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#821
15th January 2021, 07:13 PM
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__________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] [B] "... the days ahead will be filled with struggle ... and coated in marzipan ... "[/B]  |
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#822
12th February 2021, 04:59 PM
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'Trances' (1981) - Pre-order available from Criterion direct for Blu-Ray $31.96 and DVD $23.96 Release date: May 4 "The groundbreaking Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the dynamic subject of this captivating, one-of-a-kind documentary by Ahmed El Maanouni, who filmed the four musicians during a series of electrifying live performances in Tunisia, Morocco, and France; on the streets of Casablanca; and in intimate conversations. Storytellers through song and traditional instruments, and with connections to political theater, the band became a local phenomenon and an international sensation, thanks to its rebellious lyrics and sublime, fully acoustic sound, which draws on Berber rhythms, Malhun sung poetry, and Gnawa dances. Both a concert movie and a free-form audiovisual experiment, bolstered by images of the band’s rapt audience, Trances is pure cinematic poetry." Special features:
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#823
12th February 2021, 05:03 PM
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'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' (1982) - Pre-order available from Criterion direct for Blu-Ray $31.96 and DVD $23.96 Release date: May 11 "The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this refreshingly smart, frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe—for each of whom it kicked off a hugely successful film career. Based on Crowe’s experiences going undercover as a student at a Southern California high school, Fast Times at Ridgemont High blends hormone-fueled hilarity with an almost sociological examination of the 1980s teenage experience: the shopping-mall hangouts, fast-food jobs, buzzkill teachers, awkward dates, and first experiences of love and sex. This pop-culture touchstone launched to stardom practically an entire cast of unknowns—including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz, and Sean Penn as stoner icon Jeff Spicoli—and broke new ground in its raw yet sensitive depiction of the realities of coming of age." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#824
12th February 2021, 05:06 PM
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'Merrily We Go to Hell' (1932) - Pre-order available from Criterion direct for Blu-Ray $31.96 and DVD $23.96 Release date: May 11 "Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit—a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and Sylvia Sidney turn in extraordinary performances as the urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye—leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early-feminist commentary on modern marriage" Special features:
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__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#825
12th February 2021, 05:09 PM
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'Flowers of Shanghai' (1998) - Pre-order available from Criterion direct for Blu-Ray $31.96 and DVD $23.96 Release date: May 18 "An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is the taciturn Master Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), whose relationship with his longtime mistress (Michiko Hada) is roiled by a perceived act of betrayal. Composed in a languorous procession of entrancing long takes, Flowers of Shanghai evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the dramatic action remains tantalizingly offscreen—even as its emotional fallout registers with quiet devastation." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#826
12th February 2021, 05:12 PM
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'Nightmare Alley' (1947) - Pre-order available from Criterion direct for Blu-Ray $31.96 and DVD $23.96 Release date: May 25 "Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stan Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs of its era—a fate-fueled downward slide into existential oblivion." Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith New interview with performer and historian Todd Robbins Interview from 2007 with actor Coleen Gray Audio excerpt of a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Tyrone Power Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film critic and screenwriter Kim Morgan 
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#827
12th February 2021, 05:53 PM
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Yo Susan, you've copied over the Flowers of Shanghai details into the Nightmare Alley post Given that the Signal One release of Nightmare Alley is dead in the water at least we'll be able to it get from somewhere, albeit more expensively  The Reaper Man@Cult Labs and Susan Foreman like this. |
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#828
12th February 2021, 07:22 PM
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Ach well one out of five then. 
__________________  Teddy, I'm a Scotch drinker - you know that. I just have the occasional brandy when I'm not drinking. |
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#829
13th February 2021, 05:22 AM
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It's been fixed now Rob4 likes this.
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#830
23rd February 2021, 04:35 PM
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Flash sale at Criterion US. "For the next 24 hours, all in-stock Blu-rays and DVDs are 50% OFF" https://www.criterion.com/sale
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