down by lawnights of cabiriasomething by david leansomething by fassbinder other than ali or berlin alexanderplatz
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
if you want Lean then Brief Encounter is amazing!
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked Europa and Le Deuxieme Souffle quite a bit.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is awesome.
Earrings of Madame De..., gentlemen!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ok ryan i'll get it. im getting three total.alex they dont have any of those i don't think, have thumbed through so many times...would love to see SWCIFTC though, just read that this year.
diaboliquewc fields -- 6 short filmsle trouclosely watched trains...hmm
xpost ok i'll get earrings
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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should i get bob le flambeur? melville's left me kind of cold so far.
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
earrings is indeed a stone cold classic.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
that is one of the more entertaining melvilles, imo. only felt like watching it once though.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link
id be all over hiroshima mon amour, but that's a favorite of mine and i think other people feel pretty differently about it!
La Jetee/San Soleil has a great rewatch for $ value if they have that.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think they do.
so bob or hiroshima or something else.
others they have i haven't seen:night and fogumberto dmhoneymoon killersknife in the waterle corbeauscenes from a marriage and 3 women
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for your help btw ryan
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
umberto d!!!!!!!! looooove that movie.
m is freaking amazing too.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"eight million stories in the city" can't remember the name for some reason
is this a reference to "naked city"? get it!!
― so i said let me HOOS the beats and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
naked city is a good one
― soup kitchen electro (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ok done
look out movie store clerks im gonna rent the shit out of you right now wowowow
xps oh no!
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
almost all of these are worth seeing once. if i was investing in a DVD i think M, Umberto D, Earrings are the ones I've seen most and enjoyed most over the years.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
three that i have that i love: wages of fear, fanny and alexander, le samouraï
― Lamp, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link
ok i'll get naked city cuz ryan already picked one
thanks all
xps haven't seen wages of fear, will make it one of my sweet backups
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
straw dogs is vv good imo but not for everyone
― the stickup man from the gripping "wire" television show (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
kind of rough watching i hear
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
its one i pick up everytime, look at, and put back. i'll get to it soon i'm sure.
― swamp buggy badass (negotiable), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
naked city is an awesome movie. making me think of the great sam fuller titles criterion has. oh, pick up on south street! not as good, really, but i liked it a lot.
i looked at their website and saw they're starting to release their titles on blu-ray. made me realize how much i'm dreading the format change
― handsome dude (Lamp), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
just watched this the other night!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
If you like von Trier, Europa
(I don't particularly -- tho much worse was yet to come -- and it's still an interesting set)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Trouble In Paradise is a great bargain cuz it comes w/a fantastic hour-long Lubitsch silent film as a bonus. The same also goes for WR: Mysteries of The Organism which has a really cool 90s TV short by Makavejev.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Word to the wise, RE: Brief Encounter
Supposedly Criterion will be remastering it soon (new print touring US as I type). A blu-ray may be in the works as well.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
if you're BUYING them I suggest getting newer ones only (the ones with the C instead of the line) because the video quality of the early ones is usually subpar
― abanana, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
scratch that, they kept the old logo around longer than I realised. i still would be careful around #1-#100.
― abanana, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
umberto dm
m is essential!umberto d is just good fun. so is knife in the water, apparently, but i haven't seen it yet.
destroy: scenes from a marriage, though; it ended my bergman season cold.
welles' f for fake would be my one criterion pick. maybe that and fishing with john.
― schlump, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
jean painleve collection slated for april release (inc. the sounds of science documentary that yo la tengo scored) :D :D
also: two by nagisa oshima (in the realm of the senses/empire of passion) and stephen frears' the hit
― armatrader joan's (donna rouge), Friday, 16 January 2009 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Stupid Netflix. White Dog has been at the top of my queue for at least a month now.
― josephcharles, Friday, 16 January 2009 08:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Just watched Army of Shadows and enjoyed is maybe not the right word but I enjoyed it a lot. Particularly the scene where Gerbier wanders into the NAAFI dance which is really moving but bleak.
― Linseed Oil is maximum, and that's the law (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ JPM says that bit, the ldn sequence, is the closest to his own experience of the war.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 15 March 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's cool because I kept expecting it to veer into some "fuck you rosbif you don't know what the war really means" territory but it doesn't, ultimately Gerbier comes across as detached from the possibility of pleasure or intimacy, at least I believed that until the scene where he thinks he's about to be executed and that one woman's face flashes back into his memory.
― Linseed Oil is maximum, and that's the law (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 March 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
rad - http://www.theauteurs.com/
― just sayin, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
do it work
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay that sounds great.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
ya it is pretty good
just been chillin with the my dinner with andre discs. man, it is a different experience seeing it as a semi-jaded 30something than a wide-eyed teenager
― s1ocki, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
All the punk rock nihilism you sensed when you were younger is now gone?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
A double bill of Melville’s Le Doulos and Le Deuxieme Souffle makes for an especially kickass weekend.
― Chris L, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Carnival of Souls is one of my favorite Criterion editions. Restored film plus amazing extras including the director's early industrial commercial work and a zillion hand-tinted postcards of the salt palace.
Also (pretty sure it's Criterion) - Le Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face). Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
In the special features for the short, the director explains that it's in B&W because a color version would be horrific. that's some great deadpan. i hope.
― abanana, Friday, 19 June 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.
is that le sang des betes, by georges franju? i finally saw this recently on google video, though i knew it was tucked away on some criterion something or other. it's pretty great. someone i know saw it on a double bill with eraserhead
-nb, finding the link i found that eyes without a face is franju; i've never got around to seeing it.
the site linked above looks good, by the way - excited to sit down with cria cuervos finally
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Friday, 19 June 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The Auteurs looks like a pretty cool site...
I'm definitely a fan of Eyes Without a Face, great stuff. Haven't seen Le Doulos, but I actually just watched Le Deuxieme Souffle a few days ago, really good!
― Nhex, Friday, 19 June 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
+1 <3 that movie so much. the franju doc on the slaughterhouses is %_% more than anything but the interviews on the disc are great
― Lamp, Friday, 19 June 2009 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
kind of the opposite! it's such a sad movie
― s1ocki, Friday, 19 June 2009 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
hey s1ocki have u started replacing w/ the blu rays? iyo r they "worth it"?
― Lamp, Friday, 19 June 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link