Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

Yeah but it’s watchable

Au hazard is too beautiful for this world

We watched Ozu’s Good Morning tonight - cute!

Eyes of Laura Mars is on my list

Just watched Man of the West for the first time -- rather more graphic than I expected.

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.

I like some kieslowski!

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.

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.

Or at least if it's full of famous hollywood names and I haven't heard of it, it's probably shit.

Watched Man of the West. Anthony Mann's most violent film? I'd never Gary Cooper so...manic.

yes E, I know you like glossy trash w/ bad music

Thank God It's Not Dylan

Coming to the channel in May:

The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993**
Anamorphosis, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1991
Anna Christie, Clarence Brown, 1930
Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Anderson, 1956
Audience, Barbara Hammer, 1982
La belle noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, 1991
Betty Tells Her Story, Liane Brandon, 1972
The Big Country, William Wyler, 1958
The Big House, George Hill, 1930
Black Beauty, James Hill, 1971
Bless Their Little Hearts, Billy Woodberry, 1983
Blondie of the Follies, Edmund Goulding, 1932
The Boy with Green Hair, Joseph Losey, 1948
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1984
Cane River, Horace B. Jenkins, 1982
Céline and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974
The Champ, King Vidor, 1931
Children of the Century, Diane Kurys, 1999
Chris and Bernie, Bonnie Friedman and Deborah Shaffer, 1976
Clotheslines, Roberta Cantow, 1981
The Cloud-Capped Star, Ritwik Ghatak, 1960
The Comb, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1990
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena, Lourdes Portillo, 1999
Cowboy, Delmer Daves, 1958
Cynara, King Vidor, 1932
Dinner at Eight, George Cukor, 1933**
Down in the Delta, Maya Angelou, 1998
Entre nous, Diane Kurys, 1983
The Facts of Life, Melvin Frank, 1960
The Fearless Hyena, Jackie Chan, 1979
Fearless Hyena 2, Chan Chuen, 1983
The Field, Sandhya Suri, 2018
Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, Eliza Hittman, 2011
Friends with Money, Nicole Holofcener, 2006**
Gloria, John Cassavetes, 1980
Growing Up Female, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, 1971
Guerillère Talks, Vivienne Dick, 1978
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Chen Chi-hwa, 1980
Hero, Stephen Frears, 1992
The Human Factor, Otto Preminger, 1979
I Am Wanda, Katja Raganelli, 1980
In a Year of 13 Moons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978
In Absentia, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 2000
Inside Women Inside, Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio, 1978
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970
It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman, 2013
It Happens to Us, Amalie R. Rothschild, 1972
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Stanley Kramer, 1963
Janie’s Janie, Geri Ashur, 1971
Joyce at 34, Joyce Chopra, 1972
Land Makar, Margaret Tait, 1981
The Limey, Steven Soderbergh, 1999
Little Fugitive, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Raymond Abrashkin, 1953
Lovely & Amazing, Nicole Holofcener, 2001
Loves of a Blonde, Miloš Forman, 1965
The Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger, 1955
Martha, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974
Mimi, Claire Simon, 2002 Min and Bill, George Hill, 1930
The Mirror, Jafar Panahi, 1997
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001
My Lucky Stars, Sammo Hung, 1985
Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, 2015
Ocean’s 11, Lewis Milestone, 1960
Peppermint Soda, Diane Kurys, 1977
The Phantom Museum, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 2003
Phase IV, Saul Bass, 1974
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener, 2010**
Privilege, Yvonne Rainer, 1990
Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, 1992
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 1987
Riffraff, J. Walter Ruben, 1936
The Salt Mines, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1990
The Scarlet Letter, Victor Sjöström, 1926
Second Cousins Once Removed, Eliza Hittman, 2010
Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
Secrets, Frank Borzage, 1933
Shakedown, Leilah Weinraub, 2018
Sidewalk Stories, Charles Lane, 1989
Soft Fiction, Chick Strand, 1979
Something Wild, Jack Garfein, 1961
Spiritual Kung Fu, Lo Wei, 1978
Stella Dallas, Henry King, 1925
Stella Dallas, King Vidor, 1937
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1988
Stille Nacht III: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1992
Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1993
Storm Center, Daniel Taradash, 1956
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, 2013
Street of Crocodiles, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1986
Suzanne, Suzanne, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1982
Their Own Desire, E. Mason Hopper, 1929
The Third Generation, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979
The Ties That Bind, Su Friedrich, 1985
The Transformation, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1995
Tremors, Dawid Bodzak, 2018
Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhangke, 2002
This Unnameable Little Broom, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, and Keith Griffiths, 1985
Walk on the Wild Side, Edward Dmytryk, 1962
The Wayward Cloud, Tsai Ming-liang, 2005**
The Wind, Victor Sjöström, 1928
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, Bridget Terry, 2000
The World, Jia Zhangke, 2004
The Young Master, Jackie Chan, 1980
Yudie, Mirra Bank, 1974

That should be No Home Movie by Akerman.

Good timing on No Home Movie!

Bros Quay!

Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay! (as i've never seen them refered to as)

Chantal Akerman getting a Criterion Channel spotlight in June, including her hard-to-come-by musical GOLDEN EIGHTIES, which I’ve only seen sans subs pic.twitter.com/3TproQHd6Z

— Scott Nye (@railoftomorrow) May 20, 2020

🚨 ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: "COMPANY" coming to Criterion Channel in June 🚨 pic.twitter.com/jWGps6rnKU

— Marshall Shaffer (@media_marshall) May 20, 2020

https://thefilmstage.com/the-criterion-channels-june-lineup-features-chantal-akerman-early-scorsese-mike-leigh-more/

Alice, Jan Švankmajer, 1988
All or Nothing, Mike Leigh, 2002
Almayer’s Folly, Chantal Akerman, 2011
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, Martin Scorsese, 1978
And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead, Billy Woodberry, 2015
Another Country, Marek Kanievska, 1984
Another Year, Mike Leigh, 2010**
Anybody’s Woman, Bette Gordon, 1981
Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing, Leslie M. Roush, 1939
The Big Shave, Martin Scorsese, 1967
Black and Tan, Dudley Murphy, 1929
Black Peter, Miloš Forman, 1964
Born Free, James Hill, 1966
A Bundle of Blues, Fred Waller, 1933
But I’m a Cheerleader, Jamie Babbit, 1999
Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho, Fred Waller, 1934
Call Your Father, Jordan Firstman, 2016
La captive, Chantal Akerman, 2000
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman, Chantal Akerman, 1997
Columbus, Kogonada, 2017**
The Count of Monte Cristo, Rowland V. Lee, 1934
Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971
Dirt Daughter, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, 2019
Down There, Chantal Akerman, 2006
Empty Suitcases, Bette Gordon, 1980
The Eyes of Orson Welles, Mark Cousins, 2018
From the East, Chantal Akerman, 1993
From the Other Side, Chantal Akerman, 2002
Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1986
Grand Prix, John Frankenheimer, 1966
Greetings from Africa, Cheryl Dunye, 1996
Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh, 2008
Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy, Chantal Akerman, 1989
Hoagy Carmichael, Leslie M. Roush, 1939
Husbands, John Cassavetes, 1970
I Surrender Dear, Mack Sennett, 1931
I-94, Bette Gordon and James Benning, 1974
Intimate Lighting, Ivan Passer, 1965
Into the West, Mike Newell, 1992
It’s Not Just You, Murray!, Martin Scorsese, 1964
Italianamerican, Martin Scorsese, 1974
Janine, Cheryl Dunye, 1990
The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
Loves of a Blonde, Miloš Forman, 1965
Luminous Motion, Bette Gordon, 1998
Mafioso, Alberto Lattuada, 1962
Maurice, James Ivory, 1987
Michigan Avenue, Bette Gordon and James Benning, 1973
Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, 2012
My Beautiful Laundrette, Stephen Frears, 1985
My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, 1991
Mysterious Skin, Gregg Araki, 2004
Olivia, Jacqueline Audry, 1951
One Day Pina Asked . . . , Chantal Akerman, 1983
Original Cast Album: “Company,” D. A. Pennebaker, 1970
The Owls, Cheryl Dunye, 2010
Parting Glances, Bill Sherwood, 1986
The Potluck and the Passion, Cheryl Dunye, 1993
Red Road, Andrea Arnold, 2006
The Red Tree, Paul Rowley, 2018
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue, Aubrey Scotto, 1932
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana, 2017
Sergeant York, Howard Hawks, 1941
She Don’t Fade, Cheryl Dunye, 1991
Sing, Bing, Sing, Babe Stafford, 1933
South, Chantal Akerman, 1999
Spellbound, Jeffrey Blitz, 2002
St. Louis Blues, Dudley Murphy, 1929
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life, Fred Waller, 1935
Synonyms, Nadav Lapid, 2019
Tarnation, Jonathan Caouette, 2003
Totally F***ed Up, Gregg Araki, 1993
The United States of America, Bette Gordon and James Benning, 1975
An Untitled Portrait, Charyl Dunye, 1993
Vanilla Sex, Cheryl Dunye, 1992
Variety, Bette Gordon, 1983**
Vera Drake, Mike Leigh, 2004
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, 1996
West Side Story, Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961
What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, Martin Scorsese, 1963
Zombi Child, Bertrand Bonello, 2019

I'm excited about the Akerman collection. A lot of those were in a collection on Filmstruck and I didn't manage to watch them all. Now I can get caught up and then some.

Looking forward to seeing the Akerman films on the Criterion Channel, I haven't seen any of them

Just did a Targets rewatch. Quite something.

(the newly added Akerman films)

noticed that Synonyms is on that list, would recommend it

looking forward to seeing Zombi Child

I like some of that guy's other stuff.

in Synonyms Tom Mercier is both really relatable and strange/unknowable, I think it’s one of the more interesting first-time performances I have seen

I don't listen to many commentary tracks because I don't make a lot of time to rewatch films, but the commentary for The Limey is interesting and hilarious, with screenwriter Lem Dobbs grousing at Soderbergh's choices of what to cut from his script, and Soderbergh mostly just taking it, occasionally pushing back.

anyone experienced/solved this? watched Anna Christie yesterday, can't see shit today! It sucks. Keep it simple, i'm a moron here.

https://gizmodo.com/the-criterion-channel-should-be-my-favorite-streaming-p-1834150845

I've had a good experience with the iOS app. I think it has better developer support than some of the other stuff they're doing.

Limey commentary is a true classic of the form

Morbs, are you watching on a browser window, or on a tv with a streaming device like Roku or Apple TV? Need some more details. Thanks to HDCP Chrome on Mac won't work for playback, but Safari works fine.

I'm also having trouble! Glad I wasn't alone.

I use Chrome on my Dell laptop.

Just checked the Criterion Channel facebook group and apparently this is cropping up for a number of users. Alfred, do you watch on the laptop screen or push the video to a tv with an HDMI cable? It seems the cable and the tv have to be HDCP-compliant.

I push the video to a TV from a laptop, and it will only work if I set the remote to the applicable option. Even if the connection is plugged in, Criterion won't play the film if I have the remote set to TV or DVD.

Normally I plug the laptop into the TV with an HDMI cable, but the streaming ain't working on laptop-only either.

TV aint an option in the hospital.

ie keep it simpler

im quitting if this doesn't resolve in 4 days

If you haven’t already, definitely try using a different browser

^^^

different from...?

Different from whatever browser you're using.

Morbs, do you know what the program you use to access the web is called? Might be Chrome, Edge, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox ...

Chrome - https://www.google.com/chrome/
Firefox - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Opera - https://www.opera.com/

All free and fairly easy to get running if you have a few minutes.

I just got it to run on IE.

Anyone caught the first Maren Ade feature?

https://www.criterionchannel.com/leaving-may-31/videos/the-forest-for-the-trees

Yes, it's very good! Funny and sad, all about loneliness, I really enjoyed it

I am stoked as fuuuuck abt this Cheryl Dunye program, everyone should watch The Watermelon Woman

I downloaded Firefox and it's fine. I'd wanted to avoid downloading another browser.

July titles:

12 O’Clock Boys, Lotfy Nathan, 2013
5x2, François Ozon, 2004
The Adjuster, Atom Egoyan, 1991
Adoration, Atom Egoyan, 2008**
The Amateurist, Miranda July, 1998
Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica, 1993
Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010
Barbarella, Roger Vadim, 1968
Between the Lines, Joan Micklin Silver
The Big Combo, Joseph H. Lewis, 1955
The Bigamist, Ida Lupino, 1953
Blood on the Moon, Robert Wise, 1948
Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden, 1983
The Bowery, Sara Driver, 1994
Bullitt, Peter Yates, 1968
Calendar, Atom Egoyan, 1993
California Suite, Herbert Ross, 1978
California Typewriter, Doug Nichol, 2016
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Richard Brooks, 1958
Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt, 2016
Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952
Contemporary Color, Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, 2016
Day of the Outlaw, André De Toth, 1959
Dear Mom, Tammy Rae Carland, 1995
A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy, 1989
Exotica, Atom Egoyan, 1994
Family Viewing, Atom Egoyan, 1987**
Fit Model, Myna Joseph, 2019
Fun with Dick and Jane, Ted Kotcheff, 1977
The Future, Miranda July, 2011
Gigi (from 9 to 5), Joanne Nucho, 2001
Gohatto, Nagisa Oshima, 1999
Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1950
The Handmaid’s Tale, Volker Schlöndorff, 1990
Hawai, Ximena Cuevas, 1999
High Heels, Pedro Almodóvar, 1991
Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend, 1987
Infinite Football, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2018
Joanie 4 Jackie: A Quick Overview, Shauna McGarry, 2008
Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton, 1979
Last House on the Left, Wes Craven, 1972
Lenny Cooke, Josh and Benny Safdie, 2013
La Llorona, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, 2003
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, John Maybury, 1998**
Lust for Gold, S. Sylvan Simon, 1949
Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo, 2005
Man with the Gun, Richard Wilson, 1955
Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, 2005
Miss Annie Rooney, Edwin L. Marin, 1942
My Twentieth Century, Ildikó Enyedi, 1989
The Naked Spur, Anthony Mann, 1953
Nest of Tens, Miranda July, 2000
Next of Kin, Atom Egoyan, 1984**
No Place Like Home #1 and #2, Karen Yasinsky, 1999
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, 2010
Ophelia’s Opera, Abiola Abrams, 2001
Pillars, Haley Elizabeth Anderson, 2020
Rancho Notorious, Fritz Lang, 1952
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011
Shadow Animals, Jerry Carlsson, 2017
The Sheltering Sky, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990
Sleepwalk, Sara Driver, 1986
The Slow Escape, Sativa Peterson, 1998
Soleil Ô, Med Hondo, 1967
Speaking Parts, Atom Egoyan, 1989**
Station West, Sidney Lanfield, 1948
The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach, 2005**
The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan, 1997
Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, 2012
Tony Takitani, Jun Ichikawa, 2004
Transeltown, Myra Paci, 1992
untitled video, Sujin Lee, 2013 (?)
The Violent Men, Rudolph Maté, 1955
The Walking Hills, John Sturges, 1949
When Pigs Fly, Sara Driver, 1993
The White Balloon, Jafar Panahi, 1995
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, 1966
Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, 2009
You Are Not I, Sara Driver, 1981
Young Ahmed, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2019**