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simplicio
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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:52 am Post subject: Welcome home Shaper. Got your wallet handy? |
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Deepdiscount's running their Criterion and Kino sales again.
I picked up some Tati, Tarkovsky and Ichikawa, among others. |
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Shapermc
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Fuck me!
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Shapermc
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So far I'm at a limited amount of cash, but I have more in my wishlist to go back for on payday (the 15th!):
Bicycle Thief
Branded to Kill
Double Suicide
Good Morning
Tokyo Drifter
Beauty and the Beast
Peeping Tom
Lower Depths: Two Films By Akira Kurosawa / Jean Renoir
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seryogin
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Shaper, I don't think Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter merit purchasing. Unless you liked Pistol Opera and Killer7.
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Shapermc
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I thought branded to kill was amazing. It has a weird and slow lead-in, but after that it's amazing.
And... do you really have to ask about killer7? I liked Pistol Opera too, but not that much.
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I sincerely hope Seryogin is joking, basing the joke around things you enjoy (i.e Killer 7).
Seijun Suzuki = PURE WIN.
I fucking love Branded to Kill. I kind of wish he'd made it in colour, but it's ace anyway.
Peeping Tom is also fantastic. A quality piece of cinema.
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I love you branded to kill
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I've just never been a huge fan of Suzuki. I enjoy his films on a certain level, though the themes and the way that he executes them just aren't my cup of tea... despite the fact that one of Japan's more famous film and theater critics told me a few weeks ago at my friend's going away party that Suzuki is the best Japanese director to have ever been born. I watched most of his films again a few months ago after reading an original apraisal of his works by these boards' own rumblefish, though my views remain the same.
I've always had much more interest and affection for Kinji Fukasaku and Nagisa Oshima, because they worked in an emotional, theoretical, and technical framework which seemed much more visceral and without the dry, self-conscious sarcasm and winking over-the-topness that I get from Suzuki.
He's got skill and talent, but just not the type that infatuates me.
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| seryogin wrote: | | I've always had much more interest and affection for Kinji Fukasaku and Nagisa Oshima, because they worked in an emotional, theoretical, and technical framework which seemed much more visceral and without the dry, self-conscious sarcasm and winking over-the-topness that I get from Suzuki. |
This seems like perfectly valid reasoning to me. I like him for that, in a way, as much as I like Fukasaku, Oshima, et al. for those other reasons.
When does this sale stop? I'm going to buy a bunch of stuff, just not in the next couple of days.
The fucker is I'm going to get ripped on postage and then taxed to fuck by Canada Post, but, oh well. It's still cheaper than I could get them otherwise.
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Till the 16th man!
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simplicio
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I'll go ahead and rank my favorite classic/new wave japanese directors here, cause I'm bored and not sleeping tonight.
1. Kenji Mizoguchi
2. Akira Kurosawa
3 & 4. Yasujiro Ozu & Seijun Suzuki
Be advised that Mizoguchi's best one (Sansho the Bailiff) gets release in May through criterion, and it's probably better than any movie you've seen before, or at least that was my feeling upon seeing it.
Also Shaper, did you know Kurosawa's The Quiet Duel (1949) got a DVD release last year? Kinda snuck up on me.
PS: deepdiscount's new site has eliminated the possibility of searching by director. Fuckers! |
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Shapermc
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Ok, I've added to the list the following, which will conclude my purchasing spree!
Sanjuro
Le Samourai
Naked Lunch
High and Low
| simplicio wrote: | | Also Shaper, did you know Kurosawa's The Quiet Duel (1949) got a DVD release last year? Kinda snuck up on me. |
Funny you mention this, because I just _happen_ to see it at Fry's while in CA and bought it just the other day. I had no idea it happen either.
Also, I agree with your list if you add Koyobashi and move Mizoguchi down below Ozu and Kurosawa.
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simplicio
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| Shapermc wrote: | | Also, I agree with your list if you add Koyobashi and move Mizoguchi down below Ozu and Kurosawa. |
Wait till Sansho comes out. You'll see what I mean.
Masaki Kobayashi? He'd be on there if I'd seen more of his stuff. |
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i'm not as good at movies as some of you guys but i have had three friends yell at me for showing them these links
shit shit shit alphaville and stalker and videodrome and rules of the game
no simon of the desert though. i wanna see that still. |
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Shapermc
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It's shocking how angry people will get with you when you basically FORCE them to spend money (especially when they don't have it to spend).
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| seryogin wrote: | I've just never been a huge fan of Suzuki. I enjoy his films on a certain level, though the themes and the way that he executes them just aren't my cup of tea... despite the fact that one of Japan's more famous film and theater critics told me a few weeks ago at my friend's going away party that Suzuki is the best Japanese director to have ever been born. I watched most of his films again a few months ago after reading an original apraisal of his works by these boards' own rumblefish, though my views remain the same.
I've always had much more interest and affection for Kinji Fukasaku and Nagisa Oshima, because they worked in an emotional, theoretical, and technical framework which seemed much more visceral and without the dry, self-conscious sarcasm and winking over-the-topness that I get from Suzuki.
He's got skill and talent, but just not the type that infatuates me. |
I was waiting for someone to say my name to ressurect me. Hey, to each our own. Fukasaku's BADASS Yakuza Papers 1-5 was on one night a week ago on IFC. I missed every single one of them...
Branded to Kill is a great Criterion DVD though, it should just be in everyone's collection.
Unlike Dead Ringers, which is to disturbing to watch at points. The first out of print Criterion I own and it's almost to disturbing to watch. I love Suzuki though. Great film maker, if I could remember what I told Seryoga, I would post it here. Alas, I can't, doesn't matter it was probably asshattery that was pointless. Like this post.
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Fuck, I wish I had clicked on this earlier...though it seems like it may still be going on...maybe?
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