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D50 wrote: Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:32 am

ando wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:53 pm Anyone know of any sites for browsing the Netflix catalog like instantwatcher.com (which ceased to update NF titles mid May of this year)?

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hanshotfirst1138 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:21 pm Is there any way to get 24p streaming?


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Need the right player (receiver). Fire Stick won't do it. From what I've gathered the Samsung UBD-K8500 UHD Blu-Ray Player is a sure shot. Gotta be others out there but you'll need to do the research.

WmS wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:31 pm The National Gallery of Art in DC has been running a really excellent online series since the first pandemic lockdowns--

PROGRAM ONE
The Husband’s Secret
丈夫的秘密
May 13th, Night of Sorrow
五月十三傷心夜

PROGRAM TWO
Early Train from Taipei
台北發的早車
Dangerous Youth
危險的青春

PROGRAM THREE
Lectures and conversation by Dr. Chun-Chi Wang and Dr. Evelyn Shih

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:13 am Maybe this can get its own film thread, but Baltimore-based filmmaker Rob Tregenza uploaded Talking to Strangers on his Vimeo page on Thursday for rental and purchase. It was released on VHS back in the day and it looks like the same master was used, which is understandable - despite its reputation, it's never been a lucrative film. It was actually shot on 35mm and mixed with Dolby Stereo sound to boot, but it was entirely financed by Tregenza, with no grant money or investors.

As mentioned elsewhere on this forum (and there's only been a handful of posts on him, many of which are no longer accessible), he is a Kansas native who got his graduate degree in theater at UCLA before moving out to Baltimore where he and his wife (and producer) set up shop making corporate films and advertisements. (This is pretty much how he financed Strangers.) They also had their own distribution company for international and indie art films. Tregenza eventually made his feature-length debut with Strangers which got some Spirit Award noms and a screening at the Berlin Film Festival (outside of the main competition), but it was rejected by every high profile festival in the U.S. Some critics like Jonathan Rosenbaum and especially Dave Kehr championed it early on - Kehr had already jumped from the Chicago Reader to the Chicago Tribune (home of Gene Siskel, who was somewhat demoted from film critic to film columnist due to a spat involving his TV show with Ebert), and he put a spotlight on it when he covered the Berlin Film Festival, noting that it was already getting festival rejections in America. When it finally got a screening in Chicago, he wrote a full-length review, as did Rosenbaum for the Reader. (It's unclear if it played at what's now the Gene Siskel Center that May like it was originally announced, but it did screen there that fall.) NYC finally caught on and it got a run of sorts at Lincoln Center around Christmas in 1991. I think the last time it played in NYC was in 2013 by Light Industry, where Matthew Porterfield moderated a Q&A with Tregenza, and Richard Brody gave a generous write-up in the New Yorker for that one. Tregenza went on to shoot Werckmeister Harmonies which seems appropriate given the long 10-minute takes and dazzling moving camerawork in Strangers.

beamish14 wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 4:06 pm Thank you so much for the heads-up. I've been able to rent Inside/Out, but his 1991 feature The Arc remains incredibly elusive. I also love Tregenza's DP work on Alex Cox's immensely underrated Three Businessmen.