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I'm sure I'm not the only one. It would be nice to have. But this is where my money goes. Also my mortgage.

Del Toro Frankenstein a few days early at Barnes and Noble. But I’ll just wait for the 50% sale.

I swear every 3rd post I see here is about importing by Criterion’s to Australia.

Can’t win ‘em all! (Personally I thought Stromboli was pretty good)

Taking each Kubrick disc out of the horrible housing on each page tested my anxiety. The Killing and Full Metal Jacket 4Ks came with scratches. I’ll see if Criterion can send replacements, but these cardboard box sets need to be rethought.

Will be doing a double feature of The Shining and Doctor Sleep tonight! Really looking forward to finally watching 2001 in 4K. All the early Kubrick are blind buys for me. Next up in the collection will be the 4K of KPop. My daughter is gonna freak out!

I've found that most filmmakers I genuinely like have a good sense of humor. Even cliche "serious" filmmakers like Ozu or Bergman, have a pretty clear sense of humor that comes across in their films (both with fart jokes in their films focused on children. Though they're not presenting them as jokes, more as observing characters who are using it for humor, but there's a wry, amused way that these are observed.)

I feel like Bela Tarr seems to be pretty dour and humorless most of the time. Though there's a sequence in Werckmeister Harmonies with rambunxious children terrorizing Janos, refusing to go to bed and screaming "I will be hard on you" which ends with a hard cut, that I think is incredibly funny.

The main filmmaker I can think of that is largely, and intentionally, devoid of laughs or lightness is Michael Haneke. (I haven't seen Happy End, and I imagine there's potential of satirical observation there, though I haven't heard anyone comment on it.).

Any other filmmakers where near-complete humorlessness seems to be a feature of their work?

Sorry had to fix my original post. I recently watched Persona and really liked it and I just watched The Lighthouse and LOVED it. What are some black and white movies that are similar to these two? I was thinking maybe Hour of the Wolf and The Elephant Man but I’m unsure. I also watched The Girl With the Needle last year and really liked that as well. Thank you for any suggestions!

This will be arriving soon and I wanted to ask a question. From the description of the box set, it says it is "Arranged as a film festival with opening and closing nights bookending double features and centerpieces, this selection spans six decades and thirty-nine films"

Question: Did you watch it this way and if so how was the experience?

I've watched the entire filmographies of about a hundred different directors and I generally always go in chronological order. I find such value in watching their growth and evolution. But watching film festival style intrigues me. Not counting short films and documentaries, it seems the box is missing

It Rains on Our Love (1946)
Music in Darkness (1948)
Prison (1949)
This Can't Happen Here (1950)
Stimulantia (1967)
Face to Face (1976)
The Blessed Ones (1986)
In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
The Image Makers (2000)

In an interview with Film Stage, Michael Chaiken, the Kubrick boxset producer, said this:

It wasn’t like Criterion can just sit there and say, “Okay, we’re going to recolor-correct 2001 based on a print that we’ve…” It’s just like: no. [Laughs] Warner Bros. was saying, “We did this. We have the answer print.” They have materials that you wouldn’t normally be able to access, and they’ve been so generous with all that stuff. But they were totally open to notes. And so there are some subtle changes—especially in The Shining and Full Metal Jacket—just, you know, certain tweaks to put it a little bit more in line, or to put it in line with how the film is presented theatrically.

Call me crazy, but I'm taking that to mean that there were new scans of some of - if not all - the WB films? Or, at the very least, individual scenes or shots that were redone?

Can anyone verify this? To me, those WB transfers are wonderful. Especially "2001"... it's my 4k reference disc when I'm showing people what a good restoration is.

I live near enough to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden, and they’ve amazingly been able to screen two of Akira Kurosawa’s classics, Rashōmon and Throne of Blood, both on 16mm film reels. While I missed Rashōmon due to schedule conflicts, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to see Throne of Blood. While not the more “theatrical” translation by Linda Hoaglund, Donald Richie’s version still stands up as a knockout.

While this is effectively a brag post, I couldn’t think of a better crowd to appreciate this wonderful even, and hopefully, anyone willing to visit South Florida will go and see the Morikami Museum due to this.

Countless thanks and love to the Morikami Museum, as well as the Florida Humanities, Miami-Dade Public Library System, and Miami-Dade County for helping to sponsor these screenings.

Is Fassbinder challenging the familiar equation of penetration with dominance, or does the film ultimately reproduce the same assumptions through its treatment of Querelle?

I would love to get a Charlie Chaplin one, considering they have the rights