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Criterion Channel streaming service launches April 8 (US/Canada)
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Might be my favorite performance of his and I adore The Leopard and Sweet Smell of Success.
After all this talk I started the swimmer.
I'm only ten minutes in but what a strange thing it is.
I'm only ten minutes in but what a strange thing it is.
Yep, it's one hell of a weird ride!
The short story it is based on is pretty good too.
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Yup American movies were doing some really weird stuff from the late 60s to late 70s. The more movies I watch from the time the more I think it was the real golden age of Hollywood.
April lineup looks fantastic!
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I just saw The Day of the Locust for the first time. It's leaving the Criterion channel tonight so I almost missed it but holy shit one of the most insane endings of all time. I was floored by it. Overall, the movie is good but not one of my favorites but that ending is definitely on a hypothetical list of my favorite endings of all time. If you can catch it before it leaves tonight I highly recommend if only for the ending.
Now I'm gonna see Seven Days in May for the first time.
Now I'm gonna see Seven Days in May for the first time.
I thought Seven Days in May draaaaaaaaagged, and I love Frankenheimer's films. Weird, since it had a great writer(Rod Sterling!).
I liked it.
Though it was quaint that a military coup was stopped peacefully because of a peace of paper and that revealing an affair was considered too dirty to stop the overthrow of the democratic government of the US.
My year is almost up and I'm afraid I had to cancel. The only app that "reliably" works for me is the android tv version. It's not available on my Samsung, my Xbox, my Playstation - I can't watch from my laptop to big screen or from the firetv devices I happen to have and I can't airplay or use hdmi out!
The android tv version on my xbr continually fails back to the menu screen with no explanation and movies frequently just halt while network conditions are perfect for every other device and app. And I have fios.
I'm out. Sorry criterion but I'm not being picky. The app situation was, is and continues to be ridiculous.
The android tv version on my xbr continually fails back to the menu screen with no explanation and movies frequently just halt while network conditions are perfect for every other device and app. And I have fios.
I'm out. Sorry criterion but I'm not being picky. The app situation was, is and continues to be ridiculous.
Yeah the app has a lot of issues. It's gotten worse since the lockdown I've noticed too.
Watched three Burt Lancaster films last month and really enjoyed all of them. Sweet Smell of Success was my favorite (he's fucking scary!) But The Train and Seven Days In May were quite good too. Wish I had more time, but I guess I'll watch Mifune stuff this month.
Thank god for CC, movies are one of the few things keeping me sane now.
Thank god for CC, movies are one of the few things keeping me sane now.
I watched all those except the train. You should check out the Swimmer some day it's a really good Lancaster role.
Just watched Police Story with Jackie Chan. Criterion seems to be the only place you can watch Jackie Chan movies with subtitles, instead of terribly dubbing. I love how the big final stunt was so hard to pull off that they just show it 3 times. Not gonna let all that effort go to waste! Jackie hurt his spine on that one.
It definitely hasn't aged very well. Not nearly as well as Frankenheimer's earlier The Manchurian Candidate, which seems more relevant now than ever.
The Swimmer is kind of the ultimate male mid-life crisis movie. It certainly doesn't glorify the phenomenon, as Hollywood movies (which are primarily made by male filmmakers) have historically done. Here, the middle-aged guy is revealed to be
broken, lonely, and seriously disturbed.
Winding down my subscription, decided to watch In Cold Blood.
Wow, does it ever live up to its reputation. First half is a bit slow, second is top gear. Very chilling film.
Stalker bored the hell out of me, though.
Wow, does it ever live up to its reputation. First half is a bit slow, second is top gear. Very chilling film.
Stalker bored the hell out of me, though.
I forgot to check for Mays so here it is!
The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993**
Anamorphosis, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1991
Anna Christie, Clarence Brown, 1930
Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Anderson, 1956
Audience, Barbara Hammer, 1982
La belle noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, 1991
Betty Tells Her Story, Liane Brandon, 1972
The Big Country, William Wyler, 1958
The Big House, George Hill, 1930
Black Beauty, James Hill, 1971
Bless Their Little Hearts, Billy Woodberry, 1983
Blondie of the Follies, Edmund Goulding, 1932
The Boy with Green Hair, Joseph Losey, 1948
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1984
Cane River, Horace B. Jenkins, 1982
Céline and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974
The Champ, King Vidor, 1931
Children of the Century, Diane Kurys, 1999
Chris and Bernie, Bonnie Friedman and Deborah Shaffer, 1976
Clotheslines, Roberta Cantow, 1981
The Cloud-Capped Star, Ritwik Ghatak, 1960
The Comb, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1990
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena, Lourdes Portillo, 1999
Cowboy, Delmer Daves, 1958
Cynara, King Vidor, 1932
Dinner at Eight, George Cukor, 1933**
Down in the Delta, Maya Angelou, 1998
Entre nous, Diane Kurys, 1983
The Facts of Life, Melvin Frank, 1960
The Fearless Hyena, Jackie Chan, 1979
Fearless Hyena 2, Chan Chuen, 1983
The Field, Sandhya Suri, 2018
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight, Eliza Hittman, 2011
Friends with Money, Nicole Holofcener, 2006**
Gloria, John Cassavetes, 1980
Growing Up Female, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, 1971
Guerillère Talks, Vivienne Dick, 1978
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Chen Chi-hwa, 1980
Hero, Stephen Frears, 1992
The Human Factor, Otto Preminger, 1979
I Am Wanda, Katja Raganelli, 1980
In a Year of 13 Moons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978
In Absentia, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 2000
Inside Women Inside, Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio, 1978
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970
It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman, 2013
It Happens to Us, Amalie R. Rothschild, 1972
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Stanley Kramer, 1963
Janie's Janie, Geri Ashur, 1971
Joyce at 34, Joyce Chopra, 1972
Land Makar, Margaret Tait, 1981
The Limey, Steven Soderbergh, 1999
Little Fugitive, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Raymond Abrashkin, 1953
Lovely & Amazing, Nicole Holofcener, 2001
Loves of a Blonde, Miloš Forman, 1965
The Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger, 1955
Martha, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974
Mimi, Claire Simon, 2002
Min and Bill, George Hill, 1930
The Mirror, Jafar Panahi, 1997
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001
My Lucky Stars, Sammo Hung, 1985
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, 2015
Ocean's 11, Lewis Milestone, 1960
Peppermint Soda, Diane Kurys, 1977
The Phantom Museum, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 2003
Phase IV, Saul Bass, 1974
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener, 2010**
Privilege, Yvonne Rainer, 1990
Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, 1992
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 1987
Riffraff, J. Walter Ruben, 1936
The Salt Mines, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1990
The Scarlet Letter, Victor Sjöström, 1926
Second Cousins Once Removed, Eliza Hittman, 2010
Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
Secrets, Frank Borzage, 1933
Shakedown, Leilah Weinraub, 2018
Sidewalk Stories, Charles Lane, 1989
Soft Fiction, Chick Strand, 1979
Something Wild, Jack Garfein, 1961
Spiritual Kung Fu, Lo Wei, 1978
Stella Dallas, Henry King, 1925
Stella Dallas, King Vidor, 1937
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1988
Stille Nacht III: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1992
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1993
Storm Center, Daniel Taradash, 1956
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, 2013
Street of Crocodiles, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1986
Suzanne, Suzanne, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1982
Their Own Desire, E. Mason Hopper, 1929
The Third Generation, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979
The Ties That Bind, Su Friedrich, 1985
The Transformation, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1995
Tremors, Dawid Bodzak, 2018
Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhangke, 2002
This Unnameable Little Broom, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, and Keith Griffiths, 1985
Walk on the Wild Side, Edward Dmytryk, 1962
The Wayward Cloud, Tsai Ming-liang, 2005**
The Wind, Victor Sjöström, 1928
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, Bridget Terry, 2000
The World, Jia Zhangke, 2004
The Young Master, Jackie Chan, 1980
Yudie, Mirra Bank, 1974
**Available in the U.S. only
The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993**
Anamorphosis, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1991
Anna Christie, Clarence Brown, 1930
Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Anderson, 1956
Audience, Barbara Hammer, 1982
La belle noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, 1991
Betty Tells Her Story, Liane Brandon, 1972
The Big Country, William Wyler, 1958
The Big House, George Hill, 1930
Black Beauty, James Hill, 1971
Bless Their Little Hearts, Billy Woodberry, 1983
Blondie of the Follies, Edmund Goulding, 1932
The Boy with Green Hair, Joseph Losey, 1948
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1984
Cane River, Horace B. Jenkins, 1982
Céline and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974
The Champ, King Vidor, 1931
Children of the Century, Diane Kurys, 1999
Chris and Bernie, Bonnie Friedman and Deborah Shaffer, 1976
Clotheslines, Roberta Cantow, 1981
The Cloud-Capped Star, Ritwik Ghatak, 1960
The Comb, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1990
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena, Lourdes Portillo, 1999
Cowboy, Delmer Daves, 1958
Cynara, King Vidor, 1932
Dinner at Eight, George Cukor, 1933**
Down in the Delta, Maya Angelou, 1998
Entre nous, Diane Kurys, 1983
The Facts of Life, Melvin Frank, 1960
The Fearless Hyena, Jackie Chan, 1979
Fearless Hyena 2, Chan Chuen, 1983
The Field, Sandhya Suri, 2018
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight, Eliza Hittman, 2011
Friends with Money, Nicole Holofcener, 2006**
Gloria, John Cassavetes, 1980
Growing Up Female, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, 1971
Guerillère Talks, Vivienne Dick, 1978
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Chen Chi-hwa, 1980
Hero, Stephen Frears, 1992
The Human Factor, Otto Preminger, 1979
I Am Wanda, Katja Raganelli, 1980
In a Year of 13 Moons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978
In Absentia, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 2000
Inside Women Inside, Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio, 1978
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970
It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman, 2013
It Happens to Us, Amalie R. Rothschild, 1972
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Stanley Kramer, 1963
Janie's Janie, Geri Ashur, 1971
Joyce at 34, Joyce Chopra, 1972
Land Makar, Margaret Tait, 1981
The Limey, Steven Soderbergh, 1999
Little Fugitive, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Raymond Abrashkin, 1953
Lovely & Amazing, Nicole Holofcener, 2001
Loves of a Blonde, Miloš Forman, 1965
The Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger, 1955
Martha, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974
Mimi, Claire Simon, 2002
Min and Bill, George Hill, 1930
The Mirror, Jafar Panahi, 1997
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001
My Lucky Stars, Sammo Hung, 1985
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, 2015
Ocean's 11, Lewis Milestone, 1960
Peppermint Soda, Diane Kurys, 1977
The Phantom Museum, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 2003
Phase IV, Saul Bass, 1974
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener, 2010**
Privilege, Yvonne Rainer, 1990
Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, 1992
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 1987
Riffraff, J. Walter Ruben, 1936
The Salt Mines, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1990
The Scarlet Letter, Victor Sjöström, 1926
Second Cousins Once Removed, Eliza Hittman, 2010
Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
Secrets, Frank Borzage, 1933
Shakedown, Leilah Weinraub, 2018
Sidewalk Stories, Charles Lane, 1989
Soft Fiction, Chick Strand, 1979
Something Wild, Jack Garfein, 1961
Spiritual Kung Fu, Lo Wei, 1978
Stella Dallas, Henry King, 1925
Stella Dallas, King Vidor, 1937
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1988
Stille Nacht III: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1992
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1993
Storm Center, Daniel Taradash, 1956
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, 2013
Street of Crocodiles, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1986
Suzanne, Suzanne, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1982
Their Own Desire, E. Mason Hopper, 1929
The Third Generation, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979
The Ties That Bind, Su Friedrich, 1985
The Transformation, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1995
Tremors, Dawid Bodzak, 2018
Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhangke, 2002
This Unnameable Little Broom, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, and Keith Griffiths, 1985
Walk on the Wild Side, Edward Dmytryk, 1962
The Wayward Cloud, Tsai Ming-liang, 2005**
The Wind, Victor Sjöström, 1928
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, Bridget Terry, 2000
The World, Jia Zhangke, 2004
The Young Master, Jackie Chan, 1980
Yudie, Mirra Bank, 1974
**Available in the U.S. only
Excited for the Jackie Chan!
Also if anyone has any recommendations for something that's leaving this month I'm all ears! Nothing that I hadn't already seen really jumped out to me as a must watch, but that just means I don't know enough about them probably!
Also if anyone has any recommendations for something that's leaving this month I'm all ears! Nothing that I hadn't already seen really jumped out to me as a must watch, but that just means I don't know enough about them probably!
My partner, who usually buys me something from Criterion for birthdays/Christmas, gifted me a year subscription the other day for my birthday and I've been pretty impressed with the channel so far. I enjoy how collections presented and other movies are highlighted, it makes it really easy to make plans. I've been going through the Columbia Noir collection chronologically, with my next watch being Johnny O'Clock. I hadn't seen any of them previously and enjoyed the ones I watched to varying degrees, but damn, the two Rita Hayworth movies were incredible. Excited for the rest.
Day For Night and Some Like It Hot seem like the highest priorities after a quick look. If you've seen them before, maybe one of the Poitier movies?
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Just as a heads up, the Criterion website extended it's sale of 30% off in stock discs through May 31st now.
Keep in mind the Barnes and Noble 50% off sale usually starts in July. But maybe it won't happen this year, who can say the way it's been going so far.
I've seen those and a decent amount of the Poitiers... I still have tons of things to watch that aren't leaving so I should be grateful I have an opportunity to catch up.
An immensely better lineup than April's. Everyone should check out Bless Their Little Hearts, in particular, to see an example of a powerful, personal work by an African-American director that almost no one has seen or heard of.
diva and two weeks in another town, if you haven't seen them.
Plus one for Bless Their Little Hearts. Very curious how big Woodberry's role was. Don't want to diminish his contributions, but Burnett script, Burnett stylings...
Also now more people can watch one of Scorsese's best.
Just saw Long Day's Journey into Night. Fascinating work, although I'm not sure if I like all the references or not. It went back and forth between being awesome to a bit too derivative. The movie is sticking with me though, so that's something.
Only to sign up. The video player isn't geolocked and they take international cards for payment. You can just use a free trial on a VPN to sign up and then you don't need it anymore.
Only to sign up. The video player isn't geolocked and they take international cards for payment. You can just use a free trial on a VPN to sign up and then you don't need it anymore.
I just saw Day for Night also and the movie didn't do anything for me. I'll probably forget it almost completely in a short time and I usually love movies about movie making.
I'm gonna watch Diva tonight then!
Just to subscribe! I'm from Australia and used a VPN to enter credit card details. Then I just downloaded the APK and can log in and watch/cast without a VPN.
I just saw A Raisin in the Sun. If you haven't seen that yet, I recommend it.
This is strange. I could have sworn I looked into it before and didn't find it but you're right there is an Xbox one app which I'm getting now.
Edit: this will make it much easier for me to watch the criterion channel now.
Cutting it super close and watching Diva tonight. If I don't get entirely wrapped up playing Animal Crossing with my wife over the weekend going to try to watch another Juzo Itami movie. Was thinking of A Taxing Woman but am open to other suggestions
Oh, Tampopo is what made me want to seek him out in the first place. When I watched it it immediately shot up to my list of favorite movies of all time.
I legit think about scenes from it at least once a month
switch I understand- Nintendo doesn't encourage anything except games- but the PS4 and Xbox app absence is/was bizarre. The numbers are not trivial and Xbox one in particular is kinda the cinephile console since it's the only one with a uhd blu Ray player (please don't bring your "akchally... Oppo Standalone..." business on here) - and both consoles are widely deeply and frequently used for movie streaming and consumption.
I remember the day I realized I couldn't watch on a big screen being legitimately dumbfounded.
I had literally every listed brand/device type except roku but no way to watch on the big screen.
Not only that but both companies can provide excellent support and shortcuts to getting apps up and running on their consoles and it's way easier to test than the cornucopia of smart TVs.
And they're both fully hdcp compliant.
Maybe this means PS4 is on the way?