Next film I plan to see

[rischka]

you guys



guess what's on blu-ray

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

guess what's on blu-ray

Yup! I've been saving my first viewing for an HD copy. Excited

[ofrene]

Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito, 2020) till 1/12
https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/film-pr ... smile.html

[MrCarmady]

I think it's time for me to finally watch the Rossellini - Bergman films. Any people here who can tell me whether I'm better off seeing them in Italian or English? Someone once told me but I forgot.

[pabs]

Personally, I always go with a film's original audio channel.

[rischka]

I think it's time for me to finally watch the Rossellini - Bergman films. Any people here who can tell me whether I'm better off seeing them in Italian or English? Someone once told me but I forgot.

english on voyage to italy!! it was filmed in english. at one point george sanders says, 'i don't speak italian'

[MrCarmady]

thx! knew george sanders and i were basically the same person

[niminy-piminy]

ha, time to cheer and celebrate!
i like Peter Fleischmann and i was dying to see "Havoc" AKA "The Bells of Silesia" thus contributed to the subs POT.
however, POT has been deleted, it is no more necessary, a new version with ENG subs dropped from the sky and it is currently TFL!
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-bells-of-silesia/

A small town in Germany in the early 70s. Hille, the son of the local preacher, tries for the second time to graduate high school. Despite sophisticated efforts at memorization, he knows he won’t succeed this time either. At the same time other, more ominous problems occur: a choir girl thinks he impregnated her. His sister Dimuth, allegedly a successful model, returns from Rome followed by her pimp. The Silesian bell festival his father is planning threatens to become a political disaster. The impending doom spreads. Dimuth’s former classmate Uli, an apprentice at the local sewage plant, discovered tumorous swans and dead fish in the river, then drowns mysteriously in its polluted waters. Two students hiding in the bell tower of the church plan a terror attack.

[Searchlike]

Good brother of mine said I should watch Mandy (2018). Should I?

[Roscoe]

I was planning on seeing the reconstruction/restoration of George A. Romero's THE AMUSEMENT PARK at the IFC Center, but they're, very very stupidly, only selling single tickets in the back row of their tiny little shoebox cinemas, and I don't pay damn near $20 to sit in the fucking back fucking row, I don't care how fucking tiny the cinema is, I'd rather just wait for home video.

So I'm off to my dearly beloved Film Forum, which has a more sensible distribution of pairs and singles throughout their cinemas, which yeah aren't exactly vast either, to see STATE FUNERAL, which looks interesting.

[rischka]

incredibly there's a bluray of anne of the indies



remember when we were the only ones talking about this there's also a 4k digital restoration of enamorada out and about

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Ah, darn, I'd love to own a hard copy of that, because it's such a favourite, but it looks like only Germany and France have had the wisdom to release a Blu-Ray yet. I hope Kino Lorber release a Region 1 Blu-Ray of this soon, it seems like their bailiwick.

[rischka]

Building a Christmas Playlist so far I got bell book and candle (a favorite of my grandma), soviet holiday film carnival night from the 50s and Christmas evil (better watch out) (never seen it!)

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Ugh. I just became aware Spencer was directed by Pablo Larrain. I'd written it off since I had no desire to see a Princess Di film, but now I really want to see it since I thought Jackie was great, but the world of frickin' subscription viewing is just so damned annoying I'm torn about the whole thing. Same with Dune, of course on a different service, and probably some others too. I just don't know how to deal with media in an era I'm so uncomfortable with. The twitter thing isn't making me more content with it, even as it does clue me in to a lot of things I've been missing, so much of the rest just seems like a giant herd of banality occasionally set upon by predators culling out the weakest of the herd through brute force, but little ability otherwise. So much to sort through to find the little bits of reward.

I mean, yeah, I get that y'all already know all about these things, but it really is posing some difficulty for me that I'm trying to figure out, so apologies for stating the obvious.

[nrh]

i think spencer is only VOD for now (19.99, $4 more than what you'd pay to see it on the big screen in a relatively upmarket nyc theater, and you don't even get the thrill of risking the omicron variant!).

i still think the multiple streaming services we have end up being far less than my family pays for their cable packages, but with every company creating different services of their own it's getting a little ridiculous; i think we have 5 now and still need to acquire much of what we want to watch through alternate means. and curating all of that is a different problem.

with social media this is eternally relevant -

https://twitter.com/Sturgeons_Law/statu ... 69601?s=20

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Yeah, the prices for the streaming services aren't onerous in themselves if you only get one or two, so that doesn't bother me exactly, though I can't really afford much, it's just something about the subscription model that really troubles me, where VOD is more a price thing matched to the cloud based world. I'm sure it's just that I'm so used to a different model, but its tough for me to feel okay with just going with the tide, even though there really isn't much of an alternative other than not being engaged with the culture much at all.

[nrh]

tools like justwatch dot com (who would guess that hulu added violent saturday, i wake up screaming, panic in the streets and night in the city this month? of course they all may be terrible public domain prints, which clog up prime to no end) or access bollywood's list of all indian movies streaming on netflix and prime help somewhat, but for example i've been kind of wanting to watch alice rohrwacher's happy as lazzaro since it played festivals a few years ago, never downloaded it b/c it was streaming on netflix, totally forgot about it for years, and only recalled it was there when my mother in a phone conversation mentioned her previous film the wonders streaming on criterion. there are more great films streaming on the major sites than people give them credit for, but too often they sort of disappear into a tunnel.

i'm sure someone who was capable of fitting elegant spreadsheets into their life could manage a solution, but man do i hate making spreadsheets.

that's even before you get to something like https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/ that streams films for free but sometimes in very limited durations (i recommend natsuka kusano's domains, fwiw) or https://www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/holidaze-1994/ weekly model...

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It's funny cuz it isn't like I lack things to watch that are actually of interest, I mean I did subscribe to Mubi and it's got more than enough to keep me going as if youtube didn't have enough floating around to already keep me interested. It just feels unsettling to have not seen nothing more than a couple short films from the past two years and feel like I'm losing track of the discourse on things entirely. I mean the "tv" stuff was a given, that is what it is, I don't have interest in trying to keep up with multiseason long shows that don't really have a plan most of the time, but as that is so tied to the film world and what dominates conversation, missing it entirely seems like it's missing out on the particulars of change.

I don't so much care about a lot of what I see being tweeted, and probably will have to pare down to get a better quality feed, but it has been helpful for getting a feel for the flow rather than just knowing something about it secondhand y what sorta escapes into the more staid parts of the internet I've been stuck in. It's a stupid sort of "crisis" to have, but then again I once freaked out back in 2001 when I found out Boy Meets World had been on TV for ten years and I'd never heard of it. Ran out and bought a copy of the TV Guide that day just to see what else I'd been missing.

[sally]

you USA people live in a utopia of streaming choices. which is not a comment on the death of film culture cuz i don't know about all that stuff

[sally]

xmas movie i've been meaning to get to for years.

incidentally whilst discussing dumb xmas presents for my dad, my brother drew my attention to that celebrity video message site which i've now been cringe-browsing for ages. and:

https://www.cameo.com/elliottgould

ugh, no does he really need the money that bad? he's like the coolest person on there. (& indulging my teen sexual fantasies for Ice-T's mouth is too much out of my willing-to-pay zone)

https://twitter.com/DetFrankFrank/statu ... 8225113093

[rischka]

the silent partner has a horrible scene of abuse that killed my crush on christopher plummer forever. anyway

NEWS FLASH: there is a zardoz blu-ray (which i shall be watching later today)

[rischka]

ok i was totally unprepared for the awesomeness of this movie. all those pics of sean connery in a diaper really undersold it. he is a sex god/slave involved in multiple orgies in a future world run by cancel culture hippies descended from our present day techlords. well i'm going to need to watch this several more times but yeah

[Roscoe]

KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR! will be getting a screening at the Museum of the Moving Image on January 30, and I'll be SO THERE.

[rischka]

i'll be revisiting vertigo tonight - didn't make it to san fran but i will!!

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1479 ... 80740?s=20

[greennui]

Tih Minh - new restoration!

[sally]

yeah i got the dvd for xmas i'm leisurely working my way through the episodes...for once it works out that it's good i left the old version so long unwatched, the upgrade in quality is amazing....

ps....if anything else like this shows up on eg kg, someone please grab and pass along (eg the duvivier set - i'd buy the french dvds but they don't have subtitles or the flicker alley set but that's only blu-ray and i don't have a tv or blu-ray player, wft is it so hard to make digital downloads available what century are we in)

[greennui]

Will dooo

[rischka]

i'm planning a 72 giallo double feature: martino's your vice is a locked room and only i have the key & fulci's don't torture a duckling (they better not! )

[nrh]

so many years after baahubali: the conclusion, finally going to get to see rajamouli's rrr in theater tomorrow.

had gone to see 3 movies this month, the first since covid lockdown started - nagraj manjule's jhund, axelle ropert's petit solange, and aurelia george's secret name - and all were great, with the ropert being maybe Great. but this feels like a big deal. bringing the glory back to cinema the tagline!

[pabs]

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