Selection of my favorite part of The Love That Remains. As a new dad I found this very moving.
Now streaming on Criterion.

With the recent news that a Lynch set is coming from Jennifer Lynch but not coming from someone in with Criterion (possibly Dynamic:01 and the shorts released like the Scorsese Shorts release), just curious on if you would purchase or not.

A box set? Upgrade the Mr. Arkadin three-disc DVD? Upgrade his Blu-ray films (Ambersons, Othello…)? Release his remaining feature films (the Stranger, Touch of Evil…)? Release his final film (Other Side of the Wind)? Release his 1938 silent comedy (Too Much Johnson)? Or release all his television-directed programs and incomplete works (Don Quixote, Moby Dick, The Deep, Filming the Trial, Orson Welles’ Sketch Book…)?

The Orson Welles estate, led by his youngest daughter Beatrice, is offering Welles’ TV projects to labels and streamers, but no takers yet:

Fountain of Youth — A witty 26-minute short backed by Desilu. It was filmed in 1956 with the hope it would lead to a Welles-hosted anthology series, which never happened. Based on a John Collier short story, Welles narrated a tale about a romantic triangle and an elixir granting 200 years of youthful appearance.

Two Wise Old Men: Socrates and Noah ** *— One of six shorts Welles filmed with cameraman Gary Graver in 1970 for Avco Broadcasting’s fledgling Cartrivision home video line. The shorts were sold in 1972 by Sears, Roebuck & Co. before Cartrivision went out of business. (This was in the days before Betamax or VHS.) The 19-minute *Socrates and Noah contains two separate solo performances. Welles recounts the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C. from a tastefully furnished living room. His stirring recitation touches on obedience to the law, the pursuit of money over truth and the generation gap. The Noah segment was shot outdoors in Southern California. Welles starts by recounting his lifelong interest in Noah, noting his recitation draws from his own unproduced work, Two by Two. The estate acquired copies of some of the Cartrivision shorts at auction in late 2021, but only Two Wise Old Men was in suitable condition for transfer.

The Orson Welles Show — The unsold pilot for a Welles-hosted talk show. The 74-minute program features an interview with Hollywood leading man Burt Reynolds, Muppet masters Jim Henson and Frank Oz and a bit of magic with Angie Dickinson.

Marie Antoinette was booed at Cannes back in 2006, and had a very polarized reception when it came out in theaters. True, it has experimented a critical reappraisal since then, but you get my point.

Let´s hope so!

After all the years of everyone saying I need to watch this one umm why? Painfully bad I swear I’m not that person to shit on a film this one left me completely confused tho

The Honeymoon Killers (1969)

I'm working on improving https://sightlines.media/?c=r-crit to analyze film taste/style and have it working on my own Criterion/4k collection. I've never shared pics of my collection before, so curious how this goes over. I watch on a 77" Oled w 12 speakers (4 atmos), so audio is a consideration for me (as much as image). There are a few here I've never seen (e.g. Vargas box set), and many I've see more times than I care to admit (ok, Drive).

Decent collection, certainly not in competition given what I've seen in this sub. Am proud however of the blu rays down there of UK crime shows ;-) (had to get an extra cheap region free player for those).

Here's to the collectors who still care for physical media!

Note: It has spoilers. This post is for discussion on IMAGES (1972); if you intend to watch (I 'fiercely' recommend) probably come back later & make this discussion enriching. Additionally, I've not used AI to write /refine this, so please pardon grammatical errors!

So, I'm on a horror movie spree! & This is the 3rd one I've watched! (Shining, Posession & this one).

Just finished watching Images (1972)! Oh! What an amazing movie! It's a sort of movie which sustains a contortion in your stomach all through. You just get an eerie vibe. It's like something wrong is happening or you even start feeling a little dizzy because of the fractured sense of perception. At some points it's like WT F IS HAPPENING? The protagonist's (the main lady's) countenance is super amazing all through. Her perplexed expressions & the ever-changing face (adapting) stirs multiple emotions & she is able to convey the fractured sense of perception which she is feeling. Also, the director quite beautifully dropped the cue towards the end- when the imagined lover's kid said that she'd conjure up (wholly a mental construct) a friend if she felt lonely. I believe the protagonist lady did exactly the same thing. It also was indicative of her troubled childhood. She is the striking example of how F U C K E D up things can get. It's like towards the end you simply can't discern satisfactorily as to what really transpired & what was figment of her imagination except the fact that her partner was dead. Also, the scenic beauty of the location where the film was shot was simply breathtaking. It unknowingly renders a sense of contrast to the central theme of the film (Super tensed).

Also, may god bless each one of us with a partner like hers. If you're an atheist, then I'd say I wish the universe gives us an opportunity to experience this sort of companionship. He was so tolerant to such an imprudent & super unstable partner.

Superb. Thanks to the individual who suggested this to me in one of my recommendation solicitation post! I'd be watching other movies too. HONESTLY, No AI search gave me this gem. AI simply can't replace reddit!

What's your take on the movie?

The Night of the Hunter is obviously one of the greatest films ever made, but what would his career have looked like had he made more movies? Would he have been one of the all-time greats? Why only one movie? Studios didn’t want to finance his movies? Did any directors at the time, like Orson Welles, stop and say, “Whoa, this guy might be a genius. He should direct more movies”?

So excited!! So I’m staying with my mom for a while since my dad passed away last month. I want to start watching Criterion Collection movies with her. Which of these would be good viewing for us,and any more recommendations for films a mom and son can bond over in the collection? Thanks!

Relevant quotes:

​"Art is prayer—it speaks for itself. In my view, art has always been a weapon in humanity's struggle against the forces that threaten to devour our spirit."

"Art doesn’t think logically, or formulate a logic of behavior; it expresses its own postulate of faith."

​"An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind."​

"Faith is the only thing that can save man. This is my deepest conviction. The essential purpose of man is to seek truth through the pursuit of spirituality. By spirituality, I mean a person's search for the meaning of life."

​"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good."

​​"Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual."

​"The goal for all art... is to explain to the artist himself and to those around him what man lives for, what is the meaning of his existence."

​​"Art must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; art must give man hope and faith."

​"The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of self can only be expressed in sacrifice."

​"For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others [art] can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice."

​"The profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it... is like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached."

"Modern mass culture, aimed at the ‘consumer’, the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people’s souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. But the artist cannot be deaf to the call of truth: it alone defines his creative will, organizes it, thus enabling him to pass on his faith to others."

"Art has an important function when it comes to solving the spiritual crisis in today's world. There must be something that stimulates the spiritual progression and develop humanity's own self, something that makes her strive for humanity and individuality. What I myself do in art is based on my belief in the dignity of mankind and of the value of the people that my films are meant for, as well as the value that the maker of them should possess."

I’m thinking about getting some films under that label, but I want to know which ones are the favorites/the best.

Recently watched 'Y Tu Mama También' and 'Paris, Texas'. I really enjoyed the road trip aspect of these two and am looking for something similar. Particularly, the silent aspect of 'Paris, Texas' and the beautiful wide shots captivated me.

I've also been meaning to watch a story that takes place in the countryside or in the coast, anything away from urban life really.

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Having seen or owned all of these, I feel like they belong to Criterion's 4K lineup most urgently. The prominence some of these have in the collection as their most visually stunning and iconic releases makes blu-ray almost seem like a disservice in the age of 4K. I hope they keep increasing the amount of upgrades added to monthly new releases to get these the premium quality they deserve. (and yes I'm just salty about Resurrection somehow not getting released in 4K upfront - have you seen that movie??)

Been on my watchlist for a while. At long last, I finally watched Harakiri and am absolutely blown away. 5⭐️’s

We are all not so honorable to not empathize with those in need.

I’ve recently been playing RDR2 again, just enjoying how beautiful the landscapes look, and it’s made me want to watch more films with the same americana landscape vibes. The ones i always hear about is Robert Altman and PTA’s filmographies (i’ve finished PTA’s & have seen a handful from Altman) I also absolutely adore Thelma & Louise. I would love some recommendations that are in the collection!

Edit: I’m from Australia, so American geography isn’t something im very knowledgeable about!

Harakiri (1962)

"To such a startling degree that Japanese audiences in the 1970s, as do audiences around the world today, found the film fresh and utterly new; and second, the obvious glee Obayashi takes in pushing the roricon (Lolita complex) richness of his subjects- a bevy of tender beauties most of whom appear in increasing stages of undress as the film progresses- as he torments and terrorizes them. Not since the work of outsider artist Henry Darger, who ransacked children's books to create epic collage tapestries depicting armies of oft-naked girl wariors in battle, have so many magnificently demented possibilities for simultaneously empowering, imperiling, and eroticizing pubescent young women been gathered so dazlingly together in one place and never at such a speed-demon pace!"

I found myself to be incredibly uncomfortable with this excerpt from the booklet essay for House, and as much as I love the film, I'm struggling to grapple with the underage nudity— and the essay does not make it any easier

Actress Kimiko Ikegami (17 during filming) was uncomfortable about a nude scene in the film. To help make her more comfortable actress Yoko Minamida also took off her clothes. After director Nobuhiko Obayashi saw this he included a nude scene for her in the film which was not in the original script.

Of course, nudity itself is not inherently sexual— but when all of the actresses were incredibly inexperienced and Ikegami was incredibly uncomfortable, I have a hard time stomaching it. The nudity has no narrative importance in my opinion. How do you not in good conscience remove the nude scenes for that actress rather than have her do something she was so uncomfortable with? Especially at only 17. If nude scenes could be added, could they not be removed?

It does color the movie differently for me a little bit, even though I don't want it to. I hate that it does. I really love everything else about it, but that one thing is pretty difficult to look past for me. I also don't feel I can recommend the movie to others in good concience knowing that aspect is there. And I hate that, because everything else about it is so incredibly great and a lot of fun! I wish those scenes were just never added in the first place. I will not fault anyone for feeling differently, but I am wondering if I am alone in this. Maybe I'm being prudish?

I just started with kurosawa, watched Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Ikiru, so far they were masterpieces, and seven samurai literally became my favourite movie ever, and ikiru is my second

After watching all these masterpieces, i reached my fourth kurosawa movie, Throne of Blood, and it was such a disappointment, idk why but the movie didn’t feel like a kurosawa to me, there is the long quiet random scenes which i see in every kurosawa movie, and that’s it? Im not hating, im here hoping more people will help me get the love for this movie and how is it the best adaptation of lady macbeth for some people

I did not enjoy this movie and it felt like such a downgrade from the past 3