Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

September 2022 titles:

Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972
Air Force, Howard Hawks, 1943
Ana and the Wolves, Carlos Saura, 1973
Another Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1958
Billy Liar, John Schlesinger, 1963
Boccaccio ’70, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, and Luchino Visconti, 1962
Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills, 1969
Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976
César and Rosalie, Claude Sautet, 1972
Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952
Cousin Angelica, Carlos Saura, 1974
Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965
Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971
Discontinuity, Lori Felker, 2015
A Drownful Brilliance of Wings, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016
Elisa, vida mía, Carlos Saura, 1977
An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
Elvira Madigan, Bo Widerberg, 1967
Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968*
Funny Lady, Herbert Ross, 1975
The Garden of Delights, Carlos Saura, 1970
Good Neighbor Sam, David Swift, 1964
The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968
He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009*
Honeycomb, Carlos Saura, 1969
Hud, Martin Ritt, 1963
The Hunt, Carlos Saura, 1966
If…., Lindsay Anderson, 1968
Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam, 1977
Kes, Ken Loach, 1969
A Kind of Loving, John Schlesinger, 1962
Kings Row, Sam Wood, 1942
The Knack . . . and How to Get It, Richard Lester, 1965
Late August, Early September, Olivier Assayas, 1998
Les choses de la vie, Claude Sautet, 1970
The L-Shaped Room, Bryan Forbes, 1962*
Ludwig, Luchino Visconti, 1973
Maison du bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
Max and the Junkmen, Claude Sautet, 1971
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2017
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021
MS Slavic 7, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell, 2019
Neptune Frost, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021
Never Eat Alone, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016
The Old Man and the Sea, John Sturges, 1958
Patang, Prashant Bhargava, 2011
Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955
Point and Line to Plane, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2020
A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
The Prisoner of Zenda, John Cromwell, 1937
Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977
Pushing Hands, Ang Lee, 1991
Room at the Top, Jack Clayton, 1959
The Rose Tattoo, Daniel Mann, 1955*
Sambizanga, Sarah Maldoror, 1972
Searching for Mr. Rugoff, Ira Deutchman, 2019
The Secret of Roan Inish, John Sayles, 1994
The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963
The September Issue, R. J. Cutler, 2009*
Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmüller, 1975
Shining Victory, Irving Rapper, 1941
Sissi, Ernst Marischka, 1955
The Soft Space, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Melanie J. Scheiner, 2018
Sound of the Night, Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann, 2021
Spontaneous, Lori Felker, 2020
The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941
Stress Is Three, Carlos Saura, 1968
Sweet Hours, Carlos Saura, 1982
Swept Away, Lina Wertmüller, 1974
That Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Żuławski, 1975
The Wonderland, Keiichi Hara, 2019
This Is Not a Movie, Yung Chang, 2019*
This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, 1966
Veslemøy’s Song, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2018
Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942
*Available in the U.S. only

The Bronco Bullfrog trailer I saw at Film Forum was really intriguing, still haven’t seen the movie.

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.

> 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

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, 1980
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, Walerian Borowczyk, 1981
Dead & Buried, Gary Sherman, 1981
The House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, 1981
The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, 1981
Strange Behavior, Michael Laughlin, 1981
Wolfen, Michael Wadleigh, 1981
Scanners, David Cronenberg, 1981
Road Games, Richard Franklin, 1981
The Fan, Ed Bianchi, 1981
Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, 1982
Next of Kin, Tony Williams, 1982
Cat People, Paul Schrader, 1982
Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen, 1982
The Slumber Party Massacre, Amy Holden Jones, 1982
The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983
The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983*
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, John McNaughton, 1986
The Hidden, Jack Sholder, 1987
Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987
White of the Eye, Donald Cammell, 1987
Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988
Brain Damage, Frank Henenlotter, 1988
Dream Demon, Harley Cokeliss, 1988
The Blob, Chuck Russell, 1988
Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell, 1988
Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1989
Society, Brian Yuzna, 1989
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989

I love their annual horror series. But The Keep? Any idea which cut? Just the theatrical cut that Mann has more or less disowned?

Full list of new arrivals for October 2022:

Atragon, Ishiro Honda, 1963
August 32nd on Earth, Denis Villeneuve, 1998
Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, 1982
Black Book, Paul Verhoeven, 2006
The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934
Blackenstein, William A. Levey, 1973
Blacula, William Crain, 1972
The Blob, Chuck Russell, 1988
Blood & Donuts, Holly Dale, 1995*
Blood and Sand, Rouben Mamoulian, 1941
Brain Damage, Frank Henenlotter, 1988
Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
Cat People, Paul Schrader, 1982
Caught, Max Ophuls, 1949*
Celia, Ann Turner, 1989
Cosmos, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Manon Briand, Jennifer Alleyn, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin, and Denis Villeneuve, 1996
Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold, 1954
The Criminals, Serhat Karaaslan, 2020
Dead & Buried, Gary Sherman, 1981
Deep Cover, Bill Duke, 1992
Dogora, Ishiro Honda, 1964
Dracula, Tod Browning, 1931
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, Guy Maddin, 2002
Dracula (Spanish-language version), George Melford, 1931
Dream Demon, Harley Cokeliss, 1988
Dries, Reiner Holzemer, 2017
Estonia Dreams of Eurovision!, Marina Zenovich, 2002
The Fan, Edward Bianchi, 1981
Fascination, Jean Rollin, 1979
Forty Guns, Samuel Fuller, 1957
Frankenstein, James Whale, 1931
Frankenstein vs. Baragon, Ishiro Honda, 1965
The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, 1981
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014
The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel, 2008
Heroin, Jessica Beshir, 2017
He Who Dances on Wood, Jessica Beshir, 2016
The Hidden, Jack Sholder, 1987
Hot Mother, Lucy Knox, 2020
The House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, 1981
The House of the Devil, Ti West, 2009
Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Robert Aldrich, 1964
I Am Another You, Nanfu Wang, 2017
Independent’s Day, Marina Zenovich, 1997
Inferno, Dario Argento, 1980
Invisible Essence: The Little Prince, Charles Officer, 2018*
The Invisible Man, James Whale, 1933
Island of Lost Souls, Erle C. Kenton, 1932
Isle of the Dead, Mark Robson, 1945
The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983
Lady in a Cage, Walter Grauman, 1964
The Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell, 1988
Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson, 2008*
Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams, 2016
The Living Dead Girl, Jean Rollin, 1982
Maelström, Denis Villeneuve, 2000
Matango, Ishiro Honda, 1963
The Mummy, Karl Freund, 1932
The Mysterians, Ishiro Honda, 1957
My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, 1991
Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
Next of Kin, Tony Williams, 1982
Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog, 1979
Panic in the Streets, Elia Kazan, 1950
Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970
Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987
Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen, 1982
The Raven, Lew Landers, 1935
Road Games, Richard Franklin, 1981
Sierra, Sander Joon, 2022
Slumber Party Massacre, Amy Holden Jones, 1982
Society, Brian Yuzna, 1989
Songs for Drella, Ed Lachman, 1990
Sounder, Martin Ritt, 1972
Space Amoeba, Ishiro Honda, 1970
still/here, Vlad Feier, 2020
Strange Behavior, Michael Laughlin, 1981
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, Walerian Borowczyk, 1981
Supergirl, Jessie Auritt, 1984
Superior, Erin Vassilopoulos, 2021
Superior, Erin Vassilopoulos, 2015
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989
Thirst, Park Chan-wook, 2009
Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1989
Varan the Unbelievable, Ishiro Honda, 1958
The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman, 1971
Vive L’Amour, Tsai Ming-liang, 1994
Warsha, Dania Bdeir, 2022
White of the Eye, Donald Cammell, 1987
Who Is Bernard Tapie?, Marina Zenovich, 2001
Wolfen, Michael Wadleigh, 1981
The Wolf Man, George Waggner
*Available in the U.S. only

Supergirl year is wrong, looks like it will be the 2016 documentary.

I hate to complain in the face of such a long list, but Caught being US only is greatly displeasing

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.

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.

sounds sort of prescient when you put it like that

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.

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.

November 2022 additions finally announced:

499, Rodrigo Reyes, 2020
. . . After He Left, Athi Patra Ruga, 2008
Africa, the Jungle, Drums and Revolution, Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, 1979
African Booty Scratcher, Nikyatu Jusu, 2007
Another Decade, Morgan Quaintance, 2018
Becket, Peter Glenville, 1964
Bestia, Hugo Covarrubias, 2021
Black Journal, “Alice Coltrane,” St. Clair Bourne, 1970
The Blue Dahlia, George Marshall, 1946*
Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
The Breaking Point, Michael Curtiz, 1950
Call Northside 777, Henry Hathaway, 1948
A Camel, Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981
Censor of Dreams, Léo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez, 2021
Cry of the City, Robert Siodmak, 1948
The Cry of Jazz, Edward Bland, 1959
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2018
The Dark Corner, Henry Hathaway, 1946
The Daughter of Dawn, Norbert A. Myles, 1920
Dazed Flesh, Grace Passô and Ricardo Alves Jr, 2019
Dust Be My Destiny, Lewis Seiler, 1939
Fallen Angel, Wong Kar Wai, 1995
The Fallen Sparrow, Richard Wallace, 1943
Felicia’s Journey, Atom Egoyan, 1999*
The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film, Blake Studdard and Wayne Coyne, 2022
Flowers, Nikyatu Jusu, 2016
Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky, 1948*
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, Isaac Julien, 1995
Ghosts, André Novais Oliveira, 2010
The Glass Key, Stuart Heisler, 1942
Goodbye Jerome!, Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet, and Adam Sillard, 2022
Gramercy Stories, Joyce Chopra, 2008
Happy Mother’s Day, Richard Leacock and Joyce Chopra, 1963
The House on Telegraph Hill, Robert Wise, 1951
Humoresque, Jean Negulesco, 1946
The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983
Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi, 2016
Imagine the Sound, Ron Mann, 1981
Kiss of Death, Henry Hathaway, 1947
Les stances à Sophie, Moshé Mizrahi, 1971
Long Way Home, André Novais Oliveira, 2018
Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal, Joyce Chopra, 1980
Milford Graves Full Mantis, Jake Meginsky, with Neil Young, 2018
Missing Time, Morgan Quaintance, 2019
Nũhũ yãgmũ yõg hãm: This Land Is Ours!, Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, and Roberto Romero, 2020
The Pied Piper, Jacques Demy, 1972
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Tay Garnett, 1946
Promises: Through Congress, Trevor Tweeten, 2021
Public Service Announcement, Athi Patra Ruga, 2014
Republic, Grace Passô, 2020
Rising Tones Cross, Ebba Jahn, 1985
Saturday’s Children, Vincent Sherman, 1940
Say Grace Before Drowning, Nikyatu Jusu, 2010
Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth, Jeanie Finlay, 2019*
Suicide by Sunlight, Nikyatu Jusu, 2019
Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, Robert Mugge, 1980
Take Out, Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, 2004
Thieves’ Highway, Jules Dassin, 1949
This Gun for Hire, Frank Tuttle, 1942
Yãmĩyhex, the Women-Spirit, Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, 2019

Premiering November 15
American Movie, Chris Smith, 1999
An Education, Lone Scherfig, 2009
Animal Kingdom, David Michôd, 2010*
Another Year, Mike Leigh, 2010
The City of Lost Children, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995*
The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003
Footnote, Joseph Cedar, 2011
Grateful Dawg, Gillian Grisman, 2000
House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou, 2004
The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet, 2010
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, 2010*
Junebug, Phil Morrison, 2005
L’enfant, Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2005
Last Orders, Fred Schepisi, 2001
The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
Nine Queens, Fabián Bielinsky, 2000
Offside, Jafar Panahi, 2006
Orlando, Sally Potter, 1992
Paprika, Satoshi Kon, 2006
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007
Pollock, Ed Harris, 2000
A Prophet, Jacques Audiard, 2009
Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer, 1998
Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011
Thumbsucker, Mike Mills, 2005
Volver, Pedro Almodóvar, 2006
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, 2009
Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008*
Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, and Michel Debats, 2001

Premiering November 16
A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia, 2021

Premiering November 21
My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn, 2003

*Available in the U.S. only

must-watch in the 'free jazz' mini collection after "milford graves full mantis"?

ornette: made in america is good
space is the place is goofy but worth watching
fire music is skippable, too much talking and not enough music

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?

December 2022 additions:

All the Crows in the World, Tang Yi, 2021
American Movie, Chris Smith, 1999
April and the Extraordinary World, Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci, 2015*
Artaud Double Bill, Atom Egoyan, 2007*
The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey, 1937
Bad Night for the Blues, Chris Shepherd, 2010
Ball of Fire, Howard Hawks, 1941
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert, 2017
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, Ernst Lubitsch, 1938
The Broker, Azadi Moghadam, 2018
Celluloid Man, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2012
Christine, John Carpenter, 1983
Day of the Outlaw, André de Toth, 1959
Diamantino, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, 2018*
Easy Living, Mitchell Leisen, 1937
En passant, Atom Egoyan, 1991*
The Far Country, Anthony Mann, 1954
Freedom Fields, Naziha Arebi, 2018
The Girls, Mai Zetterling, 1968
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1972
The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, 1968
Gregory’s Girl, Bill Forsyth, 1980
Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Sturges, 1944
The Headhunter’s Daughter, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, 2022
Here the Seats Are Vacant, Shiva Sanjari, 2016
His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, 1940
Holiday, George Cukor, 1938
Infinite Football, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2018
It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934
It Happens Every Spring, Lloyd Bacon, 1949
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, 1941
Little Big Man, Arthur Penn, 1970
Love Is News, Tay Garnett, 1937
Loving Couples, Mai Zetterling, 1964
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, 1971
Me and My Gal, Raoul Walsh, 1932
Midnight, Mitchell Leisen, 1939
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Preston Sturges, 1944
Mirage, Szabolcs Hajdu, 2014
The More the Merrier, George Stevens, 1943
Murder, He Says, George Marshall, 1945
My Man Godfrey, Gregory La Cava, 1936
Night Games, Mai Zetterling, 1966
The Palm Beach Story, Preston Sturges, 1942
Peep Show, Atom Egoyan, 1981*
Platform, Sahar Mosayebi, 2021
Poetry, Lee Chang-dong, 2010
Radiograph of a Family, Firouzeh Khosravani, 2020
Ravenous, Antonia Bird, 1999
Rhubarb, Arthur Lubin, 1951
Ride the High Country, Sam Peckinpah, 1962
The Second Game, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2014
The Secret of Convict Lake, Michael Gordon, 1951
Shaolin Soccer, Stephen Chow, 2001
Spettacolo, Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen, 2017
Tattoo, Farhad Delaram, 2019
Theodora Goes Wild, Richard Boleslawski, 1936
Three Wishes for Cinderella, Václav Vorlíček, 1973
Tootsie, Sydney Pollack, 1982
Track of the Cat, William A. Wellman, 1954
Trouble in Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932
Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, 1934
The White Wall, Stig Björkman, 1975
The Wild North, Andrew Marton, 1952
You Never Can Tell, Lou Breslow, 1951
Premiering December 5
Marx Can Wait, Marco Bellocchio, 2021
Premiering December 12
Cane Fire, Anthony Banua-Simon, 2020
Premiering December 14
Clara sola, Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, 2021
*Available in the U.S. only

Features, bundles, departments, etc: https://criterioncast.com/news/december-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced

Stoked for the Mai Zetterling stuff!

Finally caught Night Games in a theatrical screening this year and it is quite remarkable; did not disappoint.

Re Mitchell Leisen: Easy Living has a Sturges script, I believe, don’t remember if I ever saw. Midnight I remembering enjoying, was it a Wilder script?

January 2023 additions:

3 Women, Robert Altman, 1977
ABC Africa, Abbas Kiarostami, 2001
Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh, 1977
American Dream, Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk, 1990
The American Sector, Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez, 2020
Attica, Cinda Firestone, 1974
Beauty and the Dogs, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2017
Belizaire the Cajun, Glen Pitre, 1986
Big Brown Eyes, Raoul Walsh, 1936*
The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963*
The Boss, Fernando Di Leo, 1973
The Bread and Alley, Abbas Kiarostami, 1970
Breaktime, Abbas Kiarostami, 1972
Caliber 9, Fernando Di Leo, 1972
The Clay Bird, Tareque Masud, 2002
The Colors, Abbas Kiarostami, 1976
The Day After Trinity, Jon Else, 1981
Deep End, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970
Diary for My Children, Márta Mészáros, 1984
Diary for My Lovers, Márta Mészáros, 1987
Diary for My Mother and Father, Márta Mészáros, 1990
Election, Johnnie To, 2005
Election 2, Johnnie To, 2006
Experience, Abbas Kiarostami, 1973
First Case, Second Case, Abbas Kiarostami, 1979
First Graders, Abbas Kiarostami, 1984
Four Days in July, Mike Leigh, 1984
Grown-Ups, Mike Leigh, 1980
Hard Labour, Mike Leigh, 1973
Home Sweet Home, Mike Leigh, 1982
INAAT/SE/, Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil, 2016
The Italian Connection, Fernando Di Leo, 1972
Kidnap Syndicate, Fernando Di Leo, 1975
The Kiss of Death, Mike Leigh, 1977
Le quattro volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010
Little Women, George Cukor, 1933
Man Hunt, Fritz Lang, 1941
Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964*
Masquerade, Olive Nwosu, 2021
Moonlighting, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982
Nationtime, William Greaves, 1972
A New Year, George Sikharulidze, 2018
Nina, Hristo Simeonov, 2019
Nuts in May, Mike Leigh, 1976
Oklahoma!, Fred Zinnemann, 1955
Orderly or Disorderly, Abbas Kiarostami, 1981
Party Girl, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995
Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, 2015
Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960*
The Reagan Show, Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill, 2017
Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang, 1945
Shoot First, Die Later, Fernando Di Leo, 1974
The Shout, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978
So Can I, Abbas Kiarostami, 1975
Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro, Jerry Carlsson, 2021
The Task, Leigh Ledare, 2017
There’s Always Tomorrow, Douglas Sirk, 1956*
Toothache, Abbas Kiarostami, 1980
Tribute to Teachers, Abbas Kiarostami, 1977
Two Solutions for One Problem, Abbas Kiarostami, 1975
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle, Bill Morrison, 2021
A Wedding Suit, Abbas Kiarostami, 1976
We’re No Angels, Michael Curtiz, 1955*
Who’s Who, Mike Leigh, 1979
Wild Girl, Raoul Walsh, 1932
The Woman in the Window, Fritz Lang, 1944
The Woman on the Beach, Jean Renoir, 1947
Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, 1970

Premiering January 5
Il buco, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2021*

Premiering January 11
Kamikaze Hearts, Juliet Bashore, 1986

Premiering January 14
Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990

Premiering January 19
Keane, Lodge Kerrigan, 2004

*Available in the U.S. only

Daaaam, hoping this portends a Bergman-like Kiarostami box in the works.

Ha, was wondering about that too.

Being unaware that Mike Leigh had made a film called Grown-Ups, I was for a split second very confused.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Grownupsmovie.jpg

Really intrigued by the Fernando Di Leo titles. The poster for Shoot First Die Later is really something else.

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/375/0812/21/shoot-first-die-later-italian-1p-74_375_9f9a1d3623f3212e603041b82a2087ac.jpg

I just realized The Archers' The Small Back Room (spine #441) is still on the channel, though it doesn't show up in https://www.criterionchannel.com/criterion-editions. It does show up if you search for it directly, though. It was added March 2020, I thought for a limited engagement, and...never removed? Hard to know if it's part of the permanent streaming library now or not.

Criterion is really bad for searching imho. Never totally sure what's on there.

I've asked several times for a flat text-only sortable table of everything currently available but nooooooooo.

The Small Back Room seems to be on there, with commentary track and other bonus videos to boot.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-small-back-room

Doesn't Criterion Editions mean there is a physical non-streaming version? Maybe that was discontinued which is why you don't see it. Or that is where the information gap manifested itself, on that page.

https://www.criterion.com/films/747-the-small-back-room
DVD OUT OF PRINT

Ah yeah, that'll be the reason.

One of the things that is kind of a source of pain for me is all the "ghosts" in there, emptied out directorial series, bonus videos but not the actual film etc.

There is a spectre haunting Criterion.

My god, a Starring Joan Bennett special. Hard-to-find obscurities by Jean Renoir and Douglas Sirk among them. Watch her two Fritz Lang films Scarlet Street and especially The Woman in the Window.

I saw those two as a double feature years ago and saw one of them again at some point and can't say I remember which is which.

They're both similar; the latter has a frankly unbelievable twist.

I forgot what the twist is so will have to watch again. Can't remember if I've seen Scarlet Street.

Your favorite actress is also in that Sirk obscurity.

Yep!

Meant to watch it this weekend but didn’t get to it.

It absolutely blows my mind that someone would forget seeing Scarlet Street ... maybe the bleakest noir ending of any noir ever made

Also, it goes without saying that AK's Childhood Films series is at the top of my list for January

Can you talk about those on Iranian Cinema thread?

Or maybe on one of the four Kiarostami threads.

Really intrigued by the Fernando Di Leo titles. The poster for Shoot First Die Later is really something else.

People seem to like the Milieu Trilogy: Caliber 9 (Milano Calibro 9, 1972), The Italian Connection (La Mala Ordina, 1972), The Boss (Il Boxx, 1973).

Lots of good noirs leaving this month.