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Batzomon: “Even more classics from the World Cinema Project, praise to Scorsese for these restorations. Revenge is my personal favorite on here, spell-binding.”
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Batzomon: “African cinema is too often overlooked, and this hour-long film is a prime example as to why the continent has much to offer the art of film.”
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Batzomon: “I'm glad that I didn't see this as a kid, not only for the violence, but for the fact that such a beautiful parable of hope might not move me as much.”
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Batzomon: “The banality of evil is best experienced in high-definition, so that every nuance of the lost can be appreciated. A masterpiece of sickening impact.”
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Batzomon: “Fantastic, psychedelic, eccentric...all words to describe this film that defies simple adjectives. It is animation at its most transporting.”
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Batzomon: “Wes Anderson brings his unique style to the world of animation, and Criterion brings animation into its fold once more. All told, it's fantastic.”
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Batzomon: “Orson Welles made many masterpieces after Citizen Kane, and more than Macbeth, it's a swirling melange of Shakespeare with Welles' acting at its best.”
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Batzomon: “Del Toro's fantastical artistry reaches its apex here in his best film, a fairy tale as simple as it is complex and most beautiful at its darkest.”
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Batzomon: “Behind every man who sacrifices himself for art is a woman who sacrifices more. Mizoguchi gives these two lovers a wide canvas to live a tale of woe.”
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Batzomon: “Malick's journey through America's soul goes back to the country's infancy as a young woman matures and a new world begins to slowly degrade itself.”
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Batzomon: “It was the first film to confront the horrors of the Holocaust in a way only matched by Shoah. Truly a noble and necessary piece of art.”
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Batzomon: “Wuxia films are usually gorgeous expressions of human agility and emotion, but this one took it to a level of transcendence that's true enlightenment.”
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Batzomon: “Mr. Kinolove, or: How I Learned to Stop Waiting and Buy this Newest Criterion Addition So I Could Get The Best Insert of the Entire Collection”
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Batzomon: “Essential for any cinephile, the BD upgrade will make every painful line in Maggiorani's face stand out like the spokes of a bicycle's wheel.”
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Batzomon: “Classic Hollywood film-making from the only director who had wings: Howard Hawks. You got Grant, you got Arthur, you even got Hayworth, hallelujah!”
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Batzomon: “Tarkovsky understood the potential for transcendent beauty in his first film. One of the most harrowing portraits of childhood in wartime.”
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Batzomon: “Before Wenders went to Paris, Texas, he went across Germany to explore that uniquely human condition known as wanderlust. Take a ride with him.”
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Batzomon: “Bogart at his most vulnerable and Ray at his usual best, it just goes to show that even in the glam and glitz of Hollywood, it can be a lonely place.”
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Batzomon: “Edward Yang was the master of intimate epics, and this film stands out as the most personal of those. It's been a long wait to enjoy this summer day.”
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Batzomon: “Even the slightest snowflake can be deadly in a blizzard. Watch yourself, wicked men, for the blade of vengeance is swift and merciless, WISHA-SHA!”
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Batzomon: “It's not just Ghost Dog who follows the Way of the Samurai. It is a belief system forged in steel and marked by impeccable style and coolness.”
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Batzomon: “How did I not add this way back when I snagged it off EBay? Boy, is that egg on my face, flawlessly filmed as if in balletic motion.”
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Batzomon: “You know what's as amazing as Robert Drew and his famous associates gaining access to the JFK administration's inner sanctum? An advance copy, y'all!”
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Batzomon: “What is it to live? Is it to live for oneself, or to live for others? Maybe both, but what I live for is Blu-ray upgrades to classic films.”
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Batzomon: “As a Tate College graduate, I can relate to this movie completely. They still talk about Harold Lamb the hero in excited intertitles.”
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Batzomon: “Kudos to Criterion for getting the spelling exactly right, and props to Dylan for saying more words when he was young & irreverent than he does now.”
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Batzomon: “Cheating has never been so suspenseful as when Truffaut made one man's affair the nail-biter of the year. Is it based on personal experience, though?”
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Batzomon: “If ever there was a more humane, more insightful, more talented director invested in exploring the human condition, they owe a debt to Satyajit Ray.”
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Batzomon: “De Palma crashes the thrills to the tinkle of Allen and Travolta while Lithgow whispers the death knell. I always shout out at the final scream.”
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Batzomon: “There's a blue key, one driver per cart, and no orchestra. The lights of Hollywood flicker and flare as the pink paint rests on a hair. Silencio...”
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Batzomon: “I haven't seen Pepe le moko in so long. I know Criterion means quality and Eclipse means underappreciated, so more Duvivier is good with me.”
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Batzomon: “Alongside Ozu and Mizoguchi, the gods of silent Japanese cinema include Mikio Naruse. If you want your tears skillfully extracted, watch these films.”
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Batzomon: “Funny, heart-breaking, poignant, irreverent: this film is a series of contradictions that works beautifully. Gilliams finds the humanity in insanity.”
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Batzomon: “Now I can experience the pain and passion, the starkness and the darkness in blazing 4K. Is this the result of the atomic age? Then bomb me up!”
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Batzomon: “Malle gives his invisible yet precise style to the heart-breaking tale of youth in a time of death and destruction. Childhood is wrenched apart.”
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Batzomon: “Rohmer is like watching paint dry, if paint was a deliciously droll and insightful novel with winning characters. Plus, it doesn't dry. It is great.”
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Batzomon: “Cuaron made the sexiest movie ever. The steam that comes off the screen can't cover up the beautiful photography. I'm sure my mom also likes it.”
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Batzomon: “The red is so red, the cries are so sorrowful, and the whispers are so quiet that it's no wonder that this Blu-ray brings the best of Bergman to us.”
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Batzomon: “Renoir uses colors much like his father did: spectacularly. Criterion uses digital restoration much like its father did: effectively and subtly.”
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Batzomon: “Errol Morris freed an innocent man with the simple truth, eloquently constructed out of subjective viewpoints to show just how slippery a fact can be.”
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Batzomon: “A vaunted classic on which I spent a fortune, Vienna has never looked or sounded better. Do they still have that ferris wheel there?”
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Batzomon: “The famous French Resistance, everyone likes to claim a part of it yet fewer actually lived it. Melville was one, and he brings the pain to life.”
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Batzomon: “Resnais manages to make any romantic encounter a profound and devastating experience. The same could be said for my ex-wife! No, but this is great.”
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Batzomon: “I sure would like to hold Montgomery Clift's gun, and he can hold mine. We could ride hard out on the rough and come back for hot beef with taters.”
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Batzomon: “Renoir didn't even need a whole hour to make a masterpiece. I wish I had a portable player to watch this in the countryside, but inside is also good.”
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Batzomon: “An autumn afternoon with the taste of mackerel in your mouth and a big bottle of sake is made better when it's so sharply defined in Blu-ray, NEEEEE?!”
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Batzomon: “I've been to Bed-Stuy in the summer, but no riot broke out. Good for me, because my name's Raheem. Spike Lee lit the fire; let it never go out.”
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Batzomon: “One of the great living directors, Varda can't be barged-a from the canon for these four alone. She even makes infidelity and cancer scares romantic.”
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Batzomon: “Will there ever be another filmmaker as witty as Lubitsch? He made every romance seem like the classiest affair and every actor a legend...for you.”
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Batzomon: “Who knows how many films are out there in the world waiting to be saved? These are but a few, but if this is only the beginning, let's keep going.”
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Batzomon: “Demy is a delight deserving of dedication to his dynamite...films. They pop off the screen and melt your heart while sending your ears to heaven.”
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Batzomon: “Russia was already pretty insane before the Soviet Union, and Eisenstein lets it glow and roil under his impressive camera and new microphone.”
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Batzomon: “Let us never forget the glorious Japanese Empire which thought a Japanese sword was a good weapon against machine guns in an open field.”
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Batzomon: “Ozu was always funny, and he didn't even need all those delightful voices. Families are his passion, and these three show great compassion.”
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Batzomon: “Remember: you have to glue friendly, or the Nazis will take your glue, and then no one will have any glue to glue with! This is easier than Chaucer.”
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Batzomon: “Visconti, you lavish bastard! You knew that I wanted to see Burt Lancaster in an Italian epic drama, but how? That's in my private dream journal...”
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Batzomon: “Truly an inspirational film, Kurosawa's masterpiece makes me want to do something with my life. That something was buying Ikiru, so that helps me.”
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Batzomon: “The best British duo since tea and crumpets, Lean and Coward provide sumptuous tales of war, family, love, and ghosts. I know there's a pun here.”
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Batzomon: “It's not so much a tearjerker as a soulcrusher. Mouchette never had a chance, and try as you might, you can never save her. Never ever ever. Ever.”
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Batzomon: “I didn't ask to see Donald Sutherland nude, but I'm not complaining when it's embedded in a tragedy rendered in red dreams like this very one.”
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