Roaden Polynice
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These will be my next I reckon.
The Official Criterion Collection Thread
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These will be my next I reckon.
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The Times of Harvey Milk from 1984
It is a pretty straightforward documentary to be completely honest. Politicians like Milk do reserve a special place in my heart though. Politicians who stand up for what they believe in and who aim to actually change society for the better.
Milk was a real ass dude, standing up for gay rights, and not just gay rights but the human rights for all marginalized people and those residing on the fringes of 'normal' society. And he did all this, most notably standing up for gay rights even in the face of hatred and certain death. There's not a lot of people out there who are willing to die for their beliefs, especially in our times. People were cut from a different cloth back then.
Hate it had to be him though
Damn, is that MJ?!?!??! Someone has to flat top that smiley.
I look forward to the 15th of every month when they announce their new releases.....and then I look forward to the Criterion.com flash sales and of course Barnes & Noble's biannual 50% off Criterion sale....which when you're able to stack coupons gets you top shelf quality for about $15/movie.
I'm picking up Ace In The Hole, Hidden Fortress, and a couple Chaplin films this go-round....The Great Dictator and at least one more.
I'm picking up Ace In The Hole, Hidden Fortress, and a couple Chaplin films this go-round....The Great Dictator and at least one more.
My favorite Criterion's that I OWN are Rififi, On The Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, Investigation of A Citizen Beyond Suspicion, M, The Wages Of Fear and Anatomy of A Murder.
Probably.
And for those of you who commented in here on The Wages of Fear, you should make it a point to track down the recently released 'Sorcerer' blu-ray. It's how remakes should be done.
It takes critical elements of the story, but is still entirely it's own movie. It's my favorite Friedkin film.
Probably.
And for those of you who commented in here on The Wages of Fear, you should make it a point to track down the recently released 'Sorcerer' blu-ray. It's how remakes should be done.
It takes critical elements of the story, but is still entirely it's own movie. It's my favorite Friedkin film.
Roaden Polynice
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Yeah, I blind bought it too....and it didn't disappoint.
I think I preferred The Wages Of Fear more overall....but there are LARGE parts of Sorcerer that I think are much better. Both are classics though.
Re: the end of Wages
The end of Wages Of Fear is fukking TERRIBLE. Like, it legitimately made me angry. I am 100% OK with Clouzot making the decision to kill off the last character....but making him just start swerving around like a moron and drive himself off the cliff was far too cartoonish and nonsensical.
I watched Diabolique and the 400 blows last night. LOVED diabolique. very hitchock esque.
400 blows was cool. but nothing i'd watch again. that kid had issues
Wages of fear is gonna be next along with my 4th attempt at watching the seventh seal
I still need to watch Diabolique in full. I never got the chance to finish it
Starts out really slow but then the mystery builds
It's the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made.
Actually, Hitchcock wanted to buy the rights to the novel the film is based on, but Clouzot beat him by about a month. Hitchcock ended up making a film out of the author's next novel, which became Vertigo :ohh:
Tokyo Drifter (1966).
After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.
I love this film, you can see how many films this has influenced.
After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.
I love this film, you can see how many films this has influenced.
Roaden Polynice
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The Ruling Class from 1972
Woof. I had a hard time getting through this one. It's a British film starring Peter O'Toole who plays Jack, a member of the aristocracy who inherits his family's estate and becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney after his father dies in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident. Except Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is Jesus. Peter O'Toole is amazing in this and his performance is a definite highlight.
Besides that, as pleasurable and entertaining viewing, it falls rather short. It's too long (154 mins), it's tonally off with the first half being really funny and the second half plodding along with the message of the film growing bleaker and darker by the minute. Along with that, it's a pastiche of different genres and conventions. At any given point the film is a musical, a savage satire on class distinction, a comedy and farce, a black comedy, a drama, and even has elements of slasher films. It such a bizarre and surreal film. There are scenes that had me like
and it's utterly British and dry in its nature.
Amidst all that though, I was able to glean some messages that the film imparts, most noteworthy being that the elites in charge are as crazy if not as crazy as the common people and workers and the genuinely insane. What the film exposes are the lengths that people in power will go in order to maintain their facade of power and distinction. Jack believing that he is Jesus Christ goes against every class signifier and action, and if were ever to be made public would erode the illusion of power and blunt the tool of fear in which the elites wield to keep hold of their power against all others.
Woof. I had a hard time getting through this one. It's a British film starring Peter O'Toole who plays Jack, a member of the aristocracy who inherits his family's estate and becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney after his father dies in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident. Except Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is Jesus. Peter O'Toole is amazing in this and his performance is a definite highlight.
Besides that, as pleasurable and entertaining viewing, it falls rather short. It's too long (154 mins), it's tonally off with the first half being really funny and the second half plodding along with the message of the film growing bleaker and darker by the minute. Along with that, it's a pastiche of different genres and conventions. At any given point the film is a musical, a savage satire on class distinction, a comedy and farce, a black comedy, a drama, and even has elements of slasher films. It such a bizarre and surreal film. There are scenes that had me like
and it's utterly British and dry in its nature.Amidst all that though, I was able to glean some messages that the film imparts, most noteworthy being that the elites in charge are as crazy if not as crazy as the common people and workers and the genuinely insane. What the film exposes are the lengths that people in power will go in order to maintain their facade of power and distinction. Jack believing that he is Jesus Christ goes against every class signifier and action, and if were ever to be made public would erode the illusion of power and blunt the tool of fear in which the elites wield to keep hold of their power against all others.