CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!
GODZILLA EDITION
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of the 2012 and the impending doom of our civilization, i thought i’d offer a chance to bring home everyone’s favorite world-destroyer, GODZILLA! MMMRAAAHHHWWWFFFF!! (that’s how Mothra told me to spell Godzilla’s cry, but you can’t ever really trust that guy).
THE PRIZE: 1 Criterion DVD or Blu-ray (your choice) of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA.
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post. each note will count as a separate entry, so every fellow blogger can therefore submit a maximum total of 2 entries.
giveaway will be closed at 12 P.M. EST on Friday, 2/3/2012. 1 winner will be randomly selected from the notes. so the odds should be okay if not super awesome, but someone’s gonna get something sweet for nothing.
good luck, and thanks for reading!
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!!
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of the holiday season - and to make up for lost time / clear my shelf of some extra stuff i’ve got lying around - i thought i’d throw the biggest Criterion Corner giveaway yet.
The Prize:
- DVD of Sidney Lumet’s 12 ANGRY MEN!
- Blu-ray of Claude Chabrol’s LES COUSINS!
- 1 DVD box set of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s THREE COLORS! (opened but never watched and in mint condition… long story)
- 1 MYSTERY DVD!!!! (maybe a Criterion film, maybe just something I want to share with a stranger. definitely previously loved).
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post. each note will count as a separate entry, so every fellow blogger can therefore submit a maximum total of 2 entries.
giveaway will be closed at 12 P.M. EST on Friday, 12/3/2011. 1 winner will be randomly selected from the notes. so the odds should be okay if not super awesome, but someone’s gonna get some great stuff for nothing.
good luck, and thanks so, so much for reading the blog and my Criterion Corner column on movies.com!
The Death of a Man, the Legacy of a Titan
Steve Jobs taught us how to listen to music. He taught us how to watch movies. He taught us how to surf the internet. He taught us how to organize and edit our photographs. He taught us how to use a computer. He taught us that the future can be wonderful, and that it can and should be anticipated with much glee and excitement, which was often the elicited reaction surrounding new Apple product launches. He changed the world. He changed our lives. And always for the better. I don’t know what this world will be like without him, but I can safely say it will never be the same. However, his legacy lives on. It survives in the computers on our desks, within our pockets, and under our fingers. He has given us the tools and the imagination necessary to carry on said legacy, and I pray we can. If he can change the world so radically and bring about so much good, we have no other choice but to at least try. And try we shall.
I wish to offer my sincerest condolences to Steve’s family, friends, and any and all who cared for him. Those who knew him must have been extremely lucky, and I envy them immensely. I’ve been inviting him into my home for his presentations for years, and I eagerly looked forward to seeing him. I shall miss seeing him. He seemed as much a part of my life and my world as any other public figure could have. His products felt like intimate designs, made just for me, and when he described them, it felt as if he was speaking to me, showing them off only to me. I’ll cherish those moments forever, and I thank my lucky stars that I lived not only in the era of Apple, but in the era of Jobs.
I was Apple yesterday, I am Apple tonight, I am Apple forever.
May Steve rest in peace.
I dare anyone to try and resist the infectious joy of this song, Jack Mack & The Heart Attack’s “I’m Gonna Be Somebody”, probably most prominently featured in the closing credits of the 1984 comedic classic Police Academy.
In my opinion, it’s the perfect end to a perfectly funny film - most definitely, one of my favorites.
So if you’re down or at least getting there, let this wonderful anthem cheer you up and perhaps lead you to a greater calling. And remember it doesn’t matter really what you do. Instead, it’s who you are that counts. Now go out and win one for the gipp… Now go out and be somebody.
Or, just watch the movie. You win either way.
Carey Mahoney: “You mean I’m stuck here?”
Commandant Lassard: “We all are.”
Rodney Dangerfield in a Stanley Kubrick movie: dangerous and somewhat redeeming.
Rodney Dangerfield’s cameo in Kubrick’s THE KILLING.
classic MacGruber.
FILM INSIGHT
Rodney Dangerfield (onlooker, uncredited)
The thirty-five-year-old Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen in Babylon, New York, in 1921) received neither respect nor screen credit for his legendary (if peripheral) “role” as an onlooker during Kola Kwariani’s racetrack dustup in The Killing. Fans of the harried-to-the-point-of-hallucinations comic genius’s Easy Money and Back to School—and even hard-core Rodneyists who go all the way back to 1971’s The Projectionist—must, however, now admit that the Dangerfield filmography truly begins here, in these few fleeting frames from The Killing, back in 1956. Dangerfield died in Los Angeles in 2004.Excerpt from Chuck Stephens’ “The Killers Inside Me” article about actor profiles from Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing.
You may also find Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Spartacus in the Criterion Collection.
And how can one have a better start than with Sean Connery’s classic introduction as the world’s greatest spy. You know the name.
— Plato
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CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!!
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy...
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Rodney Dangerfield’s cameo in Kubrick’s THE KILLING.
classic MacGruber.
FILM INSIGHT
Rodney Dangerfield (onlooker,...
