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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
At the risk of sounding sycophantic: David Ehrenstein (who we [mostly] all know and [occasionally] love) now has two DVD commentaries to his name. Both are part of the "Masters of Cinema" series by Eureka Video.
The first was the Nicholas Ray movie, The Savage Innocents, [ [link] ]
The second is an 80th Anniversary special edition of F. W. Murnau's Faust. [ [link] ]
Sophia, many of the sheep (in the wide shots) are digital. CGI Sheep! I find that entertaining
Finally saw The Aristocrats. Interesting on a whole lotta levels, not least being that the filmmakers, for all that they've been in showbiz, had clearly never made a movie before, not even in college.
One of the few DVDs I've bothered to watch again with the commentary track on.
Finally saw The Aristocrats. Interesting on a whole lotta levels, not least being that the filmmakers, for all that they've been in showbiz, had clearly never made a movie before, not even in college.
Heh. Penn Jillette has no excuses. While PENN AND TELLER GET KILLED may not be a good movie (though I enjoyed bits of it), it IS a movie (an Arthur Penn movie at that, but definitely part of his declining years).
CGI Sheep!
CUTE CGI Sheep. Although I in particular liked the lamb that Ennis was carrying in a saddle bag.
Warner will be releasing a Richard Donner cut of Superman II. (Who was fired before he could complete it).
Warner will be releasing a Richard Donner cut of Superman II. (Who was fired before he could complete it).
Interesting. Of course, having read that, I realized how much of the original Superman II I can't remember as it's probably been close to 20 years since I last saw it.
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!
It's hilarious that Donner keeps calling Lester an "Englishman", since Lester was born in Philly and didn't actually go to England until he was an adult.
Donner's an okay director and has made a few good movies but give me Lester any day.
I thought that Superman II was a better film than its predecessor. But I don't know how much of that is due to the director, or just the inherent lack of exposition and backstory.