And because they can - they've got the name and the identity to hook in film geeks, where else are you going to turn, New Yorker?
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 18 April 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 April 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago) link
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
I haven't seen it, but supposedly it was aimed at the special effects mavens out there. Also I recall reading an interview with one of the Criterion folks who said that the revenues from the Armageddon allowed them to fund a lot of other less-popular titles.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 06:23 (twenty years ago) link
Here's just the start of the relevant section:
Specifically, with "Armageddon": You'd be silly to overlook blockbusters as a genre and leave them out of a film library. They drive so much. They drive tastes and shooting styles and visual references that appear all over the world in commercials and on TV as well as on movie screens. They're part of a huge cultural cross-pollination. And special effects are one of the most important aspects of a certain kind of contemporary filmmaking.
― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
Is The Rock Criterion still in print? I'd much rather have that than Armageddon.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
Those were the days when you actually got your $140 million dollars worth out of your production budget.
― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
I miss the days when a budget topping $80mln was big news and a reason to go see the film. Now that barely buys you a romantic comedy.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 22 April 2004 02:37 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 22 April 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
it depends on how you look at it. it my mind, there's no need for it to necessarily become somethi@5{te the suggestion that short films/music videos/avant-garde & experimental work are just a "warm-up" for a feature length narrative. it's kind of absurd to but a limitation of film that it has to be 90-180 minutes long with actors, dialogue & a plot. at least 50% of my favorite cinematic works don't fit into the categorization, and whenever i hear about people complaining about a lack of innovation in film, it's usually because all they watch are feature length narratives.
but as for the idea of the innovation in these works not "catching on" in the mainstream, you simply have to look around you to see their influence: magazines, billboards, popular films and music, even architecture. it's everywhere, and most of the good, innovative feature filmmakers will be the first to admit that they've been influenced by someone like michel gondry, spike jonze, jem cohen, etc.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
two words: HOLY SHIT.
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 23 April 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 7 August 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
so rejoice, damn you.
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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Still so many that haven't been released on DVD....
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah, i'm pretty sure those are the same (as facets distributes a number of polart titles)
there's a whole, whole lot of stuff on that list that would be great on a criterion dvd, but by the looks of it they've gotten to more than i realized (discounting those titles that are already out through warner, etc.)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
I would love to see "David Holtzman's Diary" given proper treatment, as well as some of the John Waters' films.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 3 March 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
A Chris Marker set (as mentioned above) would be fantastic, and I wish Criterion would take over the Kenneth Anger project that Fantoma failed to get off the ground. And it's still at least a year away, but I can't wait for Brakhage vol. 2.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Is this an actuality?
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 4 March 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
dunno about chimes, but on the a_film_by list a couple of weeks ago, j. rosenbaum mentioned he was recording a commentary track for a criterion version of mr. arkadin/confidential report, so that one's in the pipeline...
i would also love to hear more about a potential brakhage 2 - know anything else, jay? if it does come to pass, i really, really hope to see anticipation of the night on there (my fave brakhage).
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 4 March 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
The following, which was originally posted on Frameworks a couple months back, is some interesting news for Brakhage fans--
Howdy folks,
A number of you already know that I do filmpreservation work at the Academy Film Archive in L.A.I have an announcement.
Especially in light of all the Brakhage-relateddiscussion on the list lately, it seemed incrediblysilly and artificial for me to wait any longer tobring this up. I’ve been waiting for what wasintended to be an official press release, but in theprocess of the publicity department and the Archivecreating one that would be comprehensive enough toanswer the many possible questions, it has gottendangerously close now to the “blackout period” duringwhich the Academy prefers to limit press releases toissues relating to the Oscars ceremony in February. Ienjoy and respect this important community (withFrameworks as its inclusive, de factogathering-place), and don’t see the point inwithholding this information any longer, especially ifit means waiting until March.
I’d like to informally announce that a few months ago,56 boxes containing Stan Brakhage’s original filmmaterials were transported from a commercial storagefacility in Kansas to the Academy Film Archive in LosAngeles. The intention is to conserve andpreserve/restore all of Stan’s films.
This collection was deposited at Academy by MarilynBrakhage. The collection basically comprises theedited originals for nearly all of Stan’s work.
It would be ridiculous for me to try to describe thehonor with which we’ll be overseeing this collectionand the inventory, inspection, care and preservationof these films. I have already begun this work (abouta month ago), and have closely inspected andcatalogued the originals for about 25 films, includingThe Wonder Ring, Black Vision, “He was born, hesuffered, he died.”, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular,Anticipation of the Night, The Weir-Falcon Saga, AgnusDei Kinder Synapse, Fox Fire Child Watch, Window WaterBaby Moving... There is an enormous amount ofmaterial to go through. Additionally, someinteresting discoveries have already been made, andwith Marilyn’s blessings, I eagerly look forward tosharing this information with everyone, and hope thatdisseminating it periodically through Frameworks won’tbe an annoyance to folks on the list.
The reasons I am announcing this informally to thislist... As I said, I enjoy and respect the communityrepresented here, and I know many of you are intenselypassionate about and interested in Stan’s work. Manyof you were students, admirers, friends, loved ones ofStan, and care dearly about him, his films, and hislegacy.
Another reason is that I look forward to the potentialassistance from folks in this community who I am surewill prove a caring and valuable resource in thisendeavor. Having already begun work, it’s importantfor me to know that there’s a channel of communicationopen. For instance, I hope we can count on folks outthere who may oversee personal or public collectionsincluding prints of Stan’s work to potentially be ableto provide loan access to original reversal prints ofStan’s work of the 1980s and earlier, where available. These reversal prints will prove invaluable to thefaithful preservation of these films... Anecdotalinformation and stories about the making or showing ofthese films will also be requested and appreciated,and will prove a valuable contribution to thisproject.
I can’t think of anything further to specificallymention right now, other than to welcome anybody’sthoughts, questions, suggestions, ideas, concerns,etc. about what I’ve written here. You can reach meat either fiddybop@yahoo.com (personal) ormtoscano@oscars.org (work).
Mark Toscano
p.s. the restoration/preservation route taken withStan’s films will be a photochemical one, not adigital one, in case some of you were wondering.
p.p.s.1. Window Water Baby Moving was shot on Ansco reversalfilm2. Black Vision is a radical revision of a film Stanmade for KRMA-TV around 1962 called ‘Sartre’s Nausea’,the originals for which exist intact.3. A large number of the cuts in The Act of SeeingWith One’s Own Eyes are actually in-camera edits.4. The *original* 35mm source rolls for Garden ofEarthly Delights still exist, and they smell amazing.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
As for Chimes : my boot is an Ebay purchase from a Japanese laserdisc. Gorgeous print but marred by vertical Japanese subtitles on the righthand side of the picture. Who owns the rights to Chimes ?
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Girlfight was a nice surprise, i thought. No 4K on Anatomy is a little surprising but i hear that's because it wasn't sourced in 4K? Or maybe they just didn't think it was worth the expense (which seems doubtful considering the recent clearly uncommercial stuff they've given 4K)
― Nhex, Friday, 16 February 2024 00:25 (four months ago) link
Planning a double dip maybe. It's such a great film.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 16 February 2024 00:46 (four months ago) link
Criterion Channel subscribers just got their $10 GC codes emailed to them, which means that sometime next week is probably going to be flash sale day
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:06 (three months ago) link
did I ever say that I got the towel? It's a nice towel!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:10 (three months ago) link
Janus Contemporaries May: All That Breathes
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
JUNE: The Underground Railroad; Victims of Sin; Bound*; Querelle; and 4Ks of Blue Velvet & Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.
*4K available
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:16 (three months ago) link
Dear god, this is the best cover they've had in awhile.
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:19 (three months ago) link
Victims of Sin looks pretty awesome
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:29 (three months ago) link
An interesting angle for Criterion--usually this sort of title comes from Flicker Alley and the Film Noir Foundation. But I look forward to seeing this.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 15 March 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
My brother has noted that Fassbinder bookended his career with "Be gay, do crimes" films: One subtext ("Love is Colder Than Death) and one all text (Querelle).
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
TIL Film Twitter hates the Querelle cover. Sounds about right
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:32 (three months ago) link
Think that's partly due to the dude who made it being an AI guy (though he says AI was not involved in this cover).
Will say that Criterion has fallen off hard in terms of bonus features over the years.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 18 March 2024 10:09 (three months ago) link
Yes, it's gotten quite bad on that front
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 18 March 2024 12:31 (three months ago) link
Honestly, when I saw that cover, the first thing I did was to check the hands as it looked very "AI" to me
― silverfish, Monday, 18 March 2024 14:36 (three months ago) link
In a weird coincidence I saw Victims of Sin on the big screen in the past weeks and although I liked it just fine there are a couple of real failings imo. The song and dance (dance in particular) are unsurprisingly (too) heavily featured and there are some huge plot jumps particularly toward the end that are very jarring. But it's great high melodrama when it hits the spot and very funny in places.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:16 (three months ago) link
The song and dance (dance in particular) are unsurprisingly (too) heavily featured
This criticism does not compute
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 13:18 (three months ago) link
Maybe it's just me but it's really unbalanced and the dance scenes are overly long for what they are, seemingly just to accommodate Ninon Sevilla's other fame. One of Rita Montaner's songs is particularly gratuitous as well, not plot related in the slightest.
Mind you, Santiago having a mariachi band follow him around just to accompany him as he picks up prostitutes is certainly an idea we can all relate to.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 13:53 (three months ago) link
Janus Contemporaries June: Orlando, My Political Biography
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 March 2024 23:11 (two months ago) link
JULY: Risky Business*; Farewell My Concubine*; Black God, White Devil; Perfect Days*; Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid*; and a 4K of Le samourai.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 April 2024 16:45 (two months ago) link
Bummed the title I'm most interested in picking up there isn't in 4K
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:32 (two months ago) link
Can't imagine 4K really doing that much for a film as rough looking (complimentary) as BGWD
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 15 April 2024 18:04 (two months ago) link
I saw a print of BGWD like 15+ years ago, and honestly a VHS transfer would be an improvement over what I saw then.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:53 (two months ago) link
Risky Business 4k my dreams have come true!
― or something, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 08:58 (two months ago) link
Janus Contemporaries July: Anselm
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 19:56 (one month ago) link
AUGUST: Mother (A. Brooks)*; Real Life*; Not A Pretty Picture; Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova; and a 4K of The Last Emperor.
*4K Available
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:19 (one month ago) link
SEPTEMBER: Happiness (Solondz); Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy; All of Us Strangers; an upgrade of The Long Good Friday; and a 4K of Repo Man.
All of this month's titles available on 4K.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:42 (three days ago) link
On closer inspection, Totally F***Ed Up from the Araki set was only restored in 2K, so it doesn't appear in 4K in that version of the box.
In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of The Doom Generation and Nowhere and two Blu-rays with all three films and the special features
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:49 (three days ago) link
I stand extraordinarily corrected on Happiness. I assumed that would never see the light of day on physical media going forward.
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:13 (three days ago) link
Besides the content, were there other hurdles to getting it released? I remember seeing it in theatres and yes it was a shocker, but more "vile" stuff comes out all the time imo
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:27 (two days ago) link