Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

that Ové is a blast

Looking forward to some Painlévé films with YLT music, finally.

I notice that a bunch of stuff that is about to leave first appeared on August 2022, so I am assuming that is a thing, a six month arrangement.

Guess I should finally see a Jarman film.

Is THE TARNISHED ANGELS really considered a rarity?

Jerzy Skolimowski's EO to be added this coming Tuesday.

I'm looking forward to seeing it

Wow. Saw it in the theater but missed a minute or two at the beginning.

March additions:

Abuse of Weakness, Catherine Breillat, 2013*
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, Maria Brendle, 2020
Amateur, Hal Hartley, 1994
Back Stage, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1919
The Balloonatic, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1923
The Bedroom Window, Curtis Hanson, 1987
The Bell Boy, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1918
Behemoth: or the Game of God, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2016
The Blacksmith, Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair, 1922
Bleue, Ornella Pacchioni, 2021
The Boat, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921
Boy and the World, Alê Abreu, 2013
Broken Lullaby, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932
The Butcher Boy, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1917
Cleopatra, Cecil B. DeMille, 1934
Coach to Vienna, Karel Kachyňa, 1966
College, Buster Keaton and James W. Horne, 1927
Coney Island, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1917
Convict 13, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920
The Cook, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1918
Cops, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1922
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee, 2000
The Couple Next Door, Abbesi Akhamie, 2020
Day Dreams, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1922
Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch, 1933*
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, John S. Robertson, 1920
Entre nous, Diane Kurys, 1983
The Electric House, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1922
Epidemic, Lars von Trier, 1987
Executioners, Johnnie To and Ching Siu-tung, 1993
Forty Guns, Samuel Fuller, 1957
The Frozen North, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1922
The Garage, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1920
The Goat, Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair, 1921
Good Night, Nurse!, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1918
Hard Luck, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921
The Haunted House, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921
The Hayseed, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1919
Heaven’s Gate, Michael Cimino, 1980
The Heroic Trio, Johnnie To, 1993
The High Sign, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921
His Wedding Night, Roscoe “Fatty”Arbuckle, 1917
Home, Ursula Meier, 2008*
Honor Among Lovers, Dorothy Arzner, 1931
If I Had a Million, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Norman Z. McLeod, H. Bruce Humberstone, James Cruze, Stephen Roberts, and William A. Seiter, 1932
Images of Liberation, Lars von Trier, 1982
In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo, 2012*
The Intruder, Claire Denis, 2005
Invoking Justice, Deepa Dhanraj, 2011
Is This Just a Story?, Yugantar, 1983
Lady of the Night, Marin Håskjold, 2017
The Last Days of Chez Nous, Gillian Armstrong, 1992
Life Is Cheap . . . But Toilet Paper Is Expensive, Wayne Wang, 1989
Loulou, Maurice Pialat, 1980
Love in the Time of AIDS, Deepa Dhanraj, 2006
Love Me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian, 1932
The Love Nest, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1923
Loving Highsmith, Eva Vitija, 2022
Made in Hong Kong, Fruit Chan, 1997
Magnificent Warriors, David Chung, 1987
Maid Servant, Yugantar, 1981
Merrily We Go to Hell, Dorothy Arzner, 1932
Moonshine, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1918
Mosonngoa, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2014
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You., Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019
The Murder of Mr. Devil, Ester Krumbachová, 1970
My Wife’s Relations, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1922
Neighbors, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920
Night After Night, Archie Mayo, 1932
Nocturne, Lars von Trier, 1980
Oh Doctor!, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1917
One Hour with You, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932
One Week, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920
Orthodontics, Mohammadreza Mayghani, 2021
Our Hospitality, Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone, 1923
Out West, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1918
The Playhouse, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921
Police Story 3: Supercop, Stanley Tong, 1992
The Rough House, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, 1917
Royal Warriors, David Chung, 1986
The Scarecrow, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920
Shanghai Express, Josef von Sternberg, 1932
She Done Him Wrong, Lowell Sherman, 1933
The Smiling Lieutenant, Ernst Lubitsch, 1931
So Late So Soon, Daniel Hymanson, 2020
Something Like a War, Deepa Dhanraj, 1991
Spring Blossom, Suzanne Lindon, 2021*
Steamboat Bill, Jr., Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner, 1928
The Stunt Woman, Ann Hui, 1996*
Sudesha, Yugantar, 1983
Things to Come, Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016
Three Ages, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1923
Tobacco Embers, Yugantar, 1982
Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, 1958*
The Wayward Bus, Victor Vicas, 1957
What Happened to This City?, Deepa Dhanraj, 1986
Who I Am and What I Want, Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley, 2005
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Frank Tashlin, 1957
Witchhammer, Otakar Vávra, 1970
Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk, 1956*
Yes, Madam!, Corey Yuen, 1985*

*Available in the U.S. only

Yes to Executioners and The Heroic Trio. Epidemic too.

Best month in a while IMO.

The High Sign, Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921

My fave Keaton!

Was the answer to a recent trivia question

Michelle Yeoh retrospective really needs Wing Chun, but don't miss Magnificent Warriors. Really want to see Abuse of Weakness and the other dozen or so Huppert movies I haven't gotten around to.

Oh, Wing Chun is great, yeah.

Anyone have any non-Lubitsch recommendations from this month's "Pre-Code Paramount" program?

The arzners are prob more historically interesting than actually interesting imo. If you havent seen all the lubitsch’s def start w those

The arzners are prob more historically interesting than actually interesting imo. If you havent seen all the lubitsch’s def start w those

I watched the delightful Big Brown Eyes (1936)

I just watched this, what a crazy screwball gangster comedy drama. Featuring a dead baby!

Anyone have any non-Lubitsch recommendations from this month's "Pre-Code Paramount" program?

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Saturday, March 4, 2023 11:53 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

If anyone here has not seen Shanghai Express, If I Had a Million, or Night After Night, do so ASAP. Also watch Wild Girl (part of the Joan Bennett package and expiring at the end of March)--it's not perfect but I'm intrigued that Disney is allowing Criterion to screen at least some of the old Fox films.

Criterion is not obliged to report viewership stats. But I am curious how many views the silent and precode programming gets, as compared to the contemporary world film programming.

Y’all should post more on Morb’s thread: Raoul Walsh, "craftsmanlike picturemaker": S/D

Morbs’s

Joan Bennett’s wearing some very contemporary looking jorts in Wild Girl. Or at least 1990s-looking.

a manic pixie mountain girl

Heh

That’s pre-code, isn’t it?

The Girls (1968) by Mai Zetterling was so much better than I’d been led to believe. The MCM decor alone would recommend it, but it also makes some good points. Zetterling’s Night Games is an absolute next-level must-see.

xp yes, Joan’s kind of discreetly topless in a couple of shots

Plus there are several children skinnydipping around her. No closeups, but....

Also, Salomy Jane is supposed to be a perfectly natural beauty, yet somehow she has master-class finger waves and perfectly applied lipstick.

Also I was wondering… Almost everyone in Mai Zetterling’s The Girls was also a regular in Ingmar Bergman films. Were there not that many actors in Sweden at that time, or were Bergman and Zetterling especially close?

Feel like this kind of thing is typical of a lot of foreign cinemas back then tbh.

Like you might watch some random German movie and see a bunch of Fassbinder regulars. But this a hazy anecdotal memory.

Or at some point two out of three German films seemed to have Moritz Bleibtreu, at least of the ones that were available for me to see.

Could very well be. But, in The Girls (sorry to bang on about this) the three main “girls” were all actresses who starred in Bergman films. And the main male actor had also starred in Bergman films.

Way late, been out of pocket, but here's April 2023. None of the usual sources posted a flat list of titles that I could find.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8101-the-criterion-channels-april-2023-lineup

amazing lineup!

Jafar Panahi's NO BEARS to be added this coming Tuesday.

Saw that. And saw that one in a theater. Really good, believe the hype.

Watched Crimes of Passion a few nights ago, holy shit that was a riot. I hadn't seen it before or even read much about it. Definitely recommended.

Anything else I should, um, dive into in the Erotic Thrillers selection? I watched Dream Lover, but it was pretty terrible.

Body Heat may be the sweatiest movie ever made.

Jade ... the dumbest?

we've been watching a ton of the erotic thriller series selections that we hadn't already seen. color of night was my favorite so far, it's so lurid and ridiculous and the supporting cast is stacked. call me was pretty good too, workmanlike plot but lots of great grimy '80s new york scenery and baby buscemi and strathairn. sister, sister and dream lover were not great but still fairly entertaining. we watched half of the comfort of strangers last night and that one is just bizarre, i'm curious to see where it goes.

Watched Crimes of Passion a few nights ago, holy shit that was a riot. I hadn't seen it before or even read much about it. Definitely recommended.

enjoyed turner and perkins, but felt like i was constantly rolling my eyes at john laughlin as bobby. then i read that jeff bridges, patrick swayze, and alec baldwin were all in contention for the role.

May 2023 additions: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8121-the-criterion-channels-may-2023-lineup

no flat list of titles yet but an exciting batch

Weird how some of this stuff is only available for three months like the rare Sirks and the key Siodmak noirs.

If the rightsholders want to license these films for only X number of months, CC has to like it or lump it. Although they do make a point of these titles being available for only a limited time.

I haven't kept close notes but I think three months is the most common license.

Could well be. I had been hoping it was six months.

May 2023 additions: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8121-the-criterion-channels-may-2023-lineup

no flat list of titles yet but an exciting batch

― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, April 20, 2023 1:19 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Returning by Popular Demand" and "Premiering": https://thefilmstage.com/the-criterion-channel-reveals-may-lineup-jennifer-jason-leigh-seijun-suzuki-demonlover-infernal-affairs-more/

Cool. Anyway came back to say that the Siodmak Four Key Noirs are all well worth your time, I may even rewatch a few, but I still need to watch the vary rare Sirk with Claudette Colbert as a nun first.

I've seen all the shorter Suzukis. Is the Taisho trilogy worth a dip?