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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
A.J.
I can get a Godfrey on air interview if this actually happens
Tobey
If you access Patreon on your phone to vote, it doesn't tell until after you vote, or at least it doesn't on mine.
Rad Rodge
I 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
Kevin Sprague
One 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.
Jeremy Frank
Can I make my whole vote contingent on at least one person being high?
Abigail Treis
one time I spelled Koyyanisqaatsi correct without looking it up and I felt like a genius for two weeks straight
Mimi RuthStiver
Voted for the prior for the Qatsi music ALONE. We watched Koyaanisqatsi in my high school environmental science class??
Dwight Foster
Just 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
Jemaleddin Cole
Qatsi: for people tired of all the things that movies good. 😟
Danny Perez
Please let's have Qatsi go all the way. Think of the vibes!
William Evans
Really don’t care for any of these being covered and I love both series
Tomas Marinara
Is 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.
Alex
The more I think about it the more I think blazed Qatsi trilogy is my overall pick to win.
Melmar
Vote for VIBES
Jim Portant
Even the idea of watching the Qatsi films threatens to give me an existential crisis.
Benji Hyde
There’s no chance but Qatsi is my pick to win this whole thing, would be wild and a fun change of pace
Sean McP
Qatsi. I've only seen the first one, but I bet it would be facinating. Also, Ben on Qatsi, that would be entertaining.
Holden Martinson
Qatsi would make a great winner for this whole thing. There's nothing else like it.
Arthur Bouhanna
Qatsi would be so good I'm thinking of going all in on Qatsi
Jonah
Qatsi 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
daddyov2
🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
Jonathan
Satyajit Ray is a master, but I NEED to hear the guys talk about Qatsi, I NEED IT
Fred Skull
The Qatsi movies at least have pretty colors.
Patrick Randolph
Apu! The best review is from a friend of the pod “oh the humanity”. The depth of the movies make me think of that review weekly.
Robert Young
Prepared monologues?
Rad Rodge
Q A T S I
Tobey
What if there was… ummm, what… aw never mind.
Gem
Voting in these polls has become the highlight of every morning and I'm going to be sad when it ends
JonK
The 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?
Anthony Regina
Do Quatsi and I will get high while listening as well. And that sounds so wonderful.
J. Bailey Burcham
What is Qatsi sweeps the whole freaking bracket? 😅😅😅
Evan
Give me a reason to finally buy the Apu set! I already own Qatsi!
Whit Barringer
But to be clear: WILD that they’re on this bracket.
Whit Barringer
The Qatsi trilogy is quite the chaotic option here, but maybe that would be cool? Idek.
elkweed
(Also IMO Baraka is the best of this genre, going by my multiple stupified college sessions)
Billnetherlands
I don't even know how you're going to do the Qatsi trilogy but I'm here for it.
The Real Kal-El
Can't Quit Quatsi
Austin Ato
I 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.
Constantinos Symeonides
Bonus ep for Baraka?
elkweed
I want Qatsi but only if Ben promises to do it on shrooms (G+D can be trip sitters)
Johan Malmgren
Scary quire: KOYAAANISQATSII!
TV's Kevin Lanigan
Vote for your friend and mine, Apu!!
Manton
I want more people to watch The Apu Trilogy, but I want more Blank Check hosts on drugs. It’s tough.
Devin DiMattia
I would LOVE to have the gang discuss the Qatsi movies 😍
Judson Greene
#LetTheBoysBlaze
PoorFrisco
Qatsi all the way!
Andrew J. Eisenman
C’mon guys, give me an excuse to crack open my apu box
Daniel A. Barron
The Qatsi commentaries seem like they would be Maximum Lunch Order episodes.
Jamie
No real chance of either of these going far, but the fact they put these on the bracket will always be hilarious to me
Scott Dillon
QATSI HIVE WHERE YOU AT
