I believe the yellow is for the yellow brick road because there is some hidden references to The Wizard of Oz throughout the film After Hours. That's what I heard somewhere and I can see it upon rewatch.
The best Japanese film I've ever seen is "Tokyo Story" (1953), about the younger members of a family who have grown emotionally distant from their elderly parents and feel bad about it. There is a Hollywood version with an almost identical premise called "Make Way For Tomorrow" (1937). Both titles are on Criterion Blu-ray, and they are both very moving films.
Celebration is so good and the packaging is genius. Using the minimalism of the movement as a design element by paring down the packaging to its bare essentials.
Those are beautiful Criterion titles you bought. Speaking of Kurosawa, High and Low and Ikiru are most favorites and yes Stray Dog is massively underrated.
This time around I picked up: Cure Island of Lost Souls La Llorona Malcom X 4K Peeping Tom 4K Videodrome 4K I still want to pick up Cat People before the month ends. I would’ve gone more crazy if Severin didn’t also have a sale this month!
Just discovered your channel and I’m really liking it! I keep seeing that you like voyeurism in movies, and I wanted to make a recommendation for you to review Brian De Palma’s film Body Double (1984). I just recently watched it for the first time and I loved it. It’s fun and has good thrills and it’s very 80s. I’d love to see a review of it on your channel!
Picnic at Hanging Rock is one of my favorite films! So ethereal and atmospheric! The Servant is incredible! Definitely has potential for me to be an all-time fav on a rewatch. Joseph Losey is a great director and I really like Dirk Bogarde who is the lead in the film. The Celebration is *speechless* like I watched it as part of a movie marathon with a group of friends and it was a time. Not necessarily a fun one but interesting to watch with others, especially as I think it was everyone's first time seeing it, maybe except 1 person of the 6 of us. I'm also going to pick up... probably a lot this sale. I have quite a bit in giftcards that I waaaas thinking about saving but too many titles have my interest right now!! I haven't gone to B&N, yet, but I plan on going this upcoming weekend. I don't mind ordering online but I like to go to a couple local stores first. I definitely plan on getting Dogfight, To Die For, and Bound. This is the first video of yours I'm watching so I'm not familiar with your taste or what you already have but, judging on what you show here, other titles on Criterion I recommend are: Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Music Room, Seconds, Black Narcissus, The Cremator, The Innocents, L'avventura, and My Own Private Idaho.
Oh thank you so much! This is great insight and amazing suggestions! I haven't seen The Music Room or L'avventura but they've been on my to-watch list for a while.
Nice! Picnic at Hanging Rock, one of my countries famous movies. I love going to Hanging Rock, it’s really beautiful there and not far from where I live 🙂
Nice pickups! I got 1984 and M for my first pickups from the sale, and based on your recommendations, I think I'll check out Stray Dog and Peeping Tom. (And need to rewatch After Hours)
Great selections! I own most of those and I’ve become a huge Kurosawa fan over the last 3 years. I would own Stray Dog if it were to be released on Blu Ray and I wish that Ran would come back to the Collection because it’s out of print, but I have seen it
@@OnceOverwithCayley yes, it’s strange when Criterion only sells DVDs, especially anything Kurosawa and something else like Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus.
I have seen After Hours, Hedwig and Angry Inch & Peeping Tom. All are great. I was in a band that covered songs from Hedwig a lot. Never seen Celebration
The only criterion collection DVD/Blurays I've got in my collection are "Pink Flamingos","Fast Times at Ridgemont High","Dazed&Confused", "Fear&Loathing in Las Vegas"&"Repo Man".
same.. my target is to get ‘the servant’ & ‘the celebration’ criterion blu-rays… hvn’t seen both of the movies… into Kurosawa too… ‘throne of blood’ was one of his best shakespeare adapted film… i recommend two of Yasuzo Masumara’s black test car & giants and toys… both were released by Arrow Video.. brilliant black humour/conspiracy movie…. 😅
The Servant _was_ directed by Joseph Losey but that is only half the story, it was written by Harold Pinter, so if you like Pinter you will love The Servant. Losey and Pinter made a few films together, The Servant is their best IMO
This is a direct quote from Jeffrey Townsend, the production designer for After Hours. TOWNSEND: At one point I told Marty, “The taxicab ride to SoHo is what ruins Paul Hackett’s life. That taxicab leaves a smear, a trail all throughout his night.” And so I made the color yellow and checkered patterns the visual motifs for the film." I love this movie.
I love After Hours. It's one of my favorite dark comedies of all time.... This is a direct quote from Jeffrey Townsend (production designer) on the color yellow in After Hours. TOWNSEND: At one point I told Marty, “The taxicab ride to SoHo is what ruins Paul Hackett’s life. That taxicab leaves a smear, a trail all throughout his night.” And so I made the color yellow and checkered patterns the visual motifs for the film.
The only reason i still go to any Barnes and Noble IS the Criterion Sale which now happens in July, and November will be the next one . For this sale picked up from my want list from the Last sale nov 23 , Trainspotting, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Peeping Tom, Bound,Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Heroic Trio-Executioners, Blue Velvet, Pat Garret & Billy The Kid, and I have waiting for me to pick up Le Samouri this week! For November my want list already growing again will include, Happiness, Real Life, Happiness, Greg Araki's Teen Apocalypse trilogy, and Repo Man. Also hope we get Criterion announcement for october or November release of Seven Samurai 4k new restoration, which the trailer looks stunning, and should look fantastic in 4k. if you love Godzilla, i recommend Arrow's Showa/Heisei Gamera boxsets which especially the (heisei)90's trillogy of films outclasses just about every Godzilla film ever made, which is saying something for a jet powered flying turtle!
You must be looking at a monitor because you’re not looking into the camera. Do more hauls, I love them. I bought Blood Simple, The Roaring Twenties, Videodrome, and After Hours.
I do! I tried to snag some Kino Lorber at Barnes and Noble also during this shopping trip, but someone picked over it and grabbed EVERYTHING because the only thing in that section was a sad and misplaced DVD of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
One of my most recent criterion purchases was Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid though only the blu ray not the 4k since I don't have 4k yet.
Subbed … great pick ups sis , I own the celebration and Hedwig already. By the end of the sale i plan on grabbing 1 Bound 2 Beyond the hills 3 The Graduate 4 Trainspotting 5 The Runner 6 Something Wild 7 Band Of Outsiders 8 The Red Balloon ( just beautiful) 9 Mudbound 10 Imitation Of Life
Me standing in the R's holding both The Red Balloon and The Red Shoes and having a crisis about which to buy... And then freaking out too much to buy either haha
Good show, madame😀... Stray Dog is my favourite Kurosawa and my second favourite film of the 1940s. (my 1940's video coming soon). Peeping Tom was one of my favourite first watches of 2023 but no-one should ever kill Moira Shearer. btw "Low zee"
the celebration (festen) is one of my favorite films. at first glance dogma 95 seems like some pretentious bullshit, but its not. check out the pusher trilogy if you haven't already. its not 100% dogma but feels like dogma.
@@OnceOverwithCayley anyway, you should check out "mean guns(1997)" it's the most unintentionally funny movie I've ever seen, and look at the cast, it's an instant classic
