Re: Movies you have watched thread.
122Announced today: 4k transfer of Le Cercle Rouge coming out on Criterion early next year.
Had heard there was a new DCP of this playing places in the past year and was wondering if/when it would surface for home use and, if it was still going to be on Criterion, whether they would retain the excellent Art Chantry cover art. They wisely have! There was a blu-ray--of the original transfer, I believe--available for a limited time, but after it went out of print it was selling on eBay/etc. for absurd amounts of money, more than any "normal" person would/should pay for a movie disc. Glad this has all been rectified.
If you haven't seen it, Le Cercle Rouge is one of the most watchable, well paced crime movies out there. It's honestly kind of hard to say where it falls on the spectrum between genre/crime cinema, on the one hand, and arthouse cinema, on the other. This unspoken ambiguity, the movie seemingly playing by its own style rules, is part of what makes it great.
Had heard there was a new DCP of this playing places in the past year and was wondering if/when it would surface for home use and, if it was still going to be on Criterion, whether they would retain the excellent Art Chantry cover art. They wisely have! There was a blu-ray--of the original transfer, I believe--available for a limited time, but after it went out of print it was selling on eBay/etc. for absurd amounts of money, more than any "normal" person would/should pay for a movie disc. Glad this has all been rectified.
If you haven't seen it, Le Cercle Rouge is one of the most watchable, well paced crime movies out there. It's honestly kind of hard to say where it falls on the spectrum between genre/crime cinema, on the one hand, and arthouse cinema, on the other. This unspoken ambiguity, the movie seemingly playing by its own style rules, is part of what makes it great.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
123Titane was a waste of time
Ghostbusters Afterlife was fucking great!
Ghostbusters Afterlife was fucking great!
"lol, listen to op 'music' and you'll understand"....
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https://oblier.bandcamp.com/releases
https://youtube.com/user/sebbityseb
https://sebastiansequoiah-grayson.bandcamp.com/
https://oblier.bandcamp.com/releases
https://youtube.com/user/sebbityseb
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
124I must watch this - thanks for sharing it.DaveA wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:49 am A new 2k transfer of a Les Blank documentary on Dizzy Gillespie just got uploaded to YouTube, via the channel his son runs. Free for a limited time.
Gib Opi kein Opium, denn Opium bringt Opi um!
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
125I have the original Criterion 2-disc set of this - bought it long ago when it was in print - and yes, highly recommended for any fan of crime movies.DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:28 pm Announced today: 4k transfer of Le Cercle Rouge coming out on Criterion early next year.
Had heard there was a new DCP of this playing places in the past year and was wondering if/when it would surface for home use and, if it was still going to be on Criterion, whether they would retain the excellent Art Chantry cover art. They wisely have! There was a blu-ray--of the original transfer, I believe--available for a limited time, but after it went out of print it was selling on eBay/etc. for absurd amounts of money, more than any "normal" person would/should pay for a movie disc. Glad this has all been rectified.
If you haven't seen it, Le Cercle Rouge is one of the most watchable, well paced crime movies out there. It's honestly kind of hard to say where it falls on the spectrum between genre/crime cinema, on the one hand, and arthouse cinema, on the other. This unspoken ambiguity, the movie seemingly playing by its own style rules, is part of what makes it great.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
126Yes, got that too, have watched it a bunch, and will still hold onto it. But while a nice presentation for the time, the movie was in need of an upgrade. Am happy they didn't sleep on this too long.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
127Quo Vadis, Aida? was very good, as recommended by a friend. Cut the last half of the final sequence and it's approaching a classic, but Euros gonna Euro.
at war with bellends
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
128Titus
Anthony Hopkins in a Shakespearean tragedy; can't stop thinking about it
Anthony Hopkins in a Shakespearean tragedy; can't stop thinking about it
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
129Ha! We did the very same thingjason from volo wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 7:48 pmJust got back from seeing this. It *was* great! Am now watching the original at home.jason from volo wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:02 pmThanks for the reminder!! I had forgotten about this. Will bring my daughters.
"lol, listen to op 'music' and you'll understand"....
https://sebastiansequoiah-grayson.bandcamp.com/
https://oblier.bandcamp.com/releases
https://youtube.com/user/sebbityseb
https://sebastiansequoiah-grayson.bandcamp.com/
https://oblier.bandcamp.com/releases
https://youtube.com/user/sebbityseb
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
130Got a reasonably priced blu-ray of The Fugitive and let my folks watch it the other night. The film gets a Not Crap from me.
Compared to Cliffhanger, a pretty bad movie I also liked in the early nineties and revisited during the pandemic, The Fugitive approaches Powell & Pressburger in its narrative economy/lack of cheese.
Score could be stronger, at times, but I've heard worse.
I like its cynical take on Big Pharma.
Decent Chicago movie.
You also gotta love that Julianne Moore has a part in it, from before she became a huge star.
Minor reservations: the b&w flashbacks to the murder are formally lazy/ham-fisted (not the best opening volley) and it's a movie with a course of events that could have only transpired pre-CCTV/surveillance state/smart device ubiquity.
Compared to Cliffhanger, a pretty bad movie I also liked in the early nineties and revisited during the pandemic, The Fugitive approaches Powell & Pressburger in its narrative economy/lack of cheese.
Score could be stronger, at times, but I've heard worse.
I like its cynical take on Big Pharma.
Decent Chicago movie.
You also gotta love that Julianne Moore has a part in it, from before she became a huge star.
Minor reservations: the b&w flashbacks to the murder are formally lazy/ham-fisted (not the best opening volley) and it's a movie with a course of events that could have only transpired pre-CCTV/surveillance state/smart device ubiquity.