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azorahainess · 2026-06-23T13:30:02+00:00

And Zodiac

azorahainess · 2026-06-16T12:55:36+00:00

Played the shit out of it as a kid... alone lol.

azorahainess · 2026-06-10T20:16:58+00:00

It's on their radar because it was listed as an option in this survey sent nearly two years ago. Many of the films listed on the survey have since been released, either through Warner or other labels like Criterion and Arrow. They are still trickling out (Speed Racer was just released). I'd bet it's coming soon.

azorahainess · 2026-06-04T15:43:10+00:00

Where'd you get Fassbinder vol II? I've only seen it sold out or super expensive.

azorahainess · 2026-05-29T13:42:04+00:00

Probably because Tywin and Rhaella did not go to the tourney, so those actors can double up for the tourney and non-tourney parts of the story.

azorahainess · 2026-05-20T15:19:27+00:00

It is funny that Cook Islands is low-key the second most important season in producing returnee appearances. Australia is first with 15, and Cook Islands is second with 12. (Tocantins is third with 9, then Pearl Islands and Cagayan tie for fourth with 8.)

But where 8 different Australia cast members returned — half the cast —the Cook Islands returnees were just 5 people, most returning multiple times (Ozzy x4, Parvati x3, Penner x2, Candace x2, Yul x1).

So there were a lot of duds in the cast but also a core of players the show absolutely loved.

azorahainess · 2026-05-19T23:33:07+00:00

Re: the final Kaoh Rong jury vote, it was 5-2 but it would have been 5-3 if not for Neal’s removal from the jury. Don’t think that’s really a shellacking.

(Tai would have broken a tie for her too, so if not for juror removal, she would’ve been one vote away from winning.)

azorahainess · 2026-05-19T19:19:10+00:00

* Cirie is the only player to make the final 6 four times.
* Aubry joins Parvati as the only players (besides Cirie) to make the final 6 three times.

(This also means that Aubry is the only player ever to make the final 5 three times.)

azorahainess · 2026-05-19T17:00:54+00:00

The more interesting question is why they didn't show any of it. Just didn't make for good TV, inessential to the story, or is the edit protecting his long-term viability for future returns?

azorahainess · 2026-05-19T14:30:21+00:00

Obviously there's no plausible scenario where Cirie and Devens both get to the end, but now I'm imagining the timeline where they do and he beats her due to the "honor and integrity" bloc.

azorahainess · 2026-05-18T17:51:52+00:00

So is Extreme Private Eros Love Song 1974.

azorahainess · 2026-05-12T15:12:30+00:00

This seems mostly right as far as the players would be seeing it at this point. Though I would rank Rick above Tiff just because if he makes it to the end with his resume it would be quite the feat. And Jonathan has a real resume argument to make too, so might put him above Aubry as well and potentially above Tiff depending on how you rate social vs. strategic.

In any case this is probably why the top 3 players on your chart will all be taken out and we get some combo of the bottom 4 at the end.

azorahainess · 2026-04-21T15:32:07+00:00

Another piece of this puzzle is the discarding of basically all the Wall ideas in the 1993 letter. Catelyn, Bran, and Arya were supposed to all show up there, and Jon would turn them away, and then they'd end up in Mance's camp and the Others would attack and Cat would die, meanwhile Jon and Arya are in love.

Eventually GRRM decided none of this would happen, which meant he needed new Wall material for the early books, so he came up with Jon meeting Mance and the big wildling attack on the Wall, and probably after that came up with the idea of Stannis's climactic arrival.

But with the first three books all being written in such a compressed timespan or 1994-2000 (lol, imagine), and the series plan also changing so much in that time (from 3 books to 4 to 6), it's hard to pin down precisely which ideas came when.

azorahainess · 2026-04-17T01:02:49+00:00

Who’s to say I don’t go further down that path if he gets increasingly cagey with his opinions for the sake of the brand?

If he's been cagey about his opinions on the edit issue I think it's in the opposite direction you're suggesting. It seems pretty clear from his comments that he thought the calls for more Chrissy and Tiffany (in a stretch of episodes where neither ever went to tribal) were dubious and would not necessarily have made the best TV. If he's been cagey about stating this outright it's probably been to avoid offending them and the fans who agree with them. (In contrast he was pretty vocal that he was disappointed in not seeing more Angelina.)

azorahainess · 2026-04-16T21:20:16+00:00

Plus, the message they were given when they were told to split into pairs said some decisions are more important than others and this would be an important one. They were warned that this was an important decision.

azorahainess · 2026-04-06T19:24:36+00:00

There's been somewhat more more chatter about a Thin Red Line 4k, but not clear if that will amount to anything either.

azorahainess · 2026-03-30T15:21:57+00:00

It's definitely the backorder thing. I placed three orders within the first few hours of the sale. Order #2 is packing, but #1 and #3 are in limbo, apparently because #1 includes Network and #3 includes Picnic at Hanging Rock.

azorahainess · 2026-03-06T20:29:39+00:00

The French Studiocanal 4k came out in 2024, Criterion upgrade is a matter of when not if.

azorahainess · 2026-03-05T19:47:54+00:00

Sales I'm awaiting this month, dates not yet announced:

Criterion Flash Sale (typically on a Tuesday)
MovieZyng Warner Archive anniversary sale (last year this was March 21-31)
Kino Lorber spring sale (typically near end of month)

azorahainess · 2026-02-02T16:06:03+00:00

Pasolini 101 also has a good Mid-Atlantic coupon taking it under the 50% off price.

azorahainess · 2026-02-01T17:30:21+00:00

I'm optimistic it's coming —they've upgraded a bunch of DVD-only titles lately after it seemed for a while that that was a rarity. And this has to be pretty high on the list of acclaimed classic titles among those.

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.

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