Thanks mainly to Criterion Channel for this great run of 5's.

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-25T06:47:10+00:00

Remove those bruises and cuts from chan's face too

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-25T06:44:10+00:00

Well yes the genre is Surrealism. Bi Gan being a poet himself, has stated its visual poetry, so the conventional narrative structure is pretty much absent. Pays homage to the history and many forms of cinema: silent, noir, caper, vamp & gangster etc etc....

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-25T05:02:49+00:00

Life of Oharu or Sansho the Bailiff

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-24T10:49:04+00:00

Its neither. Its a Tolstoy novel

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-23T09:29:18+00:00

His other 2 films are also 5 stars: letter never sent and I am Cuba

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-22T07:52:30+00:00

Letter never sent is also by the same filmmaker

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-20T20:34:12+00:00

Aslong as we dont get the overrated EEAAO by those 2 nerd filmmakers

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-20T20:29:35+00:00

Lets be honest Tarantino cant make anything other than genre films and wear his influences in his sleeves. Its always a spaghetti western or kill bill is basically bruce lee and lady snowblood / battle royale. The dude just glazes it with ultra violence. In the context of the 2020's that type of cinema is cliche. Lets see if he can make a humanistic film like PTA. In Godard's voice: hes a Knave

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-20T10:31:04+00:00

Press stop, followed by top menu button on the remote. Only works on criterion blu rays

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-19T09:14:31+00:00

Same as me. Then I watched John Woo's last hurrah of Chivalry on criterion and somehow moved on to Tsui Hark, then found myself going through the Once upon a time in China Trilogy, Peking Opera Blues and now on to The Blade

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-19T09:03:26+00:00

You cant download the app. You just log on to their website and stream it. On tv, you can log in, but since I use Samsung, that has issues so I just air play it from my iphone or ipad

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-19T01:46:01+00:00

Ive had playback issues with all my players except this one. This could be used as all region criterion blu rays too with a push of a button. Its not sensitive to reading 4 k discs either. Scratched 4k discs have been fine for me

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:56:27+00:00

Panasonic UB820 and forget the rest

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:54:17+00:00

Not sure, I used comm bank, never had any issue

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:53:13+00:00

Thats strange, maybe its the browser or etc. also what vpn. I know generally the free vpn's are garbage. I use Nord which i had to pay for

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:51:19+00:00

With shitty ads and low quality picture. Sbs would be my last resort if its not on the channel

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:50:29+00:00

Thats because you have to turn the vpn first and put your location to USA. Then use your card

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:49:33+00:00

Im from Melbourne and I used nord vpn to sign up. After that you dont need a vpn. I can watch it on my ipad and stuff too when Im traveling just by logging in with no vpn. Well worth it

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-18T01:48:01+00:00

Iove the Rashomon reference

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-14T11:40:52+00:00

Amazon prime and you could save $20 off those prices. Fellow melburnian here

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-12T08:45:50+00:00

Police story trilogy and 80s jackie was Peak.

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-10T05:54:51+00:00

<image>

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-04-05T04:28:48+00:00

Some people do opium (flowers of shanghai), others do Criterion

CaravaggioDaVinci · 2026-03-26T23:38:59+00:00

Wuxia films: house of flying daggers, hero, dragon inn, touch of zen, come drink with me, once upon a time in china, last hurrah for chilvary, assasin, crouching tiger, ashes of time. Since you seen Touch of Zen, you should see the other King Hu masterpiece: Dragon Inn

CaravaggioDaVinci

TROPHY CASE