November 17th, 2010 / 4:07 pm
Snippets
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Blake Butler—
Barnes & Noble is running a 50% off all Criterion Collection releases; I think it ends on Friday. Be careful. I’m buying at least Antichrist, Last Year at Marienbad, and House. What will you get?
All the Rohmer + The Pornographers.
My exwife killed my previous copy of it.
solaris
seven samurai
a netflix subscription and no clutter
object slam from gen next
house and the essential art house version of black orpheus. comes out to $25. free shipping.
I’ll be getting fuck Barnes & Noble.
Or, technically, the ability of my employer to provide me with a living wage and affordable, comprehensible health care will be getting fucked BY Barnes & Noble.
Ooo! Ooo! Also, maybe Modern Times!
corporate slam from gen x
I haven’t kept up on the new criterion releases in a while. Had no idea they did Night of the Hunter. Will get that one for sure. Last Year At Marienbad and Night and Fog are two of the better movies I don’t own. Now’s the time to make that happen too.
totes getting antichrist. sweet new cover, too.
also,
nanook of the north
fat girl
f for fake
repulsion
salo
no persona?!
might have to donate plasma to make december rent. shit.
i want to see antichrist. also would like to hear lars von trier’s commentary
Sword of Doom
no one should want to see antichrist
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Damn, have you seen Withnail & I?
they were just playing that at the New Beverly on Sunday. Bad ass movie.
u missed it in theatres? damn. something to be said for seeing it on a big screen, not to mention the audience, think ‘theatre of cruelty’
Alex Cox’s Walker.
House is a film I’m glad I saw but wouldn’t want to see again, but it might be good for getting people out of your house when they won’t leave.
i can’t comprehend why anyone would want to own night and fog. good movie, but seriously. when is anyone ever in the mood for a movie like that?
A Nos Amours, directed by Maurice Pialat, with Sandrine Bonnaire
Me too.
The Battle of Algiers is my favorite movie of all time…I think. Highly recommended if you or your loved one has not seen it. But I don’t own it…so own it I shall.
i love house. i didn’t know they were doing a criterion collection for it though. hugh laurie rocks! can’t wait for season 5.
I love love High and Low.
i like that movie
i can’t comprehend why anyone would want to own night and fog. good movie, but seriously. when is anyone ever in the mood for a movie like that?
Me too.
ehhhhhhhh i’m not so comfortable with artaud being compounded with antichrist
izn’t house in like season 9 now or smth anyway
picked up Vivre sa vie, Dillinger is Dead, Breathless, and Mystery Train.
then i did my best to forget this sale existed.
you really wanna watch fat girl more than once?
HOUSE!
really? why? i think artaud’s influence on von trier shines with antichrist, more than any of his others
mostly because the entire point of artaud’s “cruelty” (i.e. affect) is based on theatrical elements outside of the narrative (lights, sound, movement), whereas von trier’s “cruelty” (i.e. manipulation) is based purely within narrativity
i watched it a second time just a month ago, hadn’t seen it since high school, liked it more at 26 than 17. i don’t own any breillat, and i want to own breillat
true, and i think artaud considered cinema to be a ‘cheap’ conduit for cruelty, but i’d still argue that von trier is aiming for that ‘effect’ albeit misreading and misinterpreting artaud’s original intent. then again, i know someone who works at a theatre in san francisco and they lowered the temperature for the antichrist screening and even turned off the emergency lights, creating a very black, and very cold room (a la friedkin’s exorcist screenings), which i think is more in line with the ‘affect’
well, naturally that’s more in line with affect, but that’s not something inherent to the film; that’s someone who works at a theater who is clearly awesome. i think the cinematic heritage of artaud can be traced to zulawski & then through the “new french extreme,” specifically grandrieux.
check out Martine Beugnet’s Cinema and sensation : French film and the art of transgression
Dangerous sale. Want House, Red Desert, By Brakhage II, Europa…
yes, clearly awesome, tho he was instructed to do so by a publicist, not his manager, which is interesting. i don’t know much about grandrieux, but when i hear ‘new french extreme’ i think of a film like baise-moi, and if artaud can be traced thru something like that then i think he can be traced thru something like antichrist. thanks for the beugent suggestion, i’ll check it out.