Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel in April:
5 Against the House, Phil Karlson, 19558th Continent, Yorgos Zois, 2017The Adventures of Marco Polo, John Ford and Archie Mayo, 1938Affair in Trinidad, Vincent Sherman, 1952Alps, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2011**Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger, 1959Angels Over Broadway, Ben Hecht and Lee Garmes, 1940Annie Hall, Woody Allen, 1977Arizona, Wesley Ruggles, 1940Ball of Fire, Howard Hawks, 1941The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, 1953Blind Alley, Charles Vidor, 1939Bonjour tristesse, Otto Preminger, 1958The Brothers Rico, Phil Karlson, 1957Bunny Lake Is Missing, Otto Preminger, 1965The Burglar, Paul Wendkos, 1957Captains Courageous, Victor Fleming, 1937The Cowboy and the Lady, H. C. Potter, 1938The Crimson Kimono, Samuel Fuller, 1959The Crossing Guard, Sean Penn, 1995Dead Reckoning, John Cromwell, 1947The Devil and Miss Jones, Sam Wood, 1941Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009**Down to Earth, Alexander Hall, 1947Drive a Crooked Road, Richard Quine, 1954Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Jun Fukuda, 1966Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland, 1990Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Stephen Roberts, 1936The Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, 1978A Farewell to Arms, Frank Borzage, 1932Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi, 2016The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, 2015The Fountainhead, King Vidor, 1949Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974Friendly Persuasion, William Wyler, 1956Godzilla vs. Gigan, Jun Fukuda, 1972Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Yoshimitsu Banno, 1971Graduate First, Maurice Pialat, 1978The Hanging Tree, Delmer Daves, 1959The Harder They Fall, Mark Robson, 1956Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Alexander Hall, 1941Human Desire, Fritz Lang, 1954I Am Not a Witch, Rungano Nyoni, 2017**If You Could Only Cook, William A. Seiter, 1935The Impatient Years, Irving Cummings, 1944In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray, 1950Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas, 1996Johnny O’Clock, Robert Rossen, 1947Kinetta, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2005Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971Lilac Time, George Fitzmaurice, 1928The Lineup, Don Siegel, 1958Listen, Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan, 2014Little Lord Fauntleroy, John Cromwell, 1936Loulou, Maurice Pialat, 1980Love in the Afternoon, Billy Wilder, 1957Lured, Douglas Sirk, 1947Man of the West, Anthony Mann, 1958The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976Mifune: The Last Samurai, Steven Okazaki, 2015The Mob, Robert Parrish, 1951The More the Merrier, George Stevens., 1943The Mouth Agape, Maurice Pialat, 1974Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Frank Capra, 1936Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra, 1939Murder by Contract, Irving Lerner, 1958My Name Is Julia Ross, Joseph H. Lewis, 1945Nightfall, Jacques Tourneur, 1957Party Wire, Erle C. Kenton, 1935The Pawnbroker, Sidney Lumet, 1964Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970Pixote, Héctor Babenco, 1981Police, Maurice Pialat, 1985The Pride of the Yankees, Sam Wood, 1942Public Hero Number One, J. Walter Ruben, 1935Pushover, Richard Quine, 1954Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980The Real Glory, Henry Hathaway, 1939Red Sun, Terence Young, 1971Salome, William Dieterle, 1953A Scandal in Paris, Douglas Sirk, 1946The Scar, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1976Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971Shampoo, Warren Beatty, 1975Shockproof, Douglas Sirk, 1949Slightly French, Douglas Sirk, 1949The Small Back Room, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1949The Sniper, Edward Dmytryk, 1952So Dark the Night, Joseph H. Lewis, 1946A Star Is Born, Frank Pierson, 1976Staying Vertical, Alain Guiraudie, 2016The Stranger, Orson Welles, 1946The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941The Talk of the Town, George Stevens, 1942Task Force, Delmer Daves, 1949Taxi, Jafar Panahi, 2015Thank God It’s Friday, Robert Klane, 1978This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, 2011**Three Days of the Condor, Sydney Pollack, 1975Tight Spot, Phil Karlson, 1955The Two of Us, Claude Berri, 1967Under the Sun of Satan, Maurice Pialat, 1987Van Gogh, Maurice Pialat, 1991Vera Cruz, Robert Aldrich, 1954Wadjda, Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012**We Won’t Grow Old Together, Maurice Pialat, 1972The Wedding Night, King Vidor, 1935Welcome to L.A., Alan Rudolph, 1976The Westerner, William Wyler, 1940What’s Up, Doc?, Peter Bogdanovich, 1972Whirlpool, Roy William Neill, 1934The Whole Town’s Talking, John Ford, 1935The Winning of Barbara Worth, Henry King, 1926You Can’t Take It With You, Frank Capra, 1938**Available in the US only
― Miami weisse (WmC), Friday, 20 March 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
The Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, 1978
siiiick
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 March 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
They really blew it out for their first birthday. Looking forward to seeing Irma Vep, Kinetta, loads more.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Friday, 20 March 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Here's a facebook post with the April bundles -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1089273201186971/permalink/2811169762330631/
Thought about C&Ping it but it's so long.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Friday, 20 March 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
Pialat rules
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 21 March 2020 05:50 (four years ago) link
"the anderson tapes" is "...and introducing christopher walken" and i started cracking up because literally his first line in the movie is already the most christopher walken line-reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuDmxYJ1AM&feature=youtu.be
also the quincy jones scores are insane
― na (NA), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
This expanded line-up includes Phil Karlson's THE BROTHERS RICO, possibly the best gangster movie of the 1950s, an absolutely devastating performance by Richard Conte. https://t.co/GYXiGPYiJY— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) March 26, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Cool! I love how a lot of Criterion stuff is just out there or available, but they make the effort to curate programming, which helps bring attention to stuff I might have missed or didn't know I wanted to see again. Like, say, "In a Lonely Place."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
They're "no algorithms" the way Queen was "no synthesizers" in the 70s, and I appreciate that. Morbs, is that a recommendation from you for The Brothers Rico?
― Miami weisse (WmC), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
ive seen and liked it, yes
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
"an absolutely devastating performance by Richard Conte" is enough for me, if I had CC
― flappy bird, Saturday, 28 March 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
James Darren, not so much
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:21 (four years ago) link
I have a list of 6 movies I want to watch before they expire in 4 days, can I do it? The suspense.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
cough em up
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Day of the Locust, Light Sleeper, The Connection (Shirley Clarke), A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity, Patty Hearst -- rank 'em
― Miami weisse (WmC), Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
I just watched Sorry, Wrong Number as it's about to leave too--good stuff!
― rob, Saturday, 28 March 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
If you all want to go full film snob experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JuDuxouqg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
have seen all those; love Day of the Locust (megabummer, of course)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
i'm unemployed and broke but this criterion channel thing is starting to look urgent and key
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Sunday, 29 March 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
$10 GC for the Criterion store:BTX6JD
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
The CC has 10 Pialat films (which is close to all of them I think). I've never seen a single one and don't have even a vague sense of where to start, any suggestions?
― rob, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
Is Under the Sun of Satan the most acclaimed?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
Think so.
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
That one does appeal--I think I've really only ever seen the bad Depardieu
― rob, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
I really loved We Won’t Grow Old Together but it was kicking me where i was hurting, and À Nos Amours.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah reading more about his work, there's a strong possibility I will wimp out on watching any of these and watch, idk, Shampoo or something instead
― rob, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
I signed up for a 2-week Criterion trial. I might keep it, but I really have to boot Amazon next month if so.
Pialat: I most prize A Nos Amour, Police, and Mouth Agape. Under the Sun of Satan was booed at Cannes, which doesn't mean much, but it's second-tier to me. Haven't seen Loulou in forever.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
also I remember thinking Graduate First was slept on
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
signed up for this a week ago. already watched maybe 6 films (ok 7)? probably not a lot for some of you but way more than what i usually watch
l'atalante - 10 / 10. incredible. the old sailor has got to be one of my favorite characters / performances ever. super queer too.gilda. 6 / 10. weird cornball noir w psychosexual daddy issues. a lot of lol lines from rita hayworth.lady from shanghai. 6 / 10. was this heavily fucked with? very disjointed. weirdest courtroom scene / finale ever.elevator to the gallows. 8 / 10. seen it a bunch, always a treat.vanya on 42nd st. 7 / 10. used to love this, now i like it. still some very nice scenes.playtime. 9 / 10. genius, still don't get some of the humor though.foxy brown. 7 / 10. revenge flicks aren't my thing but this was pretty undeniable.
looking for recommendations for lighter fare i guess. interested in the rest of the 70s fashion collection. might watch the man who fell to earth next. have a boyfriend who's allergic to really syrupy romantic scores, we started watching a nicholas ray with humphrey bogart and the score was too much lol.
― i am a horse girl (map), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
i haven't seen any of the varda films and they're definitely on my list.
― i am a horse girl (map), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
That N Ray film is a masterwork, dude.
Playtime makes a lot more sense in a theater (in fact, I only ever watch it there).
Yeah, Welles said the studio cut almost an hour from TLfS. I still love it.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
Michel Simon is the L'Atalante sailor (he was about 38). A standout in many Renoir films too.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
i probably liked it more than 6 / 10 just for the chinatown scenes alone. lots of brilliance. it was just a little heavy handed and overripe for my mood i guess.
i'll watch the nicholas ray film at some point (i might have already seen it?)
xp ah ok, thank you
― i am a horse girl (map), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
thank you milo! (xp a dozen or so)
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
I just watched Au Hasard Balthazar. My heart hurts.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
@map eyes of laura mars
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
oh for fashion
cuz it sure is a bad movie
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Yeah but it’s watchable
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
Au hazard is too beautiful for this worldWe watched Ozu’s Good Morning tonight - cute!
― i am a horse girl (map), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
Eyes of Laura Mars is on my list
Just watched Man of the West for the first time -- rather more graphic than I expected.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
I watched a few Kieślowski shorts. Wanted to watch a feature but I knew I'd fall asleep in the middle. Ulysses, he was the Frederick Wiseman of Poland for a few years, if that's an enticement to you.
― WmC, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
I like some kieslowski!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Morbs would appreciate how jazzed I am for a new Criterion series that includes not only Eyes of Laura Mars but also Thank God It’s Friday.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
I watched A Dandy in Aspic tonight and need to internalize this new mantra: if I haven't ever heard of it before, it's probably shit.
― WmC, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
Or at least if it's full of famous hollywood names and I haven't heard of it, it's probably shit.
― WmC, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
Watched Man of the West. Anthony Mann's most violent film? I'd never Gary Cooper so...manic.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
yes E, I know you like glossy trash w/ bad music
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
Thank God It's Not Dylan
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Coming to the channel in May:
The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993**Anamorphosis, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1991Anna Christie, Clarence Brown, 1930Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Anderson, 1956Audience, Barbara Hammer, 1982La belle noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, 1991Betty Tells Her Story, Liane Brandon, 1972The Big Country, William Wyler, 1958The Big House, George Hill, 1930Black Beauty, James Hill, 1971Bless Their Little Hearts, Billy Woodberry, 1983Blondie of the Follies, Edmund Goulding, 1932The Boy with Green Hair, Joseph Losey, 1948The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1984Cane River, Horace B. Jenkins, 1982Céline and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974The Champ, King Vidor, 1931Children of the Century, Diane Kurys, 1999Chris and Bernie, Bonnie Friedman and Deborah Shaffer, 1976Clotheslines, Roberta Cantow, 1981The Cloud-Capped Star, Ritwik Ghatak, 1960The Comb, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1990Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena, Lourdes Portillo, 1999Cowboy, Delmer Daves, 1958Cynara, King Vidor, 1932Dinner at Eight, George Cukor, 1933**Down in the Delta, Maya Angelou, 1998Entre nous, Diane Kurys, 1983The Facts of Life, Melvin Frank, 1960The Fearless Hyena, Jackie Chan, 1979Fearless Hyena 2, Chan Chuen, 1983The Field, Sandhya Suri, 2018Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, Eliza Hittman, 2011Friends with Money, Nicole Holofcener, 2006**Gloria, John Cassavetes, 1980Growing Up Female, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, 1971Guerillère Talks, Vivienne Dick, 1978Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Chen Chi-hwa, 1980Hero, Stephen Frears, 1992The Human Factor, Otto Preminger, 1979I Am Wanda, Katja Raganelli, 1980In a Year of 13 Moons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978In Absentia, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 2000Inside Women Inside, Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio, 1978Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman, 2013It Happens to Us, Amalie R. Rothschild, 1972It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Stanley Kramer, 1963Janie’s Janie, Geri Ashur, 1971Joyce at 34, Joyce Chopra, 1972Land Makar, Margaret Tait, 1981The Limey, Steven Soderbergh, 1999Little Fugitive, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Raymond Abrashkin, 1953Lovely & Amazing, Nicole Holofcener, 2001Loves of a Blonde, Miloš Forman, 1965The Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger, 1955Martha, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974Mimi, Claire Simon, 2002 Min and Bill, George Hill, 1930The Mirror, Jafar Panahi, 1997Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001My Lucky Stars, Sammo Hung, 1985Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, 2015Ocean’s 11, Lewis Milestone, 1960Peppermint Soda, Diane Kurys, 1977The Phantom Museum, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 2003Phase IV, Saul Bass, 1974Please Give, Nicole Holofcener, 2010**Privilege, Yvonne Rainer, 1990Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, 1992Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 1987Riffraff, J. Walter Ruben, 1936The Salt Mines, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1990The Scarlet Letter, Victor Sjöström, 1926Second Cousins Once Removed, Eliza Hittman, 2010Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966Secrets, Frank Borzage, 1933Shakedown, Leilah Weinraub, 2018Sidewalk Stories, Charles Lane, 1989Soft Fiction, Chick Strand, 1979Something Wild, Jack Garfein, 1961Spiritual Kung Fu, Lo Wei, 1978Stella Dallas, Henry King, 1925Stella Dallas, King Vidor, 1937Stille Nacht I: Dramolet, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1988Stille Nacht III: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1992Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1993Storm Center, Daniel Taradash, 1956Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, 2013Street of Crocodiles, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1986Suzanne, Suzanne, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1982Their Own Desire, E. Mason Hopper, 1929The Third Generation, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979The Ties That Bind, Su Friedrich, 1985The Transformation, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1995Tremors, Dawid Bodzak, 2018Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhangke, 2002This Unnameable Little Broom, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, and Keith Griffiths, 1985Walk on the Wild Side, Edward Dmytryk, 1962The Wayward Cloud, Tsai Ming-liang, 2005**The Wind, Victor Sjöström, 1928Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, Bridget Terry, 2000The World, Jia Zhangke, 2004The Young Master, Jackie Chan, 1980Yudie, Mirra Bank, 1974
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Friday, 24 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link