Brothers Quay - DVD Picks

[@lsjshez6940]

Stick Werner Herzog in there, and you've got triplets.

[@glassjaw2007]

that was a big laugh !

[@andrewmoonbeam321]

And Chroistoph Waltz you've got quads.

[@troygaspard6732]

No one can match them. They make the ordinary fantastic.

[@anodyne57]

One of the best of the "Picks" series! These artists are your target audience so to speak, amongst filmmakers. Always interesting to watch the brothers and see how they communicate as a unit, separately, but always part of a whole. The last verbal exchanges between them were amazing...almost non-lexical, but between them it seemed, crystal clear.

[@cadewarrencns]

I love Criterion, and I absolutely adore the Quays, and I have no idea how I didn't see this for 5 years. As nice as the recent blu-ray transfer of their short films was (the one with the Nolan short doc), I would kill for a massive Criterion collection of all their work with some retrospectives and analyses. I can't think of many other contemporary filmmakers besides the Quays whose works deserve such treatment.

[@aryannegi3670]

And now your comment is 5 years old.

[@zeroelliott]

how wonderful to have yourself there beside you,to agree and validate your thoughts....

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Part of me really wanted them to find "This is Spinal Tap" and say, "Oh, yes, this is a Must-Have. Hilarious stuff." :D

[@Primodummy92]

Loved their performances in Uncut Gems

[@davidsanderson5918]

I'm just about to watch Vampyr for the first time....and thought I'd watch a few closet picks beforehand. Wow what a coincidence!

[@anodyne57]

"Our two favorite colors are, and always will be...black and white."

[@barrymoore4470]

Dreyer originally intended to shoot what proved to be his last film, 'Gertrud' (premiered in late 1964), in color, but that conception fell through, and he made it in black-and-white. The original intertitles (showing verse the character Gertrud had supposedly composed) were removed by him from later prints because he felt they were only truly compatible with the color version that was never realized.

[@ImBatfan]

FINALLY somebody picked up Vampyr.

[@AvantKarma]

The Human Condition! LOVE LOVE!

[@madahad9]

Absolutely agree with the love of black and white films. Sadly there are not enough made nowadays, but with the use of digital cameras is it really black and white or merely removing color from the image. I am not a cinematographer but I know enough that lighting a black and white film is different from color. Whenever I have taken photographs myself I always use b/w film because certain details are more emphasized and often drown out in color. When I saw Manhattan it made me fall in love with the city (even though it is a fantasy in the film) and those opening images permanently burned into my 15-year-old brain....long before I would actually step foot into the city itself. The colors of Time Square (at first intoxicating) became obscene. But wandering through the Village and those beautiful brownstone buildings this was more closer to the Manhattan of the film. I read that the current movie Nebraska was film digitally and then manipulated to resemble b/w film stock. It seems like a cheat.

[@2dotGo]

You can get hold of monochrome cameras, and/or if you shoot raw you can avoid the debayering process and extract B&W data. The images are super clean. The problem is that B&W films are such a hard sell. In fact you almost have to shoot with a regular camera becausse most producers will demand a colour version. Alexander Payne hates the Colour Version of Nebraska but it was the only way he was allowed to make a B&W film. Really sad because B&W is such a beautiful medium.

[@madahad9]

***** The Third Man, The Trial, Paths of Glory, The Elephant Man, Manhattan, Raging Bull, Ed Wood, ANY Akiira Kurosawa film. Stardust Memories, Touch of Evil, Young Frankenstein. Just a few titles.

[@kmanet4118]

Bergman, Bela Tarr, Dreyer, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev by Tarkovsky, Fellini, L'Avventura, La Notte & L'Eclisse by Antonioni, Max Ophuls and many more

[@lanceuppercut2013]

Jarmusch too!

[@barrymoore4470]

@@kmanet4118 Ozu was also, late in his career, a superlative, subtle colorist (a couple of Mizoguchi's late films were likewise in color). Many of Fellini's most captivating films were in riotous color, and Antonioni was a pioneer in the expressionist use of color in 'Il deserto rosso' from 1964.

[@TheSnuffy76]

The Swedish chef endorses this program

[@thatmovieguy777]

(nervously picks up Wages of Fear) do we have that? ... yeah we have that.

[@hexus9198]

Does this mean the Quay bros are getting the Criterion treatment?😃 I know vid is 6yrs old but one can dream.

[@dogeymon83]

So sad video rental isn’t a thing anymore, how cool it would be to pick a film with the quays

[@Vovvilina]

Easy enough to visit a library with them and choose movies like they're doing here...

[@amphitheatre]

please put out something by them! would love to see either of their features (or anything really) get a Criterion release!

[@laurentiumanolescu]

Good news

[@amphitheatre]

@@laurentiumanolescu hey! you're right. even if it is only streaming.

[@sclogse1]

Imagine watching Playtime in blu ray. So much more.

[@barrymoore4470]

It would be best to be able to watch it via 70-millimeter film projection, as it was originally conceived and made to experienced.

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

4k

[@acrophobe]

couldn't hear a damn thing they said. Criterion, make these dvd closet picks longer and hire someone to caption them or at least list their picks in the description. like seriously dude.

[@IanMcCausland]

switch on captions

[@iaredatsun]

@@IanMcCausland seriously have you read the auto-generated captions for this clip? they are largely nonsensical. e.g. 'we know very little current nurse Maggie's work'.

[@sunithaya]

use Qtips

[@sclogse1]

Blu-ray...I can't wait for It Started In Naples, and The World of Suzy Wong to be released in blu-ray. These films had great early footage of Naples, and I believe Hong Kong.

[@carbine125]

These videos could do with better audio please. Also a list in the description what their exact picks are.

[@atree3]

Definitely. Half the time we don't see what they are talking about

[@legolover2781]

Oh, I would kill to go th a place like that. I love all the criterion DVDs.

[@ajurieu]

Dr. Jones! No more buttons!

[@gnalkhere]

What the hell is that v-neck

[@DuncanUdaho67]

that's the v-neck to end all v-neck.

[@jameslphoward]

thats not a v neck... it is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee neck lol

[@Phicxtion]

That's the French V-Neck lol

[@mindsuck3042]

It's artistic

[@Raventooth]

that is what the French call a Deep-V

[@jstownsend]

Is there a list somewhere of all the movies they pick?

[@hunterhemingway3477]

vampyr, louis malle documentaries (phantom india mainly) de sica, human condition, kaurasmaki collection (le havre)

[@tom0900060]

I love human condition too

[@New2023-l1x]

Anurag Kashyap bring me here❤

[@Cinephillya]

@PolishExplorer Definitely Ran if you are a Kurosawa fan. For other films i reccomend La Jetee/ Sans Soluei, 8/12, The Red Shoes, Vampyr, Vivre Sa Vie and Elevator to the Gallows if you have never seen any of those.

[@davidfraser6950]

Does Werner Herzog know he has 2 lovechildren?...

[@Mr1100112233]

that charisma tho

[@danjameson1572]

haven't seen anyone in any of these vids pick up a Bunuel....???

[@darkpatriot85]

They go through Kaurismäki's film and DON'T get the Leningrad Cowboys? At least they got Vampyr.

[@Raventooth]

I have never seen Vampyr, these aren't the first guys the recommended it.

[@barrymoore4470]

It's a classic of the horror genre, more eerie than outright scary, full of somber, meditative poetic touches, as one would expect from a subtle master like Dreyer.

[@うぶ毛-c5y]

カール・ジャイラスって、誰やねん！

[@bucklakelukie]

Restored Hitchcock classics from obscurity but can’t use an iPhone to shoot two guys in a closet

[@KenKen3593]

So stingy! And no blu-ray?

[@spanishbaldman]

The Human Condition is overrated.

[@barrymoore4470]

I have yet to see it, but this is the first comment I've ever encountered to critically diminish it. The late film scholar David Shipman once wrote that collectively the trilogy stands as the single greatest work in cinema history.