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Jalsaghar! The Ray floodgates are finally opening!

mteller wrote:Jalsaghar!

I'm hoping it is too, but what makes you so sure?

Probably from the dirt, scratches, and emulsion.

Drat, and I just bought the AE boxset.

Peacock wrote:

mteller wrote:Jalsaghar!

I'm hoping it is too, but what makes you so sure?

I scanned through the Angel DVD. I didn't hunt down that very frame, but there's a piece of architecture that EXACTLY matches. If it's not Jalsaghar, it's something filmed at the same estate.

knives wrote:Drat, and I just bought the AE boxset.

This movie is not part of any of the AE boxsets... So no worries. Actually more hope for other Ray films in HD for the future

I hope we see a mainline release.

mteller is right, it is definitely Jalsaghar/The Music Room. I was thrown off on looking through my recorded from television VHS copy until I realised that the above is a blown up segment from a significant shot at the turning point of the film:

Spoiler

ahh, I've only seen it in the theatre, but I was going to chime in that it's 1.33:1 so the screenshot doesn't match, so a blow up makes sense. sneaky bastards.

Nice work, Colin!

I'll be happy to finally get up to speed on Ray. The entirety of Indian parallel cinema is a complete blind spot for me. I've only ever seen Pather Panchali, and that was at a college repertory screening when I was all of 19 years old and very, very green in my appreciation of cinema.

Tom, were you aware that MoC is selling off their last remaining copies of Abhijan? It might be now or never on that one.

You guys see that swimminghorses is dusting off his old material and posting it on the Facebook page under the moniker Rhine Ruder? SIGH.

Thanks Harmonov for the warning.

Cremaster and Swimminghorses are a perfect match tho

It was a joke you guys. It was C.H.U.D.!

I'd never get a brand tattoo, but I do think about naming hypothetical children things like "Criterion Collection" and "Colgate"

This was posted about 10 minutes ago:

C'mon L'Avventura blu-ray.

I'm going to be conservative and predict that this portends a Blu-ray release of the entire L' trilogy.

Which are such no-brainer upgrades that it would explain why they aren't out yet

Goddamnit, if it's L'Avventura that will be my third Antonioni blu, and I don't even like Antonioni.

First NYC gets a space shuttle, and now this.

Can this day get any better!?! \:D/

Necessary disclaimer: they've posted a number of memorabilia-type photos of various cool things on Facebook that have not necessarily portended the release of films related to said various cool things.

Edit: what swo said.