Thanks. Asako I & II is also on MUBI with no hint of it going away (although maybe the alert will happen in a few days who knows) so maybe I should finally sit down and watch Happy Hour first.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
Just looked at the MUBI expiry list *sigh*
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
The Separation was great, I rememberHmm I should jump on Asako before it goes, i don't have Mubi
― Nhex, Thursday, 21 April 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
May 2022 titles:
night, Mother, Tom Moore, 1986*A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater, 2006Abar, the First Black Superman, Frank Packard, 1977Action in the North Atlantic, Lloyd Bacon, 1943The Alchemist Cookbook, Joel Potrykus, 2016Another Day at the Office, Richard Linklater, 2019Ape, Joel Potrykus, 2012Banana Split, Kip Fulbeck, 1991Bernie, Richard Linklater, 2011*The Big Knife, Robert Aldrich, 1955Bittersweet Survival, J. T. Takagi and Christine Choy, 1982Bontoc Eulogy, Marlon Fuentes, 1995Buzzard, Joel Potrykus, 2014Charade, Stanley Donen, 1963Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Robert Altman, 1982Coonskin, Ralph Bakshi, 1975A Cry in the Dark, Fred Schepisi, 1988The Dead, John Huston, 1987Dolemite, D’Urville Martin, 1975Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater, Gabe Klinger, 2013Down a Dark Stairwell, Ursula Liang, 2020Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, 2020Falling in Love, Ulu Grosbard, 1984A Family Portrait, Joseph Pierce, 2009A Few Miles South, Ben Pearce, 2021Fire Ted Cruz, Richard Linklater, 2018Five Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 2011Frances, Graeme Clifford, 1982Fresh Kill, Shu Lea Cheang, 1994From Spikes to Spindles, Christine Choy, 1976The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, Richard Linklater, 1991High Sierra, Raoul Walsh, 1941*History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, Rea Tajiri, 1991Hold Back the Dawn, Mitchell Leisen, 1941Homes Apart: Korea, J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy, 1991Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach, Richard Linklater, 2008The Jackie Robinson Story, Alfred E. Green, 1950*Kelly Loves Tony, Spencer Nakasako, 1998The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese, 1978Le navire Night, Marguerite Duras, 1979Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor, Richard Linklater, 2003Lord Shango, Ray Marsh, 1975Lust for Gold, S. Sylvan Simon, 1949The Man I Love, Raoul Walsh, 1947Marguerite as She Was, Dominique Auvray, 2003Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, 2008*Melons (At a Loss), Patty Chang, 1998Mississippi Triangle, Christine Choy, Worth Long, and Allan Siegel, 1983A Monkey in Winter, Henri Verneuil, 1962Moontide, Archie Mayo, 1942Murphy’s Romance, Martin Ritt, 1985The Newton Boys, Richard Linklater, 1998Out of the Fog, Anatole Litvak, 1941The Parallax View, Alan J. Pakula, 1974Peter and the Farm, Tony Stone, 2016Peter Ibbetson, Henry Hathaway, 1935Petey Wheatstraw, Cliff Roquemore, 1977Picture Bride, Kayo Hatta, 1994*The Point, Fred Wolf, 1971Radiance, Naomi Kawase, 2017*Raggedy Man, Jack Fisk, 1981*Relaxer, Joel Potrykus, 2018Resurrection, Daniel Petrie, 1980*Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, Louis Black and Karen Bernstein, 2016Sally’s Beauty Spot, Helen Lee, 1990Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung, 2000The Sea Wolf, Michael Curtiz, 1941Shopping for Fangs, Quentin Lee and Justin Lin, 1997Something Wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986Still the Water, Naomi Kawase, 2014Strawberry Fields, Rea Tajiri, 1997SubUrbia, Richard Linklater, 1996Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, 1989Sweet Bean, Naomi Kawase, 2015Tape, Richard Linklater, 2001Terminal USA, Jon Moritsugu, 1993The Trained Chinese Tongue, Laurie Wen, 1994The Trouble With Angels, Ida Lupino, 1966They Drive by Night, Raoul Walsh, 1940Thing from the Factory by the Field, Joel Potrykus, 2022Trick Baby, Larry Yust, 1972*True Mothers, Naomi Kawase, 2020Violets Are Blue . . . , Jack Fisk, 1986Voices of the Morning, Meena Nanji, 1992Wait Until Dark, Terence Young, 1967While the City Sleeps, Fritz Lang, 1956Willie Dynamite, Gilbert Moses, 1973*Woman in Hiding, Michael Gordon, 1950*Women’s Prison, Lewis Seiler, 1955Yentl, Barbra Streisand, 1983
**Available in the U.S. only
― Everybody Loves Ramen (WmC), Friday, 22 April 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
Yay for Le Navire Night (Duras). I skipped seeing it in the theatre because of Covid.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 22 April 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
Finally got a foothold into Happy Hour.
― H.R. MacGufnstuf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 April 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was a great film, that dude's had an annus mirabilis last year for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 April 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it is a lovely film.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 April 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
Gotta say the app doesn’t do a good job of remembering my place.
― H.R. MacGufnstuf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
In the Happy Hour home stretch. One thing I gotta say is there are so many great reaction shots of the ladies, especially during and after the reading.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
And just now I watched A Separation.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 May 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
Maybe some Guru Dutt next
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 May 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
June 2022 titles:
Anything Goes, Lewis Milestone, 1936Atlantis, Valentyn Vasyanovych, 2019Babes in Arms, Busby Berkeley, 1939Beauty and the Beast, Christophe Gans, 2014Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan, 1981Chameleon Street, Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989Chamisso’s Shadow, Ulrike Ottinger, 2016Charlatan, Agnieszka Holland, 2020Children, Terence Davies, 1976A Chorus Line, Richard Attenborough, 1985Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, 2011Cleopatra Jones, Jack Starrett, 1973The Clock, Vincente Minnelli, 1945The Darkside, Warwick Thornton, 2013Death and Transfiguration, Terence Davies, 1983The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies, 2011 *Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence Davies, 1988 *Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press, Ulrike Ottinger, 1984Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder, 1944Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948Fannie’s Film, Fronza Woods, 1982Fire Music, Tom Surgal, 2018Five Graves to Cairo, Billy Wilder, 1943For Me and My Gal, Busby Berkeley, 1942A Foreign Affair, Billy Wilder, 1948Forbidden Planet, Fred M. Wilcox, 1956Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, 1953Girl Crazy, Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley, 1943The Gospel of Eureka, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, 2018Green Bush, Warwick Thornton, 2005Hansel and Gretel, Len Talan, 1987The Harvey Girls, George Sidney, 1946Head On, Ana Kokkinos, 1998The Hole, Tsai Ming-liang, 1998*In the Good Old Summertime, Buster Keaton and Robert Z. Leonard, 1949Joan of Arc of Mongolia, Ulrike Ottinger, 1989Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, Robert Yapkowitz and Richard Peete, 2020*Keyboard Fantasies, Posy Dixon, 2019 *Killing Time, Fronza Woods, 1979Laocoon & Sons, Tabea Blumenschein and Ulrike Ottinger, 1975Lilting, Hong Khaou, 2014The Longest Day, Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki, 1962The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder, 1945Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, Ulrike Ottinger, 1977Madonna and Child, Terence Davies, 1980Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, Mouly Surya, 2017Meet Me in St. Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944Mimi, Warwick Thornton, 2002Nana, Warwick Thornton, 2007The Neon Bible, Terence Davies, 1995Of Time and the City, Terence Davies, 2008 *Owd Bob, Rodney Gibbons, 1998Paris Calligrammes, Ulrike Ottinger, 2020The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948The Poseidon Adventure, Ronald Neame, 1972Prater, Ulrike Ottinger, 2007Presenting Lily Mars, Norman Taurog, 1943A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies, 2016 *’Round Midnight, Bertrand Tavernier, 1986Samson & Delilah, Warwick Thornton, 2009Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966Stud Life, Campbell Ex, 2012Summer Stock, Charles Walters, 1950Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton, 2017Taiga, Ulrike Ottinger, 1992Victor and Victoria, Reinhold Schünzel, 1933Zero Patience, John Greyson, 1993 *Ziegfeld Girl, Robert Z. Leonard, 1941
Features, bundles, departments -- https://criterioncast.com/column/calendar/criterion-channel/june-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
― If you were really hard core, you'd have thrown a full bottle (WmC), Friday, 20 May 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
Terence Davies, nice. Definitely also want to check out Chameleon Street, the Karen Dalton and free jazz docs, and 'Round Midnight.
― Chris L, Friday, 20 May 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
That is a pride month and a half
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
I was astonished for a split second when I read “The Clock”…
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
I like that they seem to be continuously adding things to the Beyond Blaxploitation collection
seeing Body Heat I briefly wondered if they were actually doing my You Must Remember This tie-in idea in time to coincide with possibly the least likely series for them to do that with
― rob, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
Pre-code Paramount is a treat
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 26 May 2022 04:12 (two years ago) link
Never seen any Davies, looking forward to that. And happily watch Foreign Affair, my favourite Wilder movie, yet again
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 26 May 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link
It's a good one, even though the lead is kind of weird, as discussed in the Cameron Crowe book.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
But really came to post that I just watched Synonyms before it left, by the always interesting Nadav Lapid.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
I have not seen A Foreign Affair! Inexplicably hard to find on video, DVD, YouTube...
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
Some great musical numbers - with Friedrich Hollaender! Jean Arthur is a little problematic, maybe, one of her nervous latter day performances, although some might disagree.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
She's never persuaded me: an unexciting mix of the coy and the cute.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
Not even in stuff like The More the Merrier?
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
I tolerate her. She's the least interesting performer in Only Angels Have Wings.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
It's fine. Many people (like Orson Welles) can't stand Irene Dunne.
Agree she's not A-list but I love her in History is Made at Night
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
Not A-list!?
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
Is this a place where we can solicit recommendations for the criteria streaming platform? Or is that elsewhere
― calstars, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
Believe this is exactly the place for that.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
One of my favorite discoveries has been Tom Noonan's What Happened Was... one of the most effective movies I've seen about possibly being too idiosyncratic to form a connection with anybody. Obviously a big influence on Charlie Kaufman but not as overbearing as he can be.
― Chris L, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
Gonna have to resub to Criterion
Today's the day: Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s (@WendellBHarris2) audacious dark comedy CHAMELEON STREET (1989)—a rediscovered masterpiece of American independent filmmaking—is now playing exclusively on @criterionchannl! You're not going to want to miss this. https://t.co/7zBiAkunsa pic.twitter.com/iO5dWJWzd6— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) June 14, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
July 2022 titles:
a.k.a. Cassius Clay, Jim Jacobs, 1970Accused of Murder, Joseph Kane, 1956Adoption, Márta Mészáros, 1975Africa on the Seine, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Mamadou Sarr, 1955Ahed’s Knee, Nadav Lapid, 2021Air Doll, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2009All Dogs Go to Heaven, Don Bluth, 1989And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold, 1953Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955*The Badlanders, Delmer Daves, 1958*Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, 2013*Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater, 1995Before Sunset, Richard Linklater, 2004Birago Diop, conteur, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1981Black Widow, Nunnally Johnson, 1954Blow-Ball, Márta Mészáros, 1964The Bravados, Henry King, 1958By the Time It Gets Dark, Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016The Champ, King Vidor, 1931Champion, Mark Robson, 1949Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962Desert Fury, Lewis Allen, 1947Destry Rides Again, George Marshall, 1939Dziga and His Brothers, Evgeny Tsymbal, 2002Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962Fat City, John Huston, 1972Foreign Intrigue, Sheldon Reynolds, 1956Gentleman Jim, Raoul Walsh, 1942The Great Race, Blake Edwards, 1965The Gunfighter, Henry King, 1950Hammer, Bruce D. Clark, 1972The Harder They Fall, Mark Robson, 1956He Laughed Last, Blake Edwards, 1956Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Alexander Hall, 1941House of Bamboo, Samuel Fuller, 1955I Died a Thousand Times, Stuart Heisler, 1955*Iba N’Diaye, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1982The Image You Missed, Dónal Foreman, 2018In Old Chicago, Henry King, 1938Inferno, Roy Ward Baker, 1953A Kiss Before Dying, Gerd Oswald, 1956Lamb, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1964Leave Her to Heaven, John M. Stahl, 1945Lemon, Janicza Bravo, 2017*Lure of the Wilderness, Jean Negulesco, 1952Man of the West, Anthony Mann, 1958Matilda, Daniel Mann, 1978Mississippi Masala, Mira Nair, 1991Môl, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1966Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, 2012A Nation Is Born, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1961Niagara, Henry Hathaway, 1953Party Girl, Nicholas Ray, 1958Peter & the Wolf, Suzie Templeton, 2006Petition, Zhao Liang, 2009Pink Flamingos, John Waters, 1972Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980Requiem for a Heavyweight, Ralph Nelson, 1962The Ring, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, Dan Klores and Ron Berger, 2005The River’s Edge, Allan Dwan, 1957Scaffold, Kazik Radwanski, 2017The Set-Up, Robert Wise, 1949Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971Somebody Up There Likes Me, Robert Wise, 1956The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Henry King, 1952The Song of Bernadette, Henry King, 1943State Fair, Henry King, 1933Sunset Song, Terence Davies, 2015Swamp Water, Jean Renoir, 1941That’s Life!, Blake Edwards, 1986Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made, Mika Kaurismäki, 1994Twelve O’Clock High, Henry King, 1949Victor/Victoria, Blake Edwards, 1982Walker, Alex Cox, 1987Western, Valeska Grisebach, 2017The Winning of Barbara Worth, Henry King, 1926*Available in the U.S. only
― WmC, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
Ahed’s Knee? Wow, that was quick!
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
August 2022 titles:
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, George Pal, 1964Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, Jessica Oreck, 2013Acting Our Age, Gurinder Chadha, 1992After the Thin Man, W. S. Van Dyke, 1936*All These Sleepless Nights, Michał Marczak, 2016Another Country, Molly Reynolds, 2015Arabesque, Stanley Donen, 1966The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, 1950*August Sky, Jasmin Tenucci, 2020Battle for the Planet of the Apes, J. Lee Thompson, 1973Baxter, Vera Baxter, Marguerite Duras, 1977Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Jessica Oreck, 2009Better Luck Tomorrow, Justin Lim, 2002Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, 1978Bone, Larry Cohen, 1972Brigadoon, Vincente Minnelli, 1954*Broken Blossoms, D. W. Griffith, 1919Charlie Chan in Honolulu, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1939Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer, 2013China Doll, Frank Borzage, 1958China Sky, Ray Enright, 1945The Curse of Quon Gwon, Marion E. Wong, 2005Damnation, Béla Tarr, 1988Daughter of the Dragon, Lloyd Corrigan, 1931Donbass, Sergei Loznitsa, 2018Double Wedding, Richard Thorpe, 1937The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Iryna Tsilyk, 2020Flatbush! Flatbush!, Alex Ramírez-Mallis, 2021Flower Drum Song, Henry Koster, 1961Fran, Glenda Hambly, 1985The Good Earth, Sidney Franklin, 1937Gulpilil—One Red Blood, Darlene Johnson, 2002The Heathen Chinese and the Sunday School Teachers, 1904A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich, Ralph Nelson, 1978A House Divided: Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion, Stan Lathan, 1982Husbands, John Cassavetes, 1970I Love You Again, W. S. Van Dyke, 1940I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema, 1987King of Chinatown, Nick Grinde, 1939Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy, Lewie Kloster, 2016The Letter, Jean de Limur, 1929Libeled Lady, Jack Conway, 1936Life Without Dreams, Jessica Bardsley, 2022Little Miss Marker, Walter Bernstein, 1980Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937Love Crazy, Jack Conway, 1941Love Me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian, 1932M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg, 1993Mad Dog Morgan, Philippe Mora, 1976Manhattan Melodrama, W. S. Van Dyke, 1934Massacre of the Christians by the Chinese, 1900Midnight Run, Martin Brest, 1988Misty, James B. Clark, 1961Mizuko, Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo, 2019Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, H. C. Potter, 1948Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Henry Koster, 1962My Name Is Gulpilil, Molly Reynolds, 2021A Nice Arrangement, Gurinder Chadha, 1994Nonstop, Zac Manuel, Marta Rodriguez Maleck, 2021Once Is Not Enough, Guy Green, 1975Past Perfect, Jorge Jácome, 2019Penthouse, W. S. Van Dyke, 1933Piccadilly, E. A. Dupont, 1929Portrait of Kaye, Ben Reed, 2021The Proposition, John Hillcoat, 2005*Queenie, Cai Thomas, 2020Rabbit-Proof Fence, Phillip Noyce, 2002The Red Pony, Lewis Milestone, 1949Rider on a Dead Horse, Herbert L. Strock, 1962Rouge, Stanley Kwan, 1988The Sand Pebbles, Robert Wise, 1966Silver Streak, Arthur Hiller, 1976Stamboul Quest, Sam Wood, 1934Stay Close, Luther Clement and Shuhan Fan, 2019Storm Boy, Colin Thiele, 1976Sunflower, Vittorio De Sica, 1970Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957Ten Canoes, Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr, 2006Test Pilot, Victor Fleming, 1938The Thin Man, W. S. Van Dyke, 1934Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, 1958The Tracker, Rolf de Heer, 2002Two for the Road, Stanley Donen, 1967Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Jessica Oreck, 2014The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee, 1993We Are the Best!, Lukas Moodysson, 2013What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who’s Funny?, Gurinder Chadha, 1994Whipsaw, Sam Wood, 1935The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle, 2015The World of Suzie Wong, Richard Quine, 1960Wood and Water, Jonas Bak, 2021Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, Joan Chen, 1998Year of the Dragon, Michael Cimino, 1985
*Available in the U.S. only
― WmC, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
Xiu Xiu is one of those movies I heard about on rec.arts.movies that I could never hunt down.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
Lotta yellowface this month or am i imagining that
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 03:57 (two years ago) link
And that scene in Silver Streak
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 07:39 (two years ago) link
i had just put blue collar on hold at the library to finally watch it, so now i get to cancel that hold
does anyone understand the streaming rights of criterion enough to know if they'll ever put nashville on criterion channel? seems like they would have done it by now if it was going to happen
― na (NA), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
I keep thinking there must be a big database out there somewhere, where you can enter a film and find out who "owns" it, who owns the physical media rights and the separate streaming rights, what the current disposition of those rights are and maybe even the history. I see a fair number of know-it-alls on the CC Club facebook group who can rattle off that data at will, and I want to know where they get their intel.
― WmC, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:31 (two years ago) link
huh, sounds intense
i just noticed We Are the Best! on the list, that movie rules
― na (NA), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
Getting through a few films slated to leave Criterion at the end of the month I watched The Big Knife (1955) last night. Based on a Clifford Odets play, the situations and dialogue are so overwrought it's fascinating, especially Rod Steiger's scenery-chewing film studio head. (I had somehow seen a bit of this movie years ago and remembered his over-the-top performance.) Anyone else seen this/a fan?
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
I tried Big Knife when I was a teenager after falling in love with Sweet Smell of Success, but found it Much Too Much. I wonder if SSoS is more Lehman than Odets? You can definitely trace Waiting for Lefty to Big Knife. Sweet Smell, not so much.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle, 2015
Wasnt this documentary outed as a hoax?
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
August features, bundles, departments: https://criterioncast.com/news/august-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
― WmC, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
September 2022 titles:
Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972Air Force, Howard Hawks, 1943Ana and the Wolves, Carlos Saura, 1973Another Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1958Billy Liar, John Schlesinger, 1963Boccaccio ’70, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, and Luchino Visconti, 1962Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills, 1969Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976César and Rosalie, Claude Sautet, 1972Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952Cousin Angelica, Carlos Saura, 1974Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971Discontinuity, Lori Felker, 2015A Drownful Brilliance of Wings, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016Elisa, vida mía, Carlos Saura, 1977An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013Elvira Madigan, Bo Widerberg, 1967Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968*Funny Lady, Herbert Ross, 1975The Garden of Delights, Carlos Saura, 1970Good Neighbor Sam, David Swift, 1964The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009*Honeycomb, Carlos Saura, 1969Hud, Martin Ritt, 1963The Hunt, Carlos Saura, 1966If…., Lindsay Anderson, 1968Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam, 1977Kes, Ken Loach, 1969A Kind of Loving, John Schlesinger, 1962Kings Row, Sam Wood, 1942The Knack . . . and How to Get It, Richard Lester, 1965Late August, Early September, Olivier Assayas, 1998Les choses de la vie, Claude Sautet, 1970The L-Shaped Room, Bryan Forbes, 1962*Ludwig, Luchino Visconti, 1973Maison du bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976Max and the Junkmen, Claude Sautet, 1971Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2017The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021MS Slavic 7, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell, 2019Neptune Frost, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021Never Eat Alone, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016The Old Man and the Sea, John Sturges, 1958Patang, Prashant Bhargava, 2011Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955Point and Line to Plane, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2020A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013The Prisoner of Zenda, John Cromwell, 1937Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977Pushing Hands, Ang Lee, 1991Room at the Top, Jack Clayton, 1959The Rose Tattoo, Daniel Mann, 1955*Sambizanga, Sarah Maldoror, 1972Searching for Mr. Rugoff, Ira Deutchman, 2019The Secret of Roan Inish, John Sayles, 1994The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963The September Issue, R. J. Cutler, 2009*Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmüller, 1975Shining Victory, Irving Rapper, 1941Sissi, Ernst Marischka, 1955The Soft Space, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Melanie J. Scheiner, 2018Sound of the Night, Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann, 2021Spontaneous, Lori Felker, 2020The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941Stress Is Three, Carlos Saura, 1968Sweet Hours, Carlos Saura, 1982Swept Away, Lina Wertmüller, 1974That Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Żuławski, 1975The Wonderland, Keiichi Hara, 2019This Is Not a Movie, Yung Chang, 2019*This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, 1966Veslemøy’s Song, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2018Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942*Available in the U.S. only
― WmC, Monday, 22 August 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
The Bronco Bullfrog trailer I saw at Film Forum was really intriguing, still haven’t seen the movie.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
I watched The Set-Up last night (1949, dir. Robert Wise) and for a 72 minute RKO cheapie with no shortage of boxing movie cliches, it's beautifully shot, the characters are colorful, and it captures its grubby dressing room, hotel, bar and sidewalk scenes extremely well. Recommend seeing it before it leaves at the end of the month.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
> Bronco Bullfrog
it was one of the BFI Flipside films. and one of the extras had a clip that i swear was filmed at the old borstal about 100 yards from here
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link