Criterion Discs

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Myxo

January 16, 2004, 01:14:40 PM
For all of you who own gobs of Criterion discs, give me your personal favorites. I'm going to buy Brazil this weekend, and I think I might buy one other Criterion disc. I had a chance to see "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" a few months back here in Portland during a Fassbinder series. I liked it quite a bit. I noticed Criterion released that on DVD.

Other suggestions?

cron

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January 16, 2004, 01:17:23 PM
there are so many...  Royal Tenenbaums .

EDIT: hey Halo, chill out! it's friday !
context, context, context.

modage

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January 16, 2004, 01:22:10 PM
http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=174&start=255

nine posts down.  blind suggestions for a page or so.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Myxo

#3
January 16, 2004, 01:27:02 PM
Quote from: themodernage02http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=174&start=255

nine posts down.  blind suggestions for a page or so.

I don't see a topic started for this? I'm asking people for their recommendations on Criterion discs. I don't have time to search through every single obscure post for page "xx" where somebody lists their favorites.

modage

#4
January 16, 2004, 01:29:59 PM
Quote from: freakerdudeOkay, say you know this person who who has never rented any Criterion movies and they were looking for some good ones to start off with.

Say this dude has Naked Lunch on his rental list and needs some more rental recs. I guess Blockbuster and Hollywood Video may only carry a few of these so I'll make sure I tell him to check the indie stores.

Thanks......from the guy
well we dont have time to RE-recommend to every person that comes along wanting to buy things they havent seen, so just take the time to look at our answers for the exact same question posed by someone else.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

MacGuffin

#5
January 16, 2004, 01:31:57 PM
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


Skeleton FilmWorks

Myxo

#6
January 16, 2004, 01:33:04 PM
Quote from: themodernage02
Quote from: freakerdudeOkay, say you know this person who who has never rented any Criterion movies and they were looking for some good ones to start off with.

Say this dude has Naked Lunch on his rental list and needs some more rental recs. I guess Blockbuster and Hollywood Video may only carry a few of these so I'll make sure I tell him to check the indie stores.

Thanks......from the guy
well we dont have time to RE-recommend to every person that comes along wanting to buy things they havent seen, so just take the time to look at our answers for the exact same question posed by someone else.

So don't post anything at all if you don't feel like recommending anything. It's your choice. There are others who I am sure feel like giving me their favorites.

Thanks though..

meatwad

#7
January 16, 2004, 01:37:08 PM
I would recommend the rushmore disc, royal tenenbaums disc and the adventures of antoine doinel box set. Brazil as well, but you said you were already picking that up.

SoNowThen

#8
January 16, 2004, 02:30:18 PM
LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
SALESMAN
GIMME SHELTER
8 1/2
BAND OF OUTSIDERS
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

godardian

#9
January 16, 2004, 03:48:28 PM
Walkabout

The BRD Trilogy

Cries and Whispers

All That Heaven Allows

Spellbound


...if I were buying my first Criterions today.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

Slick Shoes

#10
January 16, 2004, 04:06:33 PM
Rushmore
In The Mood For Love
8 1/2

Redlum

#11
January 16, 2004, 04:42:18 PM
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Do the Right Thing.
\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\"
  -  George Lucas

samsong

#12
January 16, 2004, 07:42:06 PM
Dreyer box set and The Passion of Joan of Arc
Tokyo Story
8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria, La Strada
Grand Illusion
The Seventh Seal
Hiroshima mon Amour and Night and Fog (the second one is very cheap, both masterpieces)
Le Cercle Rouge and Bob le Flambeur (Melville... great noirs.  If you like John Woo['s earlier work], Le Cercle Rouge is his cinematic Bible.. you'll see)
Straw Dogs
Orphic Trilogy
The Lady Eve
In the Mood For Love

Find Your Magali

#13
January 16, 2004, 07:54:06 PM
Il Posto

Anything by Kurosawa

Pubrick

#14
January 16, 2004, 11:36:41 PM
Quote from: halo_onI don't see a topic started for this? I'm asking people for their recommendations on Criterion discs. I don't have time to search through every single obscure post for page "xx" where somebody lists their favorites.
just for the record,. u don't hav to manually search every single page for relevant threads. near the top of ur screen u will see i encourage u to click on it and use it frequently. thanksabunch.
under the paving stones.
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