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HelenLawson · #401 Post by **HelenLawson** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:02 pm

Perhaps we should just act as if Marienbad did come out this year.

klee13 · #402 Post by **klee13** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:40 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:Maybe, just maybe, that graphic means that two dinner-themed (heh) films will be coming in February. Exterminating Angel and My Dinner with Andre in one the same month would be pretty awesome.

Maybe The Cook too! "Changes of clothing"

edit: Shit... and I thought I was being sarcastic.

kaujot · #403 Post by **kaujot** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:42 pm

Nice catch.

#404 Post by **Matt** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:57 pm

Klaylock wrote:Maybe The Cook too! "Changes of clothing"

That's what I thought, too, because of the sleeping bag and changes of clothing clues, but the lamb and bear kinda threw me. So maybe it is a double clue. Don't the "wife" and the "lover" sleep in a sleeping bag in his room full of books? It's been years since I've seen this, so I can't remember.

kaujot · #405 Post by **kaujot** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:59 pm

Matt wrote:
Klaylock wrote:Maybe The Cook too! "Changes of clothing"
That's what I thought, too, because of the sleeping bag and changes of clothing clues, but the lamb and bear kinda threw me. So maybe it is a double clue.

Has there ever been one? I like precedent.

#406 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:28 pm

Changes of clothing because they're at the dinner party for such a long time. You guys, this is just about the Exterminating Angel.

#407 Post by **swo17** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:35 pm

You could argue that there are "many changes of clothing" in Cook too. (Though "many, many" might be pushing it.) I still think this is definitely an Angel clue, with a very slight possibility that it is a mysterious unprecedented double clue, and an even more slight possibility that it's hinting at a 3-film dinner-themed boxset that also includes Andre.

#408 Post by **mfunk9786** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:39 pm

Ooh! Then it must include Veber's The Dinner Game as well! Liking this dinner-themed boxset idea. Come on Criterion, think outside of the box.

What A Disgrace · Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:56 pm

There are animals in that picture. I wonder if they're releasing Animal House, Babe, and Milo & Otis?

criterionsnob · #410 Post by **criterionsnob** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:08 pm

Isn't there a lamb in Simon of the Desert?

Antoine Doinel · #411 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:26 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:Ooh! Then it must include Veber's The Dinner Game as well! Liking this dinner-themed boxset idea. Come on Criterion, think outside of the box.

Yeah, it could be Criterion's answer to Sony's Martini Movies.

#412 Post by **Matt** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:00 pm

domino harvey wrote:Changes of clothing because they're at the dinner party for such a long time. You guys, this is just about the Exterminating Angel.

But nobody changes clothes. Whereas in The Cook..., the actors change clothes every time they enter a new room. There are two speech ballons, so I'm maintaining that it's a double clue.

#413 Post by **mfunk9786** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:04 pm

Matt wrote:But nobody changes clothes. Whereas in The Cook..., the actors change clothes every time they enter a new room. There are two speech ballons, so I'm maintaining that it's a double clue.

I'm starting to believe this prediction.

#414 Post by **Matt** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:51 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:
Matt wrote:But nobody changes clothes. Whereas in The Cook..., the actors change clothes every time they enter a new room. There are two speech ballons, so I'm maintaining that it's a double clue.
I'm starting to believe this prediction.

We know for a fact that The Cook... is coming, it was just a matter of when. It's Exterminating Angel that's the big surprise (even though it screened on TCM a few years ago in a new transfer with a Janus logo up front).

#415 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:56 pm

I went back and looked at the cartoon and I've changed my mind. I now agree that it is a double clue

#416 Post by **swo17** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:10 pm

I still don't know. Maybe if there were a dog giving the second clue I'd be more convinced. Or if the bear were eating the sheep.

#417 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:20 pm

What swayed me was that the obvious Bunuel clue is self-contained in the first bubble, making the second bubble completely superfluous unless it's meant to be a separate clue

Tom Hagen · #418 Post by **Tom Hagen** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:23 pm

You know those clues, that are like, double clues?

#419 Post by **swo17** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:23 pm

domino harvey wrote:What swayed me was that the obvious Bunuel clue is self-contained in the first bubble, making the second bubble completely superfluous unless it's meant to be a separate clue

Good point, though I find most of what sheep say to be superfluous anyhow.

Tom Hagen wrote:You know those clues, that are like, double clues?

This deserves some type of award. =D>

miless · #420 Post by **miless** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:29 pm

I've got a raging clue right now. Let's follow your clue.

Tootletron · #421 Post by **Tootletron** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:37 pm

Has there ever been a "double clue" in a newsletter before?

pianocrash · #422 Post by **pianocrash** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:44 pm

Tom Hagen wrote:You know those clues, that are like, double clues?

psufootball07 · #423 Post by **psufootball07** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:15 pm

You are now on Double Secret Probation my man.

#424 Post by **domino harvey** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:13 am

He's rocking out to a Peter Cowie commentary

lacritfan · #425 Post by **lacritfan** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:48 am

miless wrote:I've got a raging clue right now. Let's follow your clue.

...and that's when Gena Rowlands countered Ray Carney...oh hello, Mr. Mulvaney.

All the girls go out in the hall please, I need to speak with the boys of this office. Boys we have a very serious problem. I've just come from the men's restroom and SOMEBODY went number <insert spine number of crapiest Criterion release> in the urinal!

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