hearthesilence wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:28 pmThis might be a great release. I believe Siskel & Ebert were huge fans and Siskel himself placed it on his decade's ten best list - for mainstream American audiences at the time, it was probably a significant endorsement. (When Raging Bull topped both of their lists, that was used for promotional copy far more than any other review.) I rarely hear it mentioned anymore, at least not in America over the past decade, so it could use a revival of some kind.MichaelB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:19 pmSo am I, because I definitely need to buy one of those. Although I suspect there's only one HD master.L.A. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:55 amCurious how SP’s Moonlighting (1982) fares compared to the US disc.
Skolimowski is definitely in need of a major revival, although recent films like Essential Killing and 11 Minutes have fared well. The latter was a Polish Oscar submission, and it shows that he hasn't lost an ounce of his idiosyncratic tendencies, and it's absolutely hilarious. His work is generally "out there", but even English-language films like King, Queen, Knave either never had DVD releases or are long OOP (The Lightship, which will maybe pop up on Paramount+ one day?). He had a huge retrospective of his works at Harvard a few years ago, and many of them subsequently screened at the Cinefamily in L.A.