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Lowry_Sam wrote:

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.

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.

knives wrote:I think Ariel tops that though that is a good one.

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!)

domino harvey wrote:Wrong again, everyone:

HTF wrote:

The skirt is too loose, and the hat shows excessive head-room. This is not the masturbatory pin-up envisioned by the photographer and the studio!