obscurish Criterions S/D

destroy
À Nous la Liberté -- rhyming singsong in French -> tortured English subtitles
Eyes Without a Face -- total b-movie, director is a poseur in the featurette
The Killers 1946 -- ROSEBUD
The Ruling Class -- peter o'toole on speed, surrounded by bad tv actors, with a DO YOU SEE script
Bed and Board -- where the doinel series runs out of steam

Destroy
Toyko Drifter
Taste of Cherry
Charade
The Night Porter
Carnival of Souls
Fiend Without a Face
Diary of a Chambermaid
Hearts and Minds
The Firemen's Ball
Contempt
Band of Outsiders
I Am Curious Yellow
Les Dames de Bois du Bologne
Jubilee
Maitresse
Mamma Roma
Elena and Her Men
Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boooo

Taste of Cherry
Diary of a Chambermaid

Booooo

Boudu is alright...but having seen it alongside many other Renoir films, it just seems crap. Sorry.

Taste of Cherry is complete bollocks, and I don't care what you say. Far from the best Kiarostami.

Diary of a Chambermaid - substitute Renoir for Bunuel

Destroy:
The Adventures of Antoine Doniel - Sorry, this series just bores me. Also, I can't stand Jean-Pierre Leaud in the lead role. He manages to come across as both solipsistic and overly sensitive. Ugh.

(OK, "D" is much too strong there.)

i'm having trouble deciding what's "obscurish", but...

search:
closely watched trains
il posto
the cranes are flying
eyes without a face
harakiri
the vanishing
hazan

"destroy"
idi amin
tanner '88
hopscotch

Destroy
The Ruling Class (despite O'Toole's WAY over the top performance)
Armageddon (Michael Bay's style makes me dizzy)

I don't understand 'over-the-top' as a complaint, it's a bloody satire.

(TV actors?)

Yes, it's too obvious and had many bad jokes, but besides PO'T, Alastair Sim is pretty great as the doddering bishop. Also, the Medak home-movie footage in the extras of the decomposing-zombie House of Lords scene!

idi amin?
Hearts and Minds?
The Firemen's Ball?
The Killers 1946?

Nuts!

destroy: young torless -- if the torless character is meant as an author stand in, which i think he is (see monologue at the end), then this movie is fascist.

sounds unlikely. schlondorff was pretty leftish.

You'd think a German filmmaker after the war would put some effort into making his morals clear, especially in a film that's obviously about nazism. What are we to make of the scene where the victim admits that he feels nothing when he steals or when he's raped, and Torless blames him for his own victimization?

Destroy
Toyko Drifter

HOW U SO RONG

damn, that dude was all over the place with the RONGitude

Search: Salesman. trying to hide the fact that it's all being filmed was a stupid idea, but it has moments of brilliance e.g. while the salesman gets the wife to fill out forms for the expensive and gaudy bible, the husband walks over to a huge wooden stereo set and turns on a beatles song ... or rather, a warbly, muzak version of a beatles song.

Destroy: Koko, the gorilla who talks. not much of a film. if you've seen a talking gorilla segment on pbs you've seen them all. the philosophical stuff is rather basic.

HOORAY! they're going to release malle's Le Feu Follet/The Fire Within. (also: feu follet = will o' the wisps.. wtf?)

no thread for Kalatozov but The Cranes Are Flying and Letter Never Sent are great, looking forward to seeing I Am Cuba next week.

I've only seen Letter Never Sent, but I was blown away by it

Had this pop up in Articles For You

https://thetwingeeks.com/2019/06/30/50-overlooked-films-in-the-criterion-collection/

wow, i have a different idea of what is obscure now.

The Tales of Beatrix Potter on the criterion channel has under 400 imdb votes. I don't do drugs, but it was a treat to watch it when I was drowsy.