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Moriarty's DVD Shelf! New Release Tuesday For August 15th!!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Before we even begin this week’s list of new releases (which is a pretty damn great one, all things considered), two quick points.
First, I’ve moved into a house recently, so if you’re one of the many companies sending me screener DVDs and we haven’t already touched base about this, contact me for the updated info. I’ve tried to reach everyone, but I’m sure I haven’t.
Also, I have to take a moment to get all giddy about one of the recent announcements made by the fine folks over at Subversive Cinema. They’re a smaller specialty label, but they seem to really love the movies they release. They were responsible for putting out the Christopher Lee mindfuck FUNNY MAN earlier this year, and with their new release, I think they will probably outdo themselves. Check out the specs:
First, I’ve moved into a house recently, so if you’re one of the many companies sending me screener DVDs and we haven’t already touched base about this, contact me for the updated info. I’ve tried to reach everyone, but I’m sure I haven’t.
Also, I have to take a moment to get all giddy about one of the recent announcements made by the fine folks over at Subversive Cinema. They’re a smaller specialty label, but they seem to really love the movies they release. They were responsible for putting out the Christopher Lee mindfuck FUNNY MAN earlier this year, and with their new release, I think they will probably outdo themselves. Check out the specs:
Also, I have to take a moment to get all giddy about one of the recent announcements made by the fine folks over at Subversive Cinema. They’re a smaller specialty label, but they seem to really love the movies they release. They were responsible for putting out the Christopher Lee mindfuck FUNNY MAN earlier this year, and with their new release, I think they will probably outdo themselves. Check out the specs:
Disc One:
DUST DEVIL: THE FINAL CUT: 107 min Hi-Def transfer, 16×9 widescreen (1.85:1). Transfer approved by Richard Stanley.
5.1 mix
2.0 Dolby Stereo mix
Commentary with Richard Stanley and Norman Hill
Richard Stanley Production diaries on the Making of Dust Devil
Featurette: A Demon Reborn: The Final Dust Devil
2nd disc:
Bonus disc CD: DUST DEVIL original soundtrack by Simon Boswell
DVD TWO:
A reconstruction of the Work Print release, time approx. 130 minutes, non anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1)
2.0 stereo mix
New DUST DEVIL comic book by Phil Avelli, STORY APPROVED BY RICHARD STANLEY
DVD THREE:
VOICE OF THE MOON: documentary on Afghanistan
commentary with Richard Stanley and Norman Hill
THE WHITE DARKNESS: documentary on Haitian Voodoo
commentary with Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley Production diaries on the Making of The White Darkness
DVD FOUR:
THE SECRET GLORY: documentary on the search for the Holy Grail and the neo-Nazi movement.
commentary with Richard Stanley and Norman Hill
Richard Stanley Production diaries on the Making of The Secret Glory
Now, I’m excited for DUST DEVIL, and I think it’s great that this four-DVD set also includes the soundtrack as a bonus fifth disc. But what really makes this set a must-have as far as I’m concerned is the inclusion of VOICE OF THE MOON, THE WHITE DARKNESS, and THE SECRET GLORY, Stanley’s three documentaries. I had a chance to see all three at FanTasia a few years back, and I came away deeply impressed by Stanley’s world view. He spent his childhood in Africa, and he’s spent much of his adult life on the move with no permanent address. I thought THE WHITE DARKNESS was enormously creepy and disturbing and politically upsetting. To finally have great DVD transfers of these films to replace my ragged VHS copies is a real treat, and it’s so far above and beyond what I normally think of as “bonus features” that I want to make sure Subversive is duly rewarded for their efforts.
Find this one when it comes out. I’ll make sure to mention it again the week of release so you don’t forget. It’ll be worth your time and effort.
In the meantime, let’s get right to this week’s releases. Even though there are some heavy hitters this week, something’s got to be the cream of the crop, so as always let’s kick it off with...
This Week’s Featured Title (8/15)
APOCALYPSE NOW: THE COMPLETE DOSSIER
”Saigon... ssssshit. I’m still only in Saigon.”
Really... is there anything coming out this week that’s even close to the greatness of Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory masterpiece? I. Think. Not.
I’m firmly in the camp that prefers the original 1979 cut to the bloat of REDUX, but having both of them available as part of the same DVD set finally is a lovely decision. The two versions are split over the two discs in the set... on disc one, you get the first half of each film, and on disc two, the second half of each. You can choose to watch either version from the start menus, and if you do watch REDUX, you can turn on a function that uses an onscreen icon to tell you when you’re seeing footage that wasn’t in the original release. Both films share a commentary track by Coppola, with (obviously) some extra material included as part of the REDUX commentary. From the very start, I thought this was one of the most informative and entertaining director’s commentaries I’ve heard in a while, and for anyone who enjoys this film or this director, this is essential listening. In some ways, it’s his rebuttal to HEARTS OF DARKNESS, the documentary made up of footage shot by his wife, which is not included in this set. It sounds like the film still bothers him enormously, but I’ve read that it is actually a rights issue that kept it out of this release.
What’s here in terms of extras is a pretty outstanding effort overall. There are box sets that are so huge that you get lost in them, and I love those. I love those insane completist packages because they appeal to the collector nerd/pack rat in me. But a package like this is about efficiency and authority. It covers a lot of ground, it covers it very well, and it doesn’t turn into a lifeless laundry list. If you see this film presented properly, you’re going to want to learn about the sound mix, and the score, and the editing.
That’s what is so remarkable about this film... the more you dig into it, the richer it gets. The story behind the story only makes the film better, lending it an almost documentary immediacy. In a way, I’m glad HEARTS OF DARKNESS isn’t here, because that starts to bleed into this film when I watch them together. It’s like they’re one big movie at this point. That’s why I love the option of being able to simply put on the 1979 version of the film, crank it up, and have it look better than it has ever looked in any home video format before. A marked improvement from the original release of the theatrical cut and a step up from the remastered REDUX a few years later. I wasn’t very happy with either one of those packages, and I’ve been waiting for a nice remaster. To get all this other stuff in addition to it is really more than I could have hoped for. It’s better than any effort made on behalf of THE GODFATHER on DVD so far, certainly.
Once I’ve gone through every bit of this package, I’ll be back with my review. I’ve seen the first disc so far, and I’m blown away. As a fan, this makes me very happy. It’s probably the year’s best catalog surprise so far, since I really didn’t have any expectations going in. Hats off to the producers of this one, and to Coppola for his cooperation and his obvious affection for the film. I know it almost killed him. I think it’s great that he still likes it in a time when so many guys seem embarrassed by their earlier work.
DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK?
MASTERS OF HORROR: JENIFER
I don’t know why people insist on counting Argento out yet. I like that he still makes films on a regular basis, that he keeps limber by continuing to work.
True, I think there’s a sort of autopilot style that he’s developed that isn’t really the equal of what he was doing at one point. Even so, I always hold out hope for him going into any film, and today, there are two of his most recent forays into suspense and horror. Both of them are available today from Anchor Bay.
Haven’t seen it. But I’ve had several Argento fans tell me it’s “not bad.” I’ll take that as excuse enough to see it. I think of him a lot like I think of DePalma... a gifted genre mimic. This title would make a great DePalma film, and I’m hoping Argento has fun with it.
This one I’ve seen. Yes, I’m a writer for this series, but if anything, there’s a slight sense of competition between all the various 13 filmmaking teams that contributed last season. I was rooting for the series as a whole, but certainly sizing up what other people did with the format. One of the many episodes I liked was Argento’s JENIFER. It’s horrifying. It’s just ugly and nightmarish and upsetting. It’s not a story so much as it is a collision, where a normal guy cop (Steven Weber) runs into a grotesque girl (Carrie Anne Fleming) who he saves from a deranged man about to murder her. The moment she enters his life, it’s over. He just doesn’t know it yet. Weber wrote the script, adapting the Bruce Jones/Bernie Wrightson story, and I think he did a hell of a job. He gives himself the plum role, but it’s really well-done. As the girl reveals her true nature, the film gets wildly graphic, and Argento shows it all in gleeful detail. There’s a whiff of the crazy here, like he’s testing the boundaries just to see what he can get away with. I’ve seen a lot of the make-up from his second season episode already (written by Matt “Also A New Dad” Venne), and some of the sets, and I have to say... Argento’s determined to take no prisoners this year. JENIFER’s a hell of a warm up for what I’m hoping PELTS will be later this year.
Lots of extras, as there have been on each of the DVDs so far. No Argento commentary, but Steven Weber does contribute one. There’s also a documentary on the upsetting make-up work by KNB, and any self-respecting gorehound must see it.
ETERNITY AND A DAY
This one doesn’t surpass APOCALYPSE NOW, but it’s one of the releases this week that gives it a genuine run for the money. It’s also a Palm D’Or winner, just like APOCALYPSE NOW, and it’s easy to see why. Theo Angelopoulos directed Bruno Ganz to the best performance of his career, and considering the work Ganz has done, that’s saying something. Alexander (Ganz) plays a famous Greek writer who knows that he’s dying. The film takes place on one last perfect day in his life as his past and present collide to devastating emotional effect. It’s a gorgeous film, haunting and deeply human, and I would urge you to take a chance on this affecting story about understanding how to make the most of the time we have.
HEART LIKE A WHEEL
Raise your hand if you’re an HBO kid. If you had the channel back in the ‘80s. Now, keep them up if you recognize this title because you saw the film 573 times thanks to HBO. I’ve got mine up. I’ve seen this film since, though, and I have to say it’s one of the best things that Jonathan Kaplan ever did. He made the excellent OVER THE EDGE, and then turned around and made this romantic, sad, genuinely inspirational film about race car driver Shirley Muldowney. Beau Bridges plays her love interest, and he rocks it as this other driver who’s married and who loves to raise hell, but he kind of gets blindsided by Shirley. This is another of the Fox films that Anchor Bay’s been releasing lately. Nice and cheap, and well worth picking up.
HONG KONG PHOOEY: THE COMPLETE SERIES
MAGILLA GORILLA: THE COMPLETE SERIES
You know, when I was a kid and these were actually in first run on television, it seemed like there were a lot more episodes than there actually are. That’s the thing about revisiting things from your childhood... they’re never quite what you remember.
Thanks to Bruce Lee in movie theaters and KUNG FU on television, martial arts were huge in the ‘70s. Well before Daniel Russo threw a crane kick, every kid I knew wanted to be a martial arts expert. Hanna-Barbera jumped in with this cartoon about a janitor named Henry, voiced by the late great Scatman Crothers, who is actually Hong Kong Phooey, a hero who manages to bumble his way to victory every week. My favorite thing about the show remains that theme song, which I could still sing word-for-word even before I was sent this DVD. Each episode features two full cartoons except for the very last one, which was a full half-hour long. There are several commentaries included, a retrospective documentary, and one entire episode laid out in storyboard form.
I’m a lot less familiar with this Hanna-Barbera title. When I watched the first episode and saw Mr. Peebles, owner of a pet shop, complain that “No one buys gorillas anymore,” I wanted to ask when they did buy gorillas, and where can I get one? It’s actually deceptive to just call this a collection of Magilla Gorilla shorts, since there are other characters who are part of this show, like Punkin’ Puss and Ricochet Rabbit. You get a pretty heft assortment of cartoons featuring each of the three characters. In the Magilla characters, each week Mr. Peebles sells Magilla to a new owner, and then Magilla causes all sorts of mayhem and havoc that eventually leads to him being returned to the store. It’s a pretty basic formula, and it’s obviously aimed at the youngest possible audience, but it’s still good silly fun.
HOOT
Carl Hiaasen’s had a rough time of it with Hollywood. He’s a fantastic writer, and having spent much of my life in Florida, I really appreciate the way he captures that state and the particular lunacy of it. Hiaasen’s always had a strong environmental message to his work, even in the craziest of his books, but I think HOOT (based on a novel he wrote for young readers) is the most overt he’s ever been about it. I have no idea how this film is since I didn’t see it in theaters, but I’m willing to at least give it a chance. Luke Wilson, Jimmy Buffett, and Tim Blake Nelson show up, but the main cast is a group of kids who are determined to stop a construction project from destroying the natural habitat of some burrowing owls. This is another film from Walden Media, who exist primarily to bring kids literature to the bigscreen, as with their NARNIA franchise or the upcoming HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS, and it looks like New Line has packed some extras onto the disc, including a commentary with Hiaasen that I’m very curious about.
JAMES STEWART: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION
RONALD REAGAN: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION
Warner Bros continues their total dominance of the catalog title market with not one but two of their Signature Collection box sets in the same day. I’d argue that one is more significant in terms of overall careers as an actor, but the other one features a film that has been a long time coming to DVD, and is a reason to rejoice.
Tom Hanks has frequently been called “the new Jimmy Stewart,” and I can see why the comparison is made. Stewart had an approachability and an open, inviting charisma that made him equally popular with men and with women.
This collection of films shows off the range that Stewart displayed as an actor over the years, and there are some pretty good movies here, including one of Stewart’s best overall performances in THE NAKED SPUR. You’ll also get THE STRATTON STORY (real-life baseball biopic), THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (real-life Charles Lindbergh biopic directed by Billy freakin’ Wilder), THE FBI STORY (pretty much exactly what it sounds like), FIRECREEK (a western co-starring Henry Fonda), and THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB (another western co-starring Henry Fonda that just happens to be fall-down funny). Nice batch of stuff, and since it’s Warner, expect vintage shorts and cartoons on most of the discs.
Y’know, my first reaction to this was, “Really? A box set for Ronald Reagan?” But looking at the five films they put together here, I think the argument can be made that this is a worthwhile group of films, and that his career deserves at least this much consideration. If nothing else, the release of KNUTE ROCKNE, ALL-AMERICAN is cause to rejoice. This is one of the most requested titles on DVD, and it’s a pretty standard Hollywood film from the ‘40s. It’s a pretty efficient tearjerker, though, and Reagan is the guy who pulls on the heartstrings as “The Gipper.” KINGS ROW is the best film Reagan ever made, a sort of pre-David Lynch look at the seamy underbelly of small-town life. THE HASTY HEART is set in an Army Hospital just after WWII, and a group of patients decides to lie to a dying man to make his last days less terrible. STORM WARNING is a noir picture about a woman who accidentally stumbles onto the scene of a KKK lynching in progress. Reagan’s the local DA who helps her uncover the men behind the crime. Finally, there’s THE WINNING TEAM, where Reagan plays a baseball pitcher who has to battle his addictions in order to become a winner.
All in all, Warner Bros. is to be commended for their constant devotion to getting these catalog titles into the homes of consumers again, and for the canny way they put together these collections. It’s a fun way to trip back through Hollywood history, and they make these collections affordable, a big plus.
LEMMING
I like Euro-thrillers. There’s something inherently classy about what they see as suspense and how they build tension. This one sounds particularly cuckoo, with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Charlotte Rampling co-starring in the story of what happens when a young engineer and his wife get pulled into the bizarre dysfunctional marriage of his boss. Things get even stranger after the boss’s wife kills herself in their house. This got some festival play last year at Cannes and Telluride, but I don’t recall it gathering any particular critical mass.
This is the closest thing we’ve had to a review of the film on the site so far. Makes me curious.
L’ENFANT
Well, what do you know? Another Palm D’Or winner. It’s raining Palm D’Or winners today! Look out!
I haven’t seen this one. I saw an earlier frilm by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, THE SON, but I didn’t make it to the theater for this. Cbabbitt did see it, though, and reviewed it for us.
What these filmmakers do so well is simmer. They know how to put the emotional screws to an audience and slowly... slowly... increase the pressure to an unbearable degree. I’m looking forward to this probably more than any other title on this list that I haven’t seen yet.
REMINGTON STEELE: SEASONS FOUR AND FIVE
I wonder if it’s any easier for Pierce Brosnan to look back at the last few seasons of REMINGTON STEELE than it was to live through them. At the time, the Bond producers had already spotted him and made plenty of overtures, and as the fourth season played out, the series started to seriously falter in the ratings. He made the mistake of being too vocal too early, though, and NBC decided to take advantage of the sudden boost of Brosnan’s profile and bring everyone back for a fifth season against their will. It makes sense that you’d put seasons four and five together in a box since that fifth season is really just a series of three two-hour films designed to wrap up all of the loose threads for the characters. Even in that last cursory sprint through a contractual obligation, there were charming moments, and Brosnan continued to hone his persona. At the time, it meant that he lost the Bond role to Tim Dalton, but since we all know what eventually played out, maybe time has made it possible for him to finally watch this stuff without being angry.
ROME: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
I tried this series when it was in first-run on HBO, and I didn’t care for the first episode at all. I’m a big fan of most of what HBO does, so I figured this was the rare miss for them, and I think there was just too much other stuff on at the time that I was already using the Tivo to catch. As happens sometimes, this was a show that built its buzz slowly over the course of the season, and based on the reactions to the season finale, it sounds like it eventually built quite a head of steam. Ciarin Hinds has become one of my favorite character actors since this show aired, so when HBO sent along the box, I started catching up. I’m halfway through the season now, and I can see the appeal.
It’s THE SOPRANOS meets GLADIATOR, and it works because of the incredible production value and the great cast. I can see how the show fits with the sensibilities of producer John Milius, and like with HBO’s other great period show DEADWOOD, part of what makes this so much fun is watching how real history and fiction end up entwined. I’m looking forward to getting to the end of the box in the next few days, since I have a pretty good idea where this season has to end up, and I’m dying to see how ROME handles it. I know this is a pricey show for HBO, but I’m glad they’ve greenlit a second season. They’ve certainly taken good care of the show, complete with commentaries, featurettes about the history and about the production of the show. If you missed this the same way I did, do yourself the favor and catch up now. It’s powerful and provocative stuff.
RV
SCARY MOVIE 4
SAFE MEN
Comedy’s a funny thing, and I don’t mean “ha ha.” Well, I do, but what I mean is that one man’s comedy is another man’s horror. There are things that people find amusing that other people just find irritating, and there are things I know I laugh at that probably never entertain anyone else the same way. Still, I find myself willing to give almost any comedy a try, and I find that many times, how you react depends on the audience you see something with.
Robin Williams has one of the most uneven careers of anyone working. Something like RV seems to be the sort of film he does between his “real” films, things like THE NIGHT LISTENER or INSOMNIA or MAN OF THE YEAR. His big broad mainstream comedies rarely work as complete films these days. Still, I hope for a film that allows him to be funny without the film being junk, and I hope that Barry Sonnenfeld managed to find the funny in what sounds like a remake of one of my favorite film comedies, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION.
I reviewed this one the other day, and I just wanted to add a little context about how I watched it. My mother-in-law just moved in with us when we got the house, and so she’s around now for more of the movies I play. She’s one of my favorite people ever to watch a comedy with because of what an easy laugh she is. Once she gets rolling, too, she will laugh her ass off without apology, and she can make even a moderately funny film much, much funnier. I watched this one with her and my wife, with the Spanish subtitles on, and sure enough, David Zucker should probably hire her to tour with the film because of how much she added to the experience.
This was the debut film of John Hamburg as a director. He’s worked on scripts like MEET THE PARENTS, ZOOLANDER, and MEET THE FOCKERS, but as a writer/director, he’s batting .500. I have little or no use for ALONG CAME POLLY, a generic Ben Stiller romantic comedy, but SAFE MEN is gloriously eccentric. Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn play singers who show up in Providence, only to be mistaken by the local criminal element for safecrackers. Rockwell and Zahn are really funny together, but the thing that pushes this one over the top is Paul Giamatti as “Veal Chop,” one of his most outrageous characters. Michael Lerner, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Showalter, and even Harvey Fierstein all show up and do really good work in supporting roles. This one film convinces me that Hamburg is a guy who may well do more good work in the future, and I’m not going to hold one or two less inspired studio films against him if there’s a chance we might get another one like this out of him at some point.
THE SIMPSONS: THE COMPLETE EIGHTH SEASON
It’s pretty much a guarantee that as long as they’re producing SIMPSONS season box sets, I’ll be buying them. But for people who aren’t obsessive-compulsive collector completists, this might be the last must-have season of the show, one of the last moments that the program worked on every level, where the writing and the directing were at their absolute best. There are some episodes in this season that I would hold up against anything else from the entire run of the show, like the jet-black “Homer’s Enemy,” the John Waters-centric “Homer’s Phobia,” “The Mysterious Voyage of Homer,” which was one of the craziest things the show ever did, and the brilliant “You Only Move Twice,” featuring Albert Brooks as Hank Scorpio, evil genius. As always, Fox has packed on the audio commentaries and the extra features. These are some of the best collections of TV episodes that anyone is producing at the moment, and I can’t wait to get hold of this and dig in.
SIX MORAL TALES BY ERIC ROHMER (Criterion)
Okay, at the start of the column, I said there was nothing even close to APOCALYPSE NOW on the list this week. Of course, I forgot about ETERNITY AND A DAY and I forgot about this exceptional collection from Criterion, six films from Eric Rohmer. This is as big a deal as when they released all the Antoine Doinel films together last year. These films aren’t directly related like they’re sequels to one another, but what Rohmer does is explore variations on themes and ideas over the course of many different films. Here are the six pictures of his that really epitomize what it is that he does as a director.
THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU is only 23 minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder actually appears in front of the camera here as a young man forced to choose between two women he’s made dates with at the same time. THE COLLECTOR was the first feature-length entry in the series. An art dealer and a painter spend the summer together on vacation. A young woman in the area has a reputation as a “collector” of men, seducing many of them. The two men find themselves both drawn to her, and she finds herself questioning her own choices.
SUZANNE’S CAREER falls somewhere between those two films in running time, coming in just shy of an hour, as two university students try to win the interest of the same girl. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S is about a young man who moves to a small town where he sees a young woman at mass who he decides he’s going to marry. His resolve is tested, though, when he ends up meeting a divorced woman named Maud, who he ends up staying up all night with having a profound conversation about all sorts of things. CLAIRE’S KNEE is probably my favorite of the bunch, the store of Jerome, a man in his mid-30s who harbors an unhealthy obsession with the knees of a lovely teenage girl named Claire. Finally, CLAIRE IN THE AFTERNOON tells the story of a happily-married man who is expecting a second child with his wife. He starts daydreaming of other women, determined not to actually do anything about it, until the woman his friend was sleeping with starts showing up at his office, determined to seduce him. These are called his Moral Tales because all of them really boil down to the small moral choices we make and the way they impact our lives. Great stuff, and it looks like Criterion has absolutely packed the box set with extras.
THE WEIRD AL SHOW
Shout! Factory is one of the coolest companies out there right now, and they bust ass with their TV-on-DVD collections. THE WEIRD AL SHOW was wildly uneven, and you could say that it owed more than a small debt to the superior PEE WEE’S PLAYHOUSE, but there’s still a lot to like amidst the grab bag of material that made up each episode. I haven’t seen this collection yet, but I hear the commentaries in particular are fantastic and revealing and brutally honest, and I like Al enough that I’m looking forward to digging in and seeing what I think of this now, almost a decade after it originally aired.
And with that, I’m going to wrap it up for today. I’m seeing THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP tonight, and I’ve got at least four or five big articles planned for the week.
Lots to do, so for now...
"Moriarty" out.
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hahaha
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and on a monday too...eh...probably not....
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I just want to say hi to all my family and friends
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now that's cool!!!
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This is actually the 2nd Seoul festival it's been at, but I didn't get to see it at the first one (got to see One Armed-Boxer vs The Flying Guillotine instead -- fucking spectacular). Cigarette Burns is in with a pretty good group surrounding it: Blue Velvet at noon, Carrie at 3:30, then Cigarette Burns paired with The Fair-Haired Child (another Master of Horror) at 6:00, and a couple more MoH afterwards. I've got the day off (it's Korean independence day tomorrow), so I think I'll take in Carrie and the McWeenyfied MoH group. I'd consider doing more, but I'm not quite in Seoul, so there'll be some bus ridin' bookending this event.
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It was drenched in gore, funny and has some great sex scenes! What more could you ask for?!! Even if the sex was with a disfigured wierdo! It's Argento at his 'Demons' finest!
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is my ringtone. This is my must-buy from this list of releases.
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Scatman was the shit, yo!
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..who just moved into your house: One can only imagine the horror you felt..
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I kept hearing about one that was too much for HBO to show.....is that a myth? If not, what was it and is it out on DVD yet?
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I think only the Coast to Coast shows are on DVD.
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Google tells me it's Takashi Miike's "Imprint" and that it's out on DVD on September 16th. Man, I'd forgotten Takashi Miike had done one of these, and lucky me, it's playing this Sunday as part of the same festival as Cigarette Burns. I'll be there for sure. And hmm, it looks like Jenifer is actually one of the MoH flicks playing tomorrow. Might as well see that too. Who the fuck wants to spend their day off outside?
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Although mildly entertaining, I'll go with "UHF" over Weird Al's TV offering any day. Now that was a funny movie.
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That was the biggest waste of my scroll wheel energies I've had all morning...what a collection!
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Fuck HBO for cancelling Carnivale before it was finished! What a great show! Rome I will have to take a look at for sure, but HBO is losing out right now after being on top for a LONG time. Deadwood is a shadow of what it once was, and Rome is not a worthy successor
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Yes, Jenifer is an excellent movie. Check out the politically incorrect funny review here at this website. http://tinyurl.com/pv8do
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Wasn't he called Penry rather than Henry?
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It came out in 1998? geez, this must be like a secret classic, or Cult, if you will.
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Saw it a long time ago and even managed to snag a copy on my PC, its something that is a great companion piece to the film. Its one of the best - if not the best - BTS doc out there, and for them not to have it on this THIRD DVD release of the film is a shame.
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...I know what you mean. I always thought that (although I really like the first 5) Police Acdemy 6 was lame. Then I watched it together with my sister, when it was on TV and I laughed my ass off!! Sometimes all you need are the right people, to enjoy a film.
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Like Mori said above, season eight is where I'm going to stop collecting The Simpsons, as this is the last season to be consistently excellent across the board. While I continued to watch for another few years after that, it was never the same (wasn't this the last season with Brad Bird producing?).
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I live in Seoul. Where will the festival be? I wanna go.
And I liked Scary Movie 4 much more then the 3rd. I am so pissed ebcuase I bought part 3 without seeing it thinking it would be as good as the first two...fuck that... -
Reagan Collection? Republicans Everywhere Rejoice
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Like the scene where you finally find out what happens to the Dennis Hopper character? I've seen it and its interesting. They should have put that in the supplemental.
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That Dust Devil set looks fucking awesome. I've been a fan of Stanley's since the first time I saw Hardware. I haven't seen those documentaries, but I did read Stanley's insane report from the Dr. Moreau shoot (from which he was canned and banned but returned to in "manimal" make-up as an extra and quasi-spy) in an issue of Neon from 1997 (I think). Stanley's a righteous dude, no doubt about it, and I'm thrilled to death that Dust Devil finally gets the treatment it deserves. Don't worry, Mori -- I'll be picking this one up as soon as it comes out.
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reminds me of the three extreme dvd i just watched, with the Dumplings segment....was that the Takashi Miike segment? Is it the same thing?
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According to yesterday's Circuit City sales flyer, the Apocalypse Now SE that they are selling will have a bonus disc that includes more deleted scenes and trailers. Plus, they have the cheapest retail sale price I have seen so far for the set: $13.
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Seriously, watch Kings Row and see if you don't agree that John Irving stole it blind. Small town kid dreaming of the big world, disreputable doctor as father figure, father-daughter incest theme (censorship makes it hard to tell that's what's up in Kings Row, but it is), etc.
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Well, well, well. Looks like the tables have turned, drworm2002. I say this because I asked you a question about a week ago on a talkback for The Host, about where this English-subtitled theatre you had found was, and if it was playing The Host (When you never answered, I bit the bullet and saw it subtitle-free. It was pretty darn good, though there are some things I know I didn't quite get.) Anyway, to answer your question: it's the Seoul Art Cinema, 4th floor of the Nakwon Musical Instrument Arcade (by Insadong). From July 25 to Aug 24 they've got this solid mostly-English program (I saw Hannah and Her Sisters there a week ago). http://www.cinematheque.seoul.kr/ Click the "Cine Vacances" thing. Now, where's this English-subbed joint you found? (I have a sneaking suspicion it's the same place I just pointed you to...)
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Didn't that come out recently? It's fucking awesome! Heh, I remember Remington Steele on Television! That show was the shit! Also remember the Hanna Babera Gorilla one, but that was M'eh compared to the other characters they had.
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What else are they going to do? Sopranos is finally coming to an end, Deadwood is canned, Rome isn't getting a season 3... so how about that final season of Carnivale?
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And heart of darkness was the best thing about apocolypse now! Showed pretty much all the highlights from the film and is a fascinating journey into the struggle to tell a story.
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"Imprint" is great. And it seems that our favourite Japanese madman made a list of everything that he thought American TV wouldn't show, grinned widely and included it all: abortion, dead fetusses, incest, torture, whores. All that and a midget with a hole in his nose and a rooster hat. What could you possibly want more? (oh yeah, and the cinematography is gorgeous)
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What DOES happen to Hoppers character??? Never even considered it! About a final season of Carnivale, the story was meant to be six seasons...3 "books" of two seasons each, with many years elapsing between each book. Again, I say F___ HBO! ;)
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in my mind, the simpsons never really declined in quality until season eleven, which i will likely not buy. seasons nine and ten didnt exactly shoot 100% but included such all-time classics as 'the cartridge family,' 'lisa the skeptic,' 'the joy of sect' (na na na na na na na na LEADER) 'homer to the max' 'mom and pop art' and the great stephen hawking episode 'they saved lisa's brain.' fortunately hank scorpio, frank grimes, poochie, and the love-matic grampa will tide me over till those seasons come out.
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Or how about the Eric Stoltz fottage from BACK TO THE FUTURE? Both still exist, and are under the care of their respective directors...
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When's Tarantino going to release Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair???
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If ya'll are HBO subscribers and have Comcast as your cableco, watch the episodes streamed from OnDemand because they show them letterboxed whereas if you don't have HDTV and watch them on the regular HBO channels, they televise them pan & scan. HBO should put this baby out on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
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My only question is when do you get time to watch all this shit?? I have a hard enough time sitting down to watch three netflix a month!!
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Aug 14, 2006 1:39:19 PM CDT
What abou the Honk Kong Phooey Doc? Phooey of Darkness?
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I saw it back in 89....phucking brilliant. One scene, scatman crothers, totally zonked on cleaning fluids, but STILL in character, jumps into the garbage shoot and into the phooey-coptermobile himself....NO STUNTMAN!!! He cuts himself on the copter blade and sits there in the car, thick with blood and clorox, croakin' "phuck phooey, phuck Landis for Twilight Zone, phuck that god damn cat that follows me everywhere, and PHUCK YOU!!!"
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Perhaps they should explore merging HBO with the F/X Network for the most kick-assery on television today. HBO could televise their combined shows unedited and without commercials, and F/X could televise them edited with commercials. Its no more outlandish than TimeWarner rolling their WB Network into CBS's UPN to make The CW, but then again, the management of TimeWarner have no love for Rupert Murdoch & Co.
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I taught the son of Coppola's producer and asked him, point blank, why HOD was not being released. He went home, asked, and came back the next day saying, "Francis does not want it released because it makes him look bad."
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Caesar, Mark Anthony, Pullo and Vorenus are brilliantly played. Caesar's death scene is just heartbreaking, magnificent acting from Ciaran Hinds.
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Dude, spoilers! Maybe Moriarty thought Caesar would survive to shag another day! And why does it seem like Ciaran Hinds was only in the theatrical *Miami Vice* for the sole purpose of a cameo? I'll say one thing about *Rome*, I was pissed at what they did to Caesar. Two thousand plus years later and just seeing the fictional re-enactment cheeses me off because the man did not deserve the fate he received. Great men do not deserve to be murdered by jealous cowards.
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Doc or Mori - why was he fired from "The Island of Dr. Moreau"? I only recognize him from "Hardware" because he cast Carl McCoy from Fields of the Nephilim (!) as the desert scavenger guy.
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http://www.everythingisundercontrol.org/nagtloper/iviews/massacre.html
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Live action and portrayed by Ray "Titus Pullo" Stevenson, with Charisma Carpenter as Ariel and Ralph Moeller as Ookla.
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rules, and damn I hate that enter button vs tab button error!
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"on disc one, you get the first half of each film, and on disc two, the second half of each." On what fucked-up planet does doing it this way make sense?
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... since REDUX is simply the original cut with material added in via seamless branching, that's the only way it really makes sense. I'm not sure how you would do it. The entire film duplicated onto each disc separately? The commentary is shared between the two films as well, so that just seems like that would be the wasteful way of putting it together. This way, there's more room for extra features.
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Looking forward to seeing this, it was directed by the same guy that did "With a Friend Like Harry", great movie, best suspense film to include a gibbon monkey with a propeller head
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It's still funnier and better-scripted than 99% of all current television, period.
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With the whole "new Jimmy Stewart" but let's get something straight, other than the fact that Hanks usually takes good ol' warm-hearted roles which Stewart has been known for, Hanks is, frankly, WHITE DOG SHIT compared to the late James Stewart. This is the exact equivalent of saying Brad Pitt is the new Marlon Brando, other than the fact that Pitt has done some dark roles with a 'renegade' persona is the only vague analogy of a thin facade in comparing Brando. Stewart is one of the rare actors to achieve greatness without taking the dark, moody, and gritty route. I'd say Bogart and Stewart are the two greatest actors who ever lived, with Brando a smidge underneath, but to say some fuckhair by the name of Tom Hanks who takes good ol' roles of gory war flicks, and throwing a hearty ol' "fuck you" to the Oscar host is an embarrasment to the memory of the humble man of morals Stewart. hanks is watery soup in acting chops compared to Stewart. Better to compare Hanks to someone more of his 'talent.'
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The Office, My Name is Earl, South Park, Family Guy, Monk, Entourage, Curb, Lucky Louie, Scrubs, Weeds, Rescue Me, Everybody Hates Chris, Reno 911!, Boondocks, Aqua Teen. And thats only off the top of my head. I think it would be much easier to list shows worse than the Simpsons right now. Let's see... Um.....hmm..., oh definitely American Dad. Thats much much worse. I also agree the eight was the final good season. Now, that's not to say there aren't SOME good ones after it, like the New York episode like somebody mentioned, but there's no season after 8 with enough good ones to warrant a purchase. Then there's the seasons after maude dies, I would PAY to get those off tv.
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Cigarette Burns. Sorry, but it be the truth. (although they're both pretty bad. I'm just saying Jenifer is "entertaining")
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Yes it's cool that there is a commentary etc. but does it really matter since once again Coppola and Storaro have chosen, in their infinite wisdom, to hack off the sides of the 2.35:1 Cinemascope frame. This is no better than studio pan and scanning. Being "director approved" doesn't make it any easier to swallow and makes it seem even more absurd and unforgivable. I don't like or buy Storaro's "vertical resolution" cop-out either. To me the correct aspect ratio is more important. If they pull this excuse out of their ass when it inevitably hits HD I will lose my mind. To ad insult to injury now I find out you have to swap discs at the half way mark to make "room" for the atrocious Redux. If Dawn Of The Dead can have a 4 disc set then surely Apocalypse can too. Moriarty, I'm disappointed you'd give this set a pass based on the extras when the most important part, the film, has once again been given the shit end of the stick. I'm livid because I care. This is one of my top 3 favorite films of all time.
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... can you find an Amazon link on this page? Can you find ANYTHING where you click and I earn money? Oh, you can't? That's because I didn't put on here. But keep trying to find something to hang me on. It's not like I've made it a secret that I wrote for a show, and I've done nothing here that earns me one single cent. Sorry.
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Here is a quote that killed me: "As soon as the budget goes over a certain level, you're in the hands of the company. When it hit $35-million, my position started to become untenable. They say: 'It has to be this way, kid - the waist-high field of marijuana plants has to go; the animal sex has to go; you can't have the female lead cooked and eaten..." -- Good stuff.
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Rome was like The Wire. I watched it at first because it was on HBO and that's what I watch on Sunday nights, wondering why it was so boring and why I continued to watch. Then, as the season progressed, I found myself completely absorbed by it. Awesome show.
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I'm freakin' elated that Naked Spur and Spirit Of St. Louis are finally coming out.
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It's odd how sympatico we are on horror titles, but it makes sense considering age and influences. I've had the Euro cut of Dust Devil and the CD for several years, so that boxset sounds awesome. It's always been unfortunate that Stanley lost his mind on Moreau, but that project seemed doomed from early on...and Hardware is about a frame away from unwatchable...I'm still waiting for a decent release of Accione Mutante and other Iglesias titles.
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In another universe maybe.
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Yes, Thundarr the Barbarian on DVD! Someone make it happen. (Oh, and the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, too.)
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How come Dust Devil gets a 5 disc release but Richard Stanley's Hardware nothing, not even 1 disc
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Truly it does. Dust Devil sucks. His Dr. Moreau would've sucked too. Not that it doesn't suck in its current form. I think someday a great movie will be made from that book, but no one has cracked it yet (perhaps Frankenheimer should've tried his hand at it in the 60s...)
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a short doc on Encore about Hitch's influence on filmmakers. Had such geniuses of the cinema as Ernest Dickerson, Sean Cunningham, Victor Salva, Stuart Gordon and of course, our boy Drew. insights given? Um, Psycho is cool cuz it kills off the lead. Vertigo is weird and perverted. thats about it. oh, and we have Hitch to thank for movies like Friday the 13th and jeepers Creepers.
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Bullcrap, I'll give you my copy, either that or I'll throw it in the trash, COMPLETE GARBAGE!!!
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theres just been so many COOL and amazing updates today!
COOL NEWS OVERLOAD....TIME TO KILL MYSELF!!!
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How much was lopped off the picture? I'm not being sarcastic I'm actually curious. Say the current picture was on a screen that was 40 inches wide. How much of the sides are gone? I don't have a massive super plasma TV, but I don't care HOW big the screen is, I hate pan and scan and I love seeing as wide a picture as possible. I'm going to pick this up anyway because of the price, but I'm curious. I didn't even understand "anamorphic" until a few months ago because I'm just a caveman!
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... I'll be honest. I don't care if you think it's appropriate or not. If I were trying to hide my connection to the show, you might have a point, but I'm not. You are cordially invited not to read the article if it offends your delicate sensibilities so much, but considering it doesn't affect me monetarily one way or another if Argento's episode does well, I'll feel free to talk about it as often as I want. At some point, Jeff, you need to make a choice... either stop reading what I write, or stop telling me what I'm "allowed" to write. I'm enormously comfortable with where I draw my ethical line in the sand, and all of your attempts to call me out on some perceived slight only make you look stupid like today, when you were so sure you had me on the Amazon thing. Just give it a rest.
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Thanks. Here's a link that describes aspect ratios better than I can http://tinyurl.com/j9rhr . In essence what they are doing is "zooming in " on the Cinemascope (2.35:1) image so that it fills in a standard (1.85:1) frame, in the process a few inches on the right and left are lobbed off. I think it harms the compositions and the film overall. They have never released a 2.35:1 version of Apocalypse on video. So the dossier is "complete" minus the right and left sides of the screen of course.
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Before you make an even bigger fool out of yourself. Your nitpicking Moriarity for no reason probably because you're jealous that he writes for MoH and you're still in your parent's basement masterbating with baby oil to your crumpled, semen stained picture of Leia in the slave outfit. Get a life.
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at this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WideScreenFormats.svg imagine increasing the size of the blue box until it's top and bottom fit flush with the top and bottom of the green box, that's how much is getting cropped from the sides. So quite a bit.
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... again, you don't know what you're talking about. I don't have a contract with MASTERS OF HORROR beyond a single episode at a time. There's no guarantee I'll be invited back for a third season, and if I do, it certainly won't be because Argento's episode did well. There are no staff writers on the show, no long-term contracts, no ties of any kind that make this into a situation where I am rewarded for someone else's success. If I am asked back, it'll be because my second episode does well on its own. Seriously... let it go. Your assumptions are wildly off-base here.
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Look at the various actors who have links on their own websites to sell copies of films they've been in...or musical groups with links to their albums for sale online. BFD. Maybe people should post whether they would prefer Mori's listing links of movies he actually likes versus say Herc's approach which is to list every tv show that's being released on DVD as something to buy. Personally, I don't have a problem with either style because its not like we're being charged money per TalkBack post. Granted, if jerkoff Ed Whiteacre of AT&T has his way, we probably will...
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... I am sick of being told what I am or am not allowed to write. It works just like it does with TV or the radio or any other media. If you don't like it... if it bothers you so much... then change the channel, or tune to another station or go to another website. No one forced you to read this column. You've played this "Amazon links" game before, too, as far back as May of 2005, right down to accusing me of making money off of my DVD column. Which I don't. And if you take another shitty shot at me personally like accusing me of "weak character" because I publish a weekly list of the titles I consider interesting, this conversation will be over. Period.
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If I wrote a movie or a TV show I know I would be plugging it on my web sight, and on here, and on Jeff MCM's web sight as well. Unfortunately I only have a book, so that's all I plug. Moriarty DOES have an episode to plug, but he's too busy plugging someone ELSE'S episode. I don't really get what the fascination is with accusing Moriarty of some kind of conflict of interest here. Every time he mentions Masters of Horror he bends over backwards to mention his conflict of interest, which is probaly not necessary at this point. What is the premise here, that he's gonna trick some person who only skims and happens to always miss the big chunks where he talks about his involvement, and then they're gonna forget that he was talking about the Argento episode and get Moriarty's episode instead, and not notice his name on the credits, but if they had they wouldn't have rented it? I guess I don't really get what it is we're trying to prevent from happening here. Moriarty is a family man, you boys need to lay off and let the man relax. So I hereby offer myself as the new conflict of interest guy. Please redirect all accusations to my talkbacks. Thank you.
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... people need to realize that there's no upside to taking shots at people's families over anything on the Internet. Especially over something like writing about movies. You must really have some sort of strange and empty existence if the discussion of films and television shows and books leads to you being a prick about the family of someone you've never met.
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that when someone gets banned the offending posts (excepting really vile ones)could stay. I am curious as to what was said here. And the thread doesn't make sense now. BTW- does anyone British know when Rome is out in the UK, or when the BBC plans to show season 2?
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Here is a website that might help you get in the right direction. http://www.seoulselection.com/
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You were talking about Seoul Selection, Drworm2002? I think they just show Korean movies on DVD, don't they? It's not quite the same as seeing something newly-released. And don't worry about missing the question. I don't expect you to keep tabs on every talkback you post to.
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Y'know, I'd rather have bigger black bars than compromise the picture on a "definitive" version. I mean, any heathen who simply can't watch widescreen should have a DVD player with a "zoom" button and let that be that. There are far too many millions of horrifying "full screen" edition DVDs out there.
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Since now you look like a crazy person on the corner yelling at nobody.
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On the issue of it being split across 2 dvds, I missed that it was seamless branching so I guess that explains it. Though my preference would be to not have it split. Yes I'm that lazy, we don't all have 5-disc dvd carousels so that it doesn't matter.
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Hola peeps. Someone might have all ready filled you in on this but I dont read talkbacks so i have zero clue. Fanboys, this is a must read. I went to Circuit City today and picked up my copy of the Complete Dossier of Apocalypse Now and received a bonus disk that you can only get there. It Includes: The Added Scenes and Expanded Themes of Apocalypse Now Redux, Destruction of the Kurtz Compound with Optional Commentary, and also both the 1979 and 2001 Trailers for the separate cuts there. Anyhow just a heads up buy this thing at Circuit City if you can. It's only $12.99 this week as well.
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it's funny reading mori's comments in response to posts that have since been de-posted. i guess the only place we'll read them is in the director's cut of aicn, to be released in the new wu-ray dvd format, with commentary by jeff, docpaz, oz jones, the famous duanejones and in his final appearance, the late, great dirt mcgirt. in other news, _apocalypse redux_ re-sux -- the original release was much tighter, no goofy slapstick amongst the fellas, no brando reading from time magazine, uh, "meaningfully"...later for that noise. and as much as i disdain angelopoulos' extremely pretentious films like _landscape in the mist_ ("you're funny, too!"), both _eternity_ and the earlier _ulysses gaze_ are absolutely two of the great films in the history of world cinema over the past ten years. really, better, even, than _corky romano_...and now all of rohmer's six moral tales in one bizzox? formid-izz-able!
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I'd actually heard about the Circuit City thing beforehand, but I was sitting here at work waiting fo lunch and you clinched it: I was going to Circuit City to pick it up NOW. So I go, and I pick up the flyer, and then the DVD itself, which has no indication of an extra disc. I take it to the girl at the DVD counter and ask about it. "Oh, see, I just told those guys," she says, indicating a small unwashed group of college-aged film nerds, "the $12.99 sale version doesn't have the bonus disc. The bonus disc is in the $14.99 version." After blinking at her a few times, I tell her I'll be right back...as she starts to pull all copies that have the 'bonus disc' sticker off the shelves. I re-read the flyer to make sure I'm not a moron, and for once, I'm not...$12.99--FREE BONUS DISC. So I go up to the DVD whore again, pointing at the ad, and she gives me a helpless shrug and points me towards the customer service counter. She then tells me that she can't give me a 'bonus sticker' copy because the manager told her to pull them all. Jesus Christ. SO, I mosey up to the counter and the manager, THE MANAGER, starts to explain that there are two versions, $12 and $14. Opening my speech with "I hate being one of THOSE customers," I proceed to become one of THOSE customers, stopping just short of raising my voice. I once again blatantly point out "There are three specifics given in this ad: Apocalypse Now...$12.99...free disc. Where is everybody getting $14.99 from?" The register. "Well," says I, override it. The only reason I came to Circuit City, SPECIFICALLY, was this ad featuring this product." Realizing I was late getting back to lunch thanks to these morons, I failed to leave out the fact that I hate Circuit City for this exact reason, the reason that Best Buy slaps them around with eight inches of blue-and-gold limp dick...the service S-U-C-K-S. TEH SUCK, even. So anyway kids, if you absolutely HAVE to have this bonus disc, caveat emptor...you may even be better off going to CircuitCity.com. If you go to CC, make absolutely sure that the bonus disc sticker is on the DVD before you leave the store. But more or less what I'm saying is, if you don't need that disc, then tell Circuit City to kiss your ass! They got my $12.99 plus tax today...well they'd better enjoy it because that's the last money they'll see from me until I'm gleefully picking clearance items off of their desecrated corpse when they finally go bankrupt. Ahh, that felt good...and it killed the last 10 minuts of the workday. EXCELSIOR!
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Mine got run-up for $14.99 too. But I didn't signed the credit card agreement yet. I noticed it and the cashier did the same - shurg his shoulders. But he did call the manager and he overrid it. So I did get it for $12.99.
The bonus DVD was another matter altogether. I asked a drone there where's the copies of A.N. with the extra disc. They said I quote, "all the copies have it". NO. I wasn't about to buy it. So I went looking. By the way the "New" section didn't carry the bonus DVD. Anyhow, I found the special edition in "Adventure" (odd) and yes, there it was - bonus DVD. There were only five copies. I took two copies with and without sticker to the woman who had tried to help. Ok. So, at least the next guy or gal who asks can be directed correctly. Ok. Circuit City has a bonus disc. Free preview of "Snakes On A Plane". The ad reads "Minimum 96 per store". No, once again. I asked for my copy. And waited. Fianlly someone found a copy. Huh? There was only ONE copy in the store. Ninety-six per store my ass! -
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Is just a wonderful series. I watched in on HBO-HD -- and I'm afraid to even watch it on standard DVD. It was amazing in HD. Can't wait for the sequal.
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The weird thing was, Jeffmcm didn't say anything negative about Moriarty's family. One mention about living with his mother-in-law which apparently put Mori over the edge.
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I read the whole thread because of the one sided flame war going on. As I was reading I realized that the offending posts were removed but still and all, interesting. I always like reading Moriarty - entertaining, informative and honest. Don't let the trolls get under your skin.
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I'm so looking forward to the Apocalypse Now box and a lengthy Coppoloa commentary. His commentarys are just great. Just listened to the CONVERSATION commentary track, which is great. Just the way he tells that the first thing he does when knowing that none else can see him is taking off his pants...weird to imagine that. but more that this useless personal stuff you don't really need to know is what you can learn from his openness about his work and his own deveopment as a writer and filmmaker.
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If a woman looked like Paul Giamatti, she'd never get shit for acting jobs. He's one of the ugliest mofos ever, and yet he's in Lady in the Water and The Illusionist right now in theaters. WTF!!?!!?
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