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    The Criterion Collection

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    April Releases were just announced yesterday.


    THE 400 BLOWS (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

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    The unforgettable debut feature by François Truffaut (Jules and Jim) is a wrenchingly personal coming-of-age story that introduced the character that would become the director’s lifelong cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud, in one of the screen’s great child performances). With the utmost sensitivity, The 400 Blows dramatizes the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, characterized by aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marks its maker’s official transition from influential critic to one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs, and is considered the first true work of the French New Wave.

    1959 • 99 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English subtitle • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

    DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • Two audio commentaries, one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and another by François Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
    • Rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan
    • Newsreel footage of Léaud at Cannes in 1959
    • Excerpt from a 1965 French television program in which Truffaut discusses his youth, his critical writing, and the origins of Antoine Doinel
    • Television interview with Truffaut from 1960 about the global reception of The 400 Blows and his own critical impression of the film
    • Trailer
    • One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf

    TITLE: THE 400 BLOWS (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
    CAT. NO: CC2349BDDVD
    UPC: 7-15515-11431-8
    ISBN: 978-1-60465-830-9
    SRP: $39.95
    STREET: 4/8/14


    BREAKING THE WAVES (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

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    Lars von Trier (Antichrist) became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love) stuns, in an Oscar-nominated performance, as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Insomnia’s Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil-rig accident. Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.

    1996 • 159 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

    DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier, editor Anders Refn, and location scout Anthony Dod Mantle
    • New interview with filmmaker and critic Stig Björkman
    • New interviews with actors Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård
    • Interview from 2004 with actor Adrian Rawlins
    • Watson’s audition tape, with commentary by von Trier
    • Deleted and extended scenes, with commentary by von Trier
    • Deleted scene featuring the late actor Katrin Cartlidge
    • Cannes Film Festival promotional clip
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
    • PLUS: An essay by critic David Sterritt

    TITLE: BREAKING THE WAVES (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
    CAT. NO: CC2320BDDVD
    UPC: 7-15515-11471-4
    ISBN: 978-1-60465-833-0
    SRP: $39.95
    STREET: 4/15/14


    MASTER OF THE HOUSE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

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    Before he got up close and personal with Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr) fashioned this finely detailed, ahead-of-its-time examination of domestic life. In this heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband, Dreyer finds lightness and humor; it’s a deft comedy of revenge that was an enormous box-office success and is considered an early example of feminism on-screen. Constructed with the director’s customary meticulousness and stirring sense of justice, Master of the House is a jewel of silent cinema.

    1925 • 111 minutes • Black & White • Silent • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

    DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • New 2K digital restoration, with a recent score by Gillian Anderson, presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
    • New interview with Dreyer historian Casper Tybjerg
    • New visual essay on Dreyer’s camera work and editing by film historian David Bordwell
    • New English intertitle translation
    • One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu

    TITLE: MASTER OF THE HOUSE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
    CAT. NO: CC2352BDDVD
    UPC: 7-15515-11481-3
    ISBN: 978-1-60465-834-7
    SRP: $39.95
    STREET: 4/22/14


    RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

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    Early in his career, Don Siegel (The Killers) made his mark with this sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary. Riot in Cell Block 11, the brainchild of producer extraordinaire Walter Wanger (Foreign Correspondent), is a ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about prisoners’ rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons. In Siegel’s hands, the film is at once brash and humane, showcasing the hard-boiled visual flair and bold storytelling for which the director would become known and shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras.

    1954 • 80 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

    DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • New audio commentary by film scholar Matthew Bernstein
    • Excerpts from the director’s 1993 autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by his son Kristoffer Tabori
    • More!
    • One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by coproducer Walter Wanger, and a 1974 tribute to Siegel by filmmaker Sam Peckinpah

    TITLE: RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
    CAT. NO: CC2351BDDVD
    UPC: 7-15515-11461-5
    ISBN: 978-1-60465-832-3
    SRP: $39.95
    STREET: 4/22/14


    IL SORPASSO (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

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    The ultimate Italian road comedy, Il sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman (Big Deal on Madonna Street) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Z) as, respectively, a waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and the bookish law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi (the original Scent of a Woman), is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life. A holy grail of commedia all’italiana, Il sorpasso is so fresh and exciting that one can easily see why it has long been adored in Italy.

    1962 • 105 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

    DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • New interviews with screenwriter Ettore Scola and film scholar and professor Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
    • Interview from 2004 with director Dino Risi by film critic Jean A. Gili
    • Introduction by actor Jean-Louis Trintignant from a 1983 French television broadcast of the film
    • A Beautiful Vacation, a 2006 documentary on Risi featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators and friends
    • Excerpts from a 2012 documentary that returns to Castiglioncello, the location for the film’s beach scenes, featuring rare on-set color footage
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Phillip Lopate and Antonio Monda, as well as excerpts from Risi’s writings, with an introduction by film critic Valerio Caprara

    TITLE: IL SORPASSO (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
    CAT. NO: CC2353BDDVD
    UPC: 7-15515-11491-2
    ISBN: 978-1-60465-835-4
    SRP: $39.95
    STREET: 4/29/14
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    Cool list here of Akira Kurosawa's favorite Criterion titles, culled from a discussion with his daughter regarding his favorite one-hundred films (one per direction).
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    Not a criterion film but it was filmed in 1902... before 50pound and OKHawk were even born.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithLockhart View Post
    Not a criterion film but it was filmed in 1902... before 50pound and OKHawk were even born.
    Here's a colorized version with a soundtrack that was created especially for the film by one of my favorite (French) electronic musical duos, Air:

    http://vimeo.com/39275260

    If you want to take a 'trip', this is certainly an interesting starting point.
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    Recently purchased and watched the Criterion Collection version of The Rock on dvd, for reasons beyond the usual Criterion Collection collecting criteria*.

    The film honestly does hold up pretty well.

    Then I watched it through again with commentary. Michael Bay really is a craven, classless, cash-obsessed asshole who can barely string two coherent sentences together; almost every anecdote he begins ends confusingly, at best, but mostly reach a point of withering pointlessness. Nicolas Cage, on the other hand, is actually extraordinarily lucid—something I would not have necessarily anticipated, given his acting performances.

    *(I've been undertaking a pretty rigorous interrogation of Cage's oeuvre over the past few weeks—and, in case you're wondering, yes: the project began before the pertinent Community episode.)
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    List of Criterion Releases for May





    ACE IN THE HOLE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

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    Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

    1951 • 111 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

    DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
    • Portrait of a “60% Perfect Man”: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment
    • Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984
    • Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
    • Excerpts from an audio interview with Wilder’s coscreenwriter Walter Newman
    • Video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
    • Stills gallery
    • Trailer
    • One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
    • PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin

    TITLE: ACE IN THE HOLE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
    CAT. NO: CC2355BDDVD
    UPC: 7-15515-11571-1
    ISBN: 978-1-60465-837-8
    SRP: $39.95
    STREET: 5/6/14


    Overlord
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    Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this immersive account by Stuart Cooper of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity.Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on human smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.

    Special Features:
    • Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Stuart Cooper, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • Audio commentary featuring Cooper and actor Brian Stirner
    • Mining the Archive, a 2007 video piece featuring archivists from London's Imperial War Museum detailing the footage used in the film
    • Capa Influences Cooper, a 2007 photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa
    • Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information's 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen
    • A Test of Violence, Cooper's 1969 short film about the Spanish artist Juan Genovés
    • Germany Calling, a 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord
    • Excerpts from the journals of two D-day soldiers, read by Stirner
    • Trailer
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones, a short history of the Imperial War Museum, and excerpts from the Overlord novelization by Cooper and Christopher Hudson



    Like Someone In Love

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    Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. At first blush, his extraordinary, sly Like Someone in Love, which finds the Iranian director in Tokyo, may appear to be among his most straightforward films. Yet with this simple story of the growing bond between a young part-time call girl and a grandfatherly client, Kiarostami has constructed an enigmatic but crystalline investigation of affection and desire as complex as his masterful Close-up and Certified Copy in its engagement with the workings of the mercurial human heart.

    Special Features:
    • New 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director Abbas Kiarostami, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • Forty-five-minute documentary on the making of the film
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • PLUS: An essay by film scholar and critic Nico Baumbach



    Red River

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    No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. In it, John Wayne found one of his greatest roles as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son, played by Montgomery Clift in a breakout performance, reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri, which is based on a real-life late nineteenth-century expedition. Yet Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masculinity that propel the myths of the American West. The unerringly macho Wayne and the neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks's formidable direction.

    Special Features:
    • New 4K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks, with monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • 2K restoration of the longer version of Red River
    • New interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions
    • New interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
    • New interview with western scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about western genre literature
    • Audio excerpts of a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
    • Excerpts from a 1970 audio interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase
    • More!
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks's longtime editor Christian Nyby; a new paperback edition of Chase's original novel, previously out of print



    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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    Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson); a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett); and Zissou's estranged wife, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge, and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure comedy.

    Special Features:
    • New, restored digital transfer, approved by director Wes Anderson, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
    • Commentary by Anderson and cowriter Noah Baumbach
    • New interviews with actors Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Jeff Goldblum
    • This Is an Adventure, a documentary by Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, and Matthew Prinzing chronicling the production of the movie
    • Mondo Monda, an Italian talk show featuring an interview with Anderson and Baumbach, hosted by Antonio Monda
    • Interview with composer and Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh
    • Ten performances of David Bowie songs in Portuguese by Brazilian recording artist and actor Seu Jorge
    • Intern video journal by actor Matthew Gray Gubler
    • Multiple interviews with the cast and crew, featuring behind-the-scenes footage
    • Making-of featurette
    • Nine deleted scenes
    • Behind-the-scenes photos and original artwork from the film
    • Trailer
    • PLUS: An insert featuring a cutaway view of The Belafonte, the ship from the film, Eric Anderson's original illustrations, and a conversation between Wes and Eric conducted in 2005

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    I'm really anticipating Red River—which is a very good film but the basis of an even more fascinating essay by Robert Pippin in his Hollywood Westerns and American Myth*—but Ace in the Hole is probably the most exciting of the May crop to me, since I've long wanted to see it (Wilder plus Douglas plus a great premise).

    *I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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    Flash sale.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithLockhart View Post
    Sheit.
    working on tennis Courts for Next 45 Minutes. Seriously hope Thief, Mr. Fantastic Fox and Mad Mad World are there. There's more but I have to look at my wallet lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithLockhart View Post
    working on tennis Courts for Next 45 Minutes. Seriously hope Thief, Mr. Fantastic Fox and Mad Mad World are there. There's more but I have to look at my wallet lol
    Very pissed. I wanted to get Mad Mad, Nashville and King of the Hill, and Rififi...

    But I did the over $50 free shipping deal and got

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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithLockhart View Post
    Very pissed. I wanted to get Mad Mad, Nashville and King of the Hill, and Rififi...

    But I did the over $50 free shipping deal and got

    Thief
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    Rififi isn't on back-order yet, if that's the issue. I'm looking at Babette's Feast, Heaven's Gate, and a few others.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpx7 View Post
    Rififi isn't on back-order yet, if that's the issue. I'm looking at Babette's Feast, Heaven's Gate, and a few others.
    Mad Mad World is back in play.

    I may get Mad Mad, Rififi, and one more title...


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    Grabbed the two I mentioned, plus The Shop on Main Street. Debating an additional order.
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    Also collected Secret Sunshine, High and Low, and The Night Porter during that last sale—plus happened to come across a really great deal (a few dollars lower than the Criterion sale-price) on a copy of an early Renoir talkie, Boudu Saved from Drowning, on Amazon.

    I'm extremely excited about the latter, because (a) it stars the inimitable French comedian and eccentric Michel Simon, who has a tremendous turn in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (an absolutely phenomenal film in its own right), and (b) it's another in a series of forlorn tramp tries to kill herself by drowning, is saved by male protagonist: narrative ensures cinematic set-ups I have been encountering recently—with Sternberg's The Docks of New York and Bergman's Port of Call being particularly notable examples.
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    High and Low. Wow.
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    I've made a concerted effort to start adding some female directors to my collection, even though Criterion's volume of female-directed films is somewhat-embarrassingly scant.

    The first pick was an easy one, as its reputation preceded itself: Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter. A dark, fascinating film of fundamental human perversity—base, cruel, oppressive impulses of decadence and domination—almost liberated by a perversity of the psycho-sexual persuasion, one which once bound and never really ceases to govern two ultimately star-crossed lovers.

    Also: I already knew this from Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (amongst other films), but Charlotte Ramling is really ****ing attractive.
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    Hey, [MENTION=1]KeithLockhart[/MENTION]: what do you think of this month's most recent title announcements?
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    I've been behind on updating the announcements in this thread.

    I've never seen Scanners, but it's Cronenberg so after watching Videodrome it gives me hope.

    I'm a sucker for French movies (love the language), so Pickpocket looks like something I'll enjoy.

    Looking forward to seeing the original Insomnia, as I enjoyed the Nolan remake. Stellan Skarsgaard is in it so that's always a plus.


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    Slightly OT but I'm ecstatic that Life Aquatic is finally coming out on Criterion Blu Ray!! Just watched Grand Budapest Hotel and loved it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithLockhart View Post
    I've never seen Scanners, but it's Cronenberg so after watching Videodrome it gives me hope.
    Videodrome is, without a doubt, one of my favorite films—it is, in a lot of ways, Marshall McLuhan's ideas reified.

    But I'm a huge Cronenberg fan in general: I'm glad Naked Lunch received the blu-ray treatment, and I'm highly anticipating Scanners, as it's one of his I've never seen. Now I just wish they'd win back the rights to Dead Ringers and give that the full blu-ray upgrade.

    I'm a sucker for French movies (love the language), so Pickpocket looks like something I'll enjoy.
    French is awesome, and Pickpocket is awesome; I saw it in theatres a couple years ago, but I'm excited to see what extras and special features they might pack onto the disc.


    Slightly OT but I'm ecstatic that Life Aquatic is finally coming out on Criterion Blu Ray
    Likewise; it's a great film, and I believe the only Criterion Anderson that hadn't been upgraded.

    Still haven't seen Grand Budapest yet, sadly.
    "For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."

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