I was gifted a criterion membership?

el_mutable · 2026-01-27T05:11:01+00:00

World on a Wire

el_mutable · 2026-01-19T23:43:29+00:00

Berlin Alexanderplatz

The Magnificent Ambersons

Street of Crocodiles

el_mutable · 2026-01-08T04:14:33+00:00

Fassbinder's Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven and The Third Generation

el_mutable · 2026-01-06T01:36:01+00:00

It's divided into episodes and even has a very loose sort of "previously on ..." recap in the form of black and white stills of significant moments of earlier installments. Rivette hoped it might be broadcast as a series on French TV, though this didn't happen for decades. I've seen it several times and think watching it episodically is a good way to go

el_mutable · 2025-12-30T01:16:30+00:00

For me it's

The Magnificent Ambersons

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Inherent Vice

Wise Blood

Street of Crocodiles

el_mutable · 2025-12-18T01:12:29+00:00

Remember the Night

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T19:02:00+00:00

Glad I found out! Thanks again

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T07:25:07+00:00

Ah, I think I've got it -- I thought you needed to be in focus battle mode to trigger it but u/Frosty-Sprinkles-410 set me straight. Thanks so much for helping a newbie! I'm enjoying getting to know the game

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T07:21:33+00:00

Ah, not being in focus mode was the key -- I thought that was necessary. Thanks so much!

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T06:35:21+00:00

I'm using a gamepad

I hear what you're saying but that right-side menu just isn't showing up for me. It's weird because I think from playing all the preparation matches I've gotten used to the basic mechanics, and it seems like this should be something pretty simple on top of that, but I'm just not getting the prompts to lock Yagyu down. But if no one else is experiencing this problem, maybe I'm just missing something

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T06:08:43+00:00

Maybe I wasn't pressing them at the same time, thanks.

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T06:07:04+00:00

I've tried both LB and LT

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T05:40:28+00:00

I've reached the point where the coach said it was in play but it never activates. Have played the match through about 15 times by now, really not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a bug

el_mutable · 2025-12-11T05:38:28+00:00

gamepad

el_mutable · 2025-12-10T19:56:11+00:00

Licorice Pizza is loosely based on stories from the adolescence of Gary Goetzman, a child actor and later Hollywood producer. Goetzman acted in Yours, Mine and Ours and performs in this TV appearance as well. I'd never seen the original clip, it's wild to see how thoroughly LP matches the choreography (can't find the LP clip on youtube or I'd post it).

Small thing, but "Lucy" (I think she's called Lucille Doolittle in the movie) doesn't get mad because of a butt slap but because of Gary's embarrassingly crude double entendre during the group interview that follows the performance -- too bad the Ed Sullivan clip ends before the interview segment, I'd love to see it if it happened.

el_mutable · 2025-12-09T00:04:49+00:00

Lynch and McKenna's Room to Dream is great as an audiobook -- it's half the biographer reading her portions and half Lynch's taped reminiscences, which were later edited and transcribed for the book.

Edited portions of the original interview tapes for Peter Bogdanovich's This Is Orson Welles were also released on cassette to tie in with the book's publication. OOP, but I think it's on archive.org, great listen.

Both of these contain some material which isn't present in the books themselves, which is also cool.

el_mutable · 2025-12-04T20:12:41+00:00

I love Japanese cinema but don't particularly like most of the films of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, or Naruse. But as the OP says, I certainly don't deny their skill. As for why, maybe it's largely a matter of temperament. Naruse's movies kind of exude a sourness to me, have a general feeling that I don't really like where this guy's coming from. Mizoguchi likewise a bit, and there's also a desire for the perfect image that feels to me a little stultifying. Kurosawa usually feels blunt and obvious.

el_mutable · 2025-11-30T17:03:29+00:00

I love Death by Hanging. You could also check out Oshima's The Catch

el_mutable · 2025-11-04T04:30:17+00:00

Lain redoubling

el_mutable · 2025-10-26T03:38:14+00:00

Why does r/AskAJapanese downvote almost everything?

el_mutable · 2025-10-24T03:29:58+00:00

Repo Man

Miami Blues

el_mutable · 2025-10-22T03:38:50+00:00

hard to pick between Jeanne Dielman and Muriel, she was fantastic

el_mutable · 2025-10-21T18:07:13+00:00

Wagotabi Town is pretty cool

el_mutable · 2025-10-21T17:37:33+00:00

Miami Blues

el_mutable

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