{"id":1646,"date":"2008-07-17T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T08:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2008-07-17T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T08:28:50","slug":"a-beautiful-pain-criterion-collection-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1646","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful pain: Criterion Collection sale."},"content":{"rendered":"

I would be remiss if I didn’t point out to all my media-loving friends out there the buy one get one free sale<\/a> currently going on over at DeepDiscount.com. My picks:
\nBox Sets<\/b>
\nMonsters and Madmen<\/a> (4 films)
\nOlivier’s Shakespeare<\/a> (3 films)
\nAkira Kurosawa<\/b>
\nSanjuro<\/i><\/a>
\nSeven Samurai<\/i><\/a>
\nFrederico Fellini<\/b>
\nLa Strada<\/i><\/a>
\n8 1\/2<\/i><\/a>
\nIngmar Bergman<\/b>
\nThe Magic Flute<\/i><\/a>
\nFanny and Alexander<\/i><\/a>
\nSawdust and Tinsel<\/i><\/a>
\nOthers<\/b>
\nMr. Arkadin<\/i><\/a>
\nCarnival of Souls<\/i><\/a>
\nThief of Bagdad<\/i><\/a>
\nThese aren’t on the AFI list I’ve been plowing through in my sort of Film Studies 101 “independent study” but many are classics nonetheless – and I’m also always interested in the artful depiction of magic and wonder, and a number of these are known for doing that really, really<\/i> well. There are all kinds of other finds on the list – such as The Threepenny Opera, The Third Man, Sullivan’s Travels, The 39 Steps, Beauty and the Beast, Brazil, M, Wild Strawberries<\/i> and The Seventh Seal,<\/i> all of which I own; Charade,<\/i> Withnail and I<\/i> and Yojimbo,<\/i> which I don’t own but have seen recently enough to postpone their purchase, and Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth,<\/i> which Criterion is putting out on Blu-Ray this fall<\/a>.
\nMore blog posts are pending – I have all kinds of things I want to write about, including the ITRA Conference and our trip to Greece, as well as my thoughts on a number of recent events in the media universe. Right now, though, I must run off to the lab for a meeting.
\nOne last parting thought: likeminded souls in the Boston area should check out Readercon<\/a> this weekend, where I’m hoping to meet up with some old acquaintances (like Ellen Kushner and Nick Mamatas) and meet a few of my favorite authors (like John Clute, Kelly Link, and James Morrow). It’ll be the first time in the three years I’ve been here when Readercon falls on a weekend where I’m actually in town, so I’m thoroughly excited to go.
\nOh, and one last thing: other likeminded souls in the Boston area should check out the midnight showing tonight of The Dark Knight<\/i> at The Somerville Theater<\/a> in Davis Square. That’s where all the cool kids will be (namely myself, Laura, Matt and Clara).
\nStay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would be remiss if I didn’t point out to all my media-loving friends out there the buy one get one free sale currently going on over at DeepDiscount.com. My picks: Box Sets Monsters and Madmen (4 films) Olivier’s Shakespeare (3 films) Akira Kurosawa Sanjuro Seven Samurai Frederico Fellini La Strada 8 1\/2 Ingmar Bergman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}