Fun With The Criterion Collection

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I'm Finished

A few years ago I started this Tumblr page because I love the Criterion Collection and I worked nights at a job where I had a lot of time on my hands. It was while sleepy that I wrote most of my entries, which is why they were riddled with grammar and spelling issues. I was interested to see if I could find a bit of interesting trivia on every numbered film in the catalog. Obviously some were more interesting than others, but eventually I got every 800+ films. Today marks the end of the list, which I'm thankful for, and thankful for everyone who has followed me. I'm glad it's over and I'm a bit surprised that I did this everyday for so long.

Director Mark Romanek wanted to use Mikio Naruse style aesthetics particularly from 'When a Woman Ascends the Stairs' for his film 'Never Let Me Go'.

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Pierre Bramma who can be seen in 'Parade' was completely deaf by the time he participated in that film.

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'Tiny Furniture' director Lena Dunham got into controversy in 2014 after her memoir was published. It seemed to some that she and her sister Grace were overly sexual when they were young. Both sisters have denied this claim.

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Emilie Eskær who provided the music for 'Carl Th. Dreyer - My Metier' is in one of Denmark's most prestigious and award winning groups with her sisters, The Eskær Trio.

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The original title of 'A Brighter Summer Day' translates as "Youngster Homicide Incident at Guling Street"

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The landscapes in Disney's 'Frozen' were inspired by the landscapes seen in 'Black Narcissus'

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'Heart of a Dog' director Laurie Anderson invented a tape-bow violin in 1977. A bow made of electronic tape and a tape head on the bridge of the violin.

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Robert Altman speculates the reason why he set '3 Women' in a desert town was that his son Matthew would play on the beaches of Malibu and would then fall asleep on Altman's bed leaving sand between the sheets. And when Robert Altman had a fever dream about the movie he could feel the sand.

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Claude Chabrol gave the leftover stock from 'Les Cousins' to Jacques Rivette in order to have him make 'Paris Belongs to Us'

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Jeanne Moreau's character in 'Bay of Angels' was based on director Jacques Demy's country cousin who married a Brazilian millionaire. Moreau's character was made to look like her.

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Stellar Skasrgård initially didn't want to make the film 'Insomnia'. He thought that the script was bad and that the plot didn't wuite work. But the character intrigued him and thought that the director Erik Skjoldbjærg knew how to turn the film into something great.

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The original French title for 'Vagabond' 'Sans Toit Ni Loi' means "Without Roof or Law".

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The character from 'Gilda' was named after Miriam Hopkins character in 'Design for Living', Gilda Farrell.

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'There Was a Father (1942)' had its WWII propaganda, the patriotic songs in particular, destroyed by the US Army after the war.

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Jack Kerouac was transfixed by Jean Gabin's character in 'The Lower Depths' when he watched the film while attending college. Many have thought he was inspired to live that particular from viewing this movie.

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'Peeping Tom' actor Karlheinz Böhm made a bet on the German TV show 'Wetten dads...?' Where he made a bet that one third of the audience wouldn't donate a German mark for suffering Ethiopians. Böhm won the bet, but with the funds he did receive he set up the charity 'Humans for Humans' which has spent about 313 million dollars to the African region.

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