@calvinm

I mainly talk about movies. Doctor by day but I tweet purely in a personal capacity.

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Joined February 2009
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Yanagimachi is one of the great 80s filmmakers, a criminally underseen, uncompromising independent talent. HIMATSURI stands as perhaps his greatest achievement, a tale of modernity vs nature and the erosion of human values—praised by Susan Sontag. Major news to see a re-release!
Third Window Films@thirdwindowOct 13
FIRE FESTIVAL 火まつり out Dec 7 Bluray debut of this masterpiece from Mitsuo Yanagimachi (God Speed You! Black Emperor) ・Alexander Jacoby selected audio commentary ・Jasper Sharp Video Essay LE (1000 units) w/art by Sean Wolcott + writing from Tony Rayns shop.thirdwindowfilms.com/pr…
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Incredible announcement from Third Window
Third Window Films@thirdwindowOct 13
FIRE FESTIVAL 火まつり out Dec 7 Bluray debut of this masterpiece from Mitsuo Yanagimachi (God Speed You! Black Emperor) ・Alexander Jacoby selected audio commentary ・Jasper Sharp Video Essay LE (1000 units) w/art by Sean Wolcott + writing from Tony Rayns shop.thirdwindowfilms.com/pr…
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What's a good place to start with William T. Vollmann? Seeing a lot of excitement for A Table for Fortune on the timeline but it appears that none of his novels are in-print in the UK.
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Digger is dialectical cinema. It laughs at the audience for laughing at it. It laughs at those who criticise movies by pointing out contradictions in them. Digger embraces the contradiction and digs its way out to something new entirely.
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🚨 @88_Films have just announced a Blu-Ray release for Patrick Tam's FINAL VICTORY 88-films.myshopify.com/produ…

Final Victory PRE-ORDER

RELEASE DATE: 21/12/2026 Please note that whole orders containing any pre-order items will not ship until the last release date **Please note, this title is also available from 88Films.us** When the...

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Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative—a collaborative project of UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo— announce The Art of the Benshi, a 4K & Blu-ray Disc boxed set collection that celebrates Japan’s venerable history of silent film narration. Pre-order: flickeralley.com/products/th…
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Calvin@calvinm28 Mar 2023
I rewatched Obayashi's Switching - Goodbye Me and it's even richer on second viewing, a thing of beauty both on the surface (take a bow cinematographer Katsuhiro Kato) and at its heart. It's in desperate need of a Western release....(pretty please @thirdwindow )
Calvin@calvinm27 Aug 2022
Switching - Goodbye Me, Nobuhiko Obayashi's remake of his own ATG classic Transfer Students, might be his most profound and moving work. Thematically bridging his 80s works to his late period, it feels like a very personal study of mortality, identity and legacy.
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Calvin@calvinm27 Aug 2022
Switching - Goodbye Me, Nobuhiko Obayashi's remake of his own ATG classic Transfer Students, might be his most profound and moving work. Thematically bridging his 80s works to his late period, it feels like a very personal study of mortality, identity and legacy.
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Not enough is said about Sōmai Shinji’s P.P. RIDER (1983), a film penned by Leonard and Chieko Schrader in which three teens adventure to rescue their high school bully from the yakuza after he is kidnapped in a big net. Some of the most dynamic long takes you’ll ever see
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【クラウドファンディング　残り1日ほど！】活動報告にて、『狂った一頁』（衣笠貞之助、1926年）の青染色版の発掘・復元について、ご紹介しております。貴重な映画遺産を未来へ伝えるため、当館の映画保存活動に、ご支援をよろしくお願いいたします！readyfor.jp/projects/NFAJ202…
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This is an incredible best-of-year release from Radiance. Praying for them to do Passion and Nouvelle Vague as well
Radiance Films@FilmsRadianceSep 1
It's arrived. Jean-Luc Godard's roving, essayistic video project - cited by @SightSoundmag as one of the 100 Great Films of All Time - plus other late period achievements including Godard's final film, SCÉNARIOS, are collected in HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA AND OTHER WORKS (LE).
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The late Tony Rayns said that March Comes in Like a Lion "could be the archetypal love story for the '90s: a picture about the tricks and traps of desire and the courage and will needed to overcome them." Anyone else that would be interested in seeing it get a release?
Third Window Films@thirdwindowJul 19
Replying to @calvinm
To be honest, I really can't see it selling, and I have too many titles recently which aren't even recouping so need to be a little more careful with what I put out.
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I promise I'd buy 10 copies cc @regularaugust @pratt360 @Komdehagens
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NEW RELEASE: Chusei Sone Blu-ray Double-Bill of SCARS OF THE SUN 太陽のきずあと BLOW THE NIGHT 夜をぶっとばせ First release of either film in any format outside of Japan! Out July 27 - Order @Terracotta_Dist shop.terracottadistribution.…
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Another superb announcement from @thirdwindow who have almost single handedly been shining a light on this forgotten era of Japanese cinema. Bring us even more! shop.terracottadistribution.…

Scars of the Sun / Blow the Night

This 2-disc special edition release contains a double-bill of films from Chusei Sone focusing on youth gangs, drugs, sex and violence in ‘80s Japan.

shop.terracottadistribution.com
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Anyone pissed at Nolan's Odyssey realises they can just watch Piavoli's Nostos: The Return right??
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At long last
Warner Bros. Clockwork
@clockwork_wbMay 5
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS Official Selection | Cannes Classics
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Incredible news that @SecondRunDVD will be releasing a new restoration of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's A Moment of Innocence, one of the great masterworks of Iranian cinema.
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Dave Kehr@dave_kehrMar 11
Replying to @DannyDrinksWine
You are confusing preservation with distribution, which is an entirely different, and concerning, issue. I don't know any archives that would consider DVDs as preservation elements, and I don't know any archivists who wouldn't want their work more widely seen.
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Not entirely sure why this seems to have gone viral but would love to see this film. However, think the energy of 16k likes might be better channeled into suggesting Yazaki's shorter, more easily releasable films like March Comes in Like a Lion, which also has a restoration
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@taesdawn26Feb 9
this film has not been released in any format. the only way to see it is by catching a screening in japan, making it one of the rarest films of all time.
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Pretty please @thirdwindow
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