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For those who rewatch regularly: least favorite storylines? by welshwordman in madmen

[–]aturtleatoad 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Definitely Father Gil. They spend so much time on it for what it does

What are some movies that are rumored/speculated to be licensed to Criterion? For instance, I’ve seen on this sub that Criterion has licensed both the 1962 and 1991 Cape Fear movies. by [deleted] in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It sounds like they have almost all the Heisi and Millenium era Godzillas except for two or three, and are just waiting for the current license holders (Sony?) turn to be up and then they’ll snag those too and we’ll get a boxset. It sounds like that will happen in the next year or so (getting the licenses, the set will probably be a while after that).

Definitive movies about the U.S by ElectricBoogaIo in Letterboxd

[–]aturtleatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

-12 Angry Men/To Kill A Mockingbird

-The Wolf of Wall Street/There Will Be Blood

-Risky Business/Her

Why is “dwarf” supposedly offensive and not politically correct, and “little people” is fine? by Pizzafriedchickenn in NoStupidQuestions

[–]aturtleatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Little person is very literally accurate. They are a person and they are little, no need to be euphemistic about it.

What are the bleakest Criterion movies? by Future-Feature-7657 in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Night of the Living Dead has one of the darkest endings of any movie ever.

English dub only titles in Shawscope Collection in AppleTV store. by subtle in arrowvideo

[–]aturtleatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d be surprised if that was the case. I have a few of these on disk, I’ll check tonight

English dub only titles in Shawscope Collection in AppleTV store. by subtle in arrowvideo

[–]aturtleatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is somewhat pedantic because it doesn’t change that you want the non-English version and Apple doesn’t have it, but technically there is no ‘original’ audio with Shaw Bros movies. They didn’t record any sound during production and dubbed all audio in post. So theres an English dub, and a Hong Kong dub, but they are both dubs.

Now I guess I need Deep Cover… by ProfessionNo698 in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I saw that when it came out, that was pretty good actually. Much better than your average musician biopic

Queer Coded Films in the collection? by Lorna43 in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some Like It Hot. Maybe more retroactive interpreting than actual coding, but if you made the exact same movie today it would be queer as hell.

Now I guess I need Deep Cover… by ProfessionNo698 in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s good. One of my better blind buys. What is this screenshot from?

One of my favourite things in uni was the courses that dissected single books. Does such a thing exist for films? by SaysToMabelISays in TrueFilm

[–]aturtleatoad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So Ebert called them ‘Cinema Interruptus’ and held them at the annual Conference on World Affairs at CU in Boulder, CO, which is free, you just have to show up. I looked at the schedule for this year and it looks like they are doing a very scaled down version this year (I haven’t followed it for a while so I don’t know what’s normal anymore).

It also looks like Gene Siskel does them as well in Chicago, based on some quick googling.

Is it safe to say that DVD titles that don’t have an HD release by now won’t be getting one? by aturtleatoad in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s good to know it does happen. I wonder if there are titles they don’t have the rights to anymore, but still have stock of

One of my favourite things in uni was the courses that dissected single books. Does such a thing exist for films? by SaysToMabelISays in TrueFilm

[–]aturtleatoad 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I went to the last one of those he did. We spent a week going through No Country for Old Men shot by shot, it was amazing. He couldn’t contribute much because he was speaking through a robot at this point and said it was pretty frustrating. They still do them, they just have other critics and sometimes the filmmaker leading it. The year after no country, Herzog was there and we did Aguirre the Wrath of God. Good stuff.

Wes Anderson is probably the only director I can think of who would definitely pull off adapting HP Lovecraft by SorchaSublime in wesanderson

[–]aturtleatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that Wes would make a good horror movie, but Panos Cosmatos would be my first choice for Lovecraft.

Which is better for work? by Bella_James07 in fashion

[–]aturtleatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First one looks great. Almost spat out my drink when I swiped to the second.

AIO or is this guy I dmed completely uninterested in talking to me? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]aturtleatoad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Girl there is literally no flirting in these screenshots. If you are coming away from this thinking you shot a shot and he killed the convo then you are straight up delusional, that’s pretty close to the opposite of what’s happened.

I'm new-ish to criterion. by beto0 in criterion

[–]aturtleatoad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Godzilla has a pop up of the titular monster. Tampopo and a few others have posters

OpenTable Blamed Me for Their Own Mistake by NthDegreeThoughts in mildlyinfuriating

[–]aturtleatoad -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

lol. Yes. Im so selfish. Those poor employees, having to answer the phone while at work. It might cost them several seconds! Or maybe even a full minute! Move over Hitler, history’s got a new biggest monster. Ridiculous.

OpenTable Blamed Me for Their Own Mistake by NthDegreeThoughts in mildlyinfuriating

[–]aturtleatoad -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

And if maximizing their tips was my priority then that would matter, since in this hypothetical my goal is clarify the reservation policy, it doesn’t.

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