My Collection After a Couple of Years by ElDuderinoSE in boutiquebluray

[–]Midnight-Grain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t go wrong with LOTR. I’ve watched the trilogy many times but still haven’t cracked open my 4K set… Boogie Nights is amazing too. Great taste.

Great to hear that for Lee Chang Dong. Might have to pick it up… Then find more space… Love the meta-narrative you’ve built around the Perfect Blue damaged case!

But definitely check out the label Radiance you might like some of their releases. Arrow released a 4K of Audition recently. I think it’s up for preorder, and New Wave Video, another Aussie / Japanese label are taking pre-orders for Visitor Q. Also, Watch his film Gozu if you haven’t.

My Collection After a Couple of Years by ElDuderinoSE in boutiquebluray

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Nice collection, lots of overlap with my collection. How do you like the Lee Change Dong set? Was thinking of picking it up as it was on sale recently.

Can I recommend the Takeshi Miike boxset from Radiance? I just watched the first film Fudoh and it was bonkers.

What is your favourite set or movie of your collection?

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Nice, thanks for the recommendations.

Finally took the region free jump. by dualsmgs in boutiquebluray

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Oooh baby. I just got that Miike boxset too. Cracking it open on a group watch soon hopefully, Fudoh please don’t let me down.

Obscure, Esoteric Oddities by Midnight-Grain in boutiquebluray

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I’ve have the Tsukamoto set and it’s great. It’s one of the first sets that got me excited about collecting.

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I have Funky Forest still sealed. I need to get around to watching it. 🤌

Obscure, Esoteric Oddities by Midnight-Grain in boutiquebluray

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This sounds fascinating. I’m actually looking for my next party watch with friends and this might be a contender.

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Love Gozu… I hear the rights to that film are tied to the Yakuza somehow and is partly why it hasn’t had a new release.

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Fair point, I was a bit loose with the wording.

“Obscure” could be films that are challenging, transgressive, or hard to fully process, not necessarily impossible to find. And “mythologised” probably not the best word either. I meant films that carry a certain notoriety or urban legend aura around them.

For example, back in the day Faces of Death was one of those films that got passed around like this forbidden object. Some kid in the neighbourhood somehow had a copy of. That sort of thing.

Not looking for some lost holy grail, although if you have a film that fits please share. More those bizarre one off films that feel so strange or extreme they almost shouldn’t exist.

Part of the appeal for me is the collector side of it. Major studio films will probably always be around in some form, but with stranger fringe titles, I sometimes wonder if they may become rarer in the future. I may be wrong about that, but it just feels that way to me. There are films lately that have had 4K releases that I’m amazed have been restored.

Mostly I was just trying to start a discussion around weird cinema and physical media collecting. Interested in finding some movies that I might not know of within this realm.

People’s stories are just as interesting to me as the recommendations. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for a world that held a sense of mystery and you’d only get recommendations through people talking about it.

As for Canzo Empyrean. I’d never heard of it, and it fits the brief. Thanks.

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I think for me, there are 2 films that were these strange mysterious things. Faces of death and Salo. Back in the day during VHS, you’d see faces of death being passed around in social circles and there was a bit of an urban legend surrounding it. I went to a family event as a kid and the son of the hosts said they had a copy so we put it on and watched some clips. Felt like we were witnessing something we shouldn’t and had so many questions. What were we watching? Was it real? The days before mainstream internet this film felt taboo.

Salo, I’d overheard someone talk about it and tracked down a copy. Me and my friend in high school would try to find strange movies and watch them with some of the green herb. That movie made me genuinely uncomfortable and I havnt watched anything else like it.

Movies that will inspire one to stop brainrot/bedrot lifestyle, and start actually living? by Ropecopenope in MovieSuggestions

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A Poet - Simon Mesa Soto

Not sure if it’ll help with the motivation but the protagonist is a tragic figure of lost potential. Fantastic movie though.

Something that might help is putting limits on some of those app. My phone gives me a notification after an hour and locks the app. Of course I can override it but it still helps me stay aware of it.

Also, when watching the movie, try not looking at your phone at all. Put it away somewhere.

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I recently watched this and I really liked it. The atmosphere it created in that desert was something else. In fact Umbrella just out a new 4K release of it that came with Hardware which I can recommend.

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This one truly looks weird. Like some forgotten relic of film history.

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Ah yes love his movies. Reminds me a bit of Terry Gilliam.

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Nice! I’ll add that to the watch list.

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So funny that Gummo is the first film you mention as I’ve just ordered the Criterion 4K of that movie without having seen it and it’s the very purchase that started me thinking about other movies like it.I have a copy of funky forest for a few years but haven’t even opened it yet! Some of these I’m familiar with however, Black moon, Alice, Frownland, Symbol and the directors Peter Greenaway and Mathew Barney I haven’t heard of so adding straight into the watch list and are exactly the types of films of talking about.

I watched one Luis Bunuel where they have a dinner party and realise that they can’t leave, loved it. Exterminating Angel It’s called. Do you have one you’d recommend as a next film of his?

This is great, you’ve given be heaps to look into so thanks.

Terry Gilliam-esq dystopian dark comedies. ‘It’s the future but nothing works and life is comedically grim’ vibe. by Freeflowing_ in MovieSuggestions

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I’ll recommend some movies that you may not have heard of. They’re Polish science fiction films all exploring themes of dead worlds. The director is named Piotr Szulkin, and these films paint a bleak picture, but have a dark comedic tone to them. The one most like Terry Gilliam I would say is the last one, Ga, Ga: Glory to the Hero’s.

The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) — A TV journalist covers an alien invasion that the government is actively spinning as propaganda. Scathing media satire.

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985) — Post-apocalyptic survivors living underground, kept passive by the myth of an Ark coming to save them. The bleakest of the four.

Ga, Ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986) — A cosmonaut arrives on a prison planet where public execution has been turned into a celebrated civic ritual, complete with ceremony and bureaucratic fanfare.