Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

Need to see some Criterion editions of those Herschell Gordon Lewis films!

Wish I could check these out!

Now on the Channel, we're celebrating the films of Lina Wertmüller! Provocative, outrageous, and larger-than-life, the films of the Italian fimmaker thrilled & shocked audiences with their heady blend of sex, politics, and satire. https://t.co/crr5DwfYX8

— Criterion Channel (@criterionchannl) September 25, 2019

https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-complete-jean-pierre-melville

i have never heard of The Beaning, WmC.

Watching Naruse on this channel has been my #1 pleasure of 2019. Watch his final film Scattered Clouds, plz.

xp -- sub-sub-Guy Maddin, meh. Oh well.

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel during November:

12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet, 1957
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli, 1951
And Life Goes On, Abbas Kiarostami, 1992
The Arbor, Clio Barnard, 2010**
The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, 1953
The Barkleys of Broadway, Charles Walters, 1949
Big Night, Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, 1996
Blow Out, Brian De Palma, 1981
Brigadoon, Vincente Minnelli, 1954**
Broadway Melody of 1940, Norman Taurog, 1940
Cabin in the Sky, Vincente Minnelli, 1943
Caché, Michael Haneke, 2005
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Peter Greenaway, 1989
Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher, 2011
Crocus, Suzan Pitt, 1971
Dear Phone, Peter Greenaway, 1976
Death of the Soundman, Sorayos Prapapan, 2017
Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991
Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981
El doctor, Suzan Pitt, 2006
The Draughtsman’s Contract, Peter Greenaway, 1982
Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948
Eat Drink Man Woman, Ang Lee, 1994
An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo, 2018
A Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan, 1957
The Falls, Peter Greenaway, 1980
Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, 1970
Give a Girl a Break, Stanley Donen, 1953
H Is for House, Peter Greenaway, 1976
Hacked Circuit, Deborah Stratman, 2014
The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972
The Harvey Girls, George Sidney, 1946
Homework, Abbas Kiarostami, 1989
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Tsai Ming-liang, 2006
I Love Melvin, Don Weis, 1953
In the Good Old Summertime, Robert Z. Leonard, 1949
The Inland Sea, Lucille Carra, 1991
Intervals, Peter Greenaway, 1969
It’s Always Fair Weather, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1955
Jefferson Circus Songs, Suzan Pitt, 1973
Joy Street, Suzan Pitt, 1995
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Leslie Harris, 1992
Kes, Ken Loach, 1969
The King of Marvin Gardens, Bob Rafelson, 1972
Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971
The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, 1973
Lili, Charles Walters, 1953
The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006**
Meet Me in St Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001
Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
No Place Like Home, Perry Henzell, 2006
On the Town, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1949
Oslo, August 31st, Joachim Trier, 2011**
The Pillow Book, Peter Greenaway, 1996**
Pinball, Suzan Pitt, 2013
The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948
Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway, 1991
Raging Sun, Raging Sky, Julián Hernández, 2009
Reprise, Joachim Trier, 2006
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Stanley Donen, 1954
Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, 2013**
Summer Stock, Charles Walters, 1950
That’s Entertainment!, Jack Haley Jr., 1974
They Live By Night, Nicholas Ray, 1948
Through the Olive Trees, Abbas Kiarostami, 1994
Vertical Features Remake, Peter Greenaway, 1978
Visitation, Suzan Pitt, 2011
A Walk Through H, Peter Greenaway, 1978
Water Wrackets, Peter Greenaway, 1990
Windows, Peter Greenaway, 1975
The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher, 2014
Yentl, Barbra Streisand, 1983
A Zed & Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway, 1985

**Available in the U.S. only

Near Dark!!!!

Excited for the Kiarostamis, Greenaways (the ones I haven't seen already), Kes, Near Dark, tons of others.

Oh, and finally a rewatch or two of Caché.

Nice to see a Tsai film, hope they'll do more.

It's Greenaway month.

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel in December:

Alfie, Lewis Gilbert, 1966
Aves, Nietzchka Keene, 1994
The Best Years of Our Lives, William Wyler, 1946
Black Legion, Archie Mayo, 1937
The Black Stallion, Carroll Ballard, 1979
The Breaking Point, Michael Curtiz, 1950
The Cabin in the Cotton, Michael Curtiz, 1932
Dark Victory, Edmund Goulding, 1939
Dead End, William Wyler, 1937
Diamantino, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, 2019
Dodsworth, William Wyler, 1936
Elles, Małgorzata Szumowska, 2011
Everyone Else, Maren Ade, 2009**
The Forest for the Trees, Maren Ade, 2003**
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Peter Yates, 1973
Front Page Woman, Michael Curtiz, 1935
Get Carter, Mike Hodges, 1971
Girlhood, Céline Sciamma, 2014
Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933
He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951
Hell’s House, Howard Higgin, 1932
Hinterland, Nietzchka Keene, 1983
In This Our Life, John Huston, 1942
The Italian Job, Peter Collinson, 1969
Jezebel, William Wyler, 1938
The Juniper Tree, Nietzchka Keene, 1990
Kid Galahad, Michael Curtiz, 1937
Killer’s Kiss, Stanley Kubrick, 1955
The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, 1956
The Letter, William Wyler, 1940
The Little Foxes, William Wyler, 1941
The Lovers on the Bridge, Leos Carax, 1991
The Man Who Came to Dinner, William Keighley, 1942
Marked Woman, Lloyd Bacon, 1937
Mauvais sang, Leos Carax, 1986
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Preston Sturges, 1944
Mr. Skeffington, Vincent Sherman, 1944
Murder on the Orient Express, Sidney Lumet, 1974
Now, Voyager, Irving Rapper, 1942
Of Human Bondage, John Cromwell, 1934
The Old Maid, Edmund Goulding, 1939
Oliver!, Carol Reed, 1968
The Petrified Forest, Archie Mayo, 1936
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Michael Curtiz, 1939
Red Road, Andrea Arnold, 2006
Rififi, Jules Dassin, 1955**
Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang, 1945
Something Wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986
The Shop Around the Corner, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940
Still, Nietzchka Keene, 1978
These Three, William Wyler, 1936
Three on a Match, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932
Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks, 1983**
Tomboy, Céline Sciamma, 2011
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Philip Kaufman, 1988
Water Lilies, Céline Sciamma, 2007
The Westerner, William Wyler, 1940
The Woman in the Window, Fritz Lang, 1944
Wren Boys, Harry Lighton, 2017
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, 2011

**Available in the U.S. only

The Juniper Tree is the one starring a very young Björk and it's pretty great, bleak and silent and witchy.

Yeah, I recall seeing that on VHS as a youngster. It stays with you, or at least it stayed with me.

Oh wow, they've also got Aves, Keene's short film she made after the Juniper Tree... not sure there's been any way to easily see that until now.

The Juniper Tree is the one starring a very young Björk and it's pretty great, bleak and silent and witchy.

not VERY young! her first album was recorded when she was 11, and she had another five out as an adult by the time she made the movie (at 25)

(it had a minor theatrical re-release in the US this year, definitely haunting)

some solid Teresa Wright movies in there (esp. The Best Years of Our Lives)

I was trying to figure out the bundles from that list -- directed by Wyler, directed by Curtiz, starring Bette Davis -- I guess maybe a Starring Teresa Wright bundle as well?

Shadow of a Doubt? Pride of the Yankees?

not VERY young! her first album was recorded when she was 11, and she had another five out as an adult by the time she made the movie (at 25)
It was filmed in 1986 (came out in 1990), so she would have been 20 or 21 at the time.

I think we can all agree it is the Icelandic equivalent of watching Baby Yoda

3 Faces, Jafar Panahi, 2018
Antonyms of Beauty, Khalik Allah, 2013
Atlantic City, Louis Malle, 1980
Auto Focus, Paul Schrader, 2002**
Baxter, Jérôme Boivin, 1989
Birdman of Alcatraz, John Frankenheimer, 1962
Black Mother, Khalik Allah, 2018
A Boy and His Dog, L. Q. Jones, 1975
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971
Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952**
Conversation Piece, Luchino Visconti, 1974
Cookie, Susan Seidelman, 1989
The Court Jester, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, 1956
Dark Star, John Carpenter, 1974
Death in the Garden, Luis Buñuel, 1956
Death Race 2000, Paul Bartel, 1975
Demon Seed, Donald Cammell, 1977
Desperately Seeking Susan, Susan Seidelman, 1985
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, Luis Buñuel, 1972
Elmer Gantry, Richard Brooks, 1960
Field Niggas, Khalik Allah, 2015
From Here to Eternity, Fred Zinnemann, 1953
God Told Me To, Larry Cohen, 1976
Good Intentions, Anna Mantzaris, 2018
Good-bye, My Lady, William A. Wellman, 1956
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Vidor, 1952
Hardcore, Paul Schrader, 1979
Holy Smoke, Jane Campion, 1999
I Walk Alone, Byron Haskin, 1947
In the Cut, Jane Campion, 2003
The Kid from Brooklyn, Norman Z. McLeod, 1946
L’age d’or, Luis Buñuel, 1930
L’enfant, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2005
Le Corbeau, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943
Le quattro volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010
Local Hero, Bill Forsyth, 1983
Logan’s Run, Michael Anderson, 1976
Look at Me, Agnès Jaoui, 2004**
Mad Max, George Miller, 1979
The Milky Way, Luis Buñuel, 1969
No Blade of Grass, Cornel Wilde, 1970
The Omega Man, Boris Sagal, 1971
Panique, Julien Duvivier, 1946
Patty Hearst, Paul Schrader, 1988
The Phantom of Liberty, Luis Buñuel, 1974
The Piano, Jane Campion, 1993
The Portrait of a Lady, Jane Campion, 1996
The Professionals, Richard Brooks, 1966
The Rainmaker, Joseph Anthony, 1956
Resurrecting Adam, Paul Schrader, 2008
Rollerball, Norman Jewison, 1975
The Rose Tattoo, Daniel Mann, 1955**
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Norman Z. McLeod, 1947
Separate Tables, Delbert Mann, 1958
Seven Days in May, John Frankenheimer, 1964
She-Devil, Susan Seidelman, 1989
Shivers, David Cronenberg, 1975
A Song Is Born, Howard Hawks, 1948
Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Chloé Zhao, 2015
Sorry, Wrong Number, Anatole Litvak, 1948
Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer, 1973
Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick ,1957
The Swimmer, Frank Perry, 1968
The Taste of Others, Agnès Jaoui, 2000
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese, 1976
The Terminal Man, Mike Hodges, 1974
That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel, 1977
The Train, John Frankenheimer, 1964
THX 1138, George Lucas, 1971
Tristana, Luis Buñuel, 1970
Two Friends, Jane Campion, 1986
The Ultimate Warrior, Robert Clouse, 1975
Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders, 1991
Up In Arms, Elliott Nugent, 1944
Urban Rashomon, Khalik Allah, 2013
Westworld, Michael Crichton, 1973
Wonder Man, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1945
Z.P.G., Michael Campus, 1972**

**Available in the U.S. only

for January obv

Shivers will always be They Came From Within to me.

So weird, I just started watching Death Race 2000, and for the life of me I can't remember ever watching it, and yet I remember every minute of it, so I must have seen it before. Total out of body experience.

Coming to the Criterion Channel in February

- Adaptation, Spike Jonze, 2002
- Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
- Atlantiques, Mati Diop, 2009
- The Bad and the Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli, 1952
- Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964**
- The Beast, Samantha Nell and Michael Wahrmann, 2016
- Big in Vietnam, Mati Diop, 2012
- The Big Knife, Robert Aldrich, 1955
- Birthright, Oscar Micheaux, 1939
- The Blood of Jesus, Spencer Williams, 1941
- Body and Soul, Oscar Micheaux, 1925
- Britannia Hospital, Lindsay Anderson, 1982
- The Bronze Buckaroo, Richard C. Kahn, 1939
- Brother John, James Goldstone, 1971
- Buck and the Preacher, Sidney Poitier, 1972
- By Right of Birth, Harry A. Gant, 1921
- La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
- Closely Watched Trains, Jiří Menzel, 1966
- The Comfort of Strangers, Paul Schrader, 1990
- Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940, Zora Neale Hurston, 1940
- Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963
- Cry, the Beloved Country, Zoltán Korda, 1951
- The Darktown Revue, Oscar Micheaux, 1931
- Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash, 1991
- David Holzman’s Diary, Jim McBride, 1967
- Day for Night, François Truffaut, 1973
- The Day of the Locust, John Schlesinger, 1975
- The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer, 1958
- Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA, Spencer Williams, 1946
- Duel at Diablo, Ralph Nelson, 1966
- The Edge of Heaven, Fatih Akin, 2007**
- Eleven P.M., Richard Maurice, 1928
- The Exile, Oscar Micheau, 1931
- Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard, 2010
- The Flying Ace, Richard E. Norman, 1926
- Footlight Parade, Lloyd Bacon, 1933
- For Ever Mozart, Jean-Luc Godard, 1996
- Le gai savoir, Jean-Luc Godard, 1969
- Gas Food Lodging, Allison Anders, 1992
- The Girl from Chicago, Oscar Micheaux, 1932
- Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard, 2014
- The Graduate, Mike Nichols, 1967
- The Grifters, Stephen Frears, 1990
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer, 1967
- Hail Mary, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985
- Heaven-Bound Travelers, James Gist and Eloyce Gist, 1935
- Hell-Bound Train, James Gist and Eloyce Gist, 1930
- Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend, 1987
- Hot Biskits, Spencer Williams, 1931
- House of Games, David Mamet, 1987
- If …., Lindsay Anderson, 1968
- In the Heat of the Night, Norman Jewison, 1967
- Invention for Destruction, Karel Zeman, 1958
- Jason and the Argonauts, Don Chaffey, 1963
- Lamb, Yared Zeleke, 2015
- Liberian Boy, Mati Diop, 2015
- Light Sleeper, Paul Schrader, 1992
- Lilies of the Field, Ralph Nelson, 1963
- Long Day’s Journey into Night, Bi Gan, 2018
- Made in U.S.A, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966**
- A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, 1966
- A Married Woman, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964
- Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled, R.W. Phillips, 1918
- Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015**
- The Naked Prey, Cornel Wilde, 1965
- The Nun, Jacques Rivette, 1966
- O Lucky Man!, Lindsay Anderson, 1973
- The Official Story, Luis Puenzo, 1985
- Paris Blues, Martin Ritt, 1961
- Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
- A Place in the Sun, George Stevens, 1951
- Pressure Point, Hubert Cornfield, 1962
- A Raisin in the Sun, Daniel Petrie, 1961
- A Reckless Rover, C.N. David, 1918
- Red River, Howard Hawks, 1948
- Regeneration, Richard E. Norman, 1923
- Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movies, Reverend Solomon Sir Jones, 1924–1926
- The Scar of Shame, Frank Peregini, 1929
- The Shop on Main Street, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, 1965
- The Slender Thread, Sydney Pollack, 1965
- Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder, 1959
- Snow Canon, Mati Diop, 2011
- Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, 1950
- The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK, Oscar Micheaux, 1920
- Ten Minutes to Live, Oscar Micheaux, 1932
- Ten Nights in a Bar Room, William A. O’Connor, 1931
- The Image Book, Jean-Luc Godard, 2018
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, Gordon Douglas, 1970
- A Thousand Suns, Mati Diop, 2013
- Tuesday, After Christmas, Radu Muntean, 2011
- Tungrus, Rishi Chandna, 2017
- Two Knights of Vaudeville, director unknown, 1915
- Two Weeks in Another Town, Vincente Minnelli, 1962
- Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier, 1974
- Vanya on 42nd Street, Louis Malle, 1994
- Veiled Aristocrats, Oscar Micheaux, 1932
- Verdict Not Guilty, James Gist and Eloyce Gist, 1934
- A Warm December, Sidney Poitier, 1973
- Within Our Gates, Oscar Micheaux, 1920
- A Woman is a Woman, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961
- Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage, Zora Neale Hurtston, 1928

** U.S. only

Alphaville is by far the best 60s Godard movie

Christ there's a ton of Godard on there, death notice?

was wondering if they were going to add a bunch of Schrader flicks. Light Sleeper is one of my favorite '90s noirs, he's essentially mining his own previous scripts and turning in a real brooding NYC piece with lots of high-end cocaine atmosphere and terrific performances from everyone involved.

*when rather than if, since he seems like a guy Criterion has taken an interest in a bit more lately.

would like to see LS get a nice blu-ray release, it had a DVD release years ago but it's probably not ideal.

I'm a Criterion Channel person now! I've been making my way through the '70s Science Fiction list, which had a few entries I've wanted to see but never got around to

Christ there's a ton of Godard on there, death notice?

― flappy bird

Between this, the Anna Karina retrospective at the Film Forum, and the Anna Karina retrospective on TCM, I feel like I'm drowning in Godard. I don't know where to turn because I've seen them all already. Maybe I'll check out Le petit soldat at the Film Forum, that's a relatively rare one.

March additions:

$, Richard Brooks, 1971
3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves, 1957
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
The Anderson Tapes, Sidney Lumet, 1971
Angels in the Outfield, Clarence Brown, 1951
Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
Art School Confidential, Terry Zwigoff, 2006
Blackboard Jungle, Richard Brooks, 1955
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Paul Mazursky, 1969
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
Cactus Flower, Gene Saks, 1969
Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2017
The Canterbury Tales, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972
Counterfeit Kunkoo, Reema Sengupta, 2018
Cover Girl, Charles Vidor, 1944
Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, 1995
The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy, Kathleen Collins, 1980
A Dandy in Aspic, Anthony Mann, 1968
The Daytrippers, Greg Mottola, 1996
The Deadly Affair, Sidney Lumet, 1967
The Decameron, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971
Destiny, Fritz Lang, 1921
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, Michal Leszczylowski, 1988
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Fritz Lang, 1922
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
Edge of the City, Martin Ritt, 1957
Fail Safe, Sidney Lumet, 1964
Fly Away Home, Carroll Ballard, 1996
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Karel Reisz, 1981
The Getaway, Sam Peckinpah, 1972
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
Gilda, Charles Vidor, 1946
The Hands of Orlac, Robert Wiene, 1924
The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983
His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, 1940
The Girl on the Train, André Téchiné, 2009**
The Golem, Carl Boese and Paul Wegener, 1920
In Cold Blood, Richard Brooks, 1967
Kill the Umpire, Lloyd Bacon, 1950
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles, 1947
The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971
Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012**
Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins, 1982
Mackenna’s Gold, J. Lee Thompson, 1969
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
Mississippi Mermaid, François Truffaut, 1969
Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, 1922
Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983
Of Time and the City, Terence Davies, 2008**
On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013**
On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, 1954
Only Angels Have Wings, Howard Hawks, 1939
Orlando, Sally Potter, 1992
The Out-of-Towners, Arthur Hiller, 1970
Pal Joey, George Sidney, 1957
Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973
The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975**
A Patch of Blue, Guy Green, 1965
Repulsion, Roman Polanski, 1965
The Sacrifice, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986
Safe, Todd Haynes, 1995
The Skin, Liliana Cavani, 1981
Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme, 1984
Sweetgrass, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, 2009
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Busby Berkeley, 1949
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, 1968
Too Late to Die Young, Dominga Sotomayor, 2018
Varieté, Ewald André Dupont, 1925
Vice and Virtue, Roger Vadim, 1963
Would You Look at Her, Goran Stolevski, 2017
You Were Never Lovelier, William A. Seiter, 1942
You’ll Never Get Rich, Sidney Lanfield, 1941
Young Sherlock Holmes, Barry Levinson, 1985

I only just now noticed that they curate a selection for younger people every month.

one previously mentioned by me upthread -- i rewatched Light Sleeper, since the version i own is a DVD w/a 1.33:1 aspect ratio versus the 1.85:1 it was filmed in. Looks incredible, and one of those films i try to recommend to ppl a lot as a great moody '90s noir and a cut above most if not all others in the genre for its really palpable sense of urban desolation and ennui, and the deglamorized emptiness of certain corners of the high-end lifestyle. it's extremely "1992" in fashion and even w/the brooding Michael Been music, which i know turns off a lot of people but for me you just gotta commit to the experience since i think it's a pretty immersive film and one unafraid of a certain awkwardness and naked emotionality, and that includes the music. The performances are all good to incredible, w/Dafoe and Sarandon falling into the latter camp, as well as some really remarkable supporting work in a couple small key roles from Jane Adams and Victor Garber.

Anything expiring after today that I really need to see? (John Schlesinger, Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Pierre Melville, Bette Davis, William Wyler packages and a few other odds and ends)

Most of the films expiring in a few hours appeared in September, according to post upthread.

Melville's Le Cercle Rouge and le douls are great crime flics.
I just watched Schlesinger's Honky Tonk Freeway. Not sure if I'd call it good. It's like Nashville by way Cadyshack.

Yeah, pretty much love every single Melville I’ve seen, might watch Le Circle Rouge before the chimes at midnight take it away.

That and/or Barbara. Just sped-rewatched Jerichow, not sure if I can get to Yella. the films of CHRISTIAN PETZOLD

I didn't care much for Yella, which I watched when the Petzold films first went up. I watched Wyler's The Letter this afternoon, and I think I'll go for Le doulos tonight.

Surprising number of Melville’s - or Melvilles- survived the purge.

I thought An Elephant Sitting Still was supposed to leave after January but it's still just sitting there.

Army of Shadows is leaving this month, along with Shirley Clarke, Susan Seidelman and Danny Kaye, among others.

I didn't care much for Yella, which I watched when the Petzold films first went up. I watched Wyler's The Letter this afternoon, and I think I'll go for Le doulos tonight.

― Miami weisse (WmC),

otm

But you like Barbara, I think, don’t you?

He's uneven for me, but yes.

And Jerichow? Also, what about her, Nina Hoss?