MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 16
Added 2022-03-16 16:01:03 +0000 UTCThe Blankies have unequivocally placed their votes in favor of FLIRTING - Rock Hudson and Doris Day move on!
Up today, it's the battle of the Criterion Box Sets...
Godfrey Reggio's QATSI TRILOGY vs Satyajit Ray's APU TRILOGY.
The QATSI TRILOGY are three non-narrative experimental films about the relationship between man and technology. "Sounds pretentious," you might think. WRONG. It's just hours of REALLY DOPE HI-DEFINITION FOOTAGE OF COOL SHIT scored to the most insane Philip Glass music. These movies are the thinking man's stoner content. We may or may not blaze up for these. I mean, Ben definitely will.
The films in the Qatsi Trilogy are:
KOYAANISQATSI (1982)
POWAQQATSI (1988)
NAQOYQATSI (2002)
The APU TRILOGY is the landmark work of Indian director Satyajit Ray and is considered one of the greatest coming-of-age stories of all time. The films trace the life of a young boy named Apu, following his journey through adolescence and early adulthood. You can see its influence on Francois Truffaut's ANTOINE DOINEL films and Barry Jenkins' MOONLIGHT.
The Apu Films are:
PATHER PANCHALI (1955)
APARAJITO (1956)
THE WORLD OF APU (1959)
So - which box set are we buying?
Comments
I can get a Godfrey on air interview if this actually happens
A.J.
2022-03-19 19:25:04 +0000 UTCIf you access Patreon on your phone to vote, it doesn't tell until after you vote, or at least it doesn't on mine.
Tobey
2022-03-17 16:03:43 +0000 UTCI am soooooo disappointed that Cimino is getting pasted like this haha, yeah, the fellas will hopefully just commit one day cause one has to think the same fate would befall him in any future bracket
Rad Rodge
2022-03-17 04:04:29 +0000 UTCOne Qatsi movie = awesome. Three Qatsi = very, very bad. The only thing to come of it will be to see who this breaks the most. Voting Apu.
Kevin Sprague
2022-03-16 23:36:05 +0000 UTCCan I make my whole vote contingent on at least one person being high?
Jeremy Frank
2022-03-16 22:37:42 +0000 UTCone time I spelled Koyyanisqaatsi correct without looking it up and I felt like a genius for two weeks straight
Abigail Treis
2022-03-16 21:12:03 +0000 UTCVoted for the prior for the Qatsi music ALONE. We watched Koyaanisqatsi in my high school environmental science class??
Mimi RuthStiver
2022-03-16 20:19:49 +0000 UTCJust got the Qatsi trilogy on criterion Blu-ray during that last 24 hour fire sale so please blankies make this happen so I can break this bad boy open and watch along with the boys
Dwight Foster
2022-03-16 19:51:51 +0000 UTCQatsi: for people tired of all the things that movies good. π
Jemaleddin Cole
2022-03-16 19:21:26 +0000 UTCPlease let's have Qatsi go all the way. Think of the vibes!
Danny Perez
2022-03-16 18:45:39 +0000 UTCReally donβt care for any of these being covered and I love both series
William Evans
2022-03-16 18:27:32 +0000 UTCIs there some setting I need to change for my Patreon so I don't see how the vote tallies are going before I even vote? Makes my choice feel insignificant before I get the chance to participate.
Tomas Marinara
2022-03-16 17:51:42 +0000 UTCThe more I think about it the more I think blazed Qatsi trilogy is my overall pick to win.
Alex
2022-03-16 17:41:55 +0000 UTCVote for VIBES
Melmar
2022-03-16 17:28:01 +0000 UTCEven the idea of watching the Qatsi films threatens to give me an existential crisis.
Jim Portant
2022-03-16 17:23:23 +0000 UTCThereβs no chance but Qatsi is my pick to win this whole thing, would be wild and a fun change of pace
Benji Hyde
2022-03-16 17:20:57 +0000 UTCQatsi. I've only seen the first one, but I bet it would be facinating. Also, Ben on Qatsi, that would be entertaining.
Sean McP
2022-03-16 17:13:38 +0000 UTCQatsi would make a great winner for this whole thing. There's nothing else like it.
Holden Martinson
2022-03-16 17:04:26 +0000 UTCQatsi would be so good I'm thinking of going all in on Qatsi
Arthur Bouhanna
2022-03-16 16:56:59 +0000 UTCQatsi feels like cimino in the sense that they're not well known enough to do well on a bracket but I think people would still love the resulting series. Hope they can be scheduled in the other slots
Jonah
2022-03-16 16:30:41 +0000 UTCππππππππππππ
daddyov2
2022-03-16 16:29:07 +0000 UTCSatyajit Ray is a master, but I NEED to hear the guys talk about Qatsi, I NEED IT
Jonathan
2022-03-16 16:22:58 +0000 UTCThe Qatsi movies at least have pretty colors.
Fred Skull
2022-03-16 16:21:39 +0000 UTCApu! The best review is from a friend of the pod βoh the humanityβ. The depth of the movies make me think of that review weekly.
Patrick Randolph
2022-03-16 16:20:50 +0000 UTCPrepared monologues?
Robert Young
2022-03-16 16:19:28 +0000 UTCQ A T S I
Rad Rodge
2022-03-16 16:19:02 +0000 UTCWhat if there was⦠ummm, what⦠aw never mind.
Tobey
2022-03-16 16:18:31 +0000 UTCVoting in these polls has become the highlight of every morning and I'm going to be sad when it ends
Gem
2022-03-16 16:17:25 +0000 UTCThe Apu trilogy is a long emotionally hammering experience of watching life drain all optimism from its titular protagonist but it all leads to one of the most emotionally cathartic endings in cinema. Is this an endorsement?
JonK
2022-03-16 16:15:13 +0000 UTCDo Quatsi and I will get high while listening as well. And that sounds so wonderful.
Anthony Regina
2022-03-16 16:14:23 +0000 UTCWhat is Qatsi sweeps the whole freaking bracket? π π π
J. Bailey Burcham
2022-03-16 16:12:37 +0000 UTCGive me a reason to finally buy the Apu set! I already own Qatsi!
Evan
2022-03-16 16:09:49 +0000 UTCBut to be clear: WILD that theyβre on this bracket.
Whit Barringer
2022-03-16 16:09:39 +0000 UTCThe Qatsi trilogy is quite the chaotic option here, but maybe that would be cool? Idek.
Whit Barringer
2022-03-16 16:09:07 +0000 UTC(Also IMO Baraka is the best of this genre, going by my multiple stupified college sessions)
elkweed
2022-03-16 16:09:04 +0000 UTCI don't even know how you're going to do the Qatsi trilogy but I'm here for it.
Billnetherlands
2022-03-16 16:08:44 +0000 UTCCan't Quit Quatsi
The Real Kal-El
2022-03-16 16:08:41 +0000 UTCI saw Satyajit Ray's last film Agantuk in 2020 and was thoroughly charmed but I'm gonna have to go with Reggio if only just cause if Ben hasn't heard the Philip Glass soundtrack he absolutely should.
Austin Ato
2022-03-16 16:08:03 +0000 UTCBonus ep for Baraka?
Constantinos Symeonides
2022-03-16 16:07:19 +0000 UTCI want Qatsi but only if Ben promises to do it on shrooms (G+D can be trip sitters)
elkweed
2022-03-16 16:07:16 +0000 UTCScary quire: KOYAAANISQATSII!
Johan Malmgren
2022-03-16 16:07:11 +0000 UTCVote for your friend and mine, Apu!!
TV's Kevin Lanigan
2022-03-16 16:06:53 +0000 UTCI want more people to watch The Apu Trilogy, but I want more Blank Check hosts on drugs. Itβs tough.
Manton
2022-03-16 16:05:16 +0000 UTCI would LOVE to have the gang discuss the Qatsi movies π
Devin DiMattia
2022-03-16 16:05:12 +0000 UTC#LetTheBoysBlaze
Judson Greene
2022-03-16 16:04:00 +0000 UTCQatsi all the way!
PoorFrisco
2022-03-16 16:03:27 +0000 UTCCβmon guys, give me an excuse to crack open my apu box
Andrew J. Eisenman
2022-03-16 16:03:06 +0000 UTCThe Qatsi commentaries seem like they would be Maximum Lunch Order episodes.
Daniel A. Barron
2022-03-16 16:03:04 +0000 UTCNo real chance of either of these going far, but the fact they put these on the bracket will always be hilarious to me
Jamie
2022-03-16 16:02:54 +0000 UTCQATSI HIVE WHERE YOU AT
Scott Dillon
2022-03-16 16:02:48 +0000 UTC
