Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

The Secret of Nimh scared me as a kid.

September 2021 titles:

24 City, Jia Zhangke, 2008
Abel’s Island, Michael Sporn, 1988
Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder, 1951
After Hours, Martin Scorsese, 1985
An Affair to Remember, Leo McCarey, 1957
Angel, Ernst Lubitsch, 1937
The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970
The Apartment, Billy Wilder, 1960
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, Ernst Lubitsch, 1938
Bonjour tristesse, Otto Preminger, 1958
Born to Win, Ivan Passer, 1971
Center Stage, Stanley Kwan, 1991
Chocolate Babies, Stephen Winter, 1996
Ciao! Manhattan, John Palmer, 1972
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014**
The Clock, Vincente Minnelli, 1945
The Crowd, King Vidor, 1928
Cluny Brown, Ernst Lubitsch, 1946
Crimson Gold, Jafar Panahi, 2003**
Da yie, Anthony Nti, 2019
Dark Days, Marc Singer, 2000
The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, 1989
Downtown 81, Edo Bertoglio, 2000
Drifting Clouds, Aki Kaurismäki, 1996
Edward, My Son, George Cukor, 1949
The End of the Affair, Edward Dmytryk, 1955
Eye of the Devil, J. Lee Thompson, 1966
Fear of a Black Hat, Rusty Cundieff, 1993
Flowers of Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998
Freedom Fields, Naziha Arebi, 2018
The Garment Jungle, Vincent Sherman, 1957
God Told Me To, Larry Cohen, 1976
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, 1925
Heaven Can Wait, Ernst Lubitsch, 1943
The Hottest August, Brett Story, 2019
The Hucksters, Jack Conway, 1947
In the Cut, Jane Campion, 2003**
The Innocents, Jack Clayton, 1961
Jason and Shirley, Stephen Winter, 2015
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Tamra Davis, 2010
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont, 2017
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang, Walter Salles, 2014**
Joan of Arc,​​Bruno Dumont, 2019
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Leslie Harris, 1992
King of New York, Abel Ferrara, 1990
Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2019
La Cage aux Folles, Edouard Molinaro, 1978
Lights in the Dusk, Aki Kaurismäki, 2006**
Little Fugitive, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Raymond Abrashkin, 1953
Little Murders, Alan Arkin, 1971
Los Sures, Diego Echeverria, 1984
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore, Sky Hopinka, 2020
The Man Without a Past, Aki Kaurismäki, 2002
Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan, 2011
Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhangke, 2015**
Mr. Jealousy, Noah Baumbach, 1997
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Alan Rudolph, 1994
My Country, My Country, Laura Poitras, 2006
Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939
O’Say Can You See 1, Laura Poitras, 2011
O’Say Can You See 2, Laura Poitras, 2011
The Oath, Laura Poitras, 2010
Old Enough, Marisa Silver, 1984
On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin, 1956
On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, 1954
The Out-of-Towners, Arthur Hiller, 1970
The Panic in Needle Park, Jerry Schatzberg, 1971
The Perfect Candidate, Haifaa al-Mansour, 2019
Platform, Jia Zhangke, 2000
Point Blank, John Boorman, 1967
The Prisoner of Zenda, Richard Thorpe, 1952
Rhythm Thief, Matthew Harrison, 1994
The Rocket, Kim Mordaunt, 2013
A Royal Scandal, Otto Preminger and Ernst Lubitsch, 1945
Sabrina, Billy Wilder, 1954**
Smoke, Wayne Wang, 1995
Soup to Nuts, Benjamin Stoloff, 1930
The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach, 2005**
Stalag 17, Billy Wilder, 1953
Stations of the Elevated, Manfred Kirchheimer, 1981
Still Life, Jia Zhangke, 2006
still/here, Christopher Harris, 2019
The Story of the Dancing Frog, Michael Sporn, 1989
The Story of Lovers Rock, Menelik Shabazz, 2011
The Sundowners, Fred Zinnemann, 1960
Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, 1950
Super Fly, Gordon Parks Jr., 1972
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Joseph Sargent, 1974
Tea and Sympathy, Vincente Minnelli, 1956
That Uncertain Feeling, Ernst Lubitsch, 1941
Thief, Michael Mann, 1981
Time and Judgement, Menelik Shabazz, 1988
Titus, Julie Taymor, 1999
A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhangke, 2013**
Vacation from Marriage, Alexander Korda, 1945
Variety, Bette Gordon, 1983
West Side Story, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961
What Is a Woman?, Marin Håskjold, 2020
Wish You Were Here, David Leland, 1987
Working Girls, Lizzie Borden, 1986

Criterion Channel's "63-film salute to New York City" next month includes exactly zero films from Woody Allen. Interesting snapshot of where he's at, reputation-wise.

— Ryan Stewart (@crsryan) August 25, 2021

Excellent month.

October 2021 titles:

10 Rillington Place, Richard Fleischer, 1971
After Life, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998
Angst, Gerald Kargl, 1983
Arsenic and Old Lace, Frank Capra, 1944**
The Bad and the Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli, 1952
Bad Influence, Curtis Hanson, 1990
Beat Girl, Edmond T. Gréville, 1960
Beautiful Thing, Hettie MacDonald, 1996**
Between You and Milagros, Mariana Saffon, 2020
The Big Sky, Howard Hawks, 1952
The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934
Black Christmas, Bob Clark, 1974
Blind Alley, Charles Vidor, 1939
Blood and Black Lace, Mario Bava, 1964
Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
Bright Future, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003
The Brotherhood, Martin Ritt, 1968
Bustin’ Loose, Oz Scott, 1981
The Anderson Tapes, Sidney Lumet, 1971
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, John Korty, 1974
Champion, Mark Robson, 1949
Chan Is Missing, Wayne Wang, 1982
Coffee and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch, 2003
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Robert Altman, 1982
The Comedians, Peter Glenville, 1967
Coming Out Under Fire, Arthur Dong, 1994
Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold, 1954
Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016
Cul-de-sac, Roman Polanski, 1966
The Day of the Jackal, Fred Zinnemann, 1973
Deadly Weapons, Doris Wishman, 1974
The Delta, Ira Sachs, 1996
Demon Seed, Donald Cammell, 1977
The Desperate Hours, William Wyler, 1955
Detective Story, William Wyler, 1951
Devil in a Blue Dress, Carl Franklin, 1995
The Devil’s Disciple, Guy Hamilton, 1959
Diary of a Mad Housewife, Frank Perry, 1970
Dillinger,​​John Milius, 1973
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, Wayne Wang, 1985
Doctor X, ​​Michael Curtiz, 1932
Don’t Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, 1973
Double Agent 73, Doris Wishman, 1974
Dracula (Spanish-Language Version), George Melford, 1931
E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo, Lynne Sachs, 2021
Eat a Bowl of Tea, Wayne Wang, 1989
Escape from New York, John Carpenter, 1981
Family Fundamentals, Arthur Dong, 2002
A Father . . . A Son . . . Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Lee Grant, 2005
Film About a Father Who, Lynne Sachs, 2020
The Fly, Kurt Neumann, 1958
Forbidden City, USA, Arthur Dong, 1989
From Hell, Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes, 2001
From Here to Eternity, Fred Zinnemann, 1953
Girl Is Presence, Lynne Sachs and Anne Lesley Selcer, 2020
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, John McNaughton, 1986
Hollywood Chinese, Arthur Dong, 2007
I Walk Alone, Byron Haskin, 1947
In Cold Blood, Richard Brooks, 1967
Indecent Desires, Doris Wishman, 1968
Inside, Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, 2007**
The Invisible Man, James Whale, 1933
Is Paris Burning?, René Clément, 1966
Island of Lost Souls, Erle C. Kenton, 1932
Jennifer’s Body, Karyn Kusama, 2009
Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa, 1980
The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Arthur Dong, 2015
Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971
The Last Happy Day, Lynne Sachs, 2009
Last Train from Gun Hill, John Sturges, 1959
Let Him Have It, Peter Medak, 1991
Let Me Die a Woman, ​​Doris Wishman, 1977
A Letter to Three Wives, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949
Licensed to Kill, Arthur Dong, 1997
Lonely Are the Brave, David Miller, 1962
The Love Parade, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929**
Lust for Life, Vincente Minnelli, 1956
Man on a Swing, Frank Perry, 1974
Maya at 24, Lynne Sachs, 2021
Miss Minoes, Vincent Bal, 2011
Monte Carlo, Ernst Lubitsch, 1930
The Mummy, Karl Freund, 1932
The Naughty Nineties, Jean Yarbrough, 1945
Nude on the Moon, Doris Wishman and Raymond Phelan, 1961
Office Killer, Cindy Sherman, 1997**
One Hour with You, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932
Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, 2013**
Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur, 1947
Park Row, Samuel Fuller, 1952
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You, Brandon Cronenberg, 2019
Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve, 2009**
Porto of My Childhood, Manoel de Oliveira, 2001
Posse, Kirk Douglas, 1975
Private Property, Leslie Stevens, 1960
A Raisin in the Sun, Daniel Petrie, 1961
Rat Film, Theo Anthony, 2016
The Raven, Louis Friedlander, 1935
Reversal of Fortune, Barbet Schroeder, 1990
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Byron Haskin, 1964
Sewing Woman, Arthur Dong, 1982
Short Eyes, Robert M. Young, 1977
The Smiling Lieutenant, Ernst Lubitsch, 1931
Smoke, Wayne Wang, 1995**
Sparkle, Sam O'Steen, 1976
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Lewis Milestone, 1946
Stuffed, Erin Derham, 2019
Them, David Moreau and Xavier Palud, 2006
There Was a Crooked Man . . . , Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1970
The Time of Their Lives, Charles Barton, 1946
To Die For, Gus Van Sant, 1995
To Sleep with Anger, Charles Burnett, 1990
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, John Huston, 1948
Try and Get Me!, Cy Endfield, 1950
Two Weeks in Another Town, Vincente Minnelli, 1962
The Valachi Papers, Terence Young, 1972
The Vikings, Richard Fleischer, 1958
The Visitors, Elia Kazan, 1972
The Washing Society, Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs, 2018
The Way West, Andrew V. McLaglen, 1967
When We Were Kings, Leon Gast, 1996
Which Way Is East, Lynne Sachs, 1994
White Echo, Chloë Sevigny, 2019
Wind in Our Hair, Lynne Sachs, 2010
The Wolf Man, George Waggner, 1941
Wombling Free, Lionel Jeffries, 1978
Young Man with a Horn, Michael Curtiz, 1950
Zodiac, David Fincher, 2007

Looking forward to finally seeing these Doris Wishman films. Hope they’re not disappointing

lol Double Agent 73!

omfg Cindy Sherman's "Office Killer"!!!! THis has been on my to do list for a while and was up until tomorrow only available via crummy YouTube rip

ive seen most of those wishman films, i cant in good consience say theyre "good" but theyre fun curios if you have the patience for that kind of thing

Hyped to binge the Universal monster movies I haven’t seen since the days of VHS and tiny local TV channels.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is probably the most hard-to-watch film I have ever attempted. I know others have surpassed its squirm quotient since 1986 but I haven't and don't want to see them.

OTM

November 2021 titles:

300 Nassau, Marina Lameiro, 2015
5 Card Stud, Henry Hathaway, 1968
Alone, Garrett Bradley, 2017
Álvaro, Daniel Wilson, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandra Lazarowich, and Chloe Zimmerman, 2015
America, Garrett Bradley, 2019
Angel Face, Otto Preminger, 1953
Angels Wear White, Vivian Qu, 2017
Asako I & II, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2018 *
Baby Doll, Elia Kazan, 1956
Beemus, It’ll End in Tears, Lauren Wolkstein, 2016
Big Fish & Begonia, Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, 2016
The Big Steal, Don Siegel, 1949
Black Soil, Green Grass, Daniel Patrick Carbone, 2016
Black Widow, Nunnally Johnson, 1954
Blessed Event, Roy Del Ruth, 1932
Boomerang!, Elia Kazan, 1947
Bright Star, Jane Campion, 2009 *
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill, 1969
Cape Fear, J. Lee Thompson, 1962
Ceremonial, Caroline Monnet, 2018
The Chalk Garden, Ronald Neame, 1964
Collective: Unconscious, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker, Lauren Wolkstein, Nuotama Bodomo, and Lily Baldwin, 2016
Creatura Dada, Caroline Monnet, 2016
Crossfire, Edward Dmytryk, 1947
David and Lisa, Frank Perry, 1962
Division Avenue, Anne-Katrine Hansen, Janna Kyllästinen, 2015
Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, Topaz Jones and Rubberband, 2021
The Earth Is Humming, Garrett Bradley, 2018
East of Eden, Elia Kazan, 1955
Emptying the Tank, Caroline Monnet, 2018
The Enemy Below, Dick Powell, 1957
The Exiles, Kent Mackenzie, 1961
A Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan, 1957
Five Star Final, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931
Fourteen, Dan Sallitt, 2019
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Peter Yates, 1973
Gentleman’s Agreement, Elia Kazan, 1947
Gephyrophobia, Caroline Monnet, 2012
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
Girlhood, Céline Sciamma, 2014
Go Fish, Rose Troche, 1994
The Grass Is Greener, Stanley Donen, 1960
The Guitar Mongoloid, Ruben Östlund, 2004
Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018
Hangover Square, John Brahm, 1945
Happy Hour, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015
His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, 1940
Home from the Hill, Vincente Minnelli, 1960
I Wake Up Screaming, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941
Ikwé, Caroline Monnet, 2009
Involuntary, Ruben Östlund, 2008
It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934
Jazztime Tale, Michael Sporn, 1991
The Last Bread, Maria Rosa Badia, 2013
The Last Tycoon, Elia Kazan, 1976
Laura, Otto Preminger, 1944
Like, Garrett Bradley, 2016
Little Potato, Nathan M. Miller and Wes Hurley, 2017
The Lusty Men, Nicholas Ray, 1952
Man with the Gun, Richard Wilson, 1955
Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach, 2007
The Marzipan Pig, Michael Sporn, 1990
Meet John Doe, Frank Capra, 1941 **
Mommie Dearest, Frank Perry, 1981
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001
The Mystery of Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956
Newsfront, Phillip Noyce, 1978
Niagara, Henry Hathaway, 1953
Night and the City, Jules Dassin, 1950
Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding, 1947
The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955
No Way Out, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950
Not as a Stranger, Stanley Kramer, 1955
Open City Mixtape, A. V. Rockwell, 2012
Panic in the Streets, Elia Kazan, 1950
Passion Fish, John Sayles, 1992
Pickup on South Street, Samuel Fuller, 1953
Pinky, Elia Kazan, 1949
Platinum Blonde, Frank Capra, 1931
Play, Ruben Östlund, 2011
Please Vote for Me, Weijun Chen, 2007
Privilege, Yvonne Rainer, 1990
Rachel and the Stranger, Norman Foster, 1948
The Red Pony, Lewis Milestone, 1949
Roberta, Caroline Monnet, 2014
Ryan’s Daughter, David Lean, 1970
Scandal Sheet, Phil Karlson, 1952
The Snake Pit, Anatole Litvak, 1948
Somewhere in the Night, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946
Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick, 1960
The Swimmer, Frank Perry, 1968
The Three Faces of Eve, Nunnally Johnson, 1957
Third Shift, Anthony Banua-Simon, 2014
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019
This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, 1966
Thunder Road, Robert Mitchum, 1958
Till the End of Time, Edward Dmytryk, 1946
Track of the Cat, William A. Wellman, 1954
Trapped, Richard Fleischer, 1949
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2020
Tshiuetin, Caroline Monnet, 2016
Two Friends, Jane Campion, 1996
The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola, 1999
Viva Zapata!, Elia Kazan, 1952
Warchild, Caroline Monnet, 2010
Where Danger Lives, John Farrow, 1950
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otto Preminger, 1950
Wild River, Elia Kazan, 1960
Woman of the Year, George Stevens, 1942
The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir, 1982

Mommie Dearest, lol

Looks like they just rotate some of these in & out at random.

How am I just now seeing Jennifer's Body for the first time?? This movie is perfect.

even the diablo cody witticisms? chesters?

Yeah I had to suspend my disbelief there, these days we all know the actual prison slang for them is "chomos" but 2009 was a simpler time

JB is indeed a classic

December 2021 titles were announced a few days ago but I missed it until now.

Angela, Rebecca Miller, 1995
The Bandit, Alberto Lattuada, 1946
By Way of Canarsie, Emily Packer and Lesley Steele, 2020
A Christmas Dream, Karel Zeman, 1945
Christmas Eve, Edwin L. Marin, 1947
Downhill Racer, Michael Ritchie, 1969
Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976
The Fancy, Elisabeth Subrin, 2000
A Family Submerged, María Alché, 2018
Family Tree, Nicole Amani Magabo Kiggundu, 2020
Film About a Woman Who … , Yvonne Rainer, 1974 *
The French Connection, William Friedkin, 1971
Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972
Gaslight, George Cukor, 1944
Gasman, Lynne Ramsay, 1998
Girl in the Window, Luciano Emmer, 1961
The Gold Diggers, Sally Potter, 1983
The Gold of Naples, Vittorio De Sica, 1954
The Hard Stop, George Amponsah, 2015
The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel, 2008
High Art, Lisa Cholodenko, 1998 *
Home, Ursula Meier, 2008 *
I Dream You Dream of Me, Jennifer Reeder, 2018
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Maria Maggenti, 1995
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, 2016
Karaoke Girl, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, 2013
Kill the Day, Lynne Ramsay, 2000
The Lawless, Joseph Losey, 1950
Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944
The Lights Are On, No One’s Home, Faye Ruiz, 2021
Like Flying, Peier Tracy Shen, 2020
The Little Princess, Walter Lang, 1939
The London Story, Sally Potter, 1986
Long Way North, Rémi Chayé, 2015
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over, Beth B., 2019
The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles, 1942
The Maids, Christopher Miles, 1975
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock, 1956
Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964
The Milk of Sorrow, Claudia Llosa, 2009
The Mill on the Po, Alberto Lattuada, 1949
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Desiree Akhavan, 2018
The Music Lovers, Ken Russell, 1971
Nenette and Boni, Claire Denis, 1996
Not Black Enough, Jermaine Manigault, 2020
Personal Velocity, Rebecca Miller
Polygraph, Samira Saraya, 2020
Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay, 1999
Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
The Return of the Soldier, Alan Bridges, 1982
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, 1948
The Rose of Manila, Alex Westfall, 2020
Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock, 1942
Scrooge, Ronald Neame, 1970
Second Coming, Debbie Tucker Green, 2014
The Second Mother, Anna Muylaert, 2015
Shadow of a Doubt, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943
Shooting Women, Alexis Krasilovsky, 2008
Sister, Ursula Meier, 2012 *
Slip, Nicole Otero, 2019
Small Deaths, Lynne Ramsay, 1996
Social Butterfly, Lauren Wolkstein, 2013
Something to Remember, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, 2019
Ste. Anne, Rhayne Vermette, 2021
Stevie, Robert Enders, 1978
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012 *
Strange Victory, Leo Hurwitz, 1948
Sunday Bloody Sunday, John Schlesinger, 1971
Swallow, Elisabeth Subrin, 1995
Sweet Ruin, Elisabeth Subrin, 2008
The Trouble with Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, 1955
Throw Down, Johnnie To, 2004
Topaz, Alfred Hitchcock, 1969
Torn Curtain, Alfred Hitchcock, 1966
Troublemaker, Olive Nwosu, 2019
Tuesday, After Christmas, Radu Muntean, 2010 *
Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
A Woman, a Part, Elisabeth Subrin, 2016
The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher, 2014

Bundles and features: https://criterioncast.com/news/december-2021-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced

Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976
Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972
Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944
Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964
The Trouble with Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, 1955
Topaz, Alfred Hitchcock, 1969
Torn Curtain, Alfred Hitchcock, 1966

If I love Hitchcock but have never seen any of the above, where should I start?

Marnie and Frenzy

Yeah

Marnie is the best graduate-level Hitchcock. Almost want to say save it for last.

If you're not quite as enamored of Hitchcock as others, you might want to read Kael first ("Hitchcock scraping bottom").

I can't think of many reasons beyond Hitchcock completism why Torn Curtain or Family Plot would be worth your time.

The Trouble With Harry is rather daft but still worth watching, Edmund Gwenn is ace in it.

Yeah, I don't know if that one quite works, but it is an interesting failure at least.

don't watch marnie until you've seen spellbound and under capricorn, at the very least. there are some abstract associations in marnie and you can probably figure out what hitch is trying to do by watching those two.

torn curtain is a fine hollywood star vehicle

i have a soft spot for lifeboat as a popcorn movie

I like Family Plot. Sort of cute, sort of pathetic, touching way to go out.

Agreed.

Same here. Also agreed on Lifeboat, even if it is kinda agitprop.

Wondering if it would be useful to post the series teasers here.

I guess they won't be embedded though.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-lubitsch-touch/season:1/videos/the-lubitsch-touch-teaser

Also Kino Now is still having their Black Friday sale, and I’m still tempted to buy a thing or two.

i have a soft spot for lifeboat as a popcorn movie

I've heard The Breakfast Club described as Hughes' version of Lifeboat

clever!

Lol

that criterion vid just inspired me to +0rr3n+ most of the non-singing talkie oeuvre

for lubitsch that is

January 2022 titles:

-Ship: A Visual Poem, Terrance Day, 2020
5 Fingers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952
After Migration: Calabria, Walé Oyéjidé and Jake Saner, 2019
All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950
Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Anthony Powell, 2013
Appropriate Behavior, Desiree Akhavan, 2014
The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, 1950**
Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964**
Battered, Lee Grant, 1989
Brother’s Keeper, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ken Hughes, 1968
Cleopatra, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963
Color Adjustment, Marlon Riggs, 1991
Crime of Passion, Gerd Oswald, 1957
Crime Wave, André De Toth, 1953
Danzón, Maria Novaro, 1991
Day for Night, François Truffaut, 1973
Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991
Denver & Rio Grande, Byron Haskin, 1952
Down and Out in America, Lee Grant, 1986
Down Argentine Way, Irving Cummings, 1940
Dragonwyck, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946
Edward II, Derek Jarman, 1991
The Eternal Sea, John H. Auer, 1955
The Fever, Maya Da-Rin, 2019
Gas Food Lodging, Allison Anders, 1992
Get on the Bus, Spike Lee, 1996
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947
Guys and Dolls, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955**
Harvey, Henry Koster, 1950
Holiday Affair, Don Hartman, 1949
The Hours and Times, Christopher Münch, 1991
House of Strangers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face, Sameh Alaa, 2020
In the Soup, Alexandre Rockwell, 1992
Incident at Oglala, Michael Apted, 1992
Intimate Stranger, Alan Berliner, 1991
Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray, 1954
Johnny Suede, Tom DiCillo, 1991**
The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, 1956
Lands, Maya Da-Rin, 2009
The Last Command, Frank Lloyd, 1955
The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman, 1998
Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, 1915
Light Sleeper, Paul Schrader, 1992
The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
The Load, Ognjen Glavonić, 2018
Man in the Saddle, André De Toth, 1951
The Man from Laramie, Anthony Mann, 1955
Margin, Maya Da-Rin, 2007
Matador, Pedro Almodovar, 1986**
The Nun, Jacques Rivette, 1966
The Quiet American, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1958
People Will Talk, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1951
Pharos of Chaos, Wolf-Eckart Bühler and Manfred Blank, 1983**
Poison Ivy, Katt Shea, 1992
Radio On, Christopher Petit, 1979
Roger and Me, Michael Moore, 1989
She Runs, Qiu Yang, 2019
Some Divine Wind, Roddy Bogawa, 1992
Stormy Weather, Andrew L. Stone, 1943
Suddenly, Last Summer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959
Sun Valley Serenade, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941
Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957
Terror in a Texas Town, Joseph H. Lewis, 1958
The Tune, Bill Plympton, 1992
The Waterdance, Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg, 1992
What About Me, Rachel Amodeo, 1993
What Sex Am I?, Lee Grant, 1985
What We Left Unfinished, Mariam Ghani, 2019
When Women Kill, Lee Grant, 1983
The Willmar 8, Lee Grant, 1981
The Woodmans, Scott Willis, 2010

it's a month for Mank apparently

https://www.theonion.com/nation-unable-to-quell-insatiable-appetite-for-all-thin-1846732044

xp That'll be one of the featured collections, I'm sure. BTW, I'm guessing Kubrick's Killer's Kiss will be on the channel as well, as a supplement for The Killing, since it's included on the physical release.

"the ghost and mrs. muir" is a weird cultural relic. a woman has a love affair with the ghost of a sea captain. not a metaphor for anything.

I remember finding that surprisingly charming and likeable but it's been a while

The Nun, Jacques Rivette, 1966

Never seen this, is it worth a watch?

February 2022 titles:

Alan & Naomi, Sterling Van Wagenen, 1992
All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, 1955
The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970
Babylon, Franco Rosso, 1980
Babymother, Julian Henriques, 1998
Bamako, Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006
Beat Street, Stan Lathan, 1984
Blacks Britannica, David Koff, 1978
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson, 2015
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, Stanley Nelson, 1999
Bright Road, Gerald Mayer, 1953
Cake Walk, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
Chez Jolie Coiffure, Rosine Mbakam, 2018
Citizen Ruth, Alexander Payne, 1996 **
Company Line, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2009
Death on the Nile, John Guillermin, 1978
Delphine’s Prayers, Rosine Mbakam, 2021
A Different Image, Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel, 1972
Don’t Play Us Cheap, Melvin Van Peebles, 1972
Dream City, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
Ears, Nose and Throat, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016
Erie, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010
Far from Heaven, Todd Haynes, 2002
Feathers, A. V. Rockwell, 2018
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life, Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey, 2016
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, 2014
Glenville, Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil Pedizisai, 2020
The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972
The Heartland, Marquise Mays, 2021
Hive, Blerta Basholli, 2021
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), Joe Angio, 2005
IFO, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017
Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk, 1959
Inconsequential Doggereal, Ulysses Jenkins, 1981
Kansas City, Robert Altman, 1996 **
The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks, 1969
Les cinq cent balles, Melvin Van Peebles, 1963
Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937
Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964
Magnificent Obsession, Douglas Sirk, 1954
Mass of Images, Ulysses Jenkins, 1978
The Metamorphosis of Birds, Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020
Mississippi Mermaid, François Truffaut, 1969
The Movement of Things, Manuela Serra, 1985
Mutual Native Duplex, Ulysses Jenkins, 1990
Native Son, Pierre Chenal, 1951
The Nomadics, Ulysses Jenkins, 1991
No Place Like Home, Perry Henzell, 2006
Notions of Freedom, Ulysses Jenkins, 2007
Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959
Omega Rising Women of Rastafari, D. Elmina Davis, 1988
Personal Best, Robert Towne, 1982
Pier Kids, Elegance Bratton, 2019
A Place of Our Own, Stanley Nelson, 2004
Planet X, Ulysses Jenkins, 2006
Rambling Rose, Martha Coolidge, 1991
A Reggae Session, Stephanie Bennett and Thomas Adelman, 1988
Remnants of the Watts Festival, Ulysses Jenkins, 1980
Rockers, Theodoros Bafaloukos, 1978
Running on Empty, Sidney Lumet, 1988
Self Divination, Ulysses Jenkins, 1989
Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
Sound That, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2014
The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017 **
The Story of a Three Day Pass, Melvin Van Peebles, 1967
Sun Children, Majid Majidi, 2020
Sunlight, Melvin Van Peebles, 1957
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971
Tell Them We Are Rising, Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams, 2017
Three Pickup Men for Herrick, Melvin van Peebles, 1957
The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman, Rosine Mbakam, 2018
Two-Zone Transfer, Ulysses Jenkins, 1979
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, 2008
Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier, 1974
Watermelon Man, Melvin Van Peebles, 1970
We the Ragamuffin, Julian Henriques, 1992
Without Your Interpretation, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Ranald MacDougall, 1959
Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk, 1956
Zebrahead, Anthony Drazan, 1992

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Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964

I don't know this one; worth watching?