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Post by mllemass on Aug 17, 2022 21:37:03 GMT
I just checked, and my 1917 dvd has “Winner of 3 Academy Awards” on the cover - although it’s on a sticker that was added later. And my dvd of The Courier says that it was Certified Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 17, 2022 21:54:33 GMT
I'm referring to Criterion releases. They are more "auteur" driven and just being added to the collection is considered like winning a big award.
I think they mention that JC won the Oscar in the summary, tho.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 18, 2022 2:34:13 GMT
Apart of the film itself, I’m very excited that Taubin will write the essay because she understood the film like no one and wrote my favorite review about it. She also was very complimentery about BC’s performance in the film, www.artforum.com/film/jane-campion-makes-a-western-87203Also, benedict-cumberbatch.freeforums.net/post/37982/threadShe admires Campion a lot and already wrote the essay for An Angel of My Table and, as I mentioned above, interviews Campion for The Piano’s BluRay in one of the extras. She is a frequent collaborator of Criterion Collection so the possibility was always big but I have seen a lot of young critics for the recent releases and I remember that a gay film critic claimed that they HAD to hire a “queer critic” for this one (if they added it to the collection some day!). She centered her review on feminism but also on the tragedy of the internalized homophobia of Phil so she can easily do justice to the themes of the film.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 18, 2022 11:12:33 GMT
There are a few trolls on Twitter hysterically moaning about how a “bad” movie like TPOTD, which was widely acclaimed, was selected to every imaginable film festival around the world and received multiple awards, was selected to join the prestigious Criterion Collection. C’mon! That was something obvious from day 1! I’m not a Criterion obsessive, like some of them claim to be although a few seem more CODA fan types (Lol!), but I could easily predict not just that it would be included but also the month and the writer of the essay! How so many super “experts” couldn’t see it?! Lol Seriously, Twitter is full of all kind of fakes!
Another Criterion tidbit for those in the USA, Barnes & Noble has a 50% off sale of Criterion titles during November.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 18, 2022 12:38:16 GMT
I told you! Like with The Piano, we will have more pretty drawings!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 18, 2022 12:39:52 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 18, 2022 13:18:09 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Aug 18, 2022 16:05:36 GMT
Those illustrations are gorgeous!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 19, 2022 15:59:20 GMT
I just saw on the Criterion site that some of their big Netflix films (The Irishman, Marriage Story, Roma, Okja and Rolling Thunder Revue) are released on other BluRay versions apart of A. I saw some people from Europe on Twitter asking if TPOTD would be released there. Nothing sure yet but there is hope. If I see some confirmation, I will post it here.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 21, 2022 13:24:23 GMT
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