Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

[What A Disgrace]

If "waxing the floors of their restroom" newsletters also involved announcements of more Tati Blu Rays, I'd be fine with that.

[domino harvey]

After Tamara left, Criterion had to channel the energy previously expended in coming up with new reasons to walk by her desk into another outlet

[kaujot]

Tamara left?

[Anhedionisiac]

When did Tamara leave? Why would Tamara leave? Where would Tamara go?

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

She's still alive in our hearts.

[HerrSchreck]

Tamara always was, and always will be.. just as Tamara never was and cannot ever be-- Tamara is the moon, the stars, she is thin linen fabric flowing in a breeze... she is two lovers running up opposite sides of a hill towards each other in anticipation of embrace... she is the fawn, the gazelle leaping across the dale and bounding at play through the fields of wheat, the fields of rye.

Let us pray.

[fiddlesticks]

"Wheat."

[Tommaso]

Tamara always was, and always will be.. just as Tamara never was and cannot ever be-- Tamara is the moon, the stars, she is thin linen fabric flowing in a breeze... she is two lovers running up opposite sides of a hill towards each other in anticipation of embrace... she is the fawn, the gazelle leaping across the dale and bounding at play through the fields of wheat, the fields of rye.

You should really use this as the first verse for a new song.

[psufootball07]

She is still listed as working there according to the Facebook, if that means anything at all. Maybe you can poke around other areas of the internet, I always thought Tamara ran the Twitter Criterion stuff, maybe I'm wrong.

Found more info, again could be wrong

[HerrSchreck]

Now you've gone and encouraged him..

We'll make it a freestyle off the tip:

Tamara tamara o where can you be?
With your wacky blog entries "on dvd's"
Tamara tamara now where did you go?
Your cinematic taste,
Your literary flow

Were all I required to make it on thru
to heal all my wounds, and rise up anew
from the beatings dished out by this cruelest of worlds
You o tamara-- my magical girl

must forwith return, and bandage my heart
piece me together! I've fallen apart
without tales of Madonna; without really bad songs.
For that which you spoke-- o how my heart longs

Return now at once, come home now my dear
gently thine fingers shall wash off my tears
Criterion doth ache it doth weep and it moans
it calls to Tamara-- "Darling come home!!"

[Tommaso]

Now you've gone and encouraged him..

We'll make it a freestyle off the tip

Very nice, though again in Pynchonesque mode. I liked the pastoral character of that first verse in your other post, though. You know: some tremolo guitars a la Cocteau Twins or And Also The Trees; combined with Nick-Cave-style bass-baritone crooning, and don't forget that flugelhorn solo during that 'gazelle' line.

[HerrSchreck]

Now you've gone and encouraged him..

We'll make it a freestyle off the tip

Very nice, though again in Pynchonesque mode.

Pynchon is the last thing on my mind when Ispit out stupid little ditties like that-- the man in no way invented funny verse, and I never really felt him strongly enough to assimilate him and subconsciously regurgitate.

[Perkins Cobb]

Sigh ... Tamara didn't leave, she just morphed back into Mulvaney because Forum freaks were stalking her.

And I saw her first, playas.

[Zazou dans le Metro]

Very nice, though again in Pynchonesque mode.

Pynchon is the last thing on my mind when Ispit out stupid little ditties like that-- the man in no way invented funny verse, and I never really felt him strongly enough to assimilate him and subconsciously regurgitate.

Do I not detect the limpid lyricism of middle period Nana Mouskouri here ???

[Dr. Mabuse]

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[Cinephrenic]

Motorcycle Diaries?

Hopefully not Soderbergh's Che.

[Gigi M.]

Motorcycle Diaries?

Soderbergh's Che

[Antoine Doinel]

Holy shit, if it is Soderbergh's Che it's going to be one helluva package.

[PerfectDepth]

I'm thinking Motorcycle Diaries as it's a Focus title. But I'd love it to be Soderbergh's Che.

[Jun-Dai]

Given the relationship between IFC and Criterion, wouldn't Che make sense? "Welcome to the Jungle" would seem to contraindicate Motorcycle Diaries.

Or maybe it's the Omar Sharif film

[swo17]

Chinga la puta madre, YES!

Also, unlike Diaries, Che is actually set in the jungle. Oh, and Criterion already has a relationship with Soderbergh, so what else could it be?

[Harmonov]

I'm thinking Motorcycle Diaries as it's a Focus title. But I'd love it to be Soderbergh's Che.

Not much of Motorcycle Diaries takes place in the jungle if I recall correctly. Plus, the t-shirt on the bird leads me to believe that it is Revolution-era Che. They already have a relationship with Soderbergh from Traffic and Schizopolis so Che would make sense.

Interesting choice.

[swo17]

Jinx Harmonov.

[kaujot]

Given the relationship between IFC and Criterion, wouldn't Che make sense?

I didn't know they had a relationship.

Anyway, my first thought was Motorcycle Diaries, which would be really sad.

[LQ]

Chinga la puta madre

For those of us (namely myself) who don't speak Spanish and used an online translator for this...please briefly explain!