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Kani now has Park Syeyoung's The Fin.

domino harvey wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2024 7:09 pm The Rouch segment in the film is the greatest short film ever made. If anyone needs needling to add it up their order (it’s the only thing I ordered - $39 with shipping, Jesus)

Icarus means we could get some Marker and more Rouch on Blu soon

Watched this again and the Rouch segment is like the meme about being the only one in the group assignment to put in any effort. My god I forgot how bad some of these segments are (there’s a reason Douchet and Pollet were also rans bordering on never wases in this movement). I enjoyed the period interview extras but you’d think Icarus would include something explaining the intentional constraints of filming to illuminate why the movie looks the way it does. Was amazed to learn that Rouch wrote, rehearsed, and shot his short with a week’s notice. Glad Schroeder didn’t go to debtors prison for this after it (justifiably) tanked

PfR73 wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 6:42 pm

MichaelB wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2026 1:59 pm Although I can't see any reason to replace my Polish BD, I can thoroughly recommend Corpus Christi, the best film by one of the most consistently intriguing of the younger generation of Polish filmmakers.

I vividly remember it being such a hot ticket at the relevant Gdynia Film Festival that I couldn't get into any of the screenings, which was the first time that had ever happened to me—and when I finally caught up with it courtesy of that Polish BD I could see why.

Does the Polish BD have any advantages compared to this US BD?

I've done some research and it looks like the Polish BD has a couple minutes of deleted scenes, which aren't on the US BD. Specs say the Polish BD has English subtiitles for the film, but does it have English subtitles for the bonus features?

ianthemovie wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:57 pm A few highlights from today's announcements:

- Alain Resnais' La Guerre Est Finie from The Film Desk

Revisited this today via this release and while I remain as unmoved as ever beyond it being borderline “okay,” this release has one of the best-curated and substantial booklets I can remember, presumably courtesy of one-time forum member Craig Keller’s guiding hand. There’s a (much needed) modern essay contextualizing the political content and then everything else is period reactions and reflections reprinted in full plus an amusingly hostile interview of Resnais courtesy of the always ridiculous Robert Benayoun. Every piece added value to considering the film, and I wish all boutique labels would follow suit by imitating it directly

Coincidentally I also watched this earlier today and it was a frustrating experience. Overall it's an incredibly mediocre movie that's a step better than the major le Carré adaptations, but features some breathtaking sequences up there with Resnais' best -particularly the early fantasy love sequence with Bujold. There's also the recurring shots of many different women entering or exiting spaces from the backs of their heads that could've been used to greater effect than confounding nothingness. The visual ideas are loose and ill-fitting around its austere plot. I wanted to love this at times, but came away shrugging, especially with the tacked-on narrative pivot in the end that just adds to all the reasons rendering much of its formal wit tertiary

I chuckled when one of the pieces in the booklet admitted that much of the film was boring - it really is! But there’s like 20% of it that has great ideas and images (before I revisited it a few years ago, literally the only thing I could remember was the oscillating edits of the girls you describe, which preconfigured Tik Tok editing by more than half a century) that help you forget about the ennuyant rest of it

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2026 12:58 am courtesy of the always ridiculous Robert Benayoun.

Lol

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