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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Kd5000:
Okay I heard from a fellow BROKIE who just bought The Ice Storm - Criterion Collection . He said the audio commentary featuring Ang Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus was excellent and he thoroughly enjoyed listening to what they had to say. Well at least we know Lee is a talker. I didn't know if he did audio commentary. Has anyone else see the Criterion version? It was released on 3/18 so maybe not too many have seen it yet.
Maybe I should have started a separate thread. I could order it from Amazon.com as I don't think WALMART :D carries Criterion stuff.
Maybe there is hope that one day BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN will gets the same high quality treatment that THE ICE STORM received courtesy of Criterion. I'm quite a fan of THE ICE STORM and saw it twice at the theaters. Probably Criterion released it on account of it's 10th anniversary. Hope we don't have to wait so long. That would mean 2015. :-\
MaineWriter:
You can also order it direct from Criterion:
http://www.criterion.com/asp/new_releases.asp
It is actually $3 less than the price at amazon.com right now.
L
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Sir Sterndale-Bennett on March 30, 2008, 06:55:56 pm ---You can also order it direct from Criterion:
http://www.criterion.com/asp/new_releases.asp
It is actually $3 less than the price at amazon.com right now.
L
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I'm anxiously waiting for my copy from Amazon, another item in my order has delayed the delivery. Ang Lee also did a commentary for HULK but I haven't listened to it.
MaineWriter:
Oh wow, I have been waiting for this...the Criterion Edition of "The Landlord" starring Will Ferrell.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3db471fcea
serious crayons:
Over the weekend, I re-watched two movies I had liked the first time around.
Juno was still good; I developed even greater appreciation for the secondary performances. Ellen Page is amazing, of course. But Allison Janney, R.K. Simmons and Michael Cera are all great, too. And you know whose performance I found the most touching? Jennifer Garner's! Who knew??
Michael Clayton was even better the second time -- I picked up on a couple of details I'd missed the first time. One thing I really like about that movie is that it's just the right amount of complexity. That is, it's tough enough to keep up with that it exercises your brain (well, mine anyway) but it's never so complex that you can't actually get it. It's one of those movies that unfolds gradually and makes more sense as it goes along, so seeing it a second time, knowing what's to come, was helpful. And there's a key scene involving horses that seemed like kind of a poetic throwaway the first time I saw it. Now I realized that it's actually quite a nice metaphor for the turning point in Michael Clayton's understanding of the situation.
Then we rented August Rush. My 16-year-old niece had wanted to see it, and she seemed to like it pretty well, so it wasn't a total waste of time and money. We were roaming around the video store trying to decide what to get when a lady who worked there just spontaneously burst out with a recommendation of August Rush, saying it's one of her favorite movies of all time. Put it this way: I wouldn't be taking any more recommendations from her. In fact, I'd probably try to find out her least favorite movies of all time, and then rent those.
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