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Fucking hell. "Texasville" looks GLORIOUS in black and white. It takes on a whole new life. This is how it should have been released in theaters. Sure, it's not in the same league as "The Last Picture Show", but I enjoyed it. It was a just little too sitcomish and over the top here and there, specifically all that crying. But it was a fine sequel. And I loved revisiting this town and these characters. I consider "The Last Picture Show" as the one of the greatest American films ever. And it's a top 10 favorite of mine. I didn't get to see it until the 80's because I was a kid when it was originally released.

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McCabe in 4k is nice.

I didn't see it posted with the other January releases (unless I missed it), but I see that Lone Star has a 4K/BD release as well.

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^ I take it that artist has never seen a human skull before?

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:lol: I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say the skull is only half buried. The lower jaw is in the dirt.

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The occipital openings still seem off kilter, like it melted from the heat but bone wouldn’t do that from just sun exposure.

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It looks like the skull is on its side, facing the viewer. I wonder if the artist started painting it facing straight up and then changed course without completely redrawing it, changing the second eye socket into the zygomatic and temporal bones on the fly.

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:banana:

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I still have my Heroic Trio/The Executioners Universe Laser/Media Asia DVDs that I picked up in Hong Kong many years ago. I haven't watched them in years though.

The extras don't look very compelling, but I will happily upgrade these on Criterion. Now we need an upgrade of Saviour of the Soul ;)

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I’m probably in the minority, but I’m not a fan of To Do For. I think I saw it once on DVD and just didn’t resonate with it. Although I’m not really a fan of quirky dark comedies.

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I loves me some To Die For.

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I had a ticket to see the second showing of ALL THE BEAUTY at TIFF last year (both sold out extremely fast), and after the first screening played to great notices, the second was mysteriously yanked from the schedule and I was given a voucher to use on something else. No explanation other than “unforeseen circumstances” or something like that. I couldn’t find any news about it online either, until a few days letter when I stumbled across an article noting that during a TIFF Docs panel discussion, the director, Laura Poitras, took a big swipe at TIFF and the Venice festival for booking Hilary Clinton-related documentaries that, in Poitras’ opinion, were tools that served to whitewash Clinton’s own career and image. Not sure if Poitras pulled her own film, or if TIFF yanked it in retaliation (I kinda doubt this, but you never know when you consider how much most festival programmers suck up to powerful people), or if HBO maybe had a hand in it as they had already picked it up by that point. I think it continued to play other fests and (I assume?) ended up on HBO, but it was one of the more curious things I’d encountered at TIFF over the years.

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Easily Nicole Kidman's greatest film.

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I am ALL OVER "The Devil & Daniel Webster" - one of the best photographed films ever shot!

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I've had the old Devil And... release for ages and never watched it. I'll get around to it sometime I guess.

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Nicole Kidman has gotten some Criterion love lately.

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Awesome to see I AM CUBA back in circulation. I’ve wanted to see it — and the 90-minute doc that appears to have been ported over (which is also on YouTube incidentally) — but the Milestone DVD editions, particularly their ‘cigar box’ with supplements, have been OOP and priced out of my range for ages. It’s a fascinating piece of failed propaganda (neither the Russians nor the Cubans liked it) and it’s to the credit of American film fest programmers and Milestone (and Scorsese et al) in the 90’s that it survived.

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In case you guys don't know, God was the DP of I Am Cuba.

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I have the SS version of Picnic Rock, so I'm good on that one. I will be getting La Haine, though.

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There’s a Blu release isn’t there? I think that’s what I have after owning the original DVD. Still haven’t watched the Blu version so I don’t need another upgrade.
(talking about Picnic).

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A Bela Tarr box set would have been nice considering how slow it’s been getting his movies on blu ray let alone 4K. But I’ll take what I can get.

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Super excited about the Tarr release, as I'm a big fan of both Tarr and Krasznahorkai (author on whose novel the film is based). I wonder if Criterion will/can pick up Satantango (another Krasznahorkai).

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Coming this May: three powerful 1970s works by a trailblazing Senegalese auteur, a masterful examination of the line between truth and fiction, and a singular tale of a young woman’s path to self-realization. Plus: a Blu-ray upgrade of a silent classic from one of cinema’s greatest directors alongside his color remake, and a still-shocking masterpiece of British cinema, now on 4K UHD.


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Too bad Anatomy of a Fall isn't getting a 4K release...I would have gotten that, but will skip the Blu-ray version, as I only buy 4K discs these days.

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Girlfight (2000) & Peeping Tom (1960)? :banana:

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all in for Girlfight. awesome movie and Rodriguez is amazing in this.

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Been waiting a LONG time to see Peeping Tom in HD!

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Years ago, possibly before I even moved to Toronto (in 2006), I was browsing in a used record/movie store in a hipster part of town here called The Annex during TIFF, flipping through the used DVD bins, along with a few other stragglers. I glanced at the guy standing almost shoulder to shoulder with me and realized it was Paul Giamatti, who I’d already seen in a couple of his early higher-profile late 90’s early 00’s movies. He still wasn’t quite the household name, so he could probably flit around cities like that relatively unnoticed. I’m not one to gush over movie people, so everybody just kept flipping through the bins. Canadians, right? Apparently he now gets his discs in classier joints! :lol:

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Definitely going to pick-up Bound (1996)

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July:
4K & Blu:
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Blu:
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That's a solid month. It feels like they've been sitting on Pat Garrett for a decade. I was in New York this past weekend and caught the new 4k of Le Samourai at the Film Forum. I thought it looked great and was wondering when Criterion might get around to it. Some new extras would have been nice, but it's Criterion in 2024, so it's not like I actually got my hopes up.

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Because it almost has been. At least 7-8 years.

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Nothing jumping out at me right away.
Is the next sale still projected for June? I still have some older titles to grab.

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Has Risky Business been in the rumor mill for a while? It's a pleasant surprise to me. I've always considered it a teen flick with a lot more going on underneath the Ray Bans than meets the eye.

Unfortunately, those new supplements hardly inspire excitement. The commentary and screen tests are old news. At this point, Criterion's lack of effort with extra features are HUGE missed opportunities in my book.

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Honestly, Risky Business seems like a joke release - it's not a very good movie.

I'm all in for Le Samourai.

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I have never heard of anyone speaking of Risky Business as any kind of high art film of any kind, only the iconic look of Cruise and the sunglasses.

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Well, no one's saying "high art," but it's been getting a re-evaluation. Here's an interesting analysis at Film Cred.

"Risky Business is often lumped in with teen sex comedies, but the film subverts the genre and is a grim satire about the chauvinist fantasies in 1980s America and how they will inform the decade’s patriarchy."