Patreon Ramble #5 - The Criterion Collection
Added 2020-09-29 21:55:15 +0000 UTCHey Patrons!
I didn't do a ramble in August so here's another for September!
This time I talk about The Criterion Collection and how it expanded my love of movies tenfold!
14 Movie Recommendations on The Criterion Channel! A movie-a-day for the 14 free trial!
Tampopo - Juzo Itami
Supermarket Woman -Juzo Itami
Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami
Fallen Angels - Wong-Kar Wai
The White Balloon - Jafar Panahi
Faces - John Cassavetes
Playtime - Jacques Tati
The Umbrella of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy
My Brother's Wedding - Charles Burnett
The Wayward Cloud - Tsai Ming-liang
F for Fake - Orson Welles
Warrendale - Allan King
Brief Encounter - David Lean
Yi Yi - Edward Yang
Hope you enjoy the video! Wish y'all the best!
Love, Joel Haver
Comments
The movie you were thinking of with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis I believe is "12 Monkeys" and I actually have a crazy story involving that movie. I was watching it with my friends and I started to doze off during the part when he was going in the bathroom to rip out his own tooth. I was also dehydrated and due to being in this strange state of half-lucidity where I was partly in a dream, I could visually see Bruce Willis Rip out his tooth and I immediately felt sick to my stomach, stood up to go to the other room, and blacked out probably due to dehydration and not being fully awake. I hit my head on the corner of the TV stand and woke up on the floor with a small little pile of blood in front of me with my friend screaming to wake up my Dad and Step-mom. I didn't watch the movie for like 3-5 years after that I think.. hard to remember exactly when. But when I watched it I was shocked to find that the scene where he rips out his tooth is actually not shown and I had dreamed it, they do a quick cut from him going to the bathroom and back out but don't actually show it. The power of cinema is profound to say the least.
Zack Augustus
2021-07-05 18:55:52 +0000 UTCI've heard of "My Dinner With Andre" referenced somewhere! thanks for all these amazing recommendations!!! I love finding new interesting movies to watch. What you said about Charlie Chaplin is so true, I saw the speech he made against capitalism in "The Great Dictator" on youtube and tried to watch it... was very difficult I think I only watched 20-30 minutes. I love how that speech has been used in many songs and shared all around though, he got in alot of trouble for making that film during WW2 as well. I can't remember if he got banned or extradited but it wasn't an oscar that's for sure. But I think getting banned in the US is quite an achievement.
Zack Augustus
2021-07-05 18:41:51 +0000 UTCBest way is to either clear a day or watch it like a tv show. I've done both and found both enjoyable. Obviously straight through is how wenders wants you to see it, but I got my wife to watch it doing the tv show method which made it like a mini event for us. Pretty fun both ways! Definitely has a ton of music in the film which I absolutely love kinda used how chlorine uses music but just on a larger grander scale.
Dan Lotz
2020-10-11 05:12:37 +0000 UTCI don't know what it was, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence just didn't resonate with me! I knew that would sadden you because at one point it was on your favorites on Letterboxd. I definitely have been wanting to watch Until the End of the World! The runtime is daunting but I just have to take the plunge!
Joel Haver
2020-10-08 03:06:26 +0000 UTCGreat video! Loved seeing what you own! I was thinking of doing my collection this month at some point! I will admit when you said you didn't like Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence I got sad cause I bawled like a baby to that one but its a bit of a weird one and I think it either hits or doesn't. Have you seen wim winders until the end of the world? I think that is right up there with paris texas in my opinion although its like 5 hours long just warning you there haha.
Dan Lotz
2020-10-02 20:11:53 +0000 UTCYeah! They have an app and it works pretty well and I think they let you download stuff to watch it offline.
Joel Haver
2020-10-01 18:07:32 +0000 UTCAs far as I know the only trusted VPNs that are free are the ones for your phone (not laptop). I might go for that, even though watching on a phone is annoying. Have you ever tried Criterion from your phone?
Noor
2020-10-01 16:20:18 +0000 UTCCriterion, get your act together!! Can you get it with a VPN? Added The Deserted Station to my watchlist, I think I’d love anything remotely related to Kiarostami haha, thanks for the recommendation!
Joel Haver
2020-10-01 15:59:19 +0000 UTCThe other day I watched a film called The Deserted Station which I think you might like, it's adapted from a story by Abbas Kiarostami, but has this different eerie feeling to it. Unfortunately Criterion is still unavailable in my region :/
Noor
2020-10-01 15:51:12 +0000 UTC
