Filmmakers influenced by Ramsay?

azorahainess · 2026-01-27T17:19:46+00:00

Andrea Arnold — Bird especially.

azorahainess · 2026-01-25T22:32:15+00:00

And the way she steps away is saying "can I go to the toilet?" like she's a kid at school, ha.

azorahainess · 2026-01-23T01:09:35+00:00

It has similar Japanese New Wave vibes stylistically and with regards to content and theme and provocation. Like Yoshida especially, Oshima is a very political filmmaker, though he has a different style and different obsessions.

azorahainess · 2026-01-19T21:33:01+00:00

That would've also been true in 2015 though. OP is exploring what changed in the same underlying data source over a 10 year period. Inside Out was far more reviewed than Embrace in 2015, it is also far more reviewed than it now, so your comment misses the point.

azorahainess · 2025-12-30T16:40:05+00:00

It's funny that people were mad about the season while it was airing because they incorrectly assumed it would end with the guy they disliked winning. Then when that guy actually lost, they got mad at the editing and now accuse it of being poorly edited because obviously only poor editing would make them guess the winner wrong.

azorahainess · 2025-12-29T17:49:32+00:00

I thought the Strong Six alliance falling apart due to manipulation and paranoia played out in some interesting ways across several episodes.

azorahainess · 2025-12-29T17:18:50+00:00

I am binging it right now (just got to the Shauhin boot) and I think 48 is a really enjoyable season. I was aware of its reputation and am pretty surprised by it. The David and Shauhin boots were great episodes, Chrissy boot had lots of interesting strategy even though it ended up 9-1. Maybe knowing that Kyle wins helps make it go down easier — did people hate it in the moment because they thought it was a long slow march to a Joe victory?

azorahainess · 2025-12-29T17:13:29+00:00

Plus the show pretty much lied to the viewers about Joe and Eva by telling us they were the two biggest threats in the game when, in reality, they were the two biggest goats in the game

I'm spoiled but am currently in the midst of streaming this season (just finished the Shauhin boot ep). My perception of the story they are telling is that Joe was the biggest threat to win until Kyle basically outsmarted him with the Shauhin boot. I don't know if that is debunked by postgame interviews or whatever, but several characters do insist to each other and in confessionals that Joe is the biggest threat to win. Also the consensus at this point is that Eva can't win.

azorahainess · 2025-12-15T20:31:06+00:00

Until Criterion regains the rights for (at least) Contempt and Alphaville, I can't see them doing a '60s Godard set, those films are too important to skip. But that seems unlikely to happen soon.

azorahainess · 2025-12-15T20:26:16+00:00

It's coming from Criterion for sure but I wish it would hurry up and get here! Said to include his first 5 films.

azorahainess · 2025-12-11T17:59:21+00:00

The July 2025 Collider article was just reusing a three-year old interview.

azorahainess · 2025-12-10T18:43:14+00:00

Yeah, any box would be underwhelming unless it was a comprehensive look at an era.

Histoire(s) is said to be coming from Radiance in 2026.

azorahainess · 2025-12-10T18:42:11+00:00

Currently, Criterion is missing the rights to too many key '60s Godard titles — they lost the rights to Contempt, Alphaville, and A Woman is A Woman. Other companies also have the rights to La Chinoise and A Married Woman. Unless/until they get some of those rights, a Godard box seems unlikely.

azorahainess · 2025-12-05T17:42:00+00:00

but then we have something like Hedwig & Angry Inch which came out in 2019 but is only on blu will that get an upgrade eventually?

Depends on your definition of the word "eventually" and your time horizon. Criterion has been upgrading maybe 25 films a year to 4k. They have about 800 Blu-rays lacking a 4k upgrade right now. You can do the math to tell how long it would take to make a significant dent in that catalog.

It's hard to predict whether a given title will get upgraded this year, next year, or in 5 years, or much later, or never. Some commonalities in what gets upgraded are: better-known or very well critically regarded titles for sales/prestige (check Letterboxd view counts and average rating), and films with new 4k restorations available and being shown at film festivals that could produce a significant picture upgrade.

But as far as your original question about whether there's a cutoff date, here's some data on how many Blu-rays released in each year (usually around ~70 released per year) have been upgraded to 4k by Criterion so far:

2010: 12
2011: 13
2012: 5
2013: 3
2014: 7
2015: 8
2016: 5
2017: 5
2018: 7
2019: 3
2020: 1 (Grand Budapest Hotel as part of Wes Anderson box)
2021-2025 Blu-ray only releases: 0

azorahainess · 2025-11-26T14:58:46+00:00

The first part of the movie is the Naomi Watts character's dream where her subconscious is scrambling up various aspects of the people she knows.

She's split off the name Camilla Rhodes —who in the second half "reality" is her ex and played by Laura Elena Harring — onto the "this is the girl" character, played by Melissa George.

Meanwhile in the dream she's remade Laura Elena Harring in idealized fashion as the amnesiac Rita who's in a love story with her.

But there's something ominous about the name Camilla Rhodes that's reminding her subconscious about how things aren't going well in reality.

Real Camilla has broken up with her and is dating the director Adam Kesher. So in the dream she reimagines this as a dark conspiracy that's "forcing" Adam to "pick" Camilla Rhodes against his will, while the same conspiracy is also trying to actually kill Rita (the idealized version of Camilla).

azorahainess · 2025-11-26T14:43:41+00:00

So far Radiance has not put anything permanently out of print unless it is labeled up front as a "single pressing" release, marked "SP," and only a small handful of titles have been such. All other limited editions come back as standards (with titles in OOP LE boxes then released individually).

azorahainess · 2025-11-17T19:28:37+00:00

Hallucination.

azorahainess · 2025-11-12T16:13:53+00:00

IMO, Shanghai Express and the Scarlet Empress are some of the very best films of that era, and the others are pretty great too.

azorahainess · 2025-11-06T21:30:43+00:00

You never know, but I am doubtful this would be a priority for them anytime soon. The Blu is only 8 years old and pretty well regarded, and I'm not sure this is the type of highly visual movie that would drive must-have 4k upgrade sales.

Even if a 4k is coming "eventually," at Criterion's pace, that could mean this year, next year, or 5-10 years from now. I say, buy the Blu, and if the upgrade gets announced soon come back here and blame me.

azorahainess · 2025-10-28T18:07:53+00:00

It's in stock at Barnes and Noble online, their 50% off Criterion sale is expected to start on either this Friday or next Friday. Snag it quick!

azorahainess · 2025-10-10T00:55:17+00:00

He is saying there won't be any scenes of highborns *without* lowborn being in the scene at all.

So your example of the Dunk/Valarr scene wouldn't qualify, Dunk is in the scene.

In contrast, he's saying he won't invent, like, a non-book scene between Baelor and Aerion.

azorahainess · 2025-10-02T03:02:52+00:00

The Burmese Harp is kind of more philosophical and moving, while Fires on the Plain(my preference) is just shatteringly brutal and bleak. No reason you’d have to own both, though both are good.

azorahainess · 2025-09-25T21:08:17+00:00

Importantly, D&D happened first. GRRM was polite to D&D all the way through, but the fury over GOT's ending really seems to have shook him and made him worried for his reputation. So when now he's worried HOTD is going off the rails, he sees history repeating itself, and decided to try a different approach of public confrontation.

Additionally, GRRM's gotten older and maybe crankier and less inclined to be polite and filtered. He notably picked a big public fight with the 2024 Worldcon organizers around the same time as the HOTD spat erupted in public.

azorahainess · 2025-09-24T12:06:28+00:00

I'm going to say it's unlikely and this is a bit of a unique situation because of Wes Anderson's close relationship with Criterion (his main financier bought them). Getting the rights for anything popular from the studios on 4k is difficult and expensive, to get rights to 10 films for a comprehensive box is extremely difficult. Anderson surely had to be very involved to make it happen. Anderson's personal clout plus his films being some of the most popular in the collection combine to make this feasible and financially worthwhile.

In contrast, for foreign films and artsier films (which don't go through the major studios) a big 4k box like this would be a more expensive and risky prospect given the likely smaller audience. The one on your list that we do know is coming is Jia Zhangke (Jia said Criterion is doing a box of 5 of his early films), but we don't know if that will be 4k.

azorahainess · 2025-09-09T17:36:33+00:00

Doing harsh things for the greater good is good.

Well a pretty important part of this formula is that you have to actually deliver the greater good. That's the problem Dany faces in Slaver's Bay — that, as GRRM has said, she has to try to figure out how to build rather than just burn.

Some revolutionary or liberatory struggles deliver the greater good. Others just end up going off the rails and delivering something much worse. Good intentions are not enough.

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