YOU sir...get a shiny new "like."

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"Gregg went in"

Seriously!!!

Yes!

take my gay money criterion

FUCK YES! every fucking film he made including everything he did before "the living end". i would include "smiley face" in that box set as i fucking loved that film as that made me laugh my ass off despite the presence of that ugly rapist danny masterson. may he enjoy life as a bitch in POUND-ME-IN-THE-ASS prison!

He said at IFC screening that he’s releasing a box set soon !!

That's the only I reason I watched his movies because I don't know any other filmmakers that use Shoegaze in their movies

Such a legend

@@reverietapes Sofia Coppola used some in Lost in Translation

@@toddpinkstonisgodyesss used two of my fav bands in one of my fav movies. The Jesus and Mary chain and MBV

the skinny puppy guys are literally in one of his films if i remember correctly

i have half of these films on DVD. i need to upgrade them to blu-ray and get the ones not in that list.

Thank you for the dates too!

Thanks!

Who are your favorite directors?

that’s rly kool

@@ijfdse no they have not lol.

@@ijfdse they may be on the Criterion Channel (temporarily), but no physical releases from Criterion.

Gregg said he’s releasing a box set soooon

@@emh1997 where did he say that?

@@Nonesovile96 He had a great TV show out a few years ago called Now Apocalypse, but unfortunately it was cancelled after the first season.

The Living End is my favorite

I’m 57 and am a VHS film skool kid and recall when there were something called Arthouse Films

He has aged so well. It’s surreal how young he still looks. Very healthy!

I thought he would be in his fifties by now.

Right!! he looks young but also carries himself with a youthful energetic spirit

I'm not a huge fan of his films, but Mysterious Skin was amazing, maybe time to revisit the rest of them!

for me, "the doom generation" introduced me to araki when i was 15 a year after it had came out in theaters. i was in high school and this guy told me it was the worst film he had ever seen. i saw it on late night tv and was enthralled by it. i've been a fan of his work since. in fact, "mysterious skin" was a film that played at my local art house theater 20 minutes from where i lived where it was supposed to play for a week. it ended up being there 3-4 months.

Yeah that movie really hit me emotionally in a way no other has been able to...

Every time I hear one of these ufo alien abductees’ stories I think “damn, poor guy”.

I've only watched it once due to how intensely it affected me. Still one of the best movies I've ever seen!

Yep same here.amazing band.

“Nowhere” was my 1st introduction to Araki movies, & (in my early 20s) i & my friends rented “Nowhere” on VHS.. it was brilliant!! i wonder if the younger generations would say “it was so literal/meta”, but regardless, it spoke to me cinematically.. i sought out his previous film “The Doom Generation”, but it didn’t strike me like “Nowhere”.. his future endeavors have been intriguing as well, but “Nowhere” is my crown cinematic jewel of his, & i can find a copy of “Nowhere” literally, well: nowhere…

Ah yes, pervasion, shit, shit, and more shit.

Same, Nowhere in particular.

You too are one of the chosen who recognizes the aching beauty of this particular one!

Fuck, I need to see those colors in UHD. They better not be muted like they tend to be on some UHD transfers.

Sheryl Lee's performance is absolutely _INCREDIBLE!_ I was typing out how happy I am that the film's critical reputation has been reevaluated in recent years when Araki said it himself... it's an amazing film.

it honestly was honestly one of the most impactful movies I’ve ever seen.

Strong argument to be made that it’s the greatest film ever made

He's immortal

It’s the gay genes

Guess what

I have it as a regular DVD. It might be nice to have this film given a the full "Criterion Treatment".

RIGHT?! Took 'em long enough!

There was Jack Smith, Kuchar Brothers and Andy Warhol before him who clearly influenced his work

Do you guys get a different release list than those of us Stateside?

@@Theomite yeah completely. It used to be three releases a month. Sometimes new and sometimes releases that had already been released in the USA. This year however they cut it back to two releases a month. Which already sucks. The Kid from Chaplin is one of them. But there is nothing set to be released after that. There's nothing in the news. Nothing on their site or any of the social media platforms. It looks like a silent death for the UK branch. But they are not responding to us anywhere...

@@cfbilly70 Must be the damn licensing issues with overseas territories. CC has the pick of the litter with 20th century foreign films, but how do you market those titles in territories where Studio+Canal has the rights or Pathe? I think that's why it took so long to upgrade to UHD, because it's region-free status threatened overseas counterparts and their distribution rights.

@@Theomite Exactly. There's so many different companies that have the rights to so many different titles. Which is fine, I understand. I just don't want to have to buy a region free player and start buying stateside releases with even higher delivery prices, plus the increased import fees. They're expensive enough as it is. But, unfortunately, it is increasingly more looking like a silent death of the UK offices.

@@cfbilly70 And when it comes to Criterion, I don't think you're missing much. Lately, all the US releases *pale* in comparison to what Umbrella, Imprint, Second Sight and Indicator are putting out. They give you fully-loaded boxed sets just bursting with documentaries, cool shit and posters. Umbrella's 4K release of RAZORBACK is a goldmine...Shout! Factory's Blu-ray release _maybe_ comes with a poster for the first 500 units. Criterion used to make bomb-ass releases, but their special features are on the paltry end in the last few years, and there's new macroblock issues with their encoding providers. Now their booklets are still great, but with Kino eating their lunch and breakfast all year long, I don't know how they can maintain the status they used to have. They may have lost their edge to have a UK office before it even opened.

Actually, I would choose two other Howard Hawks films as my favorite screwball comedies: _His Girl Friday_ and (the incredibly underrated, imo) _Twentieth Century._ 😁 He was definitely the master of the screwball comedy! _Only Angels Have Wings_ is another favorite - which is actually able to brilliantly mix the comedy with tragedy.

@Jimmy1982*Playlists I love Twentieth Century! John Barrymore's greatest performance on film, in my opinion, and of course, Carole Lombard is fantastic! Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant were great in His Girl Friday! Possibly Rosalind's finest hour in a great career. Only Angels Have Wings is a great Hawksian mash-up of genres. Comedy, Tragedy, all wrapped up in an Aviation Adventure. You can't go wrong! And great performances from Cary, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell! Yeah, Howard Hawks really was a master of cinema. Great movie picks!