Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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?

Not challenging you, just curious

Barbara's my favorite, and Transit gripped me after a second viewing. Jerichow's good.

I skipped Jerichow. Of the ones I've seen, I'd rank Phoenix and Transit > Barbara >>>> Yella. I give Phoenix extra points for audacity -- the plot sounds totally ridiculous if I say it out loud, but he pulls it off.

Mackenna's Gold is one of the worst movies I've seen on a Criterion-affiliated streamer. What a load of crap.

Mackenna's Gold was and remains a very successful film in India.[11] In India it remained the top Hollywood grosser in history until blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Titanic came along. Even worldwide hits such as Jaws and Star Wars would not make as much money in India as Mackenna's Gold did. The film went through countless re-runs until well into the 1980s and could be seen in cinema halls across India, including small venues in the medium-size towns of North and South India.[11]

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

5 Against the House, Phil Karlson, 1955
8th Continent, Yorgos Zois, 2017
The Adventures of Marco Polo, John Ford and Archie Mayo, 1938
Affair in Trinidad, Vincent Sherman, 1952
Alps, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2011**
Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger, 1959
Angels Over Broadway, Ben Hecht and Lee Garmes, 1940
Annie Hall, Woody Allen, 1977
Arizona, Wesley Ruggles, 1940
Ball of Fire, Howard Hawks, 1941
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, 1953
Blind Alley, Charles Vidor, 1939
Bonjour tristesse, Otto Preminger, 1958
The Brothers Rico, Phil Karlson, 1957
Bunny Lake Is Missing, Otto Preminger, 1965
The Burglar, Paul Wendkos, 1957
Captains Courageous, Victor Fleming, 1937
The Cowboy and the Lady, H. C. Potter, 1938
The Crimson Kimono, Samuel Fuller, 1959
The Crossing Guard, Sean Penn, 1995
Dead Reckoning, John Cromwell, 1947
The Devil and Miss Jones, Sam Wood, 1941
Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009**
Down to Earth, Alexander Hall, 1947
Drive a Crooked Road, Richard Quine, 1954
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Jun Fukuda, 1966
Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland, 1990
Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Stephen Roberts, 1936
The Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, 1978
A Farewell to Arms, Frank Borzage, 1932
Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi, 2016
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, 2015
The Fountainhead, King Vidor, 1949
Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974
Friendly Persuasion, William Wyler, 1956
Godzilla vs. Gigan, Jun Fukuda, 1972
Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Yoshimitsu Banno, 1971
Graduate First, Maurice Pialat, 1978
The Hanging Tree, Delmer Daves, 1959
The Harder They Fall, Mark Robson, 1956
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Alexander Hall, 1941
Human Desire, Fritz Lang, 1954
I Am Not a Witch, Rungano Nyoni, 2017**
If You Could Only Cook, William A. Seiter, 1935
The Impatient Years, Irving Cummings, 1944
In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray, 1950
Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas, 1996
Johnny O’Clock, Robert Rossen, 1947
Kinetta, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2005
Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971
Lilac Time, George Fitzmaurice, 1928
The Lineup, Don Siegel, 1958
Listen, Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan, 2014
Little Lord Fauntleroy, John Cromwell, 1936
Loulou, Maurice Pialat, 1980
Love in the Afternoon, Billy Wilder, 1957
Lured, Douglas Sirk, 1947
Man of the West, Anthony Mann, 1958
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
Mifune: The Last Samurai, Steven Okazaki, 2015
The Mob, Robert Parrish, 1951
The More the Merrier, George Stevens., 1943
The Mouth Agape, Maurice Pialat, 1974
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Frank Capra, 1936
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra, 1939
Murder by Contract, Irving Lerner, 1958
My Name Is Julia Ross, Joseph H. Lewis, 1945
Nightfall, Jacques Tourneur, 1957
Party Wire, Erle C. Kenton, 1935
The Pawnbroker, Sidney Lumet, 1964
Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970
Pixote, Héctor Babenco, 1981
Police, Maurice Pialat, 1985
The Pride of the Yankees, Sam Wood, 1942
Public Hero Number One, J. Walter Ruben, 1935
Pushover, Richard Quine, 1954
Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980
The Real Glory, Henry Hathaway, 1939
Red Sun, Terence Young, 1971
Salome, William Dieterle, 1953
A Scandal in Paris, Douglas Sirk, 1946
The Scar, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1976
Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
Shampoo, Warren Beatty, 1975
Shockproof, Douglas Sirk, 1949
Slightly French, Douglas Sirk, 1949
The Small Back Room, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1949
The Sniper, Edward Dmytryk, 1952
So Dark the Night, Joseph H. Lewis, 1946
A Star Is Born, Frank Pierson, 1976
Staying Vertical, Alain Guiraudie, 2016
The Stranger, Orson Welles, 1946
The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941
The Talk of the Town, George Stevens, 1942
Task Force, Delmer Daves, 1949
Taxi, Jafar Panahi, 2015
Thank God It’s Friday, Robert Klane, 1978
This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, 2011**
Three Days of the Condor, Sydney Pollack, 1975
Tight Spot, Phil Karlson, 1955
The Two of Us, Claude Berri, 1967
Under the Sun of Satan, Maurice Pialat, 1987
Van Gogh, Maurice Pialat, 1991
Vera Cruz, Robert Aldrich, 1954
Wadjda, Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012**
We Won’t Grow Old Together, Maurice Pialat, 1972
The Wedding Night, King Vidor, 1935
Welcome to L.A., Alan Rudolph, 1976
The Westerner, William Wyler, 1940
What’s Up, Doc?, Peter Bogdanovich, 1972
Whirlpool, Roy William Neill, 1934
The Whole Town’s Talking, John Ford, 1935
The Winning of Barbara Worth, Henry King, 1926
You Can’t Take It With You, Frank Capra, 1938
**Available in the US only

The Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, 1978

siiiick

They really blew it out for their first birthday. Looking forward to seeing Irma Vep, Kinetta, loads more.

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.

Pialat rules

"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

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

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."

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?

ive seen and liked it, yes

"an absolutely devastating performance by Richard Conte" is enough for me, if I had CC

James Darren, not so much

I have a list of 6 movies I want to watch before they expire in 4 days, can I do it? The suspense.

cough em up

Day of the Locust, Light Sleeper, The Connection (Shirley Clarke), A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity, Patty Hearst -- rank 'em

I just watched Sorry, Wrong Number as it's about to leave too--good stuff!

If you all want to go full film snob experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JuDuxouqg

have seen all those; love Day of the Locust (megabummer, of course)

i'm unemployed and broke but this criterion channel thing is starting to look urgent and key

$10 GC for the Criterion store:
BTX6JD

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?

Is Under the Sun of Satan the most acclaimed?

Think so.

That one does appeal--I think I've really only ever seen the bad Depardieu

I really loved We Won’t Grow Old Together but it was kicking me where i was hurting, and À Nos Amours.