Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

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Clarence
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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2076 Post by Clarence » Mon May 11, 2020 3:55 pm

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Devi
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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2077 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon May 11, 2020 4:26 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Mon May 11, 2020 3:25 pm
I don’t think anyone can watch it in the spirit intended and be offended, especially since it doesn’t try to apologize or romanticize the realities of production (well, these particular ones, at least!) and what was popular. I’m just saying, were Criterion to lose a bet and think about releasing it, they’d probably decide it’s not worth the potential headache. We can’t even get people to agree on Birth of a Nation itself right now, is there any hope for a film built around the idea of its brilliance?
I didn't even remember those parts, which goes to show how Bogdanovich's warm charms nullify any potential offense for me. I hear your point, though I don't think arguments around the merits of Birth of a Nation are in a similar vein. I know where you're coming from but that film is always going to elicit cries of importance vs offense when its entire presentation is rooted in context contrasting with a sharp culture shift to offensiveness that one needs to be willing to meet objectively to access its offerings. Nickelodeon is a series of scenes depicting Old Hollywood, and if one or two of those- I-don't-know, 100? -include some dated clashes of context, that may be easier to overlook, or compromise with, than an entire film chalk full of them.

Anyways, maybe a U.K. label will do it.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2078 Post by black&huge » Mon May 11, 2020 5:00 pm

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Dogville
Desperate Living
Mother kusters goes to heaven

Pierrot le fou reissue
Les enfants terrible upgrade
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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2079 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon May 11, 2020 5:47 pm

black&huge wrote:
Mon May 11, 2020 5:00 pm
Dogville
I wonder what chance this eventually has of happening. This is still a Lionsgate property I'm assuming?

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2080 Post by black&huge » Mon May 11, 2020 8:50 pm

It's with LIONSGATE? Goddamnit....

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2081 Post by lacritfan » Tue May 12, 2020 10:34 am

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2082 Post by schellenbergk » Tue May 12, 2020 10:35 am

lacritfan wrote:
Tue May 12, 2020 10:34 am
The Other Side of the Wind
The Wind Will Carry Us
Written on the Wind Upgrade
Oh, let's add Key Largo to your windy list!

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2083 Post by Luke M » Wed May 13, 2020 12:07 am

Why is everyone who is guessing Parasite not also including Memories of Murder? I can't imagine them not coming out together.

My choices:

Parasite
Memories of Murder
The Irishman
Written on the Wind upgrade
The Mirror

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2084 Post by RSTooley » Wed May 13, 2020 8:51 am

Amores Perros
"I Know Where I'm Going!"
The Irishman
Los Olvidados
The World
Written on the Wind
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What I want to be announced, but won't be: Post Tenebras Lux.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2085 Post by Lowry_Sam » Wed May 13, 2020 10:56 am

I will stop guesssing Parasite this month so that it finally comes out:

Secrets And Lies
Flowers Of Shanghai
Amores Perros
The Big Heat

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2086 Post by AndrewConger » Wed May 13, 2020 4:02 pm

Luke M wrote:
Wed May 13, 2020 12:07 am
Why is everyone who is guessing Parasite not also including Memories of Murder? I can't imagine them not coming out together.
Neon wanted to do a theatrical run from what I understand so I'm guessing Criterion will hold off on releasing it till Neon can do that.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2087 Post by schellenbergk » Wed May 13, 2020 4:51 pm

Weird that the Agnes Varda set was announced early - any thoughts on whether we'll still get a slate of films Friday or Monday?

I'm hoping for

* I Know Where I'm Going (or A Canterbury Tale) upgrade
* Written on the Wind upgrade
* W.C. Fields box set
* Something by Jia Zhangke (Still Life perhaps?)
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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2088 Post by Glowingwabbit » Wed May 13, 2020 4:54 pm

schellenbergk wrote:
Wed May 13, 2020 4:51 pm
Weird that the Agnes Varda set was announced early - any thoughts on whether we'll still get a slate of films Friday or Monday?
That's how they have been announcing all of these sets.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2089 Post by schellenbergk » Wed May 13, 2020 4:56 pm

Glowingwabbit wrote:
Wed May 13, 2020 4:54 pm
That's how they have been announcing all of these sets.
GTK - Thanks!

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2090 Post by Luke M » Wed May 13, 2020 7:17 pm

AndrewConger wrote:
Luke M wrote:
Wed May 13, 2020 12:07 am
Why is everyone who is guessing Parasite not also including Memories of Murder? I can't imagine them not coming out together.
Neon wanted to do a theatrical run from what I understand so I'm guessing Criterion will hold off on releasing it till Neon can do that.
Ah thanks for the info.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2091 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Wed May 13, 2020 8:14 pm

schellenbergk wrote:
Wed May 13, 2020 4:51 pm
* Something by Jia Zhangke (Still Life perhaps?)
Still Life is with Big World Pictures, the outfit that put out the Rebels of the Neon God resto a few years back. Janus/Criterion has the features from Xiao Wu through The World.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2092 Post by modernmalaise » Thu May 14, 2020 7:33 pm

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Fucking Åmål
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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2093 Post by therewillbeblus » Thu May 14, 2020 7:48 pm

modernmalaise wrote:
Thu May 14, 2020 7:33 pm
Fucking Åmål
If they release this with the proper title and not as Show Me Love, and give us a more X-rated Comfort of Strangers cover than the BFI, we'll know Criterion has beat the constraints of the climate. (neither of those will ever happen though)

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2094 Post by Close The Door, Raymond » Thu May 14, 2020 8:09 pm

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2095 Post by Bressonaire » Fri May 15, 2020 5:57 am

Secrets and Lies
Toni
Claudine

Upgrade of Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Upgrade of Written on the Wind

(I'm with schellenbergk, though: we need some W.C. Fields! Especially some of Paramount's neglected gems from the first Depression: If I Had a Million, International House, and Six of a Kind.)

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2096 Post by schellenbergk » Fri May 15, 2020 10:52 am

Bressonaire wrote:
Fri May 15, 2020 5:57 am
(I'm with schellenbergk, though: we need some W.C. Fields! Especially some of Paramount's neglected gems from the first Depression: If I Had a Million, International House, and Six of a Kind.)
I'd be happy with all your suggestions too - I saw Toni at the National Gallery of Art in DC on what I think is the best screen in town (take that AFI!!!) and it's a superb Renoir.

As for Fields - I like all the ones you mention and am also really fond of The Man on the Flying Trapeze, Million Dollar Legs and the Mack Sennett four. Personally - the one Fields films everyone seems to like that leaves me cold is My Little Chickadee - I find it middling Fields and middling-to-poor West.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2097 Post by yoloswegmaster » Fri May 15, 2020 11:06 am

Bressonaire wrote:
Fri May 15, 2020 5:57 am
Upgrade of Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Just looked at the page for this and there are 13 screenshots on it (compared to the 6 different screenshots that were there last year).

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2098 Post by domino harvey » Fri May 15, 2020 11:11 am

A much bigger confirmation that it’s coming is who posted it

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2099 Post by yoloswegmaster » Fri May 15, 2020 11:16 am

I'm surprised that you didn't notice it considering you were able to spot the update for 'The Lady Eve' and 'Taste of Cherry' a day before it was announced.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#2100 Post by Roscoe » Fri May 15, 2020 11:42 am

Oh well.

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