ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): The Criterion Collection

Showing posts with label The Criterion Collection. Show all posts

Showing posts with label The Criterion Collection. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Watching

MIRROR
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1975

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Watching

A TOUCH OF ZEN
[俠女]
King Hu
Hong Kong-Taiwan, 1971

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Watching

BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL
Glauber Rocha
Brazil, 1964

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Sorry, scalpers.

Saura is returning - finally on blu-ray - for a fraction of your criminal pricing.

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Watching

STILL WALKING
[歩いても歩いても]
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 2008

Friday, July 18, 2025

Watching

8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Watching

LE NOTTI BIANCHE
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1957

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Watching

THE SEVENTH SEAL

[DET SJUNDE INSEGLET]

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden, 1957

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Watching

BASQUIAT
Julian Schnabel
USA, 1996

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Watching
CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING
[Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris]

Jacques Rivette
France, 1974

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Watching
CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING
[Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris]

Jacques Rivette
France, 1974

Friday, April 4, 2025

Watching

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Byron Haskin and George Pal
USA, 1953

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Watching

THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS
[帰って来たヨッパライ, Kaette kita yopparai]
Nagisa Ôshima Japan, 1968

Friday, March 21, 2025

Watching

DOUBLE SUICIDE: JAPANESE SUMMER
[無理心中日本の夏, MURI SHINJU: NIHON NO NATSU]
Nagisa Ôshima
Japan, 1967

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Watching

SING A SONG OF SEX
[日本春歌考, NIHON SHUNKA-KŌ]
Nagisa Ôshima
Japan, 1967

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Watching

VIOLENCE AT NOON
[白昼の通り, HAKUCHŪ NO TŌRIMA]
Nagisa Ôshima
Japan, 1966

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Watching

THE PLEASURES OF THE FLESH
[悦楽, Etsuraku]
Nagisa Ôshima
Japan, 1967

Monday, March 17, 2025

Watching

DEATH BY HANGING
[絞死刑, Kōshikei]
Nagisa Ôshima
Japan, 1968

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Watching

DEMON POND
[夜叉ヶ池 / YASHAGAIKE]
Masahiro Shinoda
Japan, 1979

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Watching

KING LEAR
Jean-Luc Godard
France-USA-Switzerland, 1987

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.