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[Bogey]

Thanks, Dave!

[Brian]

Criterion Collection announces Blu-Ray version of His Girl Friday



Features:
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931), made from a recently discovered print of the director's preferred version
New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday
Archival interviews with director Howard Hawks
Featurettes from 1999 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday
Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
New piece about the restoration of The Front Page
New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
His Girl Friday trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow

[Bogey]

Criterion Collection announces Blu-Ray version of His Girl Friday



Features:
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931), made from a recently discovered print of the director's preferred version
New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday
Archival interviews with director Howard Hawks
Featurettes from 1999 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday
Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
New piece about the restoration of The Front Page
New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
His Girl Friday trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow

YES!!!!!!

[Karl Henning]

I could hear the roar from the Rocky Mountain State here on Oliver Street!

[Bogey]

I could hear the roar from the Rocky Mountain State here on Oliver Street!

It's one of my rare perfect 10 out of 10 stars, but you two lads knew this.   *high fives Brian's avatar because that seemed the thing to do*

[SonicMan46]

Criterion Collection announces Blu-Ray version of His Girl Friday

   

Features:
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931), made from a recently discovered print of the director's preferred version
New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday.............

YEP - the BD of His Girl Friday will be a definite DVD replacement for me - and just for starters from the '30s, added a couple more above that I'd love to see a blu-ray restoration!  Dave

[Spineur]

Thanks, I shall seek this out. Never seen it, only heard about it. What a cast !! (Americans know Paul Meurisse through his portrayal of the cold, sadistic school principal in Clouzot's Diabolique.

There are two more Duvivier on Arte next monday (October 17th).  I have already seen La belle équipe (1936 with Jean Gabin in his youth), the story of a blue collar worker who wins at the lottery and decides to buy a "Lavoir" and turn it into a Guingette on the Seine with the help of some of his coworkers.  The scenario isnt as clean and brilliant as Marie-Octobre, but still it is a nice movie.
The second movie, which I havent seen, is Duvivier last silent movie in 1930 "Au bonheur des dames".  Its about "Les grands magasins", "fashion" just before the 1929 crash and the ensuing depression.

[SimonNZ]

I don't get the cover blurbs saying this is "hilarious" and comparing it to Spinal Tap. I thought it was tragic and sad, though very well made and fascinating - as well as remarkably unguarded and frank from the eponymous subject.

I personally didn't hear this story out my way as it unfolded, so there's a lot of elements about it, especially the endless mockery completely eclipsing genuine civic goals, that confuse me. Especially from New Yorkers, who I would have thought might be a little more cosmopolitan and Sex In The City about these things than their bible-belt moral-outrage cousins. Maybe the filmmakers assumed the audience for the film would be locals who would have and know the background and answers to these questions, but it seems I don't (but am keen to read more, unless its just more mockery).

A very unflattering portrait of the press gaggle at many points, who certainly look nothing like those in The West Wing, and seem fixated on the scandal, not just because as one might expect they cynically think it'll sell papers, but to a great degree because they simply don't understand the policy issues being addressed that day, and don't care. Requests for on-topic questions about urgent social problems are met with an apathetic silence from a room of fifty.

[Ken B]

Those are all great, Dave and Brian, but Godfrey especially has a place in my heart. I even bought and donated a copy to my local library a few years ago.

[GioCar]

Banshun - Late Spring (1949) by Ozu

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Well, what can I say? By Ozu I had only seen his famous Tokyo Story, this is even more perfect imo.
I absolutely need to explore his other films.

[listener]

ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS  Denmark  2000
A Dogma 95 film which I expected to be stark and austere but turned out to be warm, funny and romantic.  It looks as if it's going to be predictable as the characters are introduced and sort of turns out that way but they have interesting and not impossible quirks and pasts.

[aligreto]

ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS  Denmark  2000
A Dogma 95 film which I expected to be stark and austere but turned out to be warm, funny and romantic.  It looks as if it's going to be predictable as the characters are introduced and sort of turns out that way but they have interesting and not impossible quirks and pasts.

A very fine film, I thought.

[Reckoner]

Inferno (2016)

Admittedly cliché, but not the epic disaster that most critics have made it out to be.

An entertaining watch, if nothing else. Hanks produces the goods as he seemingly always does.

[James]

Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection | 1931-1948 | 8 Movies | 605 min
The original Frankenstein is one of the silver screen's most unforgettable characters and, along with the other Universal Classic Monsters, defined the Hollywood horror genre. Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 8 films from the original legacy including the tragic classic starring Boris Karloff and the timeless films that followed. These landmark motion pictures defined the iconic look of Henry Frankenstein's Monster and his Bride, and continue to inspire countless remakes and adaptations that strengthen the legend of Frankenstein to this day. The box set includes: Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, House of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein.

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[Mister Sharpe]

At the theatre this afternoon: A Man Called Ove, a film of the Grumpy Old Man genre, from Sweden, but the script, acting and broader social message of the film set it leagues above its peers. 


trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCh4iiAXuAc

[kishnevi]

I don't get the cover blurbs saying this is "hilarious" and comparing it to Spinal Tap. I thought it was tragic and sad, though very well made and fascinating - as well as remarkably unguarded and frank from the eponymous subject.

I personally didn't hear this story out my way as it unfolded, so there's a lot of elements about it, especially the endless mockery completely eclipsing genuine civic goals, that confuse me. Especially from New Yorkers, who I would have thought might be a little more cosmopolitan and Sex In The City about these things than their bible-belt moral-outrage cousins. Maybe the filmmakers assumed the audience for the film would be locals who would have and know the background and answers to these questions, but it seems I don't (but am keen to read more, unless its just more mockery).

A very unflattering portrait of the press gaggle at many points, who certainly look nothing like those in The West Wing, and seem fixated on the scandal, not just because as one might expect they cynically think it'll sell papers, but to a great degree because they simply don't understand the policy issues being addressed that day, and don't care. Requests for on-topic questions about urgent social problems are met with an apathetic silence from a room of fifty.

Haven't seen that film...but the topic is not hilarious. A sex addict with propensities for pedophilia.  The man has more psychological issues than Trump.

The most recent incident was not long ago: caught sexting while next to his four year old son. Huma has actually separated from him.  Even by big city standards, he has gone well over the line.

[SimonNZ]

Ah, well that is bad. There's no mention of anything resembling pedophilia in the film.

[kishnevi]

Ah, well that is bad. There's no mention of anything resembling pedophilia in the film.

Not really the film's fault.  The latest happened just as it was being released.  But even without it, he proved himself a man who couldn't control himself or take responsibility.

[Ken B]

Ah, well that is bad. There's no mention of anything resembling pedophilia in the film.

The pedophilia stuff is bogus, based on him sending a picture in his undies while he had his baby with him.

[kishnevi]

The pedophilia stuff is bogus, based on him sending a picture in his undies while he had his baby with him.

I used the word "proclivities".  Among the recipients of his sexts were 21 and 22 year old female--meaning young enough to be his daughters and certainly much younger than him.  There was also a 17 year old girl, but his communication with her (if he had any, there is room for doubt) seems to have been non sexual.