Bresson vs. Dreyer vs. Ozu

Imagine if Bunuel had snapped a photo with them.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yUE75IvnJ1s/maxresdefault.jpg

Everything's so brutal (incl abs) why must life be like this..

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Watched AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON last night, so lovely, so light, so fucking bleak

Oh hey, excellent place to ask: if I were to blind buy a Criterion, would you recommend the one about Joan of Arc or the thing about the donkey (I think it's called The Thing About the Donkey but in French)?

donkey

The donkey is crushed that his daughter turns out to be Joan of Arc.

Au Hazard Balthazar (my preference) versus The Passion of Joan of Arc?

Yes, those are the ones. I guess donkey wins.

Finally watched my copy of Vampyr earlier this week (very good and gorgeous, not quite as impenetrable as I'd been led to believe). Perhaps I'll let that one percolate a bit before tackling Joan.

Ozu because he has enough heart to make up for the other two.

All top level, but Bresson for me. Uniquely bizarre and inscrutable while achieving similar results. Spent more time thinking about how and why his stuff works than the others and that counts for something I guess.

Whoa, oops, to be clear, ~I~ have spent more time thinking about...

Ozu will walk this

Third muscle man from the left looks a bit like the lead from The Devil Probably.

Voted Dreyer because I hold Gertrud above all in this context, tho the other two probably had more masterpieces overall.

voted Bresson for much the same reasons as Circa but also have seen more of his than the others so maybe not fair. Enjoyed the book, especially the new intro on the broader trends of slow cinema which, not being a thesis, reads better.

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I voted Ozu but ORDET and THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC do things to me that no other films do.

What version of Joan of Arc have you seen? The newish Criterion has like 4 versions, different frame rates and optional scores. I think I watched the longer one and it was with a solo piano score. Yeah, amazing movie and so ahead of its time. Vampyr left me cold (npi...)

Mine is the Eureka Masters of Cinema blu-ray which I think mirrors the Criterion - anyway I watched it at 20fps with the piano and silent. The image quality is astonishing but the film itself is transcendent I think.
https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/passion-joan-arc
although mine is the 2012 version here - same disc I think:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/PASSION-JEANNE-Masters-Cinema-Blu-ray/dp/B008LUICH4

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I don't really get what it means that it's a new 4K restoration based on an earlier 2K restoration. How does that work?

Twice as much restoration