Jacques Rivette — Celine and Julie Go Boating especially.
I’ll also second Satyajit Ray. U Cal. Santa Cruz finished an extensive restoration but Sony owns the rights and seems more interested in releasing “Paul Blart – Mall Cop” than a top twenty director. A pox on them.
Well look at two shots in the film. The initial elevated shot of the expanse of tin roofed slums and later the nondescript pit of high rises.
What happened to the poor? Did they all hit the lottery? Sorry, there’s a real vulgar dishonesty there.
Let’s call this for what it is, “Hoosiers” set in India. And if he tilted the camera one more time ….
I’ve enjoyed any Bresson film I’ve seen. Particularly “A Man Escaped”, “Balthazar” and “Country Priest”.
He deserves some mention for his expressive use of sound, especially in Lancelot.
New Yorker films had the rights to several of his films and let them go out of print for some reason (along with L’Atalante, Weekend and some other “big” titles). Hope someone is picking them up.
I would have picked some of the earlier Oshima like “Death by Hanging”.
The Frears is okay but nothing to get excited about at that price point.
Painleve? Looks like a real sleeper.
No Marienbad. No La Jour Se Leve. Alas.
Band of Outsiders has always been troubling in a different manner. Godard’s little lecture about how pop culture is corrupting. Maybe not as strong a film as Masculine/Feminine but of all his films it’s best at reminding us what a bunch of damn naive fools we were in the 60’s. Transforming.
Umberto D. Can’t watch it again.
Wes Anderson being considered a competent film maker is also profoundly disturbing.
CHARACTERS IN A FILM WHO FATE MAKES YOU WEEP over 3 years ago
Lena in “Shoot the Piano Player”
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Slumdog Millionaire Overrated Film of the Year over 3 years ago
“Hoosiers” set in India. Incredibly boring and derivative.Go to Comment
What films do you always catch shit for for not liking? over 3 years ago
Reservoir Dogs – a string of “F” bombs isn’t my idea of creative dialogue.
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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 3 years ago
Jacques Rivette — Celine and Julie Go Boating especially.
I’ll also second Satyajit Ray. U Cal. Santa Cruz finished an extensive restoration but Sony owns the rights and seems more interested in releasing “Paul Blart – Mall Cop” than a top twenty director. A pox on them.
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Last movie you saw and rate it over 3 years ago
The Pope’s Toilet 7.5
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 3 years ago
Someone tell Wes Anderson that a lot of us have read Salinger and Wes hasn’t improved on it.
Also Wes wants his daddy – who cares.
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Do great films have to be depressing and bleak to be great? over 3 years ago
Ah the 400 Blows isn’t bleak when you realize Antoine went on to become moviedom’s first slacker.And a darn funny one he was.
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Your favorite title sequence over 3 years ago
North by Northwest and Vertigo
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When I say "A Perfect Film", What One Film Pops Into Your Head First? over 3 years ago
Tokyo Story
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Worst Criterion DVDs over 3 years ago
Pick a Wes Anderson film. Any Wes Anderson film.
“I want my daddy”. Shut up, Wes. We get the point and a lot of us have read Salinger.
Bore me later.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE. Period.
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What Is "Movie Hell" For You? over 3 years ago
I don’t know but Tarantino is to blame.Go to Comment
What films would you like to see included in future ECLIPSE releases? over 3 years ago
There are certainly a number of neglected director’s out there but none has been treated as shabbily as the great Satyajit Ray.
The Apu Trilogy and The Music Room at the very least, please.
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A List of Good Repertory/Specialty Theatres in Your Various Cities over 3 years ago
Well in Boston you can look for:
Museum of Fine Arts – Godard festival coming up
The Brattle in Harvard Square – lot of variety saw a fresh print of The 39 Steps recently
Harvard Film Archive – also very good variety. Recently had an Oshima retrospective
The Coolidge Corner – Very eclectic generally interesting programming.
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What's so wrong with well done manipulation? over 3 years ago
Well look at two shots in the film. The initial elevated shot of the expanse of tin roofed slums and later the nondescript pit of high rises. What happened to the poor? Did they all hit the lottery? Sorry, there’s a real vulgar dishonesty there. Let’s call this for what it is, “Hoosiers” set in India. And if he tilted the camera one more time ….Go to Comment
Appreciation over 3 years ago
I’ve enjoyed any Bresson film I’ve seen. Particularly “A Man Escaped”, “Balthazar” and “Country Priest”. He deserves some mention for his expressive use of sound, especially in Lancelot. New Yorker films had the rights to several of his films and let them go out of print for some reason (along with L’Atalante, Weekend and some other “big” titles). Hope someone is picking them up.Go to Comment
SEX & LOVE IN CELLULOID: WHO FIRST, AND WHO LATELY, TURNED YOU ON? over 3 years ago
… and out of left field. Lead role in several of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films, Grazyna Szapolowska.
Also Setsuko Hara manages to routinely define ineffable.
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Most violent films you've seen over 3 years ago
Old boy but I laughed through a lot of it so I don’t know if it counts.
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Here it is... Top 10 films of all time? over 3 years ago
Seven Samurai
Rules of the Game
The General
Tokyo Story or substitute Late Spring
Persona
The 400 Blows
M
Lawrence of Arabia
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Nights of Cabiria
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April 2009 Criterions over 3 years ago
I would have picked some of the earlier Oshima like “Death by Hanging”. The Frears is okay but nothing to get excited about at that price point. Painleve? Looks like a real sleeper. No Marienbad. No La Jour Se Leve. Alas.Go to Comment
CONFESSIONS--FILMS YOU ARE ASHAMED TO SAY YOU HAVE NOT SEEN (YET) over 3 years ago
Kill Bill
-just ain’t gonna happen.Go to Comment
An experiment - Orson Welles's 'The Trial' (3Q) over 3 years ago
1. Have you seen this film?
Yes2. If yes to one, do you believe that this film should be released by the Criterion Collection?
No, there is currently a reasonably good print available and I would rather Criterion focus on unreleased films.3. If yes or no to two, why do you do you believe this film is worthy of a Criterion release?
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Criterion covers you don't like over 3 years ago
Bicycle Thieves. Terrible.
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CLASSIC FILM NOIR over 3 years ago
“Experiment in Terror” Blake Edwards directed. Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Ross Martin.
Terrific finish with a chase threw Dodger Stadium. I point it out because it’s completely overlooked and has real substance.Go to Comment
QUENTIN'S NEW FILM over 3 years ago
what’s the dope? I ain’t touching that line.
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There Will Be Blood or No Country For Old Men, which is the better film? over 3 years ago
Boris Karloff or Peter Lorre. Who is more handsome?
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movies that shake you to the core over 3 years ago
The Vanishing is profoundly disturbing.
Band of Outsiders has always been troubling in a different manner. Godard’s little lecture about how pop culture is corrupting. Maybe not as strong a film as Masculine/Feminine but of all his films it’s best at reminding us what a bunch of damn naive fools we were in the 60’s. Transforming.
Umberto D. Can’t watch it again.
Wes Anderson being considered a competent film maker is also profoundly disturbing.
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Quote - Unquote over 3 years ago
It’s a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody’s arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Quentin Tarantino
“I’ll never work with you again!”
Akira Kurosawa
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Dreyer Recommendations over 3 years ago
You may find the rest of his work dissimilar to Vampyr.
Keeping with the Gothic theme “Day of Wrath” would be a logical next step.
I’ve seen that box set around for a good price and it is essential.
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Your House Is On Fire...You Only Have Time To Grab 10 DVDs (and your pets and family and stuff)...What Are They? over 3 years ago
You mean after grabbing the Godard?
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