Since Criterion is 50% this month I’m just here to remind you that if you haven’t seen pic related. You’ll never be a true Lord of Kino.
What else qualifies?
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Kinosseurs Only Thread
Boring.
Very nice.
fbpp
I'm not paying 40$ for criterions dvds when I can pirate that shit, there's no justifiable reason to pay that much for a piece of very fragile physical media
>very fragile
My kino collection has been growing since 2003 and I’ve never lost a single item even stuff bought back then still plays, and I’ve moved many times. Quit living like a pleb.
have a nice day
I have never broken a dvd, but my point stands. moronicly expensive for a piece of media that may soon be outdated if another format of data storage comes out.
That may have qualified with VHS but it’s clear now that Blu-ray is the high bar for film viewing. The relative failure of 4K and 3D proves this. The only thing they could do to improve it is literally having a chip you insert into your TV that can hold a million films in 1080p. good luck licensing all that though
Dumb Black person.
>I'm not paying 40$ for criterions dvds when I can pirate that shit
t. poorgay
absolutely based, only good DVDs are cheapo ones of TV shows
Watership Down
Lady Snowblood
Thief
All extremely fair choices. I’d say Watership Down is worthy for animated kino, but also an excellent example of how to properly adapt a novel
Bros... Just spend like $240 this sale. I have a problem, but I cope by telling myself it's educational
Lol I’ve already spent $400 because usually I would do like $200 twice a year but I’ve been busy all of COVID. Feels good to be back
Same for me kek. I also spent way too much on movies last year. Especially because I bought a lot of titles going OOP like Fox blus. I will be getting all the 4Ks released since the 24h flash sale earlier this year, cos I haven't got those yet, as well as a few regular blus on my wishlist that I'm still missing (too many) - perhaps a 2-3 noirs, a film by Hawks or one of the Scorsese World Cinema Project box sets? We will see.
I will never understand those home video fans that upgraded all the way to blue and now tell themselves that 4K isn't worth it kek. Is movie collecting your hobby now or what? 4K obviously is superior, especially for pictures filmed on actual film stock, because it can reproduce the colors and the film grain much more naturally. Just compare the screenshots for the Robocop 4K or the recent Out Of Sight 4K on the site caps-a-holic.com and tell me how you still think that 4K is redundant. My guess is that a lot of those folks are either:
a) modern movie watchers who mainly watch digital films which often have 2K special effects - of course you will not see an advantage here
b) guys who have amassed a huge blu-ray collection but are only middle class and now can't afford to double dip for the 4K so now they tell themselves that 2K is sufficient - as a cope.
c) identical to b) but can't even afford a large enough TV to see the benefit of 4K, so naively thinks it's not worth it.
BTW speaking of 3D: 3D blu-rays were absolutely necessary, if only to give us faithful 3D presentations of classics such as Dial M For Murder, House Of Wax or Kiss Me Kate.
Everything in this post is a massive cope. Oh and I like film and always do physical media, but I have more important hobbies than collecting home media. Get a real hobby dude
Raging Bull sucks shit
>Raging Bull sucks shit
Get off this board pleb.
No, the movie is completely bereft of anything meaningful to say other than machismo is bad. I love to see idiot film buffs praise that shit and claim that it appeals to their emotions when Jake LeMotta would’ve thought they were all homosexuals
it's a beautiful portrait of a flawed human. We're all Jake LaMotta at times. where did you get "machismo bad" from?
>I ain't so bad
His machismo literally ruined any chance he had at happiness and his relationships with everyone. I’m never Jake LeMotta because I’m not an irrational douche bag. My brother is Jake LeMotta all the time and nobody wants to be around him.
This one is Shout! Instead of Criterion but still required viewing for a true kinosseur
Finally a based thread. I’m all about John Cassavetes the man was a god and knew how to actually pry into peoples emotions without being obvious israeli homosexualry. Recommend all his stuff on Criterion but particularly Faces
Binged his films this year and will rewatch many of them. Faces was great and actually Love Streams was pretty nice.
I still haven't watched any of his own films but pic rel was kino.
Absolutely kino, try Husbands, it’s tedious for most people. But it’s so real and a good counterpoint to Mikey and Nicky. The banal conversations those middle-aged dudes have are painfully awkward like in life
>its just like real life!!
cinema should be cinema. life should be life. realism was created by pseuds to try and compete with their superiors.
Cinematic realism today is not realism, it is pretend realism. Cassavetes understood emotional realism in a way that directors today cannot. Peter Falk had a really hard time on Husbands because Cassavetes wouldn’t help him with any of his lines or give him any background to work with because he was trying to mold Falk to be the meeker one of the three, and it worked
Dope movie with some cool ideas you later see in fallout games
LQ Jones who made it was an interesting sort. He was in a lot of Westerns and worked with Peckinpah a lot, but he fought like hell to get A Boy and His Dog made, he believed in it.
We've only got about a year and a half to go. Here's hoping. "Farm, immediately."
I want to say “wrong attitude” whenever I interview people for jobs
this is literally a TV show
And it’s kino, pure kino. You’re posting on Cinemaphile y’know?
Pearls before swine as they say
muh capitalism gays are indeed very annoying
I can’t fathom the hell it must be to be a normie with no taste or thoughts in their head.
These are amusing to me only because I know a girl who is 19 and literally only watches childrens animated films and shit like Bob’s Burgers while not engaging with any adult media. It’s fricking depressing, the reason is because when she was 13 she had two members of her family killed in front of her and is basically regressed to a childlike state that is unending. The refusal to watch anything that contains mature themes is just a further attempt to isolate herself from an adult world where shit happens everyday and you have to get over it
does she wet the bed?
>does she wet the bed?
I hate myself and I hate this site and I hate myself for using this site.
does she?
Not even the same guy you’re replying to there
have you ever seen a girl piss her pants?
>when she was 13 she had two members of her family killed in front of her
wtf details please?
How did they die?
Also you should frick her while she role-plays as her 13 year old self (obviously)
Also what are the essential arrow kinos? Think I might branch out and get a few. Got Day of the Jackal and Dune last time I nabbed some Criterions.
The Arrow transfer is far, far better.
>The Arrow transfer is far, far better.
This is true. + The Criterion has the wrong frame rate.
I am glad to find other home video autists on here that are region free and try to get the best release worldwide kek.
Also makes me sad though that too many people just get their local release without comparing online if there are better alternatives.
You’ll never beat Criterions selection. That and it is an imperfect world
>You’ll never beat Criterions selection.
That's also something I don't get. Maybe because I am a European collector, and Criterions are imports for me. We have had multiple lables being stand-ins for Criterion before they moved across the pond. But I will get a movie because I care about the filmmaker or the film itself, but not just because of Criterion. When I got into movies first as a teenager, I got myself a movie encyclopedia of sorts and soaked up as many films and names as I could. Art house, or film criticism in general had been around for decades before Criterion arrived. Kind of annoys me that so many film fans watch their films based on what's available on the Criterion Collection instead of getting a film taste of their own.
We’ll you have to understand in America Criterion has been constantly growing since 2004 and any other option in America is usually pure dogshit. I go where the films take me and Criterion will always be putting out something. It’s only the last year or so that we’ve started to see Arrow stuff in stores. That and buying online is a huge money pit for region free stuff. I work directors more than anything and will stop at no cost to get all their stuff regardless of who’s putting it out.
Ease of access counts when the personal collection is ever-expanding. Shout! Has some great stuff even though they suck as a company
Only an autist would care
My favourite film.
This is one that I bought this month, but I haven’t watched it yet. I still need Harakiri, but my local B&N didn’t have it in stock.
This was undeniably well-made but kind of a slog for how simple the story was.
Scorcesegays have to be the biggest midwits on this board.
Thank god. All the filmmakers Pauline Kael praised to high-heaven turned out to be shit and israelite puppets. I’m glad John Cassavetes would publicly harass her for kicks
Karl was a count but Scorsese still is a genius. America's greatest filmmaker. Unfortunately, a lot of his fans are brainlets (on that you are right).
>Scorsese
>America’s greatest filmmaker
Look I like some of his stuff, but no shit have a nice day dude
Well, who do you say is better then? Charlie Kaufman and Richard Linklater kek
John Cassavetes but he’s dead. If you’re talking living, clearly David Lynch is better. Twin Peaks: The Return literally killed TV so bad that only Better Call Saul can hold a candle now. Also Jim Jarmusch is far better than Scorsese
lunch is based but
>le nothing happens man
sucks
Down By Law is kino of the highest order and anyone who doesn’t think so is a cinematic pleb. Dead Man, Ghost Dog, and Coffee & Cigs are up there too
>turns up the volume on goodfellas
WHAT WAS THAT ANON? I SAID I'M WATCHING KINO
What a pleb. Let’s watch Mean Streets 5 everyone lolololol
>Down By Law
Frick I wish there was a single movie out there like it, I coulda watched that movie if it was 5 hours long
Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch?
>I am 14 and this is deep
I like Lynch but a lot of people who watch him like him because is films are artsy and make them feel smart for watching them.
>le strawman
Yes and you immediately assume that I am in that category. Remember this is all in response to someone who claims Martin Scorsese is the greatest American filmmaker which is some horseshit. At least Jarmusch and Lynch have personality. Cassavetes was all personality and it had aplomb unlike any other m
If not Scorsese, which American director has the most masterpieces and the most influential films? Jarmusch? Linklater? Just lol
Bruh
You have no argument. Gotcha. I named three and you keep mentioning Linklater despite me never mentioning him once, and now you’re picking on Jarmusch because you can’t attack the other two I mentioned. Frick your kid-diddling coke head pleb director. New Hollywood directors sucked
>Frick your kid-diddling coke head pleb director. New Hollywood directors sucked
Oh, an intellectual
It seems to me you don't even get the films of Scorsese and their themes. You look at him like a Steven Spielberg type who had some mainstream success with blockbusters starring DeNiro and DiCaprio. In other word you don't get America's most interesting and most complex filmmaker at all.
Imagine sucking some old catholic dudes wiener this hard
>old catholic
If only. People like to pretend he makes Catholic movies, but he really doesn't.
The fathers got to you guys bad eh?
>Imagine sucking some old catholic dudes wiener this hard
Flyover state kraut-mick Evangelical mutt detected! I get it why Scorsese doesn't resonate with you as much. You're more of a Germanic type in terms of your mentality, so your rather drawn to israeli and Anglo filmmakers. And that's OK. No need to be ashamed. I am Catholic, so there is something inside Scorsese's films that resonates with me that is at the same time probably foreign to you.
Imagine crying so much because your shitty irrelevant independent filmmakers aren’t as renowned as Scorsese. Lynch is the only other American director who competes with him
Sorry some priest molested you anon. It’s ok no one cares now
He’s right though, you are a fricking idiot dude. William Friedkin is better than Scorsese and is still alive
Mel Gibson. Now go dilate.
David Lynch is great at cultivating a very specific kind of vision and aesthetic that draws from pop culture and cinema history, but nothing he made can hold a candle to Scorcese's pathos.
Taxidriver is one of the humanist movies ever made, and empathetically describes all sides of American society at a time in the way Scorcese's peers (Coppola, Altman) failed to do. I'd rank him, Orson Welles, Casavettes and Ford as the best American filmmakers.
>empathetically describes all sides of American society at a time
No it didn’t. israelite York is not even close to America at large. I like Taxi Driver bud, but that’s stupid what you just said. Also it didn’t say shit for elderly Americans at the time other than seeing two old fricks fight in the street
I'd argue it does. Travis Bickle is what happens when society creates its "perfect" citizen. A person who just wants to be like other people and tick all the check-marks of what a "good" person looks like. The problems arise when he encounters conflicting ideas of what a good person is. The movie doesn't condemn or condone anyone he interacts with. It just allows them all to cope with their pain in individual ways.
> Also it didn’t say shit for elderly Americans at the time other than seeing two old fricks fight in the street
Not sure what you're talking about here, I'll concede it doesn't really go into elderly people issues or whatever
>Not sure what you're talking about here
You’re not sure? You said it describes all sides of American Society at the time. Did it go into what elderly Americans thought at the time? Does it go into farmers? Does it talk about captains of industries? Do you even know what you’re saying?
>The movie doesn't condemn or condone anyone he interacts with.
Lol yeah it does, it condemns Sport, it condemns Iris’ passivity about her life choices, it condones Betsy by having nothing shake-up her decadent lifestyle
Lynch is the biggest hack in cinema history.
I will never see the appeal of Linklater
more like stinklater
>midwit thread
>spent $200 on Criterion
>spent $150 on Kino Lorber
I I told myself I’m not gonna buy any more this month unless I can get through almost all the Criterions I already bought.
Kino Lorber always seemed pretty meh to me on their presentation. Stalker being a prime example. They do have the best silent film collection though. “The Movies Begin” by them is one of the best sets I own
Kino Lorber is based, so I’m not sure why they’re not talked about more on Cinemaphile. Probably about half of what I purchased from them have been silent movies.
Criterion has a monopoly on most of the classics of world cinema within the USA. Most other boutique blu-ray labels pad their catalogues with 70’s pornos and no-budget 80’s horror. You’re definitely right that there are consoomers who will buy anything with the Criterion logo slapped on it as if their label actually means anything anymore.
Well, in the UK you gut labels like Arrow Video, Eureka Masters of Cinema, BFI, Powerhouse Indicator, Second Sight Second Run, Artificial Eye(, Signal One, 101 films)
So when buying a new blu, I am not merely choosing something from Criterion, but I am following all the lables and am happy every time an interesting film from a known director gets released and comparing the picture quality between American and European releases.
Nowadays I am region free and also get Criterions or Kinos, mainly for stuff that's not available in Europe. BTW there also is a nice new Australian distributor called Imprint releasing mainly unreleased Paramount catalog titles.
Well, there is a lot of deep catalog titles that are only available on KL. So if you want to deep dive into a particular studio's or director's back catalog, they have many more films for the solid price of USD 9.99 when they're on sale.
Also, they've started to release excellent 4Ks recently which are must-own titles.
They occasionally frick-up too though. Like their version of The Bounty (with Anthony Hopkins) is way inferior to say Twilight Times version
The do, yeah. They are quantity not quality. Still, they do offer a lot of titles not available anywhere else globally (!). And they really put in a lot of effort with their 4Ks, those truly are kino.
Just don't preorder and wait for the reviews.
>Scorsese bad
>no I don't need to explain why
>no I don't need to offer any opinion besides that
based but cringe.
If they're still available
Bergman boxset
4K Barry Lyndon
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Dr
Sword of Doom
>Spartacus
Communist israelite shit, even Kubrick hated it and only did it for money and because Kirk Douglas wanted him to
You can see though the leftism and promptly discard it easily. The other aspects (visual grandeur, the sly sex/behavior innuendos. great cast etc) are more than worth it.
I’m not saying it’s a terrible film, but it pales compared to everything else Kubrick did, including Fear & Desire
Fear and Desire is an interesting psychological approach to war, but visually Spartacus is much better and has a lot of amazing scenes, not just epic ones but light and shadow interplays between characters etc.
It's a great option to have with the best possible quality
I think Kubrick is overrated though. Like, yes, he's great, but he's not as great as people say he is. He is not the GOAT.
I don't think he's the GOAT but Kubrick was a master at the art of telling stories through symbolism. Not burdening you with exposition.
I love Kubrick, but filmmaking needs to move beyond empty symbolism and “intellectual” references to become something real and urgent. All that symbolic bullshit and literary references are just attempts to fit-in with the in-crowd ie the critics and the other filmmakers who have to resort to it to seem “interesting”. We need more films about real people in real human situations that are often disordered and aesthetically unpleasing to look at.
Basically I’m saying we need a film about the life of Chris-Chan starring Henry Cavill
>Basically I’m saying we need a film about the life of Chris-Chan starring Henry Cavill
What would Cavill have to do to achieve this?
Well first he has to get the voice right. The voice of CwC is everything here. Secondly he’ll have to turn all that muscle into fat and get something resembling his physique. Then it’s just greasy hair and clown shirts with a medallion and Cavill will win an Oscar and disgust a lot of people
>We need more films about real people in real human situations that are often disordered and aesthetically unpleasing to look at.
Malcolm McDowell was one ugly motherfricker. So actually, that's what Kubrick did. McDowell being so disgustingly ugly is actually one of the reasons I dislike A Clockwork Orange.
>Basically I’m saying we need a film about the life of Chris-Chan starring Henry Cavill
I kek'ed
Kubrick is the summit of cinema. Everything else pales by comparison.
Orson Welles, John Cassavetes, David Lynch. There’s three who can compete with him. Cinema is far vaster than your supposed summit, and The Shining ranks as No. 1 on my list of the greatest films ever made
Welles 2nd greatest. Lynch very good, Cassavetes I dunno, not very familiar with his movies (nor do I find him technically accomplished, he comes across as a drama director and that's it)
But Stanley Kubrick remains peerless.
I redirect you to
He's a snoozepill. I'd argue even Bay is better (who is quite good, very unfairly treated most of the time). Where Kubrick exhausts your patience with nothing happening, Bay exhausts you with too much happening, which honestly is an upgrade. Frick Kubrick.
I wish you were sincere, it would be funnier that way. I’m not the guy you’re responding to btw. Pain & Gain is the only good film Bay has made
>I wish you were sincere
I am. Bay probably wouldn't agree with me on Kubrick but still. I thought Pain and Gain was one of his weaker ones. Ambulance is probably one of his best if not the best, 6 Underground was quite nice (due to the absurd setting he pretty much just did a best of Bay), 13 Hours is very underrated and the best modern war movie. The majority of his older stuff is also excellent. Only genuine suckers are Transformers 2-5.
Zoomers were a mistake. We really should’ve become infertile once the year 2000 hit
>muh zoomers
Pathetic.
Bay is trash, even Zak Snyder’s shit is preferable to his. Cocaine is for losers dude
They are both kino and high-T, which can't be said about that slug Kubrick.
Sounds like you only prefer one kind of cinema which is sad. Kino is vast field and you refuse to see the full range
Coming from someone blowing Kubrick, that's beyond comical.
Explain? I said Snyders stuff was alright, so I can work within your auspices, but you can’t within mine. You’re the abortion
Kek. Never said I only watch Bay and Snyder. Kubrick sucks, which I don't say because I couldn't watch him but rather because I did. Cope and seethe.
Still haven’t explained anything. I’m enjoying this though. You’re proving my point. Why not try a film like Watermelon Man?
>Watermelon Man
Lmao. I think I'd find it funny for ~20 minutes and then just be annoyed by the utter moronation that is libshitism.
It was actually ridiculously funny. Black people would probably still love it today, but white liberals would hate every minute of it. They’d call it sexist and probably say that Melvin Van Peebles was a product of “institutional racism” and attempt to discredit his viewpoints
On second thought I don't really care.
You’re having second and third thoughts? Damn I must’ve got to you good 🙂
>boomer attempt at banter
Yuck
How many thoughts are you having now?
>t. 1999 gay
The funny part is I fall out of that range. So he wouldn't even have prevented my birth. What a sucker.
You Zoomers need to take you ADD meds
>muh Zoomers
Still pathetic, grandpa. If you're so salty now, maybe you should have raised us better, fatty.
You do realize more than one person posts in a thread right?
Yes. And?
Definitely ADHD of some variety. Some people need “easy entertainment” I guess
absolutely. he is the only da vinci or michelangelo cinema has produced. the ten greatest directors in cinema are, objectively speaking:
Kubrick
Bergman
Kurosawa
Welles
Tarkovsky
Godard
Renoir
Spielberg
Chaplin
Bondarchuk
lol@Lynch. he is a 80's hipster fad that has never gone away because millennials and zoomers were screwed economically. so he is simply a rebellious anti/pick pick.
>Lynch. he is a 80's hipster fad
You clearly never watched Twin Peaks: The Return. It single-handedly destroyed TV as a narrative medium.
>Kubrick
>Bergman
>Kurosawa
>Welles
>Tarkovsky
>Godard
>Renoir
>Spielberg
>Chaplin
>Bondarchuk
Peak tastelet. Sorry, bud but you suck. Bigly.
cassevetes muh realism
malick is obsolete
altman is a dumb hick
Malick is based. Way of the Wind looks very promising. Cope and seethe.
Badlands is still greater than any romantic film that has come out in the last 50 years. Altman was always israelite-loving trash
scorsese lost all cred when he met leonardo dicaprio
hitchwiener is a television director
people dont actually think Scorsese is an all time great do they? He never even touched Coppola's peaks
I'm telling you. Martin has done huge damage to his legacy after twenty straight years of crap. If he died after Gangs of NY he would be considered a GOAT.
he has had three good movies. eraserhead, the elephant man, and blue belvet. meanwhile the directors on my list have had about five decades of straight masterpieces each. Lynch represents americans desperation to compete with european auteurs.
Nah Jim Jarmusch is more about trying to be European. Lynch does his thing and doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks it feels and that’s based
Tarkovsky exposed him.
Compared to Kubrick even Tarkovsky becomes a side character.
Very well. The biggest issue with film historically is how much of it is dictated by the needs of technicians to achieve these high-quality sounds and visuals, at the detriment to the performer. Acting is a sewer because of it
Who are the best UK sellers for these types of films? I know about Masters of Cinema and Arrow, anyone else?
The guy for ep 6 is literally me.
https://voca.ro/1hKM5HJPPIFA
Pretty good actually, would spend $50 on Arrow’s three hour directors cut made by some gay pedophile German dude
It's the best 'zilla movie.
Godzussy
>tfw matthew broderick fricked the dinosaur
I always feel ashamed when Catholics say they like Scorcese movies.
>I always feel ashamed when Catholics say they like Scorcese movies.
Oh no, it's that guy again. We already had this discussion like two weeks ago.
The dude sucking Scorsese’s wiener, I can tell he’s like Cinemaphile‘s equivalent to the Cinemaphile anon where it was discovered he made hundreds of threads trying to get people to hate Half-Life only to fail miserably each time despite bumping his threads up by the hundreds
Maybe. At some point you'll have to come to terms with the fact that what the guy puts out is opposed to Catholicism. Be it his average movie glorifying sex, violence and drug abuse or his "religious" movies blaspheming the Lord and advocating for apostasy.
So he’s basically making therapy movies to come to terms with his religious upbringing? Great he’s no better than Woody Allen. I getcha anon. Frick those New Hollywood wienersuckers. David McGowan wrote a book about how they were all backed by glowBlack folk
The Scorsese schizo is correct that his movies are an affront to Catholicism but they’re still kino nonetheless
His style is hollow and empty. He cannot evolve as a filmmaker. Never has, never will.
>Since Criterion is 50% this month
I always say I'll get something during one of these dales but never actually do.
If you’re gonna spend $20 on one and only one. I guess go with A Night to Remember. Why? Because it shows how perfectly effective the old methods were compared to todays trash like Titanic
Never found a torrent for Dekeklog
Reply if you're a poorgay too
Torrenting anything with subtitles is such a pain. I can’t watch everything on my PC, need that giant ass dedicated screen, and getting the subs to work on my TV or my PS4 is 50/50
KEK
I found a 150Gb t0rr3nt that came w english subs like a month ago
search harder gayet
Nah I make more than 100k a year I’m not worried about it.
>I make more than 100k a year
that's literally below the poverty level unless you live in oklahoma or something
I’m one person bud, I have a wife too and she makes barely less than me, I’m not gonna say how much we make total because it doesn’t matter. I got all I need and I can buy whatever I want really. Not everyone wants to own a castle
Imagine being so cuc ked by consumism LMAO
yeah you go homosexual, keep supporting us freeloaders kek
I will, just remember who your betters are. Seems I contribute more than you ever will
Doing a lot for the world giving money to Hollyweird pedophiles
Says the guy posting on a board dedicated to the discussion of Hollyweird pedophiles, also I go criterion for their foreign stuff. Idiot
ok mr homosexual
keep seething kek
I'll keep downloading free shit forever thx to homosexuals like you lmao
>I’ll keep downloading free shit forever thx to homosexuals like you lmao
I don’t understand, do you think I’m Al Gore? I didn’t invent the internet.
Just put it on a usb key and plug it to the tv?
My tv read subs fine
so many pseuds in this thread no wonder your /film/ generals are so dead kek
It’s sad, but most of the people on Cinemaphile don’t organically like films. They just follow trends and references, and I guess YouTube reviewers now. Streamers are almost as much cancer as social media was when it first started
Saw this last night, frick it was good. The heist scene was tense as hell
No shit? I just saw it last night too. Pure kino. Alain Delon was always the best. Purple Noon is my favorite of his
Delon was the king of cool man, will grab Purple Noon for tonight's movie. Thanks for the rec.
rivette > rohmer >>>>> pure shit >>>>> godard > truffaut >>>>>>> power gap >>>>>> chabrol
Zatoichi and Godzilla packs
Tell me, does the Godzilla pack have English dubs? I only care because MF Doom sampled that shit constantly and I wanted to hear it like that
Not him but only some of the movies come with the English dubs iirc. Godzilla 1954, King Kong vs Godzilla, Invasion of Astro-Monster, and there may be a few others I’m forgetting.
Hmm maybe I’ll reconsider buying it. I wanted to, but I really wanted those MF Doom samples in it. Probably the only acceptable dubs in live-action film
I know he sampled Invasion of Astro-Monster (AKA Godzilla vs Monster Zero) but I’m not sure about the other movies. I would go ahead and pull the trigger on it if you’re considering it, since Godzilla movies go OoP pretty frequently.
Noted, thanks anon. I kinda dislike their huge boxsets because I can’t shelve them neatly. But the Godzilla one is nice
The old DVD set you used to see for $20 everywhere has the classic English dubs and it's now $600 because Criterion are a bunch of fricking wienersucking homosexuals.
The distribution rights to Godzilla movies are a clusterfrick since Toho pulled a Marvel decades ago, and licensed the dubbing of their movies out tons of different American studios. I know Snoy had the rights to all their Godzilla and Mothra movies between 1991 and 2014 as a result of the deal with Tristar to make the 1998 movie, but I think those blu-rays are going out of print as well.
For me it is Arrow Video
I saw this there and had it in my hand. Worth getting?
Haven't watched it yet but hear good things
You don’t have room to judge anything if you don’t know Cassavetes
Ok shill
Rutracker is 100% off perpetually
Are you all just too tech illiterate to learn how to get these movies for free?
Are you too illiterate on how to make money?
>spending $40 per dvd of garbage entry level arthouse
no thanks
$20 anon, it’s 50% and that’s standard new price. Sorry you have no money to throw around.
Why would I throw money around on something I can get for free
To show you have it.
For the aesthetic of course. That and many people are tech-illiterate and I can loan them shit. Also there aren’t torrents for everything
>For the aesthetic of course
No one is impressed by walking into your place and seeing a bunch of ugly plastic you bought at Barnes and Nobles (the same garbage that mostly midwit teens buy). If aesthetic is your goal buy some first edition books.
>That and many people are tech-illiterate and I can loan them shit
Just upload it to Google drive
>Also there aren’t torrents for everything
There are torrents for everything Criterion has released
Half the torrents for criterion’s shit has subtitles that don’t work so good on everything. You do realize most people don’t watch their movies on their PC right? I have to look after my decrepit parents and they need some non-pozzed shit to watch every now and then.
>Half the torrents for criterion’s shit has subtitles that don’t work so good on everything
Yeah so I'm rIght, you all are just tech illiterate. Get on a real torrent tracker like PTP, not Pirate Bay or whatever the frick. Or don't if you're so eager to burn money on fricking Barnes and Noble DVDs as an aesthetic lmao.
>dvd’s
Blu ray Black person. Get it right, DVD is poorgay shit, almost as bad as some dude pirating shit
Not everything is on Blu-ray.
You're right we're all very impressed that you know how to torrent.
when some fricking idiot in here doesn't even know how to make his subtitles work, yeah getting a torrent to work is impressive.
> If aesthetic is your goal buy some first edition books.
Are you implying I don’t? Let me tell you what most girls in their twenties would be more impressed by seeing a collection of shitty horror movies rather than your first edition books. Thankfully I hang around a better class of people.
>Let me tell you what most girls in their twenties would be more impressed by seeing a collection of shitty horror movies rather than your first edition books.
Just the mouth breathing whales you associate with
Impossible to have a intellectually honest conversation with you dude. 85% of the women I went to high school with wouldn’t give a frick about books. That’s most American women dude, and you know it. You can act like I hang with them all you want, but the truth is that they’re the norm and you are not. Did you not have a sister growing up or something? Never had to dumb yourself down to appeal to their friends?
I thought girls would be into reading?
Sure some are, but that’s still like less than 10% of the female population (USA) the rest may claim to be, but if they’re just reading Harry Potter and the Hunger Games or harlequin romance, then they don’t really read do they? You could have a first edition of Ulysses and they wouldn’t notice or care.
>they’re just reading Harry Potter and the Hunger Games or harlequin romance
This.
why would I decorate my apartment to impress the average American woman? I have a lot of normie friends. I don't waste money to impress them with DVDs. most of them know I have nothing in common with them when it comes to movies. it doesn't even matter.
Decorating an apartment to impress women has nothing to do with what I just said Black person. Sometimes in life you gotta take a knee to get down on someone else’s level rather than acting like a stuck-up c**t all the time which you clearly do.
What are you even arguing then, how is what you're saying related to buying Criterion DVD's
I "waste" money with my gf on fun concerts and shit. drinking, going places, supporting good films at independent theatres, not dust collecting DVD's I get for free.
Dude this whole thing was because you said some dumb shit about how having first editions books was more aesthetically pleasing to woman than a blu-ray collection, but you apparently can’t follow a conversation. Sure decent intelligent women will like the first edition collection, but that’s not the norm in any way shape or form and to say otherwise is moronic. I’m done with you now because there’s no point conversing with you. There are no good films at independent theaters anymore by the way
Why do you think I give a shit about the norm? I wasn't telling anyone what I'm saying is the norm. If you want the norm go apeshit buying funkopops and live love laugh shit.
>There are no good films at independent theaters anymore by the way
*tips fedora* Do you realize independent theaters play lots of old shit too?
I’m not the same guy, I was reading this chain though. You sound really shitty to be around. The norm matters because we all have to associate with normies and to act the way you’re putting on tells me you’re like a narcissist. Not good people to be around. AMC theaters plays old shit too, your point? They don’t produce good new films anymore, copy of a copy of a copy. I guarantee you every single one of those independent theaters you waste money at is ran by some limp-wristed liberal homosexual
>They don’t produce good new films anymore, copy of a copy of a copy.
Yeah talk about being a narcissist no one likes to be around.
Calm down dude you don’t have to be so angry
>drinking
Drinking at a bar with women is the ultimate waste of money. Sounds like you get with the kind of bar bawds who age terribly. My gf and I mix our own drinks at home or with company over because its not half the waste of money that a shitty bar is. Then we watch Blu-rays
You’re a pleb bud. Did you get vaxxed so you could see lame ass concerts? Lol
No, buying DVDs is the ultimate waste of money. I didn't even mention going to bars but I do get drinks at bars that deserve the money. There's a local places that books awesome free shows most days of the week. I don't mind giving them a fiver for a drink so they can stay around. Much better than giving $40 to a corporation like Criterion.
>why would I care about normies
>is the epitome of a normalgay
You’re mixed-up kid
>dismissing bars all together
Yeah i can you're bullshitting. You don't have a girlfriend or if you do she's the most homely looking founder of her community college's anime club. By drinking at home you mean getting drunk by yourself in your room and posting on Cinemaphile. Bars are fun, don't be scared to go in one.
Projecting much? Stop being so angry narcissist anon. Bars are a waste of money is what.
Yeah much better to give your tugboat money to the Criterion CEO to renovate his Beverly Hills compound right. lol
As if it’s somehow worse than you helping Jim Beam sell his beer for $10 a bottle instead of $1. You’re a normie dude
>Jim Beam
>beer
Holy underage
>mfw I meme about Criterion consoomers being all midwit teenagers but it's actually true
You swallowed that bait like it was cum dude. It’s like covfefe it works everytime. That’s how mad you are. Call me a liar now, I think it’s funny
>I was just pretending to be moronic
lel the state of Criterion gays
Salty
Just blow each other already.
>implying you can get with a decent woman without wasting money in some way
Definitely intellectually dishonest.
>
Can you gays stop talking about trying to impress prostitutes?
Kinosseurs Only Thread
I fricking wish anon. This is what I get for having faith in Cinemaphile
Bought this and the Wong Kar Wai set this weekend. Looking forward to watching it
Nice choices anon.
You'll soon realize that Criterion movies are the same as Hollywood shit, it's just fat nerdy director's oogling their camera over pretty people doing poses in long never ending scenes for stretches of 10 minutes. Bergman said he hired that one chick in all his movies cause he liked her ass. If it's not that it's historical reenactment movies where you watch a peasant dig potatoes for 12 hours then holds his fist at the sky and cries. Lone Wolf & Cub is cool however.
>Bergman said he hired that one chick in all his movies cause he liked her ass.
Source?
I mean Bergman hired half of the actresses that he did because he was fricking them at some point or another. I don’t care if the quote is true, it rings true
Not even necessarily doubting it's true, just interested in the source/context.
Thanks, the 1970 one on the Criterion Blu I guess?
So what you’re saying is Bergman was based.
Absolutely. If he was still alive I bet people would try to make him out as Swedish Harvey Weinstein
Cinemaphile memed me into buying The Seventh Seal during the last Criterion sale, but I don’t think I’m based enough to comprehend it.
What’s to misunderstand? It’s an excellent mediation on the meaning of life in what appears to be a pointless world. The acting, music, design, and dialogue are all excellent. Like many of us on Cinemaphile we’ve spent our lives believing in a world that turned out to be all lies
The interview extras on the Persona disc
The arbitrary standard for what is "kino" according to film buffs and "canonizations" is mind-boggling. There's no real authority on any of this stuff, they mostly just make it up.
>You'll soon realize that Criterion movies are the same as Hollywood shit, it's just fat nerdy director's oogling their camera over pretty people doing poses in long never ending scenes for stretches of 10 minutes. Bergman said he hired that one chick in all his movies cause he liked her ass. If it's not that it's historical reenactment movies where you watch a peasant dig potatoes for 12 hours then holds his fist at the sky and cries.
Utterly moronic take
I picked up Antichrist, Lone Wolf and Cub set and the Arrow release of Wild Things
>thread about criterion
>uses dekalog as example
>one of their most famous frick-up releases
>arrow release is the definitive version
>op is a zoomer larping as a cinephile
kys
The thread was about Kino in general using the criterion sale as a backdrop because much kino can be acquired this way. You seem autistic anon, you alright? Getting triggered by slower frame rates?
Pseud
Aspie
frick off, larper
I’m glad you’re upset 🙂
I simply will not pay.
I haven't paid to see any media since Joker (went with a bro), and before then it was ID2 (also went with a bro).
Is that supposed to be impressive? I haven’t been to a movie theater since BR2049
Based. I went to a theater for that too, but I had completely forgotten about it.
>paying for movies
wtf i assumed everyone here were torrenting everything
i watch multiple movies a day, i can't imagine paying for them and i don't even know how i would handle that many dvd boxes if i could pay for them, tho i guess streaming can help
how much of what you watch is paid?
like, 10%? 30%?
If no one pays for the meme movies, then they will have no incentive to remaster them. Most of these decades-old movies aren’t hard to find. People are just buying them to have the best quality possible along with the supplementary material.
Anyone here wanna post their letterboxd I wanna get an idea of who you all are
>letterboxd
Yuck. I use notepad.
post a picture of it
>too poorgay to afford Criterion
>too poorgay to afford Criterion Channel
>just watch comfy Mosfilm YouTube channel for free
Any boxsets that are worth getting? I already have the Godzilla one (still need to finish watching the rest of them). I was thinking of the Wong kar wai one because I watched in the mood for love and it's stuck with me for weeks now. Dunno why, it wasn't amazing but I look back on it fondly so maybe I'll like his other stuff
Chungking Express is excellent by Wong. Also the big boxsets are up to you Fellini is good, Bergman is good, but their best stuff can be gotten individually too. I’d recommend smaller box sets like Cassavetes’ films. Even the Melvin Van Peebles boxset is great. America Lost & Found is full of degenerate shit but there’s good gems like The Last Picture Show. Three Colors is good too
Oh, I also considered the Jacques tati boxset, I wanna watch more French kino, worth it?
Just download it
I like owning my things and using my 4k player. I bought the damn player and 4k tv for a reason I'm gonna fricking use it
>don't even know if you like Tati
>but want to "own" it anyway
God help consoomers
It's more of a false sense of superiority over normalgays by watching and owning films that are actually good. I'm aware it's stupid but life's short and I don't give a frick anymore.
47 bucks
>Kane
Watched this in college, it was alright, don't understand the hubbub
>college
Rewatch it, focus on the technical achievements and the main character's trajectory
Its a big achievement in the context of the time it realeased
The Criterion copy of Citizen Kane is slightly larger than their standard releases. It’s because some movies are bigger than others
Not the reason.
Charlie Kane would laugh at a pleb like you
>Godzilla box set
>Daimajin trilogy
>Yokai monsters trilogy
>Toho vampire trilogy
>The Blob
>The War of the Worlds
>Kwaidan
>Onibaba
>Kuroneko
>House
Any other monster kino from Criterion and Arrow? I know I need Vampyr, but my local B&N didn’t have it.
I don't know what you like but just check these out
Zatoichi
Female Prisoner #701
I forgot to mention that I also have the Gamera box sets and Haxan, but thanks for the recommendations.
>Vampyr
Is this even good? The premise sounds cool but I'm always wary of movies that old, the execution can be a little too rough for me sometimes.
Motherfricker do you know anything about Carl Dreyer
No I don't actually. Enlighten me.
All of his canonical films are superb. Not sure what you've heard about Vampyr. It's not "scary" but it perfectly creates a Brothers Grimm-like mood. If you've seen M, it's similar to that in how well it translates to our current tastes. Also just download it, don't buy it. Dreyer is dead, no need to give money to Criterion.
>just pirate guys!
No, not everyone is a Black person
Go away, Criterion anti-piracy task force. No one with more than two brain cells is going to pay you money for a movie where all the people who worked on it are dead.
Black person thinks stealing is cool. Figures. You can’t have my bike Black person, do you understand? Oh and everyone that worked on Citizen Kane is dead
Stealing is extremely cool.
>t. Black person Jones
Thanks for paying so I can pirate them, cuckie
Typical Black person understandings. I don’t make torrents
Criterion only scans these movies in 4k because cucks like you buy them, little man.
I don’t buy 4K because it’s redundant. Thanks for admitting you’re a Black person though
Yeah whatever few Criterion releases are worth torrenting, thanks for giving them reason for it. I would be so pissed if I spent money on some of this garbage. Thankfully I get it for free.
Seems to me that $20 a Blu ray is a silly thing to get “pissed” about, but then again I’m not poor
>$20 a Blu ray
>being so poor you have to wait for a sale to buy it
Yeah sounds like you're suffering financially from your impulsive purchases of shitty movies
How about this
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/928-eclipse-series-37-when-horror-came-to-shochiku
kek that looks good. I really wish Criterion would upgrade their release of Shintoho’s Jigoku to blu-ray.
The moral of this thread is that poorgays are bitter losers
Since this thread is almost done for I'll just let you know right here: This was a very gay thread and almost none of you have any taste. You're a bunch of NPCs with slightly better pathing, that's all.
Funny thing I once did an experiment on Cinemaphile which proved taste = pretentious. I just made my top 10 list as pretentious as I could and people called me based. Like throwing Man With a Movie Camera and Die Nibelungen on there. Really stupid shit lol
You think having widely acclaimed classics in your top 10 is pretentious?
Man with a movie camera is an experimental film at best, it is great, and it is interesting, but putting it in your top 10 is pretentious and you know it. Even The Battleship Potemkin is less pretentious
The gayest part was seeing how much a poorgay the average Cinemaphile poster is. Seriously get a job Black person
For a supposedly gay thread it sure did well. Seems like some actual discussion of kino was encouraged. I’ll take it over a Capeshit thread any day
Kek. It was a lot of midwits chattering about whether dusty books or dusty movies are less effective at making prostitutes wet.
I don't fully understand pirategays.
I like opening cases, I like having a collection I can hold and look at, I like the feeling of taking the blu-ray out of the case and gently putting it into my 4K blu-ray player, I like sitting on my couch and watching my kino, it's simple stuff but it makes a difference. Have fun with your files and computer chair I guess
They just mad because they poor. I like knowing that I can’t be done for anything legal, and if I was they’d be the liar and the cheat, not I
Just know you are no different from Funkopopgays.
>implying you can't watch torrented movies on your tv
It's an annoying extra step that I don't care to take.
Nah, you’re wrong. Funkopops serve no practical purpose. I can give a criterion film to my grandfather to watch so he can see something he hasn’t seen in years and wanted to, and he won’t feel like a thief watching a pirated version. I’ve done something to make him happy. Are you going to say that’s a bad thing? How empty are you?
Both you and your gramps have been brainwashed by corporations. There is nothing ethically wrong with copying 1s and 0s. Save the money to buy him lunch.
Nah you’re just a douche dude. You’re brainwashed by moronation
What is wrong with copying 1s and 0s? I'd like to know.
What’s wrong with giving a child you don’t know candy every week? I’d like to know
Wot m8?