movielocke wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:56 pm
dda1996a wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:33 pm
I might be opening a Pandora box here, but other than the Bergman box and War & Peace, what other new release has been something special or really exciting? I love Blue Velvet and Do the Right Thing for example, but they weren't films that were dying for a Blu Ray release, no.matter how unsatisfactory previous releases were. (Checking, the Von Sternberg and Burnett do count. But I still feel a significant lack of major non American release, meaning something really out there like Parajanov or Brighter Summer Day)
So in spite of criterion releasing (thus far) 18 United States films to 28 non-USA films in 2019, you possess this very particular feeling that there's a "Lack" of non american? This freudian Lack is particularly noticeable to you if you allow yourself to exclude the releases that best exemplify what you want to believe is lacking.
"Hey, if criterion were not releasing what they are releasing, don't you think that it proves they have something up their sleeves that they're not releasing in spite of releasing things I pretend they're not releasing?"
I warned you all! I meant major not-american, which can mean different things to different people. Hell, even Eight Hours Dont... seemed like a special release. Maybe it's because I don't like them, but Dumont and Reygadas didn't really make me any excited about their release.
I meant more Asian cinema (Tsai, Yang, HHH, Jia, Oshima, Mizogucui, Imamura, Suzuki etc), a lot of Iranian, Russian and South American cinema which would be a huge deal. Or maybe it's just me.
As I said, I love DtRT and Hedwig, but I didn't really feel they were releases I was clamoring and wishing for. Maybe it's just me (but as I said, Burnett is a major release, and as much as I dislike it I can even see Wanda as a major release for some people. Just seems there are fewer titles to be extremely excited about. Again could be just my taste...)