PfR73 wrote:The thing that bums me out about Criterion's "extra movies" is that they don't give the extra film a lossless audio track. Personally, I'd be more willing to pay for a separate spine, maybe at the lower-tier pricing for slim extra features, if it meant the 2nd film got treated better.
...except for La Jetee/Sans Soleil.
Well, La Jetee & Sans Soleil share billing on the cover & spine.
I'm talking about feature films that get thrown in as "extras" and aren't considered to be the actual spine: Killer's Kiss, The Underneath, Murder A La Mod, It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books, etc.
bamwc2 on The Vanishing wrote:This makes me very happy. I bought the first one used online a scant week after its initial release, and despite being scratched beyond all hope of repair I couldn't get a refund on. I've still only seen the first half of the film to this day. I should also add that it has the most realistic depiction of a sociology professor that I've ever seen.
Not to mention, and with all due respect to Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin, one of the best timed sight gags in the Criterion collection. Spoiler
The moment when in the far background of a scene the sullen teenager daughter of the family wanders disaffectedly across to the swing chair hanging outside the professor's rural cottage, sits on it and has the whole thing collapse on her!
This goes uncommented on in the film, but it is a great example of the killer not even showing a flicker of concern for even his family members (even laughing in hysterics or wishing he had the scene on camcorder!)
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colinr0380 wrote:Not to mention, and with all due respect to Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin, one of the best timed sight gags in the Criterion collection. Spoiler
The moment when in the far background of a scene the sullen teenager daughter of the family wanders disaffectedly across to the swing chair hanging outside the professor's rural cottage, sits on it and has the whole thing collapse on her!
This goes uncommented on in the film, but it is a great example of the killer not even showing a flicker of concern for even his family members (even laughing in hysterics or wishing he had the scene on camcorder!)
I rewatched this recently and I'm sure that prior to this Spoiler
there's a brief shot of him working on something near the chair, and I remember taking this to suggest he'd loosened something to cause the collapse - meaning he was playing a practical joke on her, hence the lack of reaction.
Though regardless, this probably works with what you've mentioned anyway.
Dangit, I just got the newsletter & thought this might be the first time I'd be the first person to guess the clue. I agree that it's the Hellman westerns.
I was going with the fateful and legendary double clue, for a "Debra Winger In The 1980s" box set -- the hat for "Urban Cowboy," the mayo for the name of Richard Gere's character in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
