That is a pride month and a half
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
I was astonished for a split second when I read “The Clock”…
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
I like that they seem to be continuously adding things to the Beyond Blaxploitation collection
seeing Body Heat I briefly wondered if they were actually doing my You Must Remember This tie-in idea in time to coincide with possibly the least likely series for them to do that with
― rob, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Pre-code Paramount is a treat
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 26 May 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
Never seen any Davies, looking forward to that. And happily watch Foreign Affair, my favourite Wilder movie, yet again
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 26 May 2022 08:17 (one year ago) link
It's a good one, even though the lead is kind of weird, as discussed in the Cameron Crowe book.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
But really came to post that I just watched Synonyms before it left, by the always interesting Nadav Lapid.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
I have not seen A Foreign Affair! Inexplicably hard to find on video, DVD, YouTube...
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Some great musical numbers - with Friedrich Hollaender! Jean Arthur is a little problematic, maybe, one of her nervous latter day performances, although some might disagree.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
She's never persuaded me: an unexciting mix of the coy and the cute.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Not even in stuff like The More the Merrier?
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
I tolerate her. She's the least interesting performer in Only Angels Have Wings.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
It's fine. Many people (like Orson Welles) can't stand Irene Dunne.
Agree she's not A-list but I love her in History is Made at Night
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
Not A-list!?
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
Is this a place where we can solicit recommendations for the criteria streaming platform? Or is that elsewhere
― calstars, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Believe this is exactly the place for that.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
One of my favorite discoveries has been Tom Noonan's What Happened Was... one of the most effective movies I've seen about possibly being too idiosyncratic to form a connection with anybody. Obviously a big influence on Charlie Kaufman but not as overbearing as he can be.
― Chris L, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
Gonna have to resub to Criterion
Today's the day: Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s (@WendellBHarris2) audacious dark comedy CHAMELEON STREET (1989)—a rediscovered masterpiece of American independent filmmaking—is now playing exclusively on @criterionchannl! You're not going to want to miss this. https://t.co/7zBiAkunsa pic.twitter.com/iO5dWJWzd6— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) June 14, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
July 2022 titles:
a.k.a. Cassius Clay, Jim Jacobs, 1970Accused of Murder, Joseph Kane, 1956Adoption, Márta Mészáros, 1975Africa on the Seine, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Mamadou Sarr, 1955Ahed’s Knee, Nadav Lapid, 2021Air Doll, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2009All Dogs Go to Heaven, Don Bluth, 1989And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold, 1953Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955*The Badlanders, Delmer Daves, 1958*Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, 2013*Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater, 1995Before Sunset, Richard Linklater, 2004Birago Diop, conteur, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1981Black Widow, Nunnally Johnson, 1954Blow-Ball, Márta Mészáros, 1964The Bravados, Henry King, 1958By the Time It Gets Dark, Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016The Champ, King Vidor, 1931Champion, Mark Robson, 1949Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962Desert Fury, Lewis Allen, 1947Destry Rides Again, George Marshall, 1939Dziga and His Brothers, Evgeny Tsymbal, 2002Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962Fat City, John Huston, 1972Foreign Intrigue, Sheldon Reynolds, 1956Gentleman Jim, Raoul Walsh, 1942The Great Race, Blake Edwards, 1965The Gunfighter, Henry King, 1950Hammer, Bruce D. Clark, 1972The Harder They Fall, Mark Robson, 1956He Laughed Last, Blake Edwards, 1956Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Alexander Hall, 1941House of Bamboo, Samuel Fuller, 1955I Died a Thousand Times, Stuart Heisler, 1955*Iba N’Diaye, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1982The Image You Missed, Dónal Foreman, 2018In Old Chicago, Henry King, 1938Inferno, Roy Ward Baker, 1953A Kiss Before Dying, Gerd Oswald, 1956Lamb, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1964Leave Her to Heaven, John M. Stahl, 1945Lemon, Janicza Bravo, 2017*Lure of the Wilderness, Jean Negulesco, 1952Man of the West, Anthony Mann, 1958Matilda, Daniel Mann, 1978Mississippi Masala, Mira Nair, 1991Môl, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1966Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, 2012A Nation Is Born, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1961Niagara, Henry Hathaway, 1953Party Girl, Nicholas Ray, 1958Peter & the Wolf, Suzie Templeton, 2006Petition, Zhao Liang, 2009Pink Flamingos, John Waters, 1972Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980Requiem for a Heavyweight, Ralph Nelson, 1962The Ring, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, Dan Klores and Ron Berger, 2005The River’s Edge, Allan Dwan, 1957Scaffold, Kazik Radwanski, 2017The Set-Up, Robert Wise, 1949Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971Somebody Up There Likes Me, Robert Wise, 1956The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Henry King, 1952The Song of Bernadette, Henry King, 1943State Fair, Henry King, 1933Sunset Song, Terence Davies, 2015Swamp Water, Jean Renoir, 1941That’s Life!, Blake Edwards, 1986Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made, Mika Kaurismäki, 1994Twelve O’Clock High, Henry King, 1949Victor/Victoria, Blake Edwards, 1982Walker, Alex Cox, 1987Western, Valeska Grisebach, 2017The Winning of Barbara Worth, Henry King, 1926*Available in the U.S. only
― WmC, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
Ahed’s Knee? Wow, that was quick!
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
August 2022 titles:
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, George Pal, 1964Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, Jessica Oreck, 2013Acting Our Age, Gurinder Chadha, 1992After the Thin Man, W. S. Van Dyke, 1936*All These Sleepless Nights, Michał Marczak, 2016Another Country, Molly Reynolds, 2015Arabesque, Stanley Donen, 1966The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, 1950*August Sky, Jasmin Tenucci, 2020Battle for the Planet of the Apes, J. Lee Thompson, 1973Baxter, Vera Baxter, Marguerite Duras, 1977Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Jessica Oreck, 2009Better Luck Tomorrow, Justin Lim, 2002Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, 1978Bone, Larry Cohen, 1972Brigadoon, Vincente Minnelli, 1954*Broken Blossoms, D. W. Griffith, 1919Charlie Chan in Honolulu, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1939Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer, 2013China Doll, Frank Borzage, 1958China Sky, Ray Enright, 1945The Curse of Quon Gwon, Marion E. Wong, 2005Damnation, Béla Tarr, 1988Daughter of the Dragon, Lloyd Corrigan, 1931Donbass, Sergei Loznitsa, 2018Double Wedding, Richard Thorpe, 1937The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Iryna Tsilyk, 2020Flatbush! Flatbush!, Alex Ramírez-Mallis, 2021Flower Drum Song, Henry Koster, 1961Fran, Glenda Hambly, 1985The Good Earth, Sidney Franklin, 1937Gulpilil—One Red Blood, Darlene Johnson, 2002The Heathen Chinese and the Sunday School Teachers, 1904A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich, Ralph Nelson, 1978A House Divided: Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion, Stan Lathan, 1982Husbands, John Cassavetes, 1970I Love You Again, W. S. Van Dyke, 1940I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema, 1987King of Chinatown, Nick Grinde, 1939Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy, Lewie Kloster, 2016The Letter, Jean de Limur, 1929Libeled Lady, Jack Conway, 1936Life Without Dreams, Jessica Bardsley, 2022Little Miss Marker, Walter Bernstein, 1980Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937Love Crazy, Jack Conway, 1941Love Me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian, 1932M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg, 1993Mad Dog Morgan, Philippe Mora, 1976Manhattan Melodrama, W. S. Van Dyke, 1934Massacre of the Christians by the Chinese, 1900Midnight Run, Martin Brest, 1988Misty, James B. Clark, 1961Mizuko, Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo, 2019Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, H. C. Potter, 1948Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Henry Koster, 1962My Name Is Gulpilil, Molly Reynolds, 2021A Nice Arrangement, Gurinder Chadha, 1994Nonstop, Zac Manuel, Marta Rodriguez Maleck, 2021Once Is Not Enough, Guy Green, 1975Past Perfect, Jorge Jácome, 2019Penthouse, W. S. Van Dyke, 1933Piccadilly, E. A. Dupont, 1929Portrait of Kaye, Ben Reed, 2021The Proposition, John Hillcoat, 2005*Queenie, Cai Thomas, 2020Rabbit-Proof Fence, Phillip Noyce, 2002The Red Pony, Lewis Milestone, 1949Rider on a Dead Horse, Herbert L. Strock, 1962Rouge, Stanley Kwan, 1988The Sand Pebbles, Robert Wise, 1966Silver Streak, Arthur Hiller, 1976Stamboul Quest, Sam Wood, 1934Stay Close, Luther Clement and Shuhan Fan, 2019Storm Boy, Colin Thiele, 1976Sunflower, Vittorio De Sica, 1970Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957Ten Canoes, Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr, 2006Test Pilot, Victor Fleming, 1938The Thin Man, W. S. Van Dyke, 1934Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, 1958The Tracker, Rolf de Heer, 2002Two for the Road, Stanley Donen, 1967Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Jessica Oreck, 2014The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee, 1993We Are the Best!, Lukas Moodysson, 2013What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who’s Funny?, Gurinder Chadha, 1994Whipsaw, Sam Wood, 1935The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle, 2015The World of Suzie Wong, Richard Quine, 1960Wood and Water, Jonas Bak, 2021Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, Joan Chen, 1998Year of the Dragon, Michael Cimino, 1985
*Available in the U.S. only
― WmC, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Xiu Xiu is one of those movies I heard about on rec.arts.movies that I could never hunt down.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
Lotta yellowface this month or am i imagining that
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
And that scene in Silver Streak
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 07:39 (one year ago) link
i had just put blue collar on hold at the library to finally watch it, so now i get to cancel that hold
does anyone understand the streaming rights of criterion enough to know if they'll ever put nashville on criterion channel? seems like they would have done it by now if it was going to happen
― na (NA), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
I keep thinking there must be a big database out there somewhere, where you can enter a film and find out who "owns" it, who owns the physical media rights and the separate streaming rights, what the current disposition of those rights are and maybe even the history. I see a fair number of know-it-alls on the CC Club facebook group who can rattle off that data at will, and I want to know where they get their intel.
― WmC, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
huh, sounds intense
i just noticed We Are the Best! on the list, that movie rules
― na (NA), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Getting through a few films slated to leave Criterion at the end of the month I watched The Big Knife (1955) last night. Based on a Clifford Odets play, the situations and dialogue are so overwrought it's fascinating, especially Rod Steiger's scenery-chewing film studio head. (I had somehow seen a bit of this movie years ago and remembered his over-the-top performance.) Anyone else seen this/a fan?
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
I tried Big Knife when I was a teenager after falling in love with Sweet Smell of Success, but found it Much Too Much. I wonder if SSoS is more Lehman than Odets? You can definitely trace Waiting for Lefty to Big Knife. Sweet Smell, not so much.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle, 2015
Wasnt this documentary outed as a hoax?
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
August features, bundles, departments: https://criterioncast.com/news/august-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
― WmC, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
September 2022 titles:
Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972Air Force, Howard Hawks, 1943Ana and the Wolves, Carlos Saura, 1973Another Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1958Billy Liar, John Schlesinger, 1963Boccaccio ’70, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, and Luchino Visconti, 1962Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills, 1969Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976César and Rosalie, Claude Sautet, 1972Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952Cousin Angelica, Carlos Saura, 1974Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971Discontinuity, Lori Felker, 2015A Drownful Brilliance of Wings, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016Elisa, vida mía, Carlos Saura, 1977An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013Elvira Madigan, Bo Widerberg, 1967Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968*Funny Lady, Herbert Ross, 1975The Garden of Delights, Carlos Saura, 1970Good Neighbor Sam, David Swift, 1964The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009*Honeycomb, Carlos Saura, 1969Hud, Martin Ritt, 1963The Hunt, Carlos Saura, 1966If…., Lindsay Anderson, 1968Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam, 1977Kes, Ken Loach, 1969A Kind of Loving, John Schlesinger, 1962Kings Row, Sam Wood, 1942The Knack . . . and How to Get It, Richard Lester, 1965Late August, Early September, Olivier Assayas, 1998Les choses de la vie, Claude Sautet, 1970The L-Shaped Room, Bryan Forbes, 1962*Ludwig, Luchino Visconti, 1973Maison du bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976Max and the Junkmen, Claude Sautet, 1971Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2017The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021MS Slavic 7, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell, 2019Neptune Frost, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021Never Eat Alone, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016The Old Man and the Sea, John Sturges, 1958Patang, Prashant Bhargava, 2011Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955Point and Line to Plane, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2020A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013The Prisoner of Zenda, John Cromwell, 1937Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977Pushing Hands, Ang Lee, 1991Room at the Top, Jack Clayton, 1959The Rose Tattoo, Daniel Mann, 1955*Sambizanga, Sarah Maldoror, 1972Searching for Mr. Rugoff, Ira Deutchman, 2019The Secret of Roan Inish, John Sayles, 1994The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963The September Issue, R. J. Cutler, 2009*Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmüller, 1975Shining Victory, Irving Rapper, 1941Sissi, Ernst Marischka, 1955The Soft Space, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Melanie J. Scheiner, 2018Sound of the Night, Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann, 2021Spontaneous, Lori Felker, 2020The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941Stress Is Three, Carlos Saura, 1968Sweet Hours, Carlos Saura, 1982Swept Away, Lina Wertmüller, 1974That Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Żuławski, 1975The Wonderland, Keiichi Hara, 2019This Is Not a Movie, Yung Chang, 2019*This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, 1966Veslemøy’s Song, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2018Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942*Available in the U.S. only
― WmC, Monday, 22 August 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
The Bronco Bullfrog trailer I saw at Film Forum was really intriguing, still haven’t seen the movie.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
I watched The Set-Up last night (1949, dir. Robert Wise) and for a 72 minute RKO cheapie with no shortage of boxing movie cliches, it's beautifully shot, the characters are colorful, and it captures its grubby dressing room, hotel, bar and sidewalk scenes extremely well. Recommend seeing it before it leaves at the end of the month.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
> Bronco Bullfrog
it was one of the BFI Flipside films. and one of the extras had a clip that i swear was filmed at the old borstal about 100 yards from here
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
The full list for October hasn't been announced yet, but they've dropped a teaser and film list for an 80s Horror package:
Inferno, Dario Argento, 1980The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, Walerian Borowczyk, 1981Dead & Buried, Gary Sherman, 1981The House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, 1981The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, 1981Strange Behavior, Michael Laughlin, 1981Wolfen, Michael Wadleigh, 1981Scanners, David Cronenberg, 1981Road Games, Richard Franklin, 1981The Fan, Ed Bianchi, 1981Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, 1982Next of Kin, Tony Williams, 1982Cat People, Paul Schrader, 1982Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen, 1982The Slumber Party Massacre, Amy Holden Jones, 1982The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983*Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, John McNaughton, 1986The Hidden, Jack Sholder, 1987Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987White of the Eye, Donald Cammell, 1987Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988Brain Damage, Frank Henenlotter, 1988Dream Demon, Harley Cokeliss, 1988The Blob, Chuck Russell, 1988Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell, 1988Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1989Society, Brian Yuzna, 1989Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Thursday, 22 September 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
I love their annual horror series. But The Keep? Any idea which cut? Just the theatrical cut that Mann has more or less disowned?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
Full list of new arrivals for October 2022:
Atragon, Ishiro Honda, 1963August 32nd on Earth, Denis Villeneuve, 1998Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, 1982Black Book, Paul Verhoeven, 2006The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934Blackenstein, William A. Levey, 1973Blacula, William Crain, 1972The Blob, Chuck Russell, 1988Blood & Donuts, Holly Dale, 1995*Blood and Sand, Rouben Mamoulian, 1941Brain Damage, Frank Henenlotter, 1988Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935Cat People, Paul Schrader, 1982Caught, Max Ophuls, 1949*Celia, Ann Turner, 1989Cosmos, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Manon Briand, Jennifer Alleyn, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin, and Denis Villeneuve, 1996Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold, 1954The Criminals, Serhat Karaaslan, 2020Dead & Buried, Gary Sherman, 1981Deep Cover, Bill Duke, 1992Dogora, Ishiro Honda, 1964Dracula, Tod Browning, 1931Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, Guy Maddin, 2002Dracula (Spanish-language version), George Melford, 1931Dream Demon, Harley Cokeliss, 1988Dries, Reiner Holzemer, 2017Estonia Dreams of Eurovision!, Marina Zenovich, 2002The Fan, Edward Bianchi, 1981Fascination, Jean Rollin, 1979Forty Guns, Samuel Fuller, 1957Frankenstein, James Whale, 1931Frankenstein vs. Baragon, Ishiro Honda, 1965The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, 1981A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel, 2008Heroin, Jessica Beshir, 2017He Who Dances on Wood, Jessica Beshir, 2016The Hidden, Jack Sholder, 1987Hot Mother, Lucy Knox, 2020The House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, 1981The House of the Devil, Ti West, 2009Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Robert Aldrich, 1964I Am Another You, Nanfu Wang, 2017Independent’s Day, Marina Zenovich, 1997Inferno, Dario Argento, 1980Invisible Essence: The Little Prince, Charles Officer, 2018*The Invisible Man, James Whale, 1933Island of Lost Souls, Erle C. Kenton, 1932Isle of the Dead, Mark Robson, 1945The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983Lady in a Cage, Walter Grauman, 1964The Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell, 1988Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson, 2008*Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams, 2016The Living Dead Girl, Jean Rollin, 1982Maelström, Denis Villeneuve, 2000Matango, Ishiro Honda, 1963The Mummy, Karl Freund, 1932The Mysterians, Ishiro Honda, 1957My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, 1991Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987Next of Kin, Tony Williams, 1982Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog, 1979Panic in the Streets, Elia Kazan, 1950Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen, 1982The Raven, Lew Landers, 1935Road Games, Richard Franklin, 1981Sierra, Sander Joon, 2022Slumber Party Massacre, Amy Holden Jones, 1982Society, Brian Yuzna, 1989Songs for Drella, Ed Lachman, 1990Sounder, Martin Ritt, 1972Space Amoeba, Ishiro Honda, 1970still/here, Vlad Feier, 2020Strange Behavior, Michael Laughlin, 1981The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, Walerian Borowczyk, 1981Supergirl, Jessie Auritt, 1984Superior, Erin Vassilopoulos, 2021Superior, Erin Vassilopoulos, 2015Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989Thirst, Park Chan-wook, 2009Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1989Varan the Unbelievable, Ishiro Honda, 1958The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman, 1971Vive L’Amour, Tsai Ming-liang, 1994Warsha, Dania Bdeir, 2022White of the Eye, Donald Cammell, 1987Who Is Bernard Tapie?, Marina Zenovich, 2001Wolfen, Michael Wadleigh, 1981The Wolf Man, George Waggner*Available in the U.S. only
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Monday, 26 September 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
Supergirl year is wrong, looks like it will be the 2016 documentary.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Monday, 26 September 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
I hate to complain in the face of such a long list, but Caught being US only is greatly displeasing
― rob, Monday, 26 September 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
Sampling Criterion's 80s horror offerings, Roadgames is NOT a horror movie, and it's barely a murder mystery, with Stacy Keach driving his trailer truck through the Australian outback, talking to himself and his pet dingo and eventually picking up hitchhiker Jamie Lee Curtis. Filled with quirky touches, some which work, some which don't imo, but I liked it a lot. Supposedly one of Tarantino's favorite films.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
I turned off Roadgames after about 10 minutes when Keach's character would not stop telling dumb jokes to himself.
I watched The Hidden, starring Kyle MacLachlan, from the 80s horror collection. The body-snatching alien villain has bizarrely underachieving goals for most of the movie; it's mainly interested in stealing Ferraris and blasting the kind of late 80s music that no one is nostalgic for. Then it decides it wants to possess the body of a Presidential candidate.
― Chris L, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
sounds sort of prescient when you put it like that
― rob, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
Yeah I have about that same recollection of The Hidden from seeing it years ago, don't really feel like revisiting.
RE: Roadgames it's Keach's rambling to himself and his dingo, the dumb jokes and also his quoting poetry, that I think may have inspired Tarantino's approach to dialogue. It's a long shaggy dog story (at 100 minutes it feels way longer) with a not great conclusion, but I found it interesting enough to finish.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
I watched Dream Demon also out of the '80s horror collection — not great, but fairly entertaining and something of a novel story in that it mostly revolves around two women basically helping each other deal with assorted traumas. Some low-budget atmospheric visuals that felt very '80s music-video to me.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 10 October 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
November 2022 additions finally announced:
499, Rodrigo Reyes, 2020. . . After He Left, Athi Patra Ruga, 2008Africa, the Jungle, Drums and Revolution, Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, 1979African Booty Scratcher, Nikyatu Jusu, 2007Another Decade, Morgan Quaintance, 2018Becket, Peter Glenville, 1964Bestia, Hugo Covarrubias, 2021Black Journal, “Alice Coltrane,” St. Clair Bourne, 1970The Blue Dahlia, George Marshall, 1946*Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985The Breaking Point, Michael Curtiz, 1950Call Northside 777, Henry Hathaway, 1948A Camel, Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981Censor of Dreams, Léo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez, 2021Cry of the City, Robert Siodmak, 1948The Cry of Jazz, Edward Bland, 1959CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2018The Dark Corner, Henry Hathaway, 1946The Daughter of Dawn, Norbert A. Myles, 1920Dazed Flesh, Grace Passô and Ricardo Alves Jr, 2019Dust Be My Destiny, Lewis Seiler, 1939Fallen Angel, Wong Kar Wai, 1995The Fallen Sparrow, Richard Wallace, 1943Felicia’s Journey, Atom Egoyan, 1999*The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film, Blake Studdard and Wayne Coyne, 2022Flowers, Nikyatu Jusu, 2016Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky, 1948*Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, Isaac Julien, 1995Ghosts, André Novais Oliveira, 2010The Glass Key, Stuart Heisler, 1942Goodbye Jerome!, Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet, and Adam Sillard, 2022Gramercy Stories, Joyce Chopra, 2008Happy Mother’s Day, Richard Leacock and Joyce Chopra, 1963The House on Telegraph Hill, Robert Wise, 1951Humoresque, Jean Negulesco, 1946The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi, 2016Imagine the Sound, Ron Mann, 1981Kiss of Death, Henry Hathaway, 1947Les stances à Sophie, Moshé Mizrahi, 1971Long Way Home, André Novais Oliveira, 2018Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal, Joyce Chopra, 1980Milford Graves Full Mantis, Jake Meginsky, with Neil Young, 2018Missing Time, Morgan Quaintance, 2019Nũhũ yãgmũ yõg hãm: This Land Is Ours!, Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, and Roberto Romero, 2020The Pied Piper, Jacques Demy, 1972The Postman Always Rings Twice, Tay Garnett, 1946Promises: Through Congress, Trevor Tweeten, 2021Public Service Announcement, Athi Patra Ruga, 2014Republic, Grace Passô, 2020Rising Tones Cross, Ebba Jahn, 1985Saturday’s Children, Vincent Sherman, 1940Say Grace Before Drowning, Nikyatu Jusu, 2010Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth, Jeanie Finlay, 2019*Suicide by Sunlight, Nikyatu Jusu, 2019Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, Robert Mugge, 1980Take Out, Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, 2004Thieves’ Highway, Jules Dassin, 1949This Gun for Hire, Frank Tuttle, 1942Yãmĩyhex, the Women-Spirit, Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, 2019
Premiering November 15American Movie, Chris Smith, 1999An Education, Lone Scherfig, 2009Animal Kingdom, David Michôd, 2010*Another Year, Mike Leigh, 2010The City of Lost Children, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995*The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003Footnote, Joseph Cedar, 2011Grateful Dawg, Gillian Grisman, 2000House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou, 2004The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet, 2010Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, 2010*Junebug, Phil Morrison, 2005L’enfant, Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2005Last Orders, Fred Schepisi, 2001The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006Nine Queens, Fabián Bielinsky, 2000Offside, Jafar Panahi, 2006Orlando, Sally Potter, 1992Paprika, Satoshi Kon, 2006Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007Pollock, Ed Harris, 2000A Prophet, Jacques Audiard, 2009Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer, 1998Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011Thumbsucker, Mike Mills, 2005Volver, Pedro Almodóvar, 2006The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, 2009Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008*Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, and Michel Debats, 2001
Premiering November 16A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia, 2021
Premiering November 21My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn, 2003
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
must-watch in the 'free jazz' mini collection after "milford graves full mantis"?
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
ornette: made in america is goodspace is the place is goofy but worth watchingfire music is skippable, too much talking and not enough music
― na (NA), Monday, 7 November 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2018
this caught my eye on the app last night, nearly 8 hours long? anybody have experience with it?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link