Gimme Some Damn Repo

Haven’t even watched this yet. About to. Just got home from a screening of Jeff Nichols‘ Mud (Lionsgate/Roadside, 4.26). One of the year’s best in my book. Steady, solid and delivered just right. A coming-of-age story without a drop of treacly sentiment and no pandering to the saps. One of the finest Southern-flavored dramas about small-town rural values that I’ve ever seen, right up there with Sling Blade, Tender Mercies, The Straight Story, The Trip to Bountiful.

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  • http://twitter.com/HighSierraMan Steven Gaydos

    Reviews on this are very strong. Why do you think it got lost in the Cannes shuffle, especially in a year that was light on breakout films?

  • Actually

    That Repo Man art is outstanding. *Great* movies often don’t get art that good.

    • Eloi Wrath

      Except that middle one looks more like Jensen Ackles than Emilio Estevez.

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  • JLC

    Along with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Big Trouble in Little China and Animal House, this is one of four movies I can quote almost from memory. I haven’t seen it in 20 years, but pop it in and I could probably do it blindfolded.
    Criterion did an outstanding job with the packaging. The punk-skull-map-of-LA variant cover is even better. And if they’d labeled it as anything other than “Disc,” I would have been very disappointed.

    • Kat

      Ha – those are my ‘quote from memory’ movies too.

  • http://fortunesfool73.blogspot.com/ Shane Dobbie

    I think it’s the same as the masters of cinema release in the UK, which was pretty remarkable, considering.

    • TheAngryInternet

      Exclusive to MoC: 11-minute 2012 interview with Alex Cox; isolated effects and music track
      Exclusive to Criterion: Interview with Iggy Pop (12 mins.) and Keith Morris, Dick Rude, Olivia Barash, and Miguel Sandova (19 mins.)

      Criterion has the TV version in 1080i but I think it’s upscaled. MoC has a better booklet.

  • MarkVH

    Lou Lumenick just tweeted that Shane will now be shown at TCM Film Fest in 1.37 as opposed to 1.66. Shame, as I was really looking forward to some YouTube footage of Wells picketing outside the Chinese while confused onlookers wondered who the crazy old dude with the sign was.

    God help us all.