Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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.

The Sony Pictures Classics bundle left midmonth, without warning. It arrived mid-November and had a 2 month streaming license apparently. :(

I hate it when that happens :(

I'm really hoping that the Dekalog returns at some point.

Done got to be a drag, a man can't stream nothin' no more. We got to let the services know what they got to do for us, heh heh heh

That Joan Bennett series on Criterion continues to impress me. I watched the delightful Big Brown Eyes (1936), co-starring Cary the Grant. Only 75 minutes!

DId you watch the Sirk yet/

Lots of good noirs leaving this month.

I had never seen Force of Evil. Recommended if you haven't seen it. There was a good piece linked in the noir thread ten years ago.

https://newrepublic.com/article/105544/david-thomson-force-of-evil

It's a pretty famous film! Can't remember if I have seen it once or zero times.

Recommending THE GLASS KEY, FALLEN ANGEL and THE BLUE DAHLIA.

Have we discussed the idea of all Film Noirs being components of one master narrative, one master story or is that a challops at this point?

I don't think Dekalog was ever on the Channel or on Filmstruck! The two features expanded from Dekalog chapters are still there.

Huh. Why would Dekalog have not made an appearance yet? I wonder if Criterion still has the rights?