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Penti Mento wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:06 am I don't know what's worse, a schlubby, creepy, old single guy who's a pornhound, or someone like Tooze who is apparently a family man with the same tendencies.

He does seem to include a lot of infant bathtime screencaps at times.

Penti Mento wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:06 am I don't know what's worse, a schlubby, creepy, old single guy who's a pornhound, or someone like Tooze who is apparently a family man with the same tendencies.

What about a poster who feels the need to cast aspersions on others unprompted?

If one must be a “pornhound” (which is not necessarily the same thing as having a penchant for spicy screen caps, though something you don’t seem to have an inherent problem with in any case), does it particularly matter if that person is “schlubby” or well-groomed, old or young, single or partnered? These all sound like aesthetic rather than moral preferences to me – and if so, I’m not quite sure why you felt a burning need to share them with us.

furbicide wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:14 pmI’m not quite sure why you felt a burning need to share them with us.

This is a troll account that's been banned, oh, a dozen times perhaps?

alacal2 wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:42 am Thought about it for 10 secs, then moved on

I wasn't asking you. Are you a qualified doctor?

Cash Flagg wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:51 pm

furbicide wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:14 pmI’m not quite sure why you felt a burning need to share them with us.

This is a troll account that's been banned, oh, a dozen times perhaps?

I'm here to share my love of cinema, both flaccid and erect sexual organs, and my hatred of spelling bees, actuarialism, and the quackery of child psychology.

Who are YOU to say what a community is?

Here we go again...

Orlac wrote: Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:59 pm Here we go again...

Easy come, easy go. Already gone. Until next time.

Soundies: The Ultimate Collection

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Soundies have been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn’t begin to describe their cultural importance. It’s true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band luminaries like Duke Ellington and Count Basie to then-emerging stars like Doris Day and Ricardo Montalban, and lesser-known artists of the American nightclub circuit. But Soundies are also a rich, largely overlooked chronicle of American popular culture during and just after World War II. Produced for coin-operated jukeboxes in neighborhood bars and taverns, Soundies have an uncanny way of revealing what Americans were thinking about topics that weren’t discussed openly, from sexuality to ethnicity and race. Curated by Susan Delson, author of Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time, this four-disc collection presents a diverse sampling of 200 shorts—jazz, country-western, folk, and the boogie woogie roots of rock ’n’ roll—newly restored from 35mm and 16mm materials preserved by the Library of Congress and other archives. Never have so many Soundies been celebrated in one collection, or presented with such care: thematically organized, accompanied by on-screen introductions and a booklet of essays, photos, and credits.

Special Features:
• Illustrated 44-page booklet with essays by Susan Delson, Ellen C. Scott, and Mark Cantor
• Filmed introductions by series curator Susan Delson, with Ina Archer, Media Conservationist, National Museum of African American History and Culture
• “Inside the Panoram,” a filmed interview with Mark Cantor, author of The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s
• “From the Vaults,” a filmed interview with Matt Barton (Curator of Recording Sound at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress) and Mike Mashon (Head of the Moving Image Section of the Library of Congress)

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece / Tintin and the Blue Oranges

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I thought that was four Englishmen in a Go-Go-Gadget teacup

DISC 1:
• Peter Greenaway commentary and video introduction (6 minutes)
• Greenaway Shorts: H Is for House (1976, 9 minutes), A Walk Through H (1978, 41 minutes)
• Theatrical Trailer

DISC 2:
• Vertical Features Remake (1978, 44 minutes)
• Video pieces on The Falls and Vertical Features Remake created by Greenaway

Millennium Mambo (Blu-ray only)
Special Features:
• Video essay by Adrian Martin and Cristina Alvarez Lopez
• Re-release Trailer

and more Greenaway:

The Draughtsman's Contract

Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber will be releasing Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) on Blu-ray on June 13th. This is sourced from a 4K restoration from the BFI

Special Features:
• Peter Greenaway commentary and video introduction (10 minutes)
• Four deleted scenes (10 minutes)
• Behind-the-scenes footage and on-set interviews (10 minutes)
• Interview with composer Michael Nyman (7 minutes)
• Greenaway Short Films: Intervals (1969, 6 minutes), Windows (1974, 4 minutes), Dear Phone (1976, 17 minutes), Water Wrackets (1978, 11 minutes)
• Re-release trailer

You guys can thank me for A Zed and Two Noughts as I just received the out of print BFI blu-ray a couple of days ago!

But finally we get The Falls on Blu-ray so it’s all ok! Incredible news. Plus most of the short films aren’t on the BFI blu-rays. (Although BFI’s Draughtman has some great unique extras and shorts as well).

Plus Millennium Mambo at last!! But I’m a little sad it’s not 4K… but then again the market for this stunning film probably wouldn’t justify it.

But yeah still, overall Kino as usual are great! Well done guys.

Is The Falls going to be released on Blu Ray?

I recently watched my BFI DVD having not seen the film in four decades and it holds up very well. For an older DVD disc it didn't look to bad either.

Aunt Peg wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 5:28 am Is The Falls going to be released on Blu Ray?

I recently watched my BFI DVD having not seen the film in four decades and it holds up very well. For an older DVD disc it didn't look to bad either.

Yup, see a couple of posts above yours. It’s on disk 2 (along with Vertical Features Remake) of the forthcoming Kino Blu-ray A Zed and Two Noughts/The Falls.

That is such good news.

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but Kino/Zeitgeist are releasing Guy Maddin's Tales From the Gimli Hospital Redux in June.

Glad to see the reissue of J Lee Thompson’s White Buffalo, from a fresh scan, has finally been scheduled- for this June.

I don't remember this ever being announced as forthcoming but Kino quietly put out Ophuls' Sans Lendemain on Blu-Ray with an Adrian Martin commentary

Metrograph is releasing Jóhann Jóhannsson's Last and First Men on blu in August. Which is nice, but it's already available from Deutsche Grammophon where you also get the music on CD. No additional features on Metrograph's blu other than a trailer. But I guess the Kino store will have it <$10 at some point.

Kino will be releasing Hazanavicius’ Coupez! on Blu in September

Calvin wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 7:07 pm I don't remember this ever being announced as forthcoming but Kino quietly put out Ophuls' Sans Lendemain on Blu-Ray with an Adrian Martin commentary

this is included in the current sale for $11.99 and it has a slipcover - vote with your wallets if you'd like to see more Martin commentaries, something I think all of us on this board can agree on

criterionsnob wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 10:17 pm My memory on this was fuzzy, but I just remembered I had emailed Zeitgeist about the stretching on the Poison DVD back in 2011. I dug up the email. This was their response back then, so perhaps there really is nothing that could be done, other than maybe reverse Wong Kar Wai-ing it back to 4:3.

The story with the mockumentary sections is this: the film was shot in 16mm, with all the name/place IDs sitting pretty close to title-safe on the image. When the film was blown up to 35mm and matted to 1.85 for its theatrical presentation, the title safe situation was exacerbated.

Since the best available film element from which to transfer from was the 35mm internegative (all 16mm sources having gone missing long ago), we had to deal with the choice of either cutting off a lot text in those sections, or slightly tilting the frame (hence the stretching) to get as much of it on screen as possible. We chose the later, and while it wasn't a perfect solution, it was, on balance, the best one.

I still wonder though if Haynes was involved in this decision. I don't recall it being an issue on the original VHS copy I watched many times in the late 90s.

Totally forgot they were screening Poison in 35mm at MoMA today, which just ended - I was hoping to see how those particular scenes look projected. There's another screening on Tuesday, Aug. 8 at 4pm, and unfortunately I can't make that screening.

If anyone goes, would love it if you can report how those scenes look projected, I'm wondering if they just awkwardly sliced off the picture, with the name/place IDs barely making it into frame. (Although if the all the visual info from the original 1.66:1 16mm film was physically there on the 35mm internegative in unstretched form, I wonder if they could simply project any 35mm print struck from it with an "open matte" and avoid all this nonsense altogether?)

Metrograph is individually releasing Eric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, Boyfriends and Girlfriends, and Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle later this year. The only extras are audio commentaries from Adrian Martin on the first 2 titles and Kristen Yoonsoo Kim on the latter.

Would that be the first commentaries on a Rohmer release... like ever? I've been wondering why there wasn't any included in the lavish boxsets etc. Thought maybe the producers figured there was too much talking in the films as is.