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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 2nd week of May DVDs Part 2: YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, WESTERNS, ROBOTS, SINATRA & More!!!
Hey folks, Harry here - Sorry I didn't get this finished yesterday afternoon - but the Doctor stuff took longer - but it's all good - I'm cleared for surgery and thindom is just some hard work away. Anyway - here's the rest of this last Tuesday's releases. As you can tell... it was a ton of great stuff. Like always - if you click on the box art or titles you'll be taken to AMAZON - where you can learn more on the title or purchase it - thus giving a small percentage to help support this column. Thanks a ton. Here ya go...
Second Half of Tuesday, May 13th, 2008’s DVD COLUMN!
MAN OF THE WEST
If you’re a fan of Anthony Mann’s epics like EL CID… then welcome this opportunity to discover what he was one of the best at… his Westerns. MAN OF THE WEST isn’t HIGH NOON Gary Cooper, but a very different type – maybe not so much the hero you’re used to. Joining Cooper in this outstanding film is Lee J Cobb (you remember him from 12 ANGRY MEN where he was a fucking GOD!) and he is great here as the gang leader that holds up a train and kinda kick starts the story that follows. Wonderful film!
THE DAY OF THE OUTLAW
Burl Ives – nice guy right? You remember him hosting that Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer – how lovable… how animated… how much like a happy fat jolly relative… Well forget that – he’s the thing of nightmares in THE DAY OF THE OUTLAW. This is another film in the realm of the sub-genre, Western Noir – and as directed by Andre De Toth (another great director) – The lead “hero” in the film is Robert Ryan, who puts in another outstanding performance! We’re so lucky to get this level of quality Westerns out and on the market!
Frank Sinatra – The Golden Years Collection ( SOME CAME RUNNING / THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM / THE TENDER TRAP / NONE BUT THE BRAVE / MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS )
I know a lot of people feel the best Sinatra film ever made was THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE… but in my opinion – his best performance and best film is THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM – all about a soldier who has his amputated arm replaced with the golden arm of a magical asian statue – giving him superhuman… Just fucking with ya. It’s an incredible film about heroin addiction and jazz. Fucking great! Directed by Otto Preminger with one of the coolest scores ever scored. Also great in this set is SOME CAME RUNNING – literally one of the most amazing endings ever. GREAT. I haven’t seen THE TENDER TRAP or MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS yet, but NONE BUT THE BRAVE is fucking amazing. This was directed by Frank Sinatra and is one of the great anti-war films… that isn’t recognized critically as being great. But it is! About a plane of US men that wreck on an island and work out a truce with the “left behind” Japanese soldiers on the island. No stereotypes – just complex and brilliantly drawn characters. Rediscover this overlooked classic!
THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA
This is Anthony Quinn in his Zorba mode… and the film is wonderful for it. Anthony Quinn plays a mayor with the largest alcohol engorged liver in the history of mankind. Basically – he’s always drunk – and when the people of his small mountain Italian town learn that the leaders of their country have been overthrown – and that the Nazis are on the march to capture their wine – they hatch a plan to hide 1 Million Bottles of fine Italian Vino. Quinn is sad, hilarious and easily one of the greatest buffoons in film history. Great one!
THE LOVERS – Criterion Collection
This is the film that cemented Jeanne Moreau as the goddess of cinema that Louis Malle made her. One of the great erotic and sensual works from Malle – and Criterion has done a fantastic job presenting it here with tons of interviews and materials. If you love Louis’ films – you’ve already bought it. If you don’t know his works – or why I’m nuts about Jeanne Moreau… check this sucker out!
THE MAN WITH THE GUN
Robert Mitchum was amazing in a number of Westerns – but this is… without a doubt… his absolute best Western. In the sub-genre of WESTERN NOIR – this is one of the best. The violence comes suddenly and quickly – and Mitchum hits a town run entirely by a rat bastard and his private army. Mitchum is a gunfighter that is hired to kill off elements ruining a town – and he happens into town on a personal note – and ends up having to do a whole lot more. This film is very much a Man With No Name – western, but done in a film noir style, instead of a Spaghetti Western. You owe it to yourself to check it out!
AUTISM THE MUSICAL
For Real. This is amazing. Really. It’s a documentary. Amazing.
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FRANK SINATRA – The Early Years Collection ( IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN / STEP LIVELY / THE KISSING BANDIT / DOUBLE DYNAMITE / HIGHER AND HIGHER )
THE KISSING BANDIT is one of the most embarrassingly awful films with an incredibly miscast and flat out laughingly awful performance by Frank Sinatra – of all time. Just watching the film – you just laugh trying to think of what they were fucking thinking – cuz it’s like somebody hated Frank Sinatra – and Sinatra and slept with their teenage daughter – and then was forced to make this film… or go to jail. Because I can’t fucking imagine why or how he would find himself in this rancid turd. That said… you can’t take your eyes off the screen. It’s a trainwreck of ridiculous levels – and gorgeous Technicolor. That said – the other 4 films are all solid examples of Sinatra’s earliest beginnings in the film realm. Co-starring folks like Groucho Marx and Jimmy Durante… and the Tin Man! With the exception of THE KISSING BANDIT… lol… This set is rock solid!
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Here’s the great Coppola’s return to cinema – and it was undersold, came and went without much notice by the world… curious then… how the film is fucking brilliant. One of the absolute highlights of 2007. Add to that – that it’s a science fiction film about a brilliant man that gains remarkable powers – not the least of which is his ability to age backwards – as well as his ability to literally absorb information with perfect recollection. And the Nazis want him – The Americans want him… but he just wants to pursue his life’s work. A brilliant brilliant film. Welcome back Francis!!!
THE FIRE WITHIN – Criterion Collection
Louis Malle’s most sobering and haunting film – it tells the story of a man, who has decided to commit suicide – and the 24 hours leading up to that suicide as he tries to reconnect with everyone that he’s lost contact with. It’s a brilliant brilliant film – and morose as hell. That said – Criterion has done a great job of putting this film out with outstanding interviews and some great features.
LA CHINOISE
Ok all you fellow commie loving pinko liberals… Here’s a great film by Jean Luc Godard about a youthful group of students – enthralled by the teachings of Mao – and decide to “begin the revolution” and they plan to do it at all costs – including terrorism. An incredibly poignant study of the mentality and motivation behind radical actions for radical change. Fantastic film.
THE RAT PACK ULTIMATE COLLECTORS EDITION ( OCEANS 11 / ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS / 4 FOR TEXAS / SERGEANTS 3 )
Ok – you just ain’t cool – if you don’t have this box set. You can see the physical extras above – but these films are basically instructional manuals on being cool. In fact – I have to say you couldn’t really be cool without the intense study of at least Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. That’s just for starters. You can learn a lot from Peter Lawford & Joey Bishop… but man… Sinatra, Davis and Martin are where its at. Now OCEAN’S ELEVEN is the best known of the set – but for my tastes – the two best are SERGEANTS 3 and ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS (which I dearly dearly love!) ROBIN stars – in addition to the Rat Pack… Peter Falk, Victor Buono, Barbara Rush and Bing Crosby (who is cooler than anyone else.) Buying this set – guarantees owning a wet bar and a poker table – shortly thereafter. You’ll dress in suits and you’ll be a fucking pimp for the rest of your life – you sex god you!
THE WAY WEST
The films isn’t quite worthy of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel upon which it was based… that said – Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark save the film from being a disaster… and make the film really something worth checking out. They’re simply too charismatic to not be great.
THE SECRET INVASION
You ever seen a WWII film directed by Roger Corman – with a great cast? This was made in 1964 and is basically THE DIRTY DOZEN – but made 3 years prior with an inferior cast. Stewart Granger is the Lee Marvin of the film – with Henry Silva, Mickey Rooney, Raf Vallone, Ed Byrnes and William Campbell as the criminally talented soldiers given the mission or else choice. That said – it’s actually a pretty damn great film. Which isn’t a surprise really – Corman constantly made superior works with less.
TOBOR THE GREAT
After Robby the Robot, Gort and YM-3… TOBOR THE GREAT is the 4th best robot of the fifties. And the evil fucking commies wanted him! Those bastards. When’s the last time you saw ROBOT vs COMMIES? Right? RIGHT! This is totally a B movie – but if you love old fashioned robot tales as much as me… it’s TOBOR THE GREAT for you!
NAVAJO JOE
Now – I know… We’ve all had dreams – fevered dreams where Burt Reynolds played a badass Indian kicking ass in the Old West – and we wake up disappointed because we’re not living in that reality… but fuck that – it’s true. Burt Reynolds did play a badass Indian tired of the White Man’s shit – and Sergio Corbucci directed it! Ennio Morricone’s score is fantastic – and the resulting film is extremely violent, extremely badass… and some of the worst makeup ever… but that’s ok… its ok… cuz the movie kicks so much ass you forget the makeup. And it just happens to be great. Saw Tarantino’s print of this one awesome fucking night. I thought it would suck… but I was wrong!
TWELFTH NIGHT
This was broadcast on the UK’s ITV in 1969 – basically a televised version of a stage production that had the legendary Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowrite bringing this Shakespearean farce to life. Any time you can see those three act – is worth the opportunity and this performance is classic!
CAN I DO IT… TILL I NEED GLASSES
Raunchy 70s comedies rule… as does this sequel to IF YOU DON’T STOP IT… YOU’LL GO BLIND – it won’t all work for you- but there’s more than enough that will. Nudity, crudity and much more! And it features the first film appearance of Robin Williams… It may even predate his LAUGH-IN performance and his EIGHT IS ENOUGH… and oddly… is not listed on IMDB as such. Fucking IMDB.
That’s it for this rather extended week of releases. I’m actually working right now on next week’s releases – including NATIONAL TREASURE 2, 3rd Season of THE MUPPET SHOW, SHORT CIRCUIT (BluRay), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (BluRay), CLOVERFIELD (BluRay), V FOR VENDETTA (BluRay), James Stewart Western Collection, BEE MOVIE (BluRay), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY’S, MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, THE DEADLY TRACKERS, ECLIPSE SERIES 9, SHOOTER (BluRay), MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (BluRay), THE RICHIE RICH / SCOOBY DOO HOUR: THE COMPLETE SERIES, COMING TO AMERICA (BluRay), DREAMGIRLS (BluRay), SLEEPY HOLLOW (BluRay), BABEL (BluRay), THE UNTOUCHABLES (BluRay), REDS (BluRay), SAHARA (BluRay), SKY CAPTAIN (BluRay), NACHO LIBRE (BluRay), EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE, BLACK RAIN (BluRay), THE WARRIORS (BluRay), BOHACHI BUSHIDO: CODE OF THE FORGOTTEN EIGHT and much much more!
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First posters are gay! anyhow not much to look forward to here and what's w all the crappy hi def titles next week? Nacho Libre? Sahara? Meh
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Greatest them song ever.
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Too bad there's no edit feature around, Knowles could have gone back and "made" a correction there.
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May 14, 2008 6:29:16 PM CDT
Oh of course Harry thinks Youth Without Youth is brilliant
by industrykiller!
Nope he can't just say it's misunderstood or a beautiful failure, no he has to declare it as brilliant and one of the best films of 2007. Hear that filmmakers, all you have to do is make an incomprehensible film and, regardless of quality or meaning harry will declare it your masterpiece. Ask Francis Coppola or Richard Kelly. Seriously Harry, I'm asking you, have you ever met a Lynchian trip into the avante garde that you didn't think was one of the most brilliant cinematic experiences of your life? Do you have any sense of differenciation in these matters? What makes me angry is not that you like them all, but you like them all on the same general level int he same general way. As if there is no difference between any of it because you just don't get it, and your defense mechanism when you don't understand something is to simply be in awe of it and respect it tot eh point of absurdity. It's total bullshit and I think it lowers the art.
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dont forget dvd, theres still an assload of them
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"...evidently the work of a master..." Hmmm, that doesn't really sound like PRAISE. Am I missing something?
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You knew it was coming.
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None But the Brave is a great movie. I'm still not sure if I want to see Youth Without Youth though.
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Hi! You know, I've been reading AICN for about ten years, and reading the talkback off and on for nearly as long. Only now have I been moved to get a user account so I could post a message criticizing someone's useless douchebaggery. You are angry at Harry because of how you perceive he understands avant garde or complicated films, and see the need to rant at him. Do you realize that you can only be angry about your perceptions of what he thinks, and nothing else? So really, you're angry at your own thoughts. I think, in the end, the only answer to your problem is probably that you are a complete douchebag.
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Word.
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sorry.....
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Man Sinatra was fantastic in that film. ANYONE who dismisses Sir Francis' acting ability needs to watch this one. Perfunctory directing by Preminger but wow what a showcase for Sinatra.
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This is becoming a downloadable world. DVDs I hold in my hand?, hehe. How quaint! Thr Historic Blockbuster Museum - http://tinyurl.com/5qplha
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Blu-ray is more expensive to produce than HD-DVD, which means that the studios are going to be way more careful with their releases. We're not going to see anything near the # of choices on DVD. HD-DVD cost almost the same for the studios to reproduce. Welcome to less choice.
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May 14, 2008 11:30:43 PM CDT
Wait a minute, you gave a shout out to "If You Don't Stop it...
by lhombresiniestro
Holy crap! My great Uncle was the distributor/ producer of that movie!! Thanks for giving it a shout out, Harry!! My family thanks you!!!
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And Wilkommen to this our world of talkbacks. Anywho, in part you are correct. I don't know Harry and my analysis of his psyche is based almost totally on my own perception, but I think it's an educated guess based on years and years of reading the guys reviews and the fact that every time a film like this comes out he pretty much says the same god damn thing. Not to mention running into many other "cinephiles" who either love or hate certain films simply because they are weird. Harry, clearly falls into the former category. If he didn't his reviews would have a bit more nuance from film to film. So I'm using a few different independent experiences to analyze the man. I'm a bit mystified though as to how any of this means I'm angry at my own thoughts or that I'm a douche bag. Explain.
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Corbucci rules! Great choice. I just might check out those American made Westerns as well.
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Seriously harry, why so many damn blu-ray titles next week? Most of them crappy movies to begin with, a higher resolution and improved audio a great movie wont make. And Cloverfield and There Will Be Blood is coming out on the 3rd of June, lets not jump the gun. If there arent any good, new(key word) titles on dvd why waste time on crappy hd versions of films?
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Now THAT I would watch!
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Does Blu-Ray cost more to produce than 8-Track tapes? How about Beta tapes? Mini Discs? 78RPM records? Please answer these highly relevant questions.
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I saw it about 12 years ago as part of a Malle retrospective just after he died. It's very good with lean narrative-driven direction, which is remarkable since Malle could have easily indulged in long-winded mediations on the meaninglessness of existence. I saw The Lovers at the same time and was very disappointed. It was supposed to be very racy with its open discussion of sex in 1958, but now just plays really dull. I’ve had long-standing affection for Malle every since that retrospective and to this day feel he’s underrated. I’m glad to see Criterion releasing his movies. I have the Murmur of the Heart/Lacombe, Lucien/Au Revoir Les Enfants box set.
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might be the greatest western ever made. No shitting. It's intense like nothing I've ever seen. And it takes place almost entirely indoors. Which is pretty weird for a western. A must see. Anthony Mann was the king. Also, thank god they finally released Some Came Running. An underappreciated classic from Vincent Minnelli, an underrated director. Some of the best Cinemascope photography of all time and my favorite melodrama outside of Sirk or Borzage (when are we going to get some of his films on DVD?).
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May 15, 2008 2:16:07 AM CDT
Can we get a better description of Autism: The Musical, please?!
by thebearovingian
Other than, "For Real. This is amazing. Really. It's a documentary. Amazing." BUT why is it amazing? What's the story? Random autistic kids? Is it really a musical? Are the random autistic kids the stars of the musical? Will we be able to understand the lyrics they are singing? You didn't even fucking watch it, did you?!
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I agree with you on all these blu ray titles. Seems to me Harry will be any old crappo on blu ray for the sake of it being in HD. I think he should do a different section dedicated to blu ray. I have no intention of buying a blu ray player or any of its discs. I'm a little concerned that if you get used to the super perfect HD transfer then when you watch ordinary dvds they will look like VHS. I have a 32" HD ready TV and a DVD player with an HDMI output, thats all I need. Seriously, fuck blu ray.
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Both are worth seeking out if you're looking for some violence...
Frontier(s) is great if you liked Inside and most of High Tension up until the piss poor ending.
Botched is a crazy little horror comedy that surprised the hell out of me despite the presence of Stephen "Bad Choices" Dorff.
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can't wait to see you all thin and buff! a world without headgeek is one i would not like to contemplate.
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I especially liked The Man With The Golden Arm, which I'll be picking up, as the copy I've got must be the lowest quality non-pirate DVD release ever put out. However, next time you get the urge to use a hyphen, just say no! I'm pretty sure that your review of The Kissing Bandit bust a blood vessel in my head.
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and couldn't understand all the negativity surrounding it then like I say about three quarters of the way through it went TOO mental, a girl turns up rambling in Ancient sancrit or something who looks like hi EX and from there it was just too weirdPlease someone help me fatheom how it panned in plain English coz I thought Copolla and all the cast espescially Roth did a sterling job only to kind of trip up towards the end but I hope i'm just too thick and want to be enlightened!?
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Just because you can't afford Blu-ray doesn't mean it sucks. If you think regular DVD is just as good as Blu-ray you need glasses or are just a bitter HD-DVD fanboy.
I love it how HD-DVD used to be so awesome, how it was the future of home entertainment for people who chose it etc., etc. but now that they've "lost", SD-DVD or upconverting is good enough. Give me a fucking break.
And downloads killing Blu-ray? LOL, have downloads killed SD-DVD? Uh, no. No multiply the size of downloading an SD-DVD x 10. Yeah, get back to me when you have the proper bandwidth to pull down that kind of data in a reasonable amount of time. Downloading music hasn't killed CDs either and those files are miniscule by comparison.
If you're fine with your compressed to shit crappy 720p 5.1 Xbox Live download rentals, fine, but I'll stick with 1080p plus loseless audio. And what are you going to when, as is always the case, your hard drive crashes? Aw, too bad. Pony up for those downloads again. How about if you want to watch a movie at your friends house? Ooo, sorry, you'll have to bring your console over or whateverthefuck new STB you have. LOL, yeah right.
Downloading movies will become the standard, but that's not going to happen any time in the next ten years.
Blu-ray is here to stay, get over your bitterness for choosing HD-DVD or hatred for Sony (who btw is not the sole backer of BR) and accept it. -
LOL, ok Harry. If you say so.
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Dumbass. Poor you say? Well what about personal film tastes? You ever think about that? I'm into mostly 70s film including stuff like exploitation, blaxpoitation, grindhouse movies, obscure cult gems, and IF they are released on blu-ray ever (which I highly doubt) how do you think they are gonna look? What would last house on the left or texas chainsaw massacre or coffy or obscure Giallo films look like? Just cuz I'm not into more modern stuff like shrek the third (which is always shown as a demo in tech store shop windows) or whatever is meant to look great on blu-ray, doesn't mean I can't afford one. A fairly cheap blu ray player costs around 200 quid in the UK, I could buy one if I wanted, plus the fact that the discs themselves are dropping down in price quite a bit (but hey! Look! It doesn't have as many extras as the dvd release!) but I don't like the idea that once you get used to the image quality dvds will look shit. Its like when you were getting used to dvd quality when they first came out, VHS was the equivalent of a dodgy TV signal. Personal finance has nothing to do with it.
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You sound like my next door neighbour. He's a pretty shady looking character too.
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"but I don't like the idea that once you get used to the image quality dvds will look shit."
Well that's too bad because that's exactly what happens once you start watching Blu-rays.
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Sinatra made his mark as an actor in From Here To Eternity - dramically, a movie that was ahead of its time. Von Ryan's Express is also a great vehicle for Sinatra, and provides lots of action like The Great Escape or The Dirty Dozen. The ending of VRE was completely Sinatra's idea - and he deserves credit for that.
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You're funny.
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after I found out his deep seeded hate for MST3K. I mean, have a sense of humour, man! Come'on.
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for no good reason are highly amusing.
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Can't wait to see these two new Malle additions in the Criterion set. Criterion sure does love them some Malle, and for good reason. If you haven't seen it, Elevator To The Gallows is a great taught little thriller with a score by Miles Davis. And his documentaries released under the Eclipse umbrella, are pretty fascinating as well. The one about the Tour de France is great!
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Does anyone remember a movie called Assault On The Queen? I saw it as a double feature with Psycho at a drive-in when I was a wee little child. It was a Sinatra-caper flick about robbing from the Queen Mary... I think.
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It just struck me how those two might make for a good, if not sobering, double feature.
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Who knew that the Bandit did a movie about the plight of the American Indian? Sweaty Jesus on steroids, I freakin' love Harry's weekly DVD columns. The best way to discover stuff you never heard of.
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dont worry, while its true that once you're used to blu-ray, regular dvds looks a little worse than you remembered, its not a huge dropoff. its not as bad as VHS that i can promise you. maybe it because i have an upconverting player but DVDs still look good. i have a 42inch as well so i figure if they still look good to me, they'd be more than fine on smaller tvs.
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Look I LOVE my Blu-Ray player and HD projector. However, some movies do just fine in standard DVD and I can live with that. I don't need Dumb & Dumber or Strange Brew or Kentucky Fried Movie in HD. Don't tell me you do--you dont NEED it. You want it, and you really don't even know why. You're just greedy with too much disposable income (go sponsor an African kid or something.) I can live with "selective HD" as long as all the right movies are on there. If a studio doesn't want to clean up "Sister Street Fighter" or "I Spit on Your Grave" for Blu-Ray, then FINE. Release the best possible transfer on S-DVD and my projector will make it look as primo as possible. I have 420p stuff on my hard drive played through my PS3 that looks superb blown up and upscaled on a 90-inch screen. Would I prefer Blu-Ray if it was cost-effective, yes. But I'm not going to weep over not having something like No Retreat, No Surrender available in 1080p with lossless audio and 2 hours of HD extras.
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I'd rather sponsor an American kid.
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Alien Vs Predator Rectum!
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so FUCK HD
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If anyone is interested Criterion just announced their slate of August releases, including the long-awaited (by me at least) rerelease of Pasolini's Salò. I lost track of the "Criterion has chosen BluRay" talkback so I posted here.
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I love Salò, haha! I'm one sick motherfucker.
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Harry can like all the stuff he wants, but this bs about MST3K "ruining" these old movies? I call bullshit on that. He is just trying to be "cool" or something by saying that. The VAST majority of the movies on there are almost unwatchable. Even if you watched them without Joel/Mike and the Bots, you'd sit there and make fun of them anyway. I just watched "MST3K: The Movie" last night - twice! Fucking funny. Do I have less respect for "This Island Earth?" No, but lets be honest. If it weren't for that iconic alien design, nobody would remember that movie anyway. Again, I call bullshit. He likes it, but doesn't want to admit it.
Salo? Back on DVD? Is the Blu-Ray coming too? Wooo Hooo!!! Can't wait for that one. Finally retire that $70 bootleg VHS! -
I loved this film. I have to say it's probably Coppolla's most personal film to date. How? Coppolla been through some shit since his glory days. He's lost his film empire through one box office bomb after another and reduced to making Hollywood hackery like Jack and Time to Kill. I think the only thing that's kept him afloat all these years is his wine business. Now, Youth Without Youth delves into some pretty deep shit, but if you want to break it down into simple character terms, the film is about second chances. In this film, Tim Roth's character is given a second chance at life. A second chance to finish his life's work, the book, and a second chance with his one true love. Coppolla is the same age as the character in the film. I'd say the man is attempting to live his own "second chance" right now. Youth Without Youth is the filmmaker's own statement on life, dreams, love. His own life, even. In this way, it's probably his most personal film to date.
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It's a teacher who has a son with autism that decides to do a musical with all the people having autism. It is a great program as i caught it on hbo, and you will be suprsised at one of the parents of a child with autism, the only hint I'll give is was he is a member of Crosby Stills and Nash. Plus please don't make fun of people with autism as i have it, i have aspergers syndrome, which is a high-functioning form of autism, and also the type of autism that jason mcelwean has
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would have appreciated the discussion and debate Salo is still generating to this day. It's a testament to the quality and importance of his work even if it comes with a level of divisiveness.
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Still waiting for Criterion to crack in to more Czech New Wave films other than just Milos Forman's. I know everyone has hopes for a favorite film of theirs to be Criterion-ed, and Daisies happens to be that one for me. One can wait I guess...
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I couldn't agree with you more. Harry has almost a repulsive giddiness that usually destroys any opinion he makes... not because he raises expectations so high we immediately start preparing for the let down, but because he sounds like an annoying, slobbering, insecure fool.
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In the 1950's people were buying home TV's, so the theatre industry came out with WIDE-SCREEN theatres. 50 years later the Hollywood Industry is afraid of illegal downloading so they come up with big screen TV's and HIGH DEFINITION movies on discs (Who Blew-Ray? Not me.), to slow down the down-load process. Guess what they fooled you again. If the big screen owner did not have a 10 foot wide TV in his 15 foot living room he would be okay with SD-DVD (Standard Definition). Harry Knowles is exempt because he lives in a mansion of sorts. The rest of us live in normal houses with normal living rooms.
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the quality and quantity of chickenboy prostitutes he enjoyed fucking on a regular basis - until one of them finally murdered his kiddieraping ass
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God that was fucking awful. Love Francis and I applaud his effort to make a small, personal film. But man, this was one incomprehensible pile of cinematic shit.
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Thindom, as you say, awaits. :)
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If you are still here. Yeah totally agree. I saw that one of the first DVD Blu Ray releases was like the Adam Sandler collection. Like those movies will be the same on a shit smeared film projection as a high class fancy whatever. Its funny but its not techincal gueinuess. But you gotta understand why they do that. Because those are the DVDs that always sell, those are the ones that will convice idiot american he needs a blu ray. Which is sad because if I ever do get a Blu ray, I know I'll be able to buy Epic Movie probably way before I'll get to see something I really want to see on Blu Ray.
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Man, I cannot believe it's been 10 years since FAS died, which is why we're seeing all these reissues. Unfortunately each of the box sets has a few clunkers in it. The Sinatra family has a deal with Warners, so we're only getting the movies they have rights to and not standouts like The Manchurian Candidate, Guys And Dolls, The Joker's Wild, High Society, and, of course, Pal Joey. The Man With The Golden Arm, Ocean's 11, and Robin and the Seven Hoods are all must-sees.
There's also a new Sinatra/Gene Kelly DVD box set just released, too featuring Anchors Aweigh, New York, New York, and Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
If anybody really wants to see some great Frank stuff, dig TCM this Sunday for A Man and His Music with Ella and Jobim, followed by Frank at his ring-dinginest in Pal Joey.
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spelled backwards is Robot. You read it here first.
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all of that is on youtube. seroiusly. just search around.
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It's caused by vaccinations. Remember, if you love your kids you won't get them vaccinated. Ever. Let them get sick, the risk of corneal scarring and death from measles, mups and rubella is better then being a fucking retard the rest of their lives. Whooping cough? Adds character. Being retarded means getting pedophiled up by Michael Jackson.
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Except for Criterion. Gawd, they look bland photoshop marketing bullshit. Just give us the real posters.
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May 18, 2008 5:23:43 PM CDT
I think there are about 2 films I want on Blu-Ray...
by smokefilledtavern
...at this point. I was in the LD camp for 10 years, and came a couple years late to DVD. I have a big screen TV and no HD. It's going to be like that for awhile. No complaints here. Until more interesting stuff hits BLU-RAY (and is not made available on SD DVD) upgrading is pointless. Honestly, I don't see Blu-Ray ever taking first place...not arguing that a better format eventually will. But it's TOO SOON.
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Blu-Ray players are a bit expensive. I am not gonna buy a PS3 just for Blu-Ray(and if you buy a stand-alone player you are a fucking twit because the PS3 comes with a multi-core processor, gpu, hard-drive, wireless, and can also play games and is less expensive that almost all other players) because they are way too expensive. I will wait until downloads take off, which won't be long because rumor has it, new infra-structures are on the way that run at 100mbps. More than enough to stream HD content. Plus the content won't have to be saved on a hard disk, and in fact that would be the worst way of doing it. You would have a company with a giant server farm that you would have an account with. Once you purchase a movie, it is flagged as purchased by you, and you just stream it when you want to watch it. This also allows for the seamless growth of picture quality whenever a new television comes out that can handle more pixels. This is how XBox Live works. It is secure and consistent. This might not come for a while, and if it doesn't then I will get a Blu-Ray player. And hopefully they will have gone down in price by then.
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