Friday Filler: More Olympic Gold
By Craig Kennedy - August 15th, 2008; 7:56 am
The first American gymnast to score a perfect 10.00 in the Olympics scores a perfect zero on the big screen.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mitch Gaylord and Janet Evans (Mrs. Wayne Gretzky) in American Anthem:
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The only thing I distinctly remember about this film is the Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran) solo tunes that were far more popular than the film itself.
I forgot how this movie was so adamantly humping every trend and cliche of the 80’s, right down to the logo design. They thought that gymnastics grafting to Top Gun would work after the 1984 Olympics but thankfully they were wrong.
Look, he’s cool because he drives a jeep and practices the high bar IN THE FOREST. If only he defeated the Russians with gymkata…then we’d be getting somewhere.
Criterion just posted some new discs to their website: Fanfan la Tulipe, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Bottle Rocket, and Chungking Express.
JEFF YOU MADE MY DAY!!!! I CHECK THAT SITE EVERYDAY, BUT TODAY I WAS OFF IT!!!!!!!!! I have Fanfare on R2, but THIEF and CHUNGKING are terrific films and MUST acquisitions here. I am not abig fan of the Anderson, but I will probably get it anyway.
Thank you Jeff for these November announcements.
But not American Anthem??? Seriously though, it’s about time Bottle Rocket got a decent DVD release and I’m looking forward to Chunking Express on Blu-ray.
Right now though, I’m most excited about the Ophuls DVDs.
Joel, Kurt Thomas could Gymkata Mitch Gaylord from here to East Timbuktu. Why? Because it combines the skill of gymastics with the kill of karate, of course.
BOTTLE ROCKET causes an interesting issue here though Craig. It’s $40 for the single-disc blu-ray and the same $40 for the TWO-DISC standard release which has all the extras.
What does a man do?
Craig, I think you mean “Parmistan” near the Caspian Sea.
Sam, the question is, do you have a Blu-Ray player?
The upcoming Criterions I plan to pick up are Salo, Earrings, and now Chungking.
Jeff, I don’t have a blu-ray player yet, I keep holding off on it. But if I did have one, the decision as to which BOTTLE ROCKET to buy would still be tough. But I admit, I’d probably go with the blu-ray disc.
SALO will be streeting very soon, and I fully agree with you on the desirability of all those you mention.
Yes Parmistan! You’ve been there?
Sam, without investigating, I’m going to assume the Blu-ray has all the same extras, but they fit on a single spacious blu-ray disc. This could be wrong, but I’m running with it.
I plan on renting Salo simply because I’ve never seen it before.
Bottle Rocket and Chungking Express for me please…I have them both on standard release, but I want the Criterions…thank god my birthday is soon
That’s right!
I would be shocked it the Bottle Rocket extras didn’t fit onto a single Blu-ray with the movie in 1080p, Lossless audio, and whatever other nuggets of Wes goodness they’ve come up with.
The whole reason for Blu-ray: 50 gigs of space per disc, about 6 times that of a dual-layer DVD (and even more with some of the data disk burners coming out).
“The upcoming Criterions I plan to pick up are Salo, Earrings, and now Chungking.”
Seconded!