Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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**

Whoever somewhere that one time was saying they'd never seen any Atom Egoyan ... now's your chance!

The Naked Spur rocks.

Always more interested in what titles are leaving at the end of the month, tbh, as those are more likely to direct my immediate viewing.

I recently saw "Man of the West" and did not dig it, so wary of wading back into Mann westerns.

the leaving-June-30 list is nuts! so overwhelming I only managed to watch Foxy Brown lol

Was just looking at it, trying to get a handle on it. Lots on Luis Buñuel and Jean Arthur.

Douglas Sirk, Fritz Lang, Jane Campion, LQ Jones, Saul Bass,...

Tom, delete the Criterion Channel now, please!

Godard going away after this month.

...sort of like he did at the end of Faces/Places?

finally caught up with Between the Lines today, which had a little too much Stephen Collins and Bruno Kirby, but all those early Joan Micklin Silver films are good.

wait a minute, Redd, i only see 3 JLG films listed as leaving out of the 26 they currently host.

I'm glad you have the Channel now, Morbs, I always figured you'd find it a great service if/when you finally got it.

Watched Blood on the Moon last night, Akerman's D'Est today...still trying to decide what to watch tonight.

xp under the Leaving July 31 tab I see 14 JLGs... https://www.criterionchannel.com/leaving-july-31

The rubrics for Directed by Jean-Luc Godard says 22 films in the collection but maybe some already went away.

Oh looks like all twenty two are there.

A Walk on the Wild Side, which was part of a Saul Bass series also going away, with music by Mack David - Happy Birthday!- and Elmer Bernstein.

well i've seen all on there cept Le Gai Savoir. xp

August titles:

25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton, 1989
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Roy Rowland, 1953
The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970
Any Number Can Win, Henri Verneuil, 1963
Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, 2019
Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Fred Schepisi, 1978
Cheatin’, Bill Plympton, 2013
Comic Book Confidential, Ron Mann, 1988
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger, Bill Plympton, 2010
Criss Cross, Robert Siodmak, 1949
Cutaway, Kazik Radwanski, 2014
The Deep, Peter Yates, 1977
Devil’s Doorway, Anthony Mann, 1950
The Devil’s Playground, Fred Schepisi, 1976
Don’s Party, Bruce Beresford, 1976
Exporting Raymond, Phil Rosenthal, 2010
The Fan and the Flower, Bill Plympton, 2005
Father of My Children, Mia Hansen-Løve, 2009
Un flic, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972
Gallipoli, Peter Weir, 1981
Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn, 1973
The Getting of Wisdom, Bruce Beresford, 1977
The Girl on a Motorcycle, Jack Cardiff, 1968
Goodbye First Love, Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011
Guard Dog, Bill Plympton, 2004
Guide Dog, Bill Plympton, 2006
Hair High, Bill Plympton, 2004
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, Stephen Cone, 2015
Horn Dog, Bill Plympton, 2009
Hot Dog, Bill Plympton, 2008
How to Kiss, Bill Plympton, 1988
How to Make Love to a Woman, Bill Plympton, 1996
I Married a Strange Person!, Bill Plympton, 1997
Idiots and Angels, Bill Plympton, 2008
Imagine the Sound, Ron Mann, 1981
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, Julien Faraut, 2018
The Killers, Robert Siodmak, 1946
Kings Row, Sam Wood, 1942
Le cercle rouge, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970
The Little Prince, Stanley Donen, 1974
The Lonedale Operator, Michael Almereyda, 2018
Long Weekend, Colin Eggleston, 1978
Mad Max, George Miller, 1979
The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles, 1942
Money Movers, Bruce Beresford, 1978
Mr. Klein, Joseph Losey, 1976 Mutant Aliens, Bill Plympton, 2001
Mynarski Death Plummet, Matthew Rankin, 2014
Newsfront, Phillip Noyce, 1978
Once a Thief, Ralph Nelson, 1965
One of Those Days, Bill Plympton, 1988
Only Angels Have Wings, Howard Hawks, 1939
Personal Problems, Bill Gunn, 1980
Phantom Lady, Robert Siodmak, 1944
Poetry in Motion, Ron Mann, 1982
Princess Cyd, Stephen Cone, 2017
Puberty Blues, Bruce Beresford, 1981
Push Comes to Shove, Bill Plympton, 1991
Revengeance, Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan, 2016
Rocco and His Brothers, Luchino Visconti, 1960
Santa, the Fascist Years, Bill Plympton, 2008
The Secret Garden, Fred M. Wilcox, 1949
Sex and Violence, Bill Plympton, 1997
Sightseers, Ben Wheatley, 2012**
Starstruck, Gillian Armstrong, 1982
Storm Boy, Henri Safran, 1976
Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
Sunday Too Far Away, Ken Hannam, 1975
Sun Don’t Shine, Amy Seimetz, 2012
Things to Come, Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016
The Tune, Bill Plympton, 1992
Twist, Ron Mann, 1992
Unrelated, Joanna Hogg, 2007
Voices of Kidnapping, Ryan McKenna, 2017
The Widow Couderc, Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1971
The Wise Kids, Stephen Cone, 2011
The Wiseman, Bill Plympton, 1991
The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir, 1982
Your Face, Bill Plympton, 1987

Excited to see that Plympton package.

I assume there must be an "Australian New Wave" August category or something similar.

What is the context of "The Deep" on here?

adding a Peter Yates film every month?

The CC runs only the butchered US cut of Arizona Dream. Why bother?

https://vhx.imgix.net/criterionchannelchartersu/assets/621ecb9d-9034-4be4-9646-5fa345dad6be-c459e9f7.jpg

It came from a land down under . . . From the early seventies through the mideighties, a resurgence of government funding for national film production gave birth to a generation of brave, unconventional new voices who made Australia the home to a brief but bright-burning cinematic renaissance. Among the filmmakers who emerged from this artistic flowering were pivotal figures like Peter Weir, George Miller, Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, Fred Schepisi, and Phillip Noyce, many of whom went on to successful international careers. Encompassing subversive visions of Australian history (PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, MY BRILLIANT CAREER), dystopian science-fiction cult classics (MAD MAX, THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS), groundbreaking coming-of-age dramas (THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, PUBERTY BLUES), and beyond, these formally bold, thematically provocative films delved into the intricacies of Australian society and identity with newfound fearlessness. Among their most urgent concerns was for the country’s relationship to and mistreatment of its Indigenous people, as seen in works like THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, WALKABOUT, STORM BOY, and THE LAST WAVE, the last three of which all star legendary Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil, who stands as one of the movement’s most enduring faces.

Burn the royal family for warmth, leave their heads on pikes.

I can't find Phantom Lady from the list above.... That was one I was hoping to revisit.