Criterion News and Discussion

[jenkins]

you nailed it so you nailed it: science

[jenkins]

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Children of Paradise is playing catch up. i was looking at the library, and i was on a screen with Rashomon, Wild Strawberries, 8 1/2, In the Mood for Love, and Children of Paradise, and i don't own any of those, so i figured i needed to work on that, and i've seen them all but i know Children of Paradise the least, saw it once in the theater, now own it on blu-ray

[jenkins]

on the third in koker aka more than halfway done with the whole purchase (including the inland sea and the flavor of green tea over rice) that's still so worth it

[Robyn]

is ginger snaps on criterion yet?

[jenkins]

ginger snaps is on the waiting docks i hear

if i reviewed home media i'd rate The Koker Trilogy 11/10 and give it my release of the year award. it's so exciting that it all came to me at once, and how wonderful it is

[jenkins]

mm, it's from 1945 but i can't off-the-top think of a movie that depicts the complexities of love within a social reality better than Children of Paradise. and i mean complexities, as in there are movies with harsher pressures, prohibitive and obstructive dimensions etc, but Children of Paradise nails the complexities

[Sleepless]

The Great Escape?

[Alethia]

What else could it be?

[Reel]

For Christmas, I asked Santa for Repo Man and Ghost World and I guess I was really good last year! Nice to finally have them to round out my collection and I always intended to upgrade to blu before I rewatched either of them. Today, at the thrift store 'Withnail and I' for 99 cents! Perfect condition, except the last asshole left coffee stains ALL OVER IT 

[Alethia]

Perfect condition, except the last asshole left coffee stains ALL OVER IT 

Fuckin Withnail

[wilberfan]

except the last asshole left coffee stains ALL OVER IT 

I'd take coffee over several other liquids I could think of.

[jenkins]

this is one of my favorite movies btw. there's a ballet sequence and the lead character is left embarrassed and single but feeling okay

https://www.criterionchannel.com/starring-danny-kaye/season:1/videos/hans-christian-andersen

[wilberfan]

'The Irishman,' 'Marriage Story,' 'Atlantics' Are the Latest Netflix Films to Join the Criterion Collection

[Alethia]

So much for Netflix shunning physical media for their releases!

[jenkins]

Atlantics is the best of those three