It looks like Kowalski had a good recent haul so here’s what I’ve got so far this year.
Has anyone else made any good physical media purchases?
https://ibb.co/tpsLVRR
https://ibb.co/kKznSSV
I picked up theses three from that film convention.
https://ibb.co/2kBkmdq
“More blood, loud screaming and nudity than any horror film I can think I of.”
Get me some of that!!
Caught a good deal on eBay.
https://ibb.co/h1QPp7j
Based Argento appreciator. 👍
Let me know what you think of The Stendhal Syndrome when you check it out (from memory I think it's one of Argento's that you haven't seen?). Good OST by Morricone in it. I think it's his best work post-Opera (1987).
Top 3 Argento post-Opera;
1. The Stendhal Syndrome
2. Trauma
3. Sleepless
You've even snagged an Argento flick I haven't seen, Phantom of the Opera.
I will definitely watch it first and report back. Looking at his filmography I see that there are several I haven’t seen that are very popular.
shareThe Stendhal Syndrome -
Man, this movie has such a strange feel that I could not help but like it. It’s weird, and the vibe is so different from earlier Argento films I have seen, and so damn cruel. I honestly wanted to turn away from one of the rape scenes. The early CGI was actually very fitting for the film and I really liked the pill swallow POV, not to mention the gruesome gunshot with the killer peering through the hole. The killer, I had never seen the actor before, made the movie and I thought Asia Argento was really good in the ending. Really great hard hitting story that really made me feel sorry for Anna with all she had been through. Oh, and I swear I feel like I have heard that excellent score before but there's probably no way it's possible. This is one of those good films that I've thought about a lot since I watched it last night.
Glad you liked it. I do think it's his best work post-prime (pretty much everyone thinks The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - Opera is his peak with him becoming very hit and miss after that, never reaching the heights he once did).
I like Asia as an actress. She was good in Stendhal and Trauma. Quite a few people find it sketchy that Dario films his daughter in topless/sex scenes. Many chalk it up to that liberal Italian attitude to nudity.
One of the scenes that always comes to mind when I think of The Stendhal Syndrome is the scene where Asia gets kissed by that fish in one of her hallucinations. Ha.
Yep, that fish scene was trippy and very well done. I need to fill in some of the holes I have left in Argento’s filmography. My main focus is Italian genre cinema, and somehow there are several of his main films I haven’t seen, even though they are so easily accessible.
I also was thinking “wtf” with Asia in those scenes. I would be interested in seeing an interview with Argento explaining his mindset on doing such a thing. It just doesn’t seem right to me.
OHHH...WE HAVE FOUND ANOTHER COMMON THREAD...I FELL FOR MISS ARGENTO AS A YOUNG TEEN...I HAVE SEEN MANY OF HER FILMS...INCLUDING THE WEIRD ASS ONES THAT YOU PROBABLY LOVE...YAY FOR COMMON INTERESTS...SHE IS AT LEAST PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MY HABIT OF FINDING UNCLE JONATHON REJECTS SUPER HOT.
shareThat’s right! I didn’t think about that, but Uncle Jonathan certainly would not approve.
shareI don't think Dario has ever commented on the matter.
Asia, in an interview in 2004 for her upcoming movie Last Days (2005).
She went on to make several films with her father. These were invariably violent, embroiled tales about broken families. In Trauma (1993), for instance, she played an anorexic in search of her parents' killers. The film featured nudity. Appearing naked in front of her father was, she acknowledges, deeply disturbing: "Very weird, very painful. Something that I carried with me, but didn't really have the courage to have a conversation with him about... Definitely it hurt me and manipulated my personality."
Ok posting pictures looks like fun.
Let me try it:
https://ibb.co/j6J5vqC
Did it work?
This is one of my coolest purchase ever and one of the most expensive one too. Just got it last week.
NICE,BRO!...THAT IS A GREAT FLICK...I HAVE IT ON DVD...GREAT BLU-RAY....NOW POST A PICTURE OF YOU ELECTRIC BILL...I NEED IT FOR A COLLAGE I AM MAKING.🙂
shareYARD SALE HAUL...GOT A TON OF COOL SHIT...AS ALWAYS...SOME ARE FORMAT UPGRADES...SOME ARE NEW TO THE COLLECTION AND SOME ARE GOING INTO A BOX FOR RESELL...ALL IN WE PAID 30 BUCKS...AWESOME DEAL...ON JUST THE HANDUL I AM RESELLING I CALCULATE ABOUT 90 BUCKS PROFIT...THATS A TRIPLE UP AND I AM ONLY SELLING LIKE 5 OR 6 TOTAL...ESPECIALLY STOKED ABOUT THE COMPLETE SERIES OS AS TIME GOES BY...I LOVE THAT SHOW.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Z5hg20G
That’s a very good deal!
Just the first one, Delicatessen, is very hard to find in region 1 dvd in Canada. Goes for 58$ right now!
Some nice pickups!
shareJuly:
Black Sabbath - Seventh Star CD
Blur - Ballad of Darren CD (Deluxe)
Christine and the Queens - Chaleur Humaine CD
Lloyd Cole - 1D Electronics CD
Lloyd Cole - On Pain CD
ELO - Live on Air 1972 CD
Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires CD
Hollywood Vampires - Rise CD
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark CD
Richard Marx - Songwriter CD
Richard Marx - Limitless CD
August:
Black Stone Cherry - Black Stone Cherry CD
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore and Superstition CD
Black Stone Cherry - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea CD
Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain CD
Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky CD
Fatherson - Normal Fears CD
Liam Gallagher - Knebworth '22 CD
Hives - Death of Randy Fitzsimmons CD
Howard Jones - Dialogue CD
Toto - Old Is New CD
View - Exorcism of Youth CD
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams CD
MR Rock N Roll man!! 🎶 🎸 🎵
shareHere’s the last 2 years 🤘🎸
https://moviechat.org/bd0000051/Music-General/6332191d8149b95838919554/Music-purchases-for-202223
I see you bought Placebo Never let me go so that makes you super duper cool. Did you listen to it?
Do you keep them all in their cases or put them in a Cd book?
Yes, the Placebo album was very good (I have all their albums).
Up in the King Cave I had my chippy build made to measure shelving for a lot of my Record/CD/Comic collection - I also managed to acquire some A-Z dividers from a record shop that was closing down, so it looks like a cross between a record store and a comic shop.
That’s awesome! When the video club closed they were selling their shelves and I really wanted them but they were super heavy and Big and didn’t have anything to carry them. One of my future project is to have a king cave to myself with some sort of office device to store all my DVDs, that you just press a button and it opens and then you can scroll through the DVDs alphabetically.
shareDefinitely complete the project. Don’t put it off or it’ll never get done.
shareAs for never let me go I’ve listen to it a few dozens of times and really love it. Are you able to tell me your five favourite songs on the album?
Mine:
Sad white reggae
The prodigal
Surrounded by spies
Try better next time
Went missing
I shall dig it out my library, give it another listen and let you know 👍
sharehttps://imgur.com/gallery/zrzfkbB
FOUND A FEW THINGS AND PUCKMAREN SAYS HELLO.
Hello Puckmaren! Nice pickups K.
shareA couple of rare ones here.
https://ibb.co/VLDCNpc