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Some films enter the permanent streaming library almost immediately, some get added for 1, 2 or 3 month engagements, some don't get added at all. So, no, no predictable timeline.

Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link

Thanks--I'll give it till the new year, and if it's not up by then I'll buy it.

clemenza, Monday, 7 December 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

January 2021 titles:

11’09”01—September 11, Mira Nair, 2002
The Age of Swordfish, Vittorio De Seta, 1954
All Small Bodies, Jennifer Reeder, 2017
And I Will Rise If Only to Hold You Down, Jennifer Reeder, 2012
Arsenic and Old Lace, Frank Capra, 1944 *
Awaara, Raj Kapoor, 1951
Back Street, John M. Stahl, 1932
Barbarella, Roger Vadim, 1968
Barefoot in the Park, Gene Saks, 1967
Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, Christine Turner, 2020
Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929
Blood Below the Skin, Jennifer Reeder, 2015
Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks, 1938 *
The Cameraman, Edward Sedgwick, 1928
The Chase, Arthur Penn, 1966
Captain Conan, Bertrand Tavernier, 1996
Carancho, Pablo Trapero, 2010 *
Cat Ballou, Elliot Silverstein, 1965
The China Syndrome, James Bridges, 1979
The Clockmaker of St. Paul, Bertrand Tavernier, 1974
Compensation, Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999
Coup de torchon, Bertrand Tavernier, 1981
Crocodile Conspiracy, Zeinabu irene Davis, 1986
Crystal Lake, Jennifer Reeder, 2016
Cycles, Zeinabu irene Davis, 1989
Daddy Nostalgia, Bertrand Tavernier, 1990
A Day in Barbagia, Vittorio De Seta, 1959
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat, Mira Nair, 1993
Death Watch, Bertrand Tavernier, 1980
A Doll’s House, Joseph Losey, 1973
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
Easter in Sicily, Vittorio De Seta, 1954
Fishing Boats, Vittorio De Seta, 1958
The Forgotten, Vittorio De Seta, 1959
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, Isaac Julien, 1995
The Ghost of Peter Sellers, Peter Medak, 2018
Golden Parable, Vittorio De Seta, 1954
Habaneros, Julien Temple, 2017
Hallelujah, King Vidor, 1929
He Who Gets Slapped, Victor Sjöström, 1924
Hell’s Heroes, William Wyler, 1929
Homegoings, Christine Turner, 2013
How Can It Be?, Mira Nair, 2008
I’m All Right Jack, John Boulting, 1959
Ice, Robert Kramer, 1970
Imitation of Life, John M. Stahl, 1934
The Incredible Shrinking Man, Jack Arnold, 1957
India Cabaret, Mira Nair, 1985
Islands of Fire, Vittorio De Seta, 1954
The Judge and the Assassin, Bertrand Tavernier, 1976
Kevin Beasley’s Raw Materials, Christine Turner, 2019
Kill List, Ben Wheatley, 2011
Kirikou and the Men and Women, Michel Ocelot, 2012
Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971
The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick, 1955
The Laughing Club of India, Mira Nair, 2001
Les saignantes, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 2005
Let’s Go Crazy, Alan Cullimore, 1951
Life and Nothing But, Bertrand Tavernier, 1989 *
Lion’s Den, Pablo Trapero, 2008 *
LOLA, 15, Jennifer Reeder, 2017
Lolita, Stanley Kubrick, 1962
Magnificent Obsession, John M. Stahl, 1935
The Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger, 1955
The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer, 1962
Migration, Mira Nair, 2008
A Million Miles Away, Jennifer Reeder, 2014
Ministry of Fear, Fritz Lang, 1944
Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair, 2001
The Morning After, Sidney Lumet, 1986
Mother of the River, Zeinabu irene Davis, 1995
The Mouse That Roared, Jack Arnold, 1959
Mr. Topaze, Peter Sellers, 1961
Never Let Go, John Guillermin, 1960
Oil City Confidential, Julien Temple, 2009
The Optimists, Anthony Simmons, 1973
Orgosolo’s Shepherds, Vittorio De Seta, 1958
Panique, Julien Duvivier, 1946
A Powerful Thang, Zeinabu irene Davis, 1991
The Pub, Joseph Pierce, 2012
Ray & Liz, Richard Billingham, 2018
Riot in Cell Block 11, Don Siegel, 1954
Sangam, Raj Kapoor, 1964
Sea Countrymen, Vittorio De Seta, 1954
Seven Songs About Thunder, Jennifer Reeder, 2010
Shree 420, Raj Kapoor, 1955
Shuvit, Jennifer Reeder, 2017
So Far from India, Mira Nair, 1983
Solfatara, Vittorio De Seta, 1954
A Sunday in the Country, Bertrand Tavernier, 1984
The Talk of the Town, George Stevens, 1942
Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep, Jennifer Reeder, 2011
Tom Thumb, Olivier Dahan, 2001
Walk on the Wild Side, Edward Dmytryk, 1962
A Week’s Vacation, Bertrand Tavernier, 1980
When Tomorrow Comes, John M. Stahl, 1939
White Elephant, Pablo Trapero, 2012**
Zoo, Will Niava, 2020

Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link

Caught Strait-jacket before it disappears tomorrow. What a hoot!

Nhex, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

February 2021 titles:

Abouna, Mahamat Saleh-Haroun, 2002
Accidence, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, 2018
After the Curfew, Usmar Ismail, 1954
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery, 2013
Ajube Kete, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2005
Archangel, Guy Maddin, 1990**
The Bad and the Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli, 1952
The Balcony, Joseph Strick, 1963
Bamboozled, Spike Lee, 2000
Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964
Black Bus Stop, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2019
Blonde Venus, Josef von Sternberg, 1932
Blood Kin, Ramin Bahrani, 2018
The Blue Angel, Josef von Sternberg, 1930
Boyant, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2008
Buck and the Preacher, Sidney Poitier, 1972
Bus Nut, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2014
Careful, Guy Maddin, 1992**
Celebration, Olivier Meyrou, 2007
The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem, Ossie Davis, 1970
Cowards Bend the Knee, Guy Maddin, 2003**
Daratt, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006
The Devil Is a Woman, Josef von Sternberg, 1935
Dishonored, Josef von Sternberg, 1931
Dissolution, Nina Menkes, 2010
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, Guy Maddin, 2002**
Drexciya, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2010
A Farewell to Arms, Frank Borzage, 1932
Fastest Man in the State, Claudrena N. Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017
The Forbidden Room, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch, 1999
Glorious, Guy Maddin, 2008
The Great Sadness of Zohara, Nina Menkes, 1983
The Green Fog, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, 2017
Grigris, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, 2013
How Can I Ever Be Late, Claudrena N. Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017
How to Take a Bath, Guy Maddin, 2009
I Am Somebody, Madeline Anderson, 1970
Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson, 1960
Intermittent Delight, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2007
The Killing Floor, Bill Duke, 1984
Kwaku Ananse, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2013
The Last Unicorn, Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, 1982
Leadbelly, Gordon Parks, 1976
The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks, 1969
A Life of Her Own, George Cukor, 1950
Lift You Up, Ramin Bahrani, 2014
Lines of the Hand, Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, and Evan Johnson, 2015
The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
Mahogany Too, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2018
Me broni ba, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2009
Moments Without Proper Names, Gordon Parks, 1986
Morocco, Josef von Sternberg, 1930
My Dad Is 100 Years Old, Guy Maddin, 2005
Nationtime, William Greaves, 1972
On Monday of Last Week, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2017
One False Move, Carl Franklin, 1992
Park Lanes, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2015
Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2019
Phantom Love, Nina Menkes, 2007
Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
Plastic Bag, Ramin Bahrani, 2009
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Tay Garnett, 1946
Pressure, Horace Ové, 1976
Putney Swope, Robert Downey Sr., 1969
Queen of Diamonds, Nina Menkes, 1991
The Rabbit Hunters, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson,2020
Reluctantly Queer, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2016
La ronde, Roger Vadim, 1964
The Saddest Music in the World, Guy Maddin, 2003
The Scarlet Empress, Josef von Sternberg, 1934
A Screaming Man, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010
A Season in France, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2017
Shanghai Express, Josef von Sternberg, 1932
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey, Gordon Parks, 1984
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2012
St. Louis Blues, Allen Reisner, 1958
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012
A Story of Children and Film, Mark Cousins, 2013Stump the Guesser, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, 2020
Sugarcoated Arsenic, Claudrena N. Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, 2014
Take a Giant Step, Philip Leacock, 1959
The Tall Target, Anthony Mann, 1951
Tea 4 Two, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2006
They Live by Night, Nicolas Ray, 1948
Thomasine and Bushrod, Gordon Parks, Jr., 1974
A Tribute to Malcolm X, Madeline Anderson, 1967
Tomorrow Is Another Day, Felix E. Feist, 1951
Uptight, Jules Dassin, 1968
Watermelon Man, Melvin Van Peebles, 1970
We Demand, Claudrena N. Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016
Where Danger Lives, John Farrow, 1950
You Only Live Once, Fritz Lang, 1937

Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

EXLCUSIVE STREAMING PREMIERE

Park Lanes
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2015 • United States

Kevin Jerome Everson’s monument of durational cinema immerses viewers in the inner workings of a factory that produces bowling-alley equipment—a full eight-hour workday experienced in real time. Entrancing, meditative, and totally enveloping, PARK LANES unfolds according to the rhythms and rituals of the workers whose shifts it patiently documents, their quotidian tasks taking on a profound significance.

Is this a joke?

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link

Oh hell yes I have been wanting to watch that

Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link

I’m going to need some Adderall to screen that.

Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link

it sounds like a twitter joke about slow cinema that went too far and accidentally got made

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link

"come be entranced by the enveloping experience of being a Poor for a day. after a while, it really feels like you're really someone who doesn't have the leisure time to watch an 8-hour film!"

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link

alternately, you could just get a job at a bowling alley for a day and get paid enough for lunch, a cab ride home and part of a criterion membership

That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link

(that said, i have watched an hour and a half of this so i may be culpable)
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/15-hours/

That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link

and nearly 2 1/2 hours of The Clock! Which was riveting stuff tbh.

That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link

park lanes sounds rad

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link

yeah i'm pro slow cinema (hate the term "durational" cinema), saw a bread factory in theater, satantango, look forward to every wiseman doc, etc. but idk presenting this as A Film seems like the true nadir of the concept imho

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

(tbf i guess im also cranky bc i miss really going bowling)

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

I believe it’s mostly been exhibited as a gallery piece yeah. it was cited in The Process Genre, which I read last year, so I had noodled around looking for a way to watch it previously.

Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link

Anyway rn some dudes are bending big sheet metal parts with a huge press.

Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link

Got about 3 hours in, it’s wonderful stuff but I need a break, from sitting if nothing else

Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 15 February 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link

i guess i'd be curious to hear what the argument is that its not just class tourism.

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link

Idk it is a less hygienic and abstracted vision of industrial labor than say How It‘s Made

Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link

i guess i'd be curious to hear what the argument is that its not just class tourism.

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, February 15, 2021 4:57 PM (one hour ago)

I haven't seen this, but it seems far more incumbent on you to explain why that's the only possible reading of a film you haven't seen and know nothing about.

Anyway here's an essay: https://cinema-scope.com/features/perfect-game-kevin-jerome-eversons-park-lanes/

rob, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link

I was literally soliciting other readings

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link

Hm

The abstraction of each of these workers’ components actually permits us, Everson, and even possibly the workers themselves, to regard these objects from a certain aesthetic distance. The man who is busily fitting lug-nuts at metallic shafts together in uncertain configurations seems to be solving a problem rather than following a lock-step set of orders, and as we watch him put pieces together and take them apart, it looks quite a bit like Jude Law assembling the gristle gun in Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999).

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link

listen, lots of things are like Jude Law assembling the gristle gun in Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999)

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:32 (three years ago) link

Are any of the Mae West movies worth watching?

wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link

My Little Chickadee is worth a watch. Great final line.

The only other one I've seen among the Criterion Channel lot is Go West Young Man, which is watchable, but rather tame and not especially funny by Mae standards.

edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link

I'm No Angel is probably the best one; beyond that I would temper my expectations

Josefa, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link

Yeah, I'm slowly working my way through them atm and haven't been bowled over yet. Same with W.C. Fields tbh.

The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link

Have you watched The Fatal Glass of Beer? Sometimes my pick for the funniest movie ever made (and its only 20 mins long).

edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link

don't know about Park Lanes but just watched Jude Law assemble the gristle gun in eXistenZ, that was a strange and unpleasant movie

Dan S, Thursday, 18 February 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link

fyi everyone this program is wonderful and about the length of a feature, slightly shorter even

https://www.criterionchannel.com/shorts-for-days-women-auteurs-1

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 February 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link

March titles: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7289-the-criterion-channel-s-march-2021-lineup

Usually a flat list of films on FB or Criterioncast beats criterion.com's official post, but not this time.

Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link

i recommend jules dassin's 'uptight' (1968), streaming as part of the ruby dee collection on CC now. the film transposes the plot of john ford's 'the informer' to a black revolutionary cell in cleveland in 1968, in the days following MLK's assassination (the film opens with dassin's own footage of his funeral in memphis). dee and julian mayfield, who stars as the stool pigeon, co-wrote the screenplay with dassin.

good writeup (with spoilers) here:

https://brightlightsfilm.com/dont-talk-to-us-about-being-killed-uptight-and-the-problem-of-black-cinema-in-hollywood/#.YDgpc5NKiT8

donna rouge, Thursday, 25 February 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link

cosign on uptight. Score by Booker T and the MGs

jbn, Friday, 26 February 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link

Full list for March:

The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963
Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972
Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984
Boat People, Ann Hui, 1982
Boneshaker, Nuotama Frances Bodomo, 2013
Brother to Brother, Rodney Evans, 2004
Buffalo Soldiers, Charles Haid, 1997 *
Cast a Dark Shadow, Lewis Gilbert, 1955
Charles and Lucie, Nelly Kaplan, 1979
Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, 1940
City of Women, Federico Fellini, 1980
Cooley High, Michael Schultz, 1975
The Count, Charles Chaplin, 1916
The Cure, Charles Chaplin, 1917
The Damned, Luchino Visconti, 1969
Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965
Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971
Dementia, John Parker, 1955
Despair, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978
Devdas, Bimal Roy, 1955
The Diabolic Tenant, Georges Méliès, 1909
Do bigha zamin, Bimal Roy, 1953
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, Laura Israel, 2015
Down on the Sidewalk in Waikīkī, Justyn Ah Chong, 2019
Duel at Diablo, Ralph Nelson, 1966
Easy Street, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Edge of the City, Martin Ritt, 1957
Everybody Dies!, Nuotama Bodomo, 2016
The Fireman, Charles Chaplin, 1916
The Floorwalker, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Adam Rifkin, 2014
Good Bye, Lenin!, Wolfgang Becker, 2003
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Sophie Fiennes, 2017
The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, 1940
Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1950
Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Sturges, 1944
Home, Ursula Meier, 2008 *
The Immigrant, Charles Chaplin, 1917
The Impossible Voyage, Georges Méliès, 1904
The In-Laws, Arthur Hiller, 1979
The Infernal Cauldron, Georges Méliès, 1903
Intervista, Federico Fellini, 1987
The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship, Georges Méliès, 1906
Joan of Arc, Georges Méliès, 1900
Kalewa, Mitchel Viernes, 2018
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, 1976
The Kingdom of the Fairies, Georges Méliès, 1903
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, 1941
Lāhainā Noon, Christopher Kahunahana, 2014
The Last Tree, Shola Amoo, 2019
The Legend of Black Charley, Martin Goldman, 1972
Let the Sunshine In, Claire Denis, 2017 *
Madhumati, Bimal Roy, 1958
Mandabi, Ousmane Sembène, 1968
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, Anna Maria Tatò, 1997
Mary Last Seen, Sean Durkin, 2010
The Merry Frolics of Satan, Georges Méliès, 1906
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Preston Sturges, 1943
Moloka‘i Bound, Alika Maikau, 2019
The Moon and the Night, Erin Lau, 2018
Naal, Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti, 2018
A New Leaf, Elaine May, 1971
Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini, 1957
One A.M., Charles Chaplin, 1916
Opening Night, John Cassavetes, 1977
Other People, Bryson Chun, 2018
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Albert Lewin, 1951
Papa the Little Boats, Nelly Kaplan, 1971
The Palm Beach Story, Preston Sturges, 1942
The Pawnshop, Charles Chaplin, 1916
The Pillar of Fire, Georges Méliès, 1899
The Pit Where We Were Born, Alexander Bocchieri, 2018
The Pleasure of Love, Nelly Kaplan, 1991
Posse, Mario Van Peebles, 1993
Relic 0, Larry Achiampong, 2017
Relic 1, Larry Achiampong, 2017
Relic 2, Larry Achiampong, 2019
Relic 3, Larry Achiampong, 2019
Rip’s Dream, Georges Méliès, 1905
Robinson Crusoe, Georges Méliès, 1903
Rock ’n’ Roll High School, Allan Arkush, 1979
Rosewood, John Singleton, 1997
The Sea Shall Not Have Them, Lewis Gilbert, 1954
Sergeant Rutledge, John Ford, 1960
Shane, George Stevens, 1953
Sister, Ursula Meier, 2012 *
Skin Game, Paul Bogart and Gordon Douglas, 1971
Song of Freedom, J. Elder Wills, 1936
Sujata, Bimal Roy, 1959
Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902
The Twentieth Century, Matthew Rankin, 2019 *
Unfaithfully Yours, Preston Sturges, 1948
The Vagabond, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Variety Lights, Federico Fellini, 1950
A Very Curious Girl, Nelly Kaplan, 1969
Vision Portraits, Rodney Evans, 2019
The Visitor, Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965
The White Sheik, Federico Fellini, 1952
Whimsical Illusions, Georges Méliès, 1910
The Witch, Georges Méliès, 1906
Women Make Film, Mark Cousins, 2018

Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Friday, 26 February 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link

holy shit I am so stoked abt A NEW LEAF and BOAT PEOPLE

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link

Sujata, Bimal Roy, 1959

^this is really good iirc

rob, Friday, 26 February 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link

Be sure to take a few minutes to check out the Méliès stuff. It's magical and helps restore my faith in humanity.

TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link

does anyone have any specific recommendations from the black westerns collection?

na (NA), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link

Duel at Diablo is a very good western. It's not really "black" per se... Sidney Poitier is a character in it.

Josefa, Friday, 26 February 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link

Sergeant Rutledge! A great John Ford "b-side"--one of the smaller movies he made quickly in between the big ones. Woody Strode is great, and it's Billie Burke's last movie (the good witch in Oz)

flappy bird, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link

Be sure to take a few minutes to check out the Méliès stuff. It's magical and helps restore my faith in humanity.

― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Friday, February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

April titles:

5 Card Stud, Henry Hathaway, 1968
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Lotte Reiniger, 1926
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Lotte Reiniger, 1954
And Nothing Happened, Naima Ramos Chapman, 2016
Animal Crackers, Victor Heerman, 1930
Any Number Can Play, Mervyn LeRoy, 1949
Apparition, Isabel Sandoval, 2012
Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
Araya, Margot Benacerraf, 1959
At the Circus, Edward Buzzell, 1939
Atlantic City, Louis Malle, 1980 *
The Automobile, Alfredo Giannetti, 1971
Bad Girls Go to Hell, Doris Wishman, 1965
The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, 1967
The Big Store, Charles Reisner, 1941
The Big Trim, John Magary, 2020
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento, 1970
Bob le flambeur, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956
Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders, 1999
Burn!, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969
California Split, Robert Altman, 1974
The Caliph Stork, Lotte Reiniger, 1954
Caught, Max Ophüls, 1949 *
Chef Flynn, Cameron Yates, 2018 *
Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani, 2007
Companeros, Sergio Corbucci, 1970
Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 *
Croupier, Mike Hodges, 1998
Dark City, William Dieterle, 1950
A Day at the Races, Sam Wood, 1937
Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick, 1978
Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962
Death Rides a Horse, Giulio Petroni, 1967
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, Travis Wilkerson, 2017
Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa, Lotte Reiniger, 1928
Dr. Dolittle: Lion’s Den, 1928
Duck Soup, Leo McCarey, 1933
Duck, You Sucker, Sergio Leone, 1971
El Condor, John Guillermin, 1970
Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962
The Flying Coffer, Lotte Reiniger, 1922
Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky, 1948 *
The Gambler, Karel Reisz, 1974
The Garden, Derek Jarman, 1990
Gilda, Charles Vidor, 1946
A Girl Missing, Kōji Fukada, 2019
Go West, Edward Buzzell, 1940
Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir, 1937
Hair Wolf, Mariama Diallo, 2018
Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996
Harlequin, Lotte Reiniger, 1931
Hitch-Hike, Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1977
Horse Feathers, Norman Z. McLeod, 1932
House of Games, David Mamet, 1987
How Green Was My Valley, John Ford, 1941
The Human Factor, Edward Dmytryk, 1975
The Hustler, Robert Rossen, 1961
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970
The Las Vegas Story, Robert Stevenson, 1952
The Leopard, Luchino Visconti, 1963
Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, 1994
A Loft, Ken Jacobs, 2010
The Lost Son, Lotte Reiniger, 1974
Machine Gun McCain, Giuliano Montaldo, 1969
The Magic Horse, Lotte Reiniger, 1974
Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani, 2005
The Man Who Cheated Himself, Felix E. Feist, 1950
Mayor, David Osit, 2020
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, 1971
The Mend, John Magary, 2014
The Mercenary, Sergio Corbucci, 1968
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied, 1943
The Mission, Roland Joffé, 1986
Momma’s Man, Azazel Jacobs, 2008
Monkey Business, Norman Z. McLeod, 1931
Moonrise, Frank Borzage, 1948
New Homeland, Barbara Kopple, 2018
A Night at the Opera, Sam Wood, 1935
Night Train Murders, Aldo Lado, 1975
Oxhide, Liu Jiayin, 2005
Oxhide II, Liu Jiayin, 2009
Papageno, Lotte Reiniger, 1935
Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955
Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood, 1971
The Professional, Georges Lautner, 1981
A Quiet Place in the Country, Elio Petri, 1968
Raining in the Mountain, King Hu, 1979
Ripley’s Game, Liliana Cavani, 2002
Room Service, William A. Seiter, 1938
Rupture, Yassmina Karajah, 2017
The Secret of the Marquise, Lotte Reiniger, 1922
Señorita, Isabel Sandoval, 2011
Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
Shaft’s Big Score!, Gordon Parks, 1972
Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra, 1985
Sons of the Desert, William A. Seiter, 1933 *
The Star of Bethlehem, Lotte Reiniger, 1956
The Stolen Heart, Lotte Reiniger, 1934
Tabula Rasa, Matthew Rankin, 2011
That’s Life!, Blake Edwards, 1986
To Sleep with Anger, Charles Burnett, 1990
The Third Man, Carol Reed, 1949
This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011 *
Winged Migration, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin, 2001 *
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Zhang Yimou, 2009 *
Words, Planets, Laida Lertxundi, 2018
The World of Gilbert & George, Gilbert & George Passmore, 1981
Yellow Fever, Ng’endo Mukii, 2012

Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Friday, 26 March 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link

i thought days of heaven was one of the movies that's going away this month? are they taking it away and then adding it back?

na (NA), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link

i am pumped that mccabe & mrs. miller is coming back, last time i had to turn it off with about a half hour left because i was too tired, forgetting that it was the last day of the month and it would be gone the next day

na (NA), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link

whoa very excited about all the Lotte Reiniger stuff!

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link

I really need to carve out more time to use this service. Lots of great stuff. Also maybe I'll finally get around to watching Bob Le Flambeur.

Nhex, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link

one thing that's great about bob le flambeur is lots of french people saying "bob" in french accents

na (NA), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link


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