Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

I was literally soliciting other readings

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).

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

Are any of the Mae West movies worth watching?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

cosign on uptight. Score by Booker T and the MGs

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

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

Sujata, Bimal Roy, 1959

^this is really good iirc

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

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

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

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)

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

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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

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?

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

whoa very excited about all the Lotte Reiniger stuff!

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.

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

I wish they'd get Only Angels Have Wings back so I can finish watching it. The prints are so much more beautiful than the other streaming services, I'd always rather just wait. (Also I don't have a Bluray player.)

....go get one, bro!

damn the ending is so good too

I think Days of Heaven was gone for a month...it's not available right now. That happens a fair amount...Blood Simple was coming and going constantly. It's back now but I don't know if it's part of the permanent collection or not.

lol I still mix up BOB LE FLAMBEUR and PIERROT LE FOU, I have seen neither and have no idea what either one of them are about but every time I see either of them I'm like "oh yeah that one Godard film"

I saw a screening of BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL a few years ago and it is... rough

Waiting for the WKW sh1t to be ripped and shared

How Green Was My Valley is necessary to show to anyone that dismisses John Ford or doesn't like Westerns--it's probably one of the most visually moving and evocative "memory pieces" I've ever seen. Don't watch it if you don't like Irish people

Sergeant Rutledge, fwiw, is a better liberal race 1960s movie than, for example, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Got a line on 2046, 24 gig rip

Been watching some films with Morricone scores this past week -- Big Gundown, Machine Gun McCain, Bird w/the Crystal Plumage. McCain was the least of the films for sure.

May 2021 titles:

Along for the Ride, Nick Ebeling, 2016
Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955**
The Backseat, Joe Stankus and Ashley Connor, 2017
The Blot, Lois Weber, 1921
The Blue Dahlia, George Marshall, 1946
The Booksellers, D. W. Young, 2019
Butter on the Latch, Josephine Decker, 2013
The Cat o’ Nine Tails, Dario Argento, 1971
The Chess Players, Satyajit Ray, 1977
The Cigarette, Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff, 1933
Cowboy, Delmer Daves, 1958
Crossfire, Edward Dmytryk, 1947
Dance, Girl, Dance, Dorothy Arzner, 1940
Darling, How Could You!, Mitchell Leisen, 1951
Day of Freedom, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935
Death Takes a Holiday, Mitchell Leisen, 1934
Dina, Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini, 2017
Discontent, Lois Weber and Allen G. Siegler, 1916
The Dumb Girl of Portici, Lois Weber, 1916
Easy Living, Mitchell Leisen, 1937
The Erl King, Marie-Louise Iribe, 1931
Escapes, Michael Almereyda, 2017
The Fall, Jonathan Glazer, 2019
Falling Leaves, Alice Guy Blaché, 1912
The Fate of Lee Khan, King Hu, 1973
Fire Will Come, Oliver Laxe, 2019**
First Day Out, Josephine Decker, 2016
Flames, Zefrey Throwell, Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell, 2017
Girlfriends, Claudia Weill, 1978
The Girl in the Armchair, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1912
Gloria, John Cassavetes, 1980
The Green-Eyed Blonde, Bernard Girard, 1957
He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951
The Heart of the World, Guy Maddin, 2000
Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang, 2016
The Hot Rock, Peter Yates, 1972
The House Is Black, Forough Farrokhzad, 1962
King Rat, Bryan Forbes, 1965
Kitty, Mitchell Leisen, 1945
Kitty Foyle, Sam Wood, 1940**
The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, 1973
The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987
The Last Movie, Dennis Hopper, 1971
The Last Sunset, Robert Aldrich, 1961
Lilith, Robert Rossen, 1964
Lonely Are the Brave, David Miller, 1962
Mabel’s Strange Predicament, Mabel Normand, 1914
Making an American Citizen, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1912
Mala mala, Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini, 2014
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Nunnally Johnson, 1956
MASH, Robert Altman, 1970
The Mask Task, Josephine Decker, 2018
Me the Terrible, Josephine Decker, 2012
The Men, Fred Zinnemann, 1950
Midnight, Mitchell Leisen, 1939
Minnie and Moskowitz, John Cassavetes, 1971
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1902
Murder at the Vanities, Mitchell Leisen, 1934
A Night on Bald Mountain, Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff, 1933
No Man of Her Own, Mitchell Leisen, 1950
Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959
On Dangerous Ground, Nicholas Ray, 1951
On the Barricade, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1907
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Roy Rowland, 1945
Parabola, Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth, 1937
Patton, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1969
The Peasant Women of Ryazan, Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Ivan Pravov, 1927
A Pistol for Ringo, Duccio Tessari, 1965
Property Is No Longer a Theft, Elio Petri, 1973
The Razor’s Edge, Edmund Goulding, 1946
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Allan Dwan, 1938
Remember the Night, Mitchell Leisen, 1940
The Return of Ringo, Duccio Tessari, 1965
Roman Holiday, William Wyler, 1953**
The Set-Up, Robert Wise, 1949
Shoes, Lois Weber, 1916
Skinningrove, Michael Almereyda, 2013
The Smiling Madame Beudet, Germaine Dulac, 1923
Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick, 1960
Spook Sport, Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren, Ted Nemeth, 1940
Squeezebox, Josephine Decker, 2010
The Star Prince, Madeline Brandeis, 1918
A Story Well Spun, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906
Suspense, Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, 1913
Tempest, Paul Mazursky, 1982
The Thing, John Carpenter, 1982
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Mervyn LeRoy, 1944
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Josephine Decker, 2014
To Each His Own, Mitchell Leisen, 1946
To the Unknown, Michael Almereyda, 2017
Tricheurs, Barbet Schroeder, 1984
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys, Richard Compton, 1971
What Happened Was . . . , Tom Noonan, 1994
What Have You Done to Solange?, Massimo Dallamano, 1972
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Matt Wolf, 2008
The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah, 1969
William Eggleston in the Real World, Michael Almereyda, 2005
The Woman Condemned, Dorothy Davenport, 1934
Wolf, Mike Nichols, 1994

Girlfriends is GREAT

Anyone seen the William eggleston one?

Minnie and Moskowitz is pretty rare on streaming, right? Glad people will have a chance to check it out. Should have a higher profile among his works imo.

It’s the only major Cassavetes that I’ve never been able to see, so I’m pretty excited about this.

The two "Ringo" westerns by Duccio Tessari are quite good and seldom seen here (both were extremely popular in Italy)

Something I still remember: an interview with Janet Maslin where she said she thought Nicholson was great for the first half-hour of Wolf.

Interviewer: "What happened then?"
Maslin: "He turned into a wolf."

I remember it as being pretty good.

I remember the scene where he pees on James Spader (iirc) to be pretty great.

The only thing I remember about that movie is a gag involving Nicholson's, er, keen sense of smell.

The Hot Rock is so good

It's striking that Peter Yates made that movie back to back with The Friends of Eddie Coyle--such different approaches to "the crime movie," both done so well.

The Hot Rock is so good

I really liked Max Ophuls' Caught the other night. Billed as a noir, it's really somewhere between psychological thriller and a melodramatic "woman's picture."