If The Comfort of Strangers is the early 90s Canadian film, I've been wanting to see that one for a while.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 May 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
...except that film is The Company of Strangers. This is the Paul Schrader movie (oddly enough, both are from 1990).
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 May 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Vegemite Is My Grrl wrote: Cinévardaphoto appears to be missing tho?
It's there, just listed as the three individual films that comprise it.
― ernestp, Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
like the Bergman set, it's "programmed" out of chronological order which is sort of annoying
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 May 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
I think it's neat tbh
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
tbf I haven't tried watching any of the films "as programmed" in the Bergman set, it's just a pain to find a certain movie in the thing all out of order, but I should try it, I haven't dug back into it for a few months. a theater here was supposed to show A Lesson in Love sometime in April, I'll watch whatever batch that's in soon.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
30% off until May 31 on discs from the CC store
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
I only saw Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers once, probably around the the time it came out, I mostly remember being really impressed by the visuals of the lantern-lit scenes
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 May 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
I could be completely misremembering it, would like to see it again
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 May 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:09 PM
Extended to June 15th
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
Are they going under?
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
I haven't heard anything of the sort! Have you heard something we haven't?
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Sunday, 31 May 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Probably just residual speculation after Twilight Time folded. But they've never had such a prolonged sale as this that I can remember.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 May 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
prob just taking advantage of people being stuck at home/stimulus money/the ongoing deterioration of worth assigned to physical media
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 31 May 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
Everybody who has anything to sell is desperate to move their product right now.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Twilight Time has surprisingly been the only boutique company to shut down (and they just got picked up for distribution by another company). Seems like a lot of them are doing gangbusters business just now (perhaps thanks to a multitude of quarantine sales sales).
― Fun-Loving and Furry-Curious! (Old Lunch), Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
I do want the Husbands disc. got any Oshima recs?
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 June 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Twilight Time had already been winding down for awhile. Their last new product announcement was last summer (and even then that was stuff which had been delayed). Co-Owner Nick Redman died in early '19 as well. Not to mention that their stubbornly clung-to business model was outmoded and had been improved on by Arrow/Indicator/Kino Lorber etc.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
Re: Twilight Time: limiting runs to 3000 ea of some 220 titles may have improved sales to speculative collectors, but it's a model which drove me to get imported UK blus of 1984, Sexy Beast, Richard III, and Wild at Heart. I've watched Titus ascend in price beyond my prudence, and it just made me view Twilight Time with some scorn.
― mafia sleepover (Sanpaku), Monday, 8 June 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
Given that CC recently tweeted a still from In a Year with 13 Moons, and that 2020 happens to be a moon year with 13 new moons where inescapable personal (and global?) personal tragedies may, and already have, occurred—I predict they will announce its release on Monday. Or the next 15th. But it's coming out this year.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 13 June 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
SEPTEMBER: The Elephant Man; Christ Stopped At Eboli; Beau Travail; Scorsese's World Cinema Project Box #3, featuring: Lucia, After The Curfew; Pixote; Dos Monjes; Soleil O; and Downpour; and upgrades of The Naked City & Brute Force.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Ooooh BRUTE FORCE
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Surprised the Denis wasn't in there already
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
full-length Eboli had a very limited rep release last year; someone alert JCLC
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
It played here in early February, I skipped it--I like his film Three Brothers but it wasn't enough to get me out to see a 4 hour epic.
Glad Beau Travail is finally going to be available again. The Elephant Man too, that one hasn't been in print in America for a while.
Predicting 13 Moons for October
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
Vivid memories of seeing Elephant Man for the first time, on 35, in one of my film classes, and pretty much the whole room just fucking bawling by the end.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
Just felt like reminding people that But I'm a Cheerleader is streaming until the end of July. Still love that movie! Here's an interview with the stars.https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6986-but-i-m-a-cheerleader-turns-twenty-natasha-lyonne-and-clea-duvall-reminisce-on-their-cult-classic
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
Haha whoa that's awesome, great movie, I have the DVD and had no idea it was on the CC.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
such a great movie. i wrote about it a few years ago and essentially came out as nonbinary (without actually coming out) in the middle of the piece ;_;
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
this is it btw: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/04/22/life-in-drag/
normally i hate sharing or even thinking about old work and on top of that i also hate displaying the self-consciousness i have over not wanting to share my work etc. etc. but i like this one. i think i've changed a lot since i wrote it but i also like revisiting the version of me that was getting very close to the truth about themselves even though they didn't know exactly what they were saying at the time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
Heads up for the B&N 50% off sale, through 2 Aug.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
everything I want is out of stock
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Check often, I guess. The Bruce Lee box was out of stock Sunday but it's available today. I picked up a few things in the Tupelo store Sunday and have Matewan on the way.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
I just want in the realm of the senses, and I thought taste of cherry had already come out
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
In the Realm of the Senses is showing as in stock to me, and Taste of Cherry comes out a week from today, still during the sale.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Lol after I read your post I went and checked, ordered, thank you!
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
I wound up making an eensy and mostly random but nonetheless dece order (Husbands, Face in the Crowd, Ace jn the Hole) cobbled together from what little was in stock online. Hopefully the next sale on the Criterion site will actually have some shit available to buy.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
like the Varda box...
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
Kinda want to get the postwar Kurosawa Eclipse set but...there's gotta be an enormous Bergman-esque Kurosawa box just around the corner, surely?
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
Like this one? https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/678-ak-100-25-films-by-akira-kurosawa
Probably not reissuing that any time soon...
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
I went back to check on stuff that was listed as out of stock online and most of 'em got "restocked"
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
that kurosawa box is still missing a few things - Ran, Silent Duel, Dersu Ursula (spelling!), Rhapsody in August, Dreams...
(looks like criterion in the us has slightly more rights to things than bfi does in the uk (The Idiot, for instance), but still not everything)
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
October: Parasite, Claudine, The Gunfighter, Pierrot le Fou, The Hit
I had just been looking for Claudine recently! Lovely news.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
That Pierrot le Fou cover is beautiful
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Shoulda sold my old CC Pierrot when I had a chance.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
Essential Fellini in November: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
Learned League Criterion today!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
god there are so many filmmakers I'd rather see get that treatment before fellini but I get it, $$$
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
I know Fellini (and Bergman) are what will hopefully bankroll Kiarostami at some point.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
Akerman is the dream
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link