Anyways, because I'm a bad person, I haven't watched some of the films he's sent me. I don't really want to show them for movie night, but I thought that maybe we could all watch them together, or someone could come watch them with me, or whatever. I just think it could be another element to Cinematheque Houston; Criterion titles that Austin owns but hasn't watched yet.
If y'all are interested in getting together sometime and checking them out, let me know!
The titles:
"At once a compelling piece of anti-isolationist propaganda and a quick-witted wartime thriller, 49th Parallel is a classic early work from the inimitable British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. When a Nazi U-boat crew, headed by the ruthless Eric Portman, is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II, the men evade capture by hiding out in a series of rural communities, before trying to cross the border into the still-neutral United States. Both soul-stirring and delightfully entertaining, 49th Parallel features a colorful cast of characters played by larger-than-life actors Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook, and Leslie Howard."
(Not yet released!) I actually plan to write about this one for my column, so it would be interesting to get everyone's criticisms and interpretations to help shape the article.
"Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper’s immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick’s longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on man’s smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine."
2 comments:
I'm definitely interested, especially Overlord. I know they re-released it in the theaters in NY for a very short time last year.
I wonder if they will continue their relationship with Wes Anderson.
or any current filmmakers.
i'll watch either of them with you...
as for Wes Anderson, i read somewhere that he signed a deal with sony pictures to release his next few films, which means no criterion releases...
Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, and Life Aquatic were all released by Touchstone who had a deal with Criterion to release their dvds.. Bottle Rocket was put out by a different company who didn't have the same contract... sony (supposedly) doesn't either, so the likelihood of future criterion releases is slim... don't remember where i read that, but i did somewhere
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