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swo17 wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:53 pm There is probably no rush to order any of these titles if all you want is the standard edition

The Fanciful Norwegian wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2024 11:56 pm The Sadness is god awful so I wouldn't feel any FOMO about it.

Hopefully the Icarus relationship will extend to the dGenerate catalog. A lot of it consists of pre-HD digital films that aren't exactly crying out for Blu-ray releases, but I'd love to see BD editions of some of their Wang Bing and Pema Tseden titles, Winter Vacation, etc. etc.

dwk wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2024 4:09 pmMami Wata

domino harvey wrote:The Pagnol-scripted double feature will apparently be more than just a new slipcover, as the original release used the wrong files provided by Gaumont

“” wrote:An erotic comedy that sometimes throws in scenes of torture, I guess to distinguish itself? Cash in on the more extreme end of CAT III popularity? Nothing too explicit, tho’. For the most part the film is merely kinky, luxuriating in the extravagances of Ming Dynasty sexuality among the nobility. It’s the story of a young maid and her former master who are accused of poisoning the maid’s husband, Ol’ Donkey Dick Got, with an aphrodisiac that made his penis explode, told in retrospect at the trial. There are few things that interest me less than sexploitation and Chinese comedy, so imagine my surprise at how enjoyable this was. I’m sure it’s partly the effect of having seen so many grim, rape obsessed CAT IIIs that it was a welcome relief to have things be consensual. But mostly the film is just so spirited. It whizzes by with such style and energy, and the juvenile sex comedy, surprising to say, is actually charming. But the best scene in the movie is a non-sequitur, a random wuxia parody where an acrobatic sword fight between a man and a woman turns into a flying, spinning, digging(!) sex battle, as the combatants furiously try to outdo each other in sexual prowess while soaring through the trees and even burrowing under the ground to the strains of the Once Upon a Time in China theme. It’s goofy, bizarre, and irrepressibly fun. Much like the movie as a whole, actually, except for the torture in the last third, although at least the methods have some, er, historical creativity and fantastical exaggeration, and are presented as tragic and evidence of a corrupt system rather than a grimy, horrid pleasure for the audience as in, say, Emanuelle in America, another sexploitation film infamous for torture scenes. So, yeah, one of the better CAT III films I’ve seen and a rare HK comedy I didn’t find intolerable. What an unexpected pleasure. Makes me wonder if the other CAT III sex comedies like Erotic Ghost Story and Sex and Zen are worth checking out.

therewillbeblus wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:52 pm If I don’t recall Last Embrace it’s either because I never saw it or blocked out the experience. This is Demme’s worst film by a mile, also the one early work that feels completely void of his humanist energy. The film starts off simmering just fine, with Scheider playing an incarnation of walking trauma, prone to aggressive impulses which are fun to watch as we try to align with such an abrasive person. The mystery with semetic codes in notes even keeps the engine going, until he meets the man who has the key to the answers, we are presented with the pathetic twist, and everything crumbles in an exasperating final act that makes one forget the fine foundation this built.

domino harvey wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:14 pmLast Embrace (Jonathan Demme 1979) Wah-wah. Roy Scheider is a recovering special operative who is kicked out of the spy service, is almost assassinated by his own, and then halfway through the film the narrative moves to this other group of people who are trying to kill him because of his genetic ties to a Jewish syndicate's brothel. The era of post-Nixon thrillers was certainly dying with this death-rattle, and frankly no one involved here even tried to make a compelling conspiracy pic. There is at least the Jeffrey Wells angle of praise in that the film does offer several opportunities to see Janet Margolin topless, so I guess there's that. Oh, I didn't mention the limp Hitchcock references, inserted with the sole cynical purpose of being mentioned in reviews. So, there's my due diligence.

jazzo wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:57 am Especially considering, if they decided to go with any Demme picture, Citizen’s Band hasn’t had a physical release since VHS days, and Melvin and Howard could certainly use a more robust edition than Twilight Time’s BR from a few years ago.

Add in Who Am I This Time? and A Family Tree to either and you’d have an incredible set.