Criterion Film Club: Suggestions and General Discussion

[domino harvey]

I think it's a good movie and I voted for the release in the year-end Criterion round-up whenever it came out, I just have no interest in talking about it right now

[bearcuborg]

I thought Fish Tank was an awful movie when I saw it in theaters. Red Road was such a bad ass critique on our social mores, that I nearly gave up on Arnold - till I finally saw a decent adaptation of Wuthering Heights. I look forward to her next film, but I never want to see Fish Tank again.

[Gregory]

I went with Design for Living, which I haven't seen in years.

Will there be a slate of 2000-2009 films to vote on to go along with the start of the new decade list project?

[swo17]

Yes, probably in the next couple rounds.

[mfunk9786]

This is reminding me that I would give my left arm to see Andrea Arnold direct that The Girl on the Train adaptation that's being worked on.

[Mr Sausage]

Design For Living it is.

[domino harvey]

[Mr Sausage]

To help inaugurate the new decades List Project, here's a vote of films from the 2000's.

[Mr Sausage]

Still Walking it is!

[Gregory]

A month ago there was some discussion about why there had barely been any posts in the Film Club thread for Kapò, which some attributed to it having been chosen from a slate of Essential Arthouse titles and presumably there was less interest or knowledge of those releases than mainline Criterion releases or Eclipse sets, and so even though it won the vote there was apparently little interest in actually seeing or discussing Kapò. But there were 8 votes for Kapò and ultimately 5 posts about the film during the discussion (a couple the result of gentle prodding/thread bumping?), but it seems to me that the Design for Living discussion was much more inexplicably dead. Eleven members voted for it, but there were only 4 posts (2 from me, 2 from others), and this is a Hollywood sound film by Lubitsch—hardly an inaccessible or unfamiliar work. In the existing thread for the film, if memory serves, most of the posts about the film were simply comments that it wasn't nearly as well-liked as Trouble in Paradise. But it was apparently popular enough to get 10 members other than me to vote for a discussion of it. And even among those who (like me) didn't shell out for the Criterion release, I would have expected many to have watched it online or already own the very inexpensive 5-film Gary Cooper Collection containing it.

[Drucker]

I mean we have had times where upwards of 20 people voted for a film and had dead discussion, right? People just like to vote for things online.

[domino harvey]

[Mr Sausage]

To coincide with the current genre List, here are five random religious films from the collection.

[domino harvey]

Team Anything But the Ruling Class

[Drucker]

Look at Day of Wrath getting all the love while Ordet doesn't.

[Drucker]

Currently a tie!

[Mr Sausage]

And Black Narcissus wins.

[domino harvey]

[Mr Sausage]

Here are five films randomly picked from those released in the first half of 2015.

[domino harvey]

Voted for Satyricon because I have it, haven't seen it, and can pledge to watch and contribute about it

[Drucker]

It's also available via Netflix in blu ray format! (Though I voted for Vernon, Florida).

[Mr Sausage]

It was a tie, so I switched my vote from what is now the runner up to our winner, Satyricon.

[domino harvey]

[Mr Sausage]

To coincide with the current noir genre project, vote for one of these five randomly selected noir films.

[domino harvey]

I voted for All Night Long because I have it and haven't seen it and can pledge to watch it. I've seen all the others, though, since this appears to be a lost cause. I mean, popular films everyone already saw years ago always generate so much discussion...