)

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by ZeTi

Ants = PHASE IV hopefully.

Unfortunately, they aren't the right shape to be ants

[SimBelm]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Yes! They are all in my queue. I hope they're better than Japanese Summer. Sure, it was striking to look at, but I really found little to latch onto as far as narrative and charicterization goes. I guess I like my Oshima intimate, like In the Realm of the Senses. You know, films where Oshima expressed his political concerns, but didn't lose sight of what his characters were feeling.

Which of those should I seek out first?

Hm I like Japanese Summer a lot, but it's more of a mood piece for me so I can't easily defend it, the closest theme I could really pin to it is the formation of Japanese identity in the post-war era. From that description it sounds like you might like Boy the most out of those, which probably has the most in common with his post-ATG period (whilst I like In the Realm, Merry Christmas, and Empire of Passion, they just don't feel like the same Oshima to me). Diary and Will on Film are radical, innovative, and political films that seem like they could go either way for you. Death by Hanging is probably the most political of the list, but it's also a searing black comedy that's sometimes reminiscent of Bunuel, and as with the other two Korean films Oshima made it's full of emotion. The Ceremony also features Bunuelian sequences, but is more about the political structure of a family and the weight that the members at the bottom of that structure feel, like Boy it has more of a traditional style so I suppose these two would be the safest bets.

I've just looked and it seems they also have all of his Shochiku films on Hulu as well, from A Town of Love and Hope to Night and Fog in Japan. I'd recommend The Sun's Burial the most out of those, a noir that bursts with youthful aggression.

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Unfortunately, they aren't the right shape to be ants

look more like the things from Mimic

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Unfortunately, they aren't the right shape to be ants

But to be fair, the sun doesn't have lines coming off it in reality? so heres hoping haha

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Maybe the three dancing people refers to Mulholland Drive...and the exploding head to Scanners...

Oh, look, and there's a rock...And Nicholas Cage says "That's ROCKin' good news" in Wild at Heart!

...

...

...NOW KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by ZeTi

Ants = PHASE IV hopefully.

This would be quite wonderful.

Except that they look like beetles.
Four beetles. Four Beatles?

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Oh, look, and there's a rock...And Nicholas Cage says "That's ROCKin' good news" in Wild at Heart!

...

...

...NOW KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!!

:'( stop tying to kill my dreams lol