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[Garysb]

February 2022 Films

Alan & Naomi, Sterling Van Wagenen, 1992
All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, 1955
The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970
Babylon, Franco Rosso, 1980
Babymother, Julian Henriques, 1998
Bamako, Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006

Beat Street, Stan Lathan, 1984
Blacks Britannica, David Koff, 1978
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson, 2015
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, Stanley Nelson, 1999
Bright Road, Gerald Mayer, 1953
Cake Walk, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
Chez Jolie Coiffure, Rosine Mbakam, 2018
Citizen Ruth, Alexander Payne, 1996**
Company Line, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2009
Death on the Nile, John Guillermin, 1978
Delphine’s Prayers, Rosine Mbakam, 2021
A Different Image, Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel, 1972
Don’t Play Us Cheap, Melvin Van Peebles, 1972
Dream City, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
Ears, Nose and Throat, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016
Erie, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010
Far from Heaven, Todd Haynes, 2002
Feathers, A. V. Rockwell, 2018
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life, Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey, 2016
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, 2014
Glenville, Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil Pedizisai, 2020
The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972
The Heartland, Marquise Mays, 2021

Hive, Blerta Basholli, 2021
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), Joe Angio, 2005
IFO, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017
Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk, 1959
Inconsequential Doggereal, Ulysses Jenkins, 1981
Kansas City, Robert Altman, 1996**
The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks, 1969
Les cinq cent balles, Melvin Van Peebles, 1963
Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937
Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964
Magnificent Obsession, Douglas Sirk, 1954
Mass of Images, Ulysses Jenkins, 1978

The Metamorphosis of Birds, Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020
Mississippi Mermaid, François Truffaut, 1969
The Movement of Things, Manuela Serra, 1985
Mutual Native Duplex, Ulysses Jenkins, 1990
Native Son, Pierre Chenal, 1951
The Nomadics, Ulysses Jenkins, 1991
No Place Like Home, Perry Henzell, 2006
Notions of Freedom, Ulysses Jenkins, 2007
Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959
Omega Rising Women of Rastafari, D. Elmina Davis, 1988
Personal Best, Robert Towne, 1982
Pier Kids, Elegance Bratton, 2019
A Place of Our Own, Stanley Nelson, 2004
Planet X, Ulysses Jenkins, 2006
Rambling Rose, Martha Coolidge, 1991
A Reggae Session, Stephanie Bennett and Thomas Adelman, 1988
Remnants of the Watts Festival, Ulysses Jenkins, 1980
Rockers, Theodoros Bafaloukos, 1978
Running on Empty, Sidney Lumet, 1988
Self Divination, Ulysses Jenkins, 1989
Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
Sound That, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2014
The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017**
The Story of a Three Day Pass, Melvin Van Peebles, 1967
Sun Children, Majid Majidi, 2020
Sunlight, Melvin Van Peebles, 1957
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971
Tell Them We Are Rising, Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams, 2017
Three Pickup Men for Herrick, Melvin van Peebles, 1957
The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman, Rosine Mbakam, 2018
Two-Zone Transfer, Ulysses Jenkins, 1979
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, 2008
Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier, 1974
Watermelon Man, Melvin Van Peebles, 1970
We the Ragamuffin, Julian Henriques, 1992
Without Your Interpretation, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Ranald MacDougall, 1959
Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk, 1956
Zebrahead, Anthony Drazan, 1992
*Available in the U.S. only

 

[Garysb]

March 2022

The Criterion Channel’s March 2022 Lineup

Next month on the Criterion Channel, we’re pushing the envelope with a series of the pre-Code films made by Paramount Pictures, a centenary tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini, and a collection of groundbreaking concert documentaries.

www.criterion.com

Pre Code Paramount

FEATURING: The Cocoanuts (1929), The Virtuous Sin (1930), Morocco (1930), Ladies’ Man (1931), An American Tragedy (1931), The Cheat (1931), The Devil Is Driving (1932), Million Dollar Legs (1932), Hot Saturday (1932), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), This Is the Night (1932), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933)*, Murders in the Zoo (1933), I’m No Angel (1933), International House (1933), This Day and Age (1933), Torch Singer (1933), Kiss and Make-Up (1934), Murder at the Vanities (1934)

CRITERION EDITIONS
PREMIERING MARCH 1​

A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie, 1961)​

Criterion Collection Edition #945​

WATCH NOW​

Lorraine Hansberry’s deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred receives a powerful screen adaptation that captures the high stakes and shifting currents of Black life in midcentury America.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with Hansberry, director Daniel Petrie, and scholars Imani Perry and Mia Mask; an excerpt from Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement; and more.

The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)​

Criterion Collection Edition #1108​

WATCH NOW​

The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt begins here: Thomas Vinterberg’s lacerating chamber drama uses the economic and aesthetic freedoms of digital video to achieve an annihilating emotional intensity.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Vinterberg, documentaries featuring cast and crew members, a 2002 documentary about the Dogme 95 movement, deleted scenes, two early short films by Vinterberg, and more.

Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)​

Criterion Collection Edition #936​

WATCH NOW​

Former minor leaguer Ron Shelton’s highly quotable script and breakthrough performances from Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins come together in this freewheeling hymn to America’s favorite pastime.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Two audio commentaries featuring Shelton, Costner, and Robbins; interviews with the cast and crew; an appreciation of the film featuring former players, broadcasters, and sports-film aficionados; and more.

Merrily We Go to Hell (Dorothy Arzner, 1932)​

Criterion Collection Edition #1076​

WATCH NOW​

Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: Dorothy Arzner’s alcohol-soaked portrait of an open marriage stands out even in the anything-goes pre-Code era for its daringly mature treatment of taboo themes.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A video essay by film historian Cari Beauchamp and Dorothy Arzner: Longing for Women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler.

Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)*​

Criterion Collection Edition #592​

WATCH NOW​

Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins form a very pre-Code ménage à trois in one of Ernst Lubitsch’s sexiest and most sophisticated enchantments.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Lubitsch’s segment of the 1932 omnibus film If I Had a Million, selected-scene commentary by film scholar William Paul, an interview with film scholar Joseph McBride, and more.

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)​

Criterion Collection Edition #913​

WATCH NOW​

Martin Scorsese adapts the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, in this sumptuous evocation of Gilded Age Manhattan starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with Scorsese, coscreenwriter Jay Cocks, production designer Dante Ferretti, and costume designer Gabriella Pescucci; and Innocence and Experience, a 1993 documentary on the making of the film.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

FWIW, just received another of their sporadic $10 promo gift code for being/staying a charter subscriber... interestingly, sounds like no longer stackable like before (although the language is somewhat unclear about stacking w/ older saved codes vs new ones from this month alone)...

I still have another older $10 code from over 1/2 year ago -- guess I'll find out during the next 50% flash sale...

_Man_

 

[David Norman]

Certainly appears they are ramping up for a sale soon. Somebody said their email at least hinted at an upcoming sale though no date. This is a similar pattern to last sale where the GC were sent out a few days ahead so I'm planning on March 8 for now.

 

[bujaki]

Got my $10 promo gift code as well; that will stack with the Kane gift code. It will also stack with any $50 gift awards you may have accrued from prior sales.
I'm betting on next week for their Flash Sale.

 

[Garysb]

COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS PREMIERING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL APRIL 2022:​

• 3 Bad Men, John Ford, 1926
• Aar paar, Guru Dutt, 1954
• Accident, Joseph Losey, 1967
• Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972
• Adam, Maryam Touzani, 2019
• Baaz, Guru Dutt, 1953
• Balikbayan, Larilyn Sanchez and Riza Manalo, 2004
• Barrier Device, Grace Lee, 2002
• Baxter, Vera Baxter, Marguerite Duras, 1977
• Be Pretty and Shut Up!, Delphine Seyrig, 1981
• The Betrayal, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath, 2008
• Black Belt Jones, Robert Clouse, 1974
• Black Caesar, Larry Cohen, 1973
• The Black Watch, John Ford, 1929
• Blue Velvet, David Lynch, 1986
• Bodies in Dissent, Ufuoma Essi, 2021
• Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sara Driver, 2017*
• Born Reckless, John Ford, 1930
• Bring Down the Walls, Phil Collins, 2020
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, Robert Altman, 1976
• Cavite, Ian Gamazon, Neill Dela Llana, 2005
• The Chambermaid, Lila Avilés, 2018
• Chaudhvin ka chand, M. Sadiq, 1960
• Colma: The Musical, Richard Wong, 2006
• Daughters of Darkness, Harry Kümel, 1971
• Deep Blues, Robert Mugge, 1992
• A Demonstration, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, 2020
• Doctor Bull, John Ford, 1933
• A Doll’s House, Joseph Losey, 1973
• First Person Plural, Deann Borshay Liem, 2000
• Four Sons, John Ford, 1928
• France, Bruno Dumont, 2021
• Friday Foster, Arthur Marks, 1975
• Going Home, Hung Nguyen, 2006
• The Hawks and the Sparrows, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966
• A Hell of a Note, Eagle Pennell, 1977
• How Green Was My Valley, John Ford, 1941
• I Was Born, But …, Roddy Bogawa, 2004
• In Between Days, So Yong Kim, 2006
• In Search of Guru Dutt, Nasreen Munni Kabir, 1989
• In Space, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, 2009
• India Song, Marguerite Duras, 1975
• J.D.’s Revenge, Arthur Marks, 1976
• Jane Eyre, Robert Young, 1997
• Journey from the Fall, Ham Tran, 2006
• Judge Priest, John Ford, 1934
• Paper Flowers, Guru Dutt, 1959
• Kentucky Pride, John Ford, 1925
• The King of Texas, René Pinnell, Claire Huie, 2008
• Last Night at the Alamo, Eagle Pennell, 1983
• The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971
• Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais, 1961
• Letter From Your Far-Off Country, Suneil Sanzgiri, 2020
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, John Huston, 1972
• Loose Corner, Anita Thacher, 1986
• Maat, Fox Maxy, 2020
• Mamartuile, Alejandro Saevich, 2017
• Man Hunt, Fritz Lang, 1941
• Melting Snow, Janah Elise Cox, 2021
• Men Without Women, John Ford, 1930
• The Milky Way, Luis Buñuel, 1969
• Ministry of Fear, Fritz Lang, 1944
• Mr. & Mrs. ’55, Guru Dutt, 1955
• my favorite software is being here, Alison Nguyen, 2021
• My Worst Nightmare, Anne Fontaine, 2011
• A New England Document, Che Applewhaite, 2020
• Original Gangstas, Fred Williamson and Larry Cohen, 1996
• Pilgrimage, John Ford, 1933
• Pirated!, Hoang Tan Nguyen, 2000
• Punching at the Sun, Tanuj Chopra, 2006
• Pyaasa, Guru Dutt, 1957
• Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, Yoichi Sai, 2004
• Reckless Eyeballing, Christopher Harris, 2004
• Refugee, Spencer Nakasako, 2003
• The Robe, Henry Koster, 1953
• Sahib bibi aur ghulam, Abrar Alvi, 1962
• Sangam, Prashant Bhargava, 2004
• Saving Face, Alice Wu, 2004*
• Seven Women, Seven Sins, Maxi Cohen, Laurence Gavron, Bette Gordon, Helke Sander, Ulrike Ottinger, Chantal Akerman, and Valie Export, 1986
• Shaft’s Big Score!, Gordon Parks, 1972
• Steamboat Round the Bend, John Ford, 1935
• Sugar Hill, Paul Maslansky, 1974
• Summer of the Serpent, Kimi Takesue, 2004
• Thomasine and Bushrod, Gordon Parks Jr., 1974
• Three the Hard Way, Gordon Parks Jr., 1974
• Thriller, Sally Potter, 1980
• Through the Night, Loira Limbal, 2020
• Tobacco Road, John Ford, 1941
• Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John, 1972
• Trouble Man, Ivan Dixon, 1972
• Truck Turner, Jonathan Kaplan, 1974
• Two Sons and a River of Blood, Amber Bemak and Angelo Madsen Minax, 2021
• What Price Glory, John Ford, 1952
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
• The Whole Shootin’ Match, Eagle Pennell, 1978
• Windowbreaker, Tze Chun, 2006
• The World Moves On, John Ford, 1934
• Young Mr. Lincoln, John Ford, 1939

 

[Garysb]

The Film Foundation is launching a free virtual screening room to showcase restored films starting May 9 with I Know Where I’m Going!.

Martin Scorsese Foundation Launches Virtual Screening Room For Restored Films, First Up ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’

The Film Foundation, founded by the director in 1990, will kick off its series on May 9 with 'I Know Where I’m Going!'.

deadline.com

I tried to post a separate thread for this but I kept getting error message about not meeting minimum "Prefix" whatever that means.

 

[Capt D McMars]

I signed up for a charter membership -- I mean, it's free for 30 days so why not give it a shot.

Reading the above press release, it doesn't look like The Criterion Channel will be carrying their films which is what I would have wanted and expected. If I am reading correctly, WarnerMedia, instead, will be offering their own streaming service with those titles.

There are so many Criterion films I would love to see but their ownership model is just too expensive. To be able to stream those titles for less than $10 a month is a fantastic thing. However, unless I am wrong, that doesn't seem to be what this service is all about.

I hope I am wrong.

I too came on board as one of the first charter members, the first year it started streaming. I love the Criterion lable and was a member in the previous incarnation before the relaunch as the Criterion channel, I had high hopes for the continued success of this frenchise. The preivious lineup was more deviersified, and like many other streaming channels, it seems the offerings seemed to me to be more limited than the first, with little to no new material.
So, I ended up powering thru the titles I wanted, exploring the titiles I set aside, and in the end there was little to nothing that I wanted to watch and jumping to another streaming service. I gave then 1 and a half years and seeing little change, I jumped ship!!

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

I'll probably keep subscribing if they keep sending those $10 stackable GCs 2-3x a year (that can be used in their periodic 50%-off flash sales), which they've done so far -- my annual renewal is due very soon. Basically works out to net of $60-70/year for me, and I do seem to use it enough every month I think...

_Man_

 

[bujaki]

The Film Foundation is launching a free virtual screening room to showcase restored films starting May 9 with I Know Where I’m Going!.

Martin Scorsese Foundation Launches Virtual Screening Room For Restored Films, First Up ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’

The Film Foundation, founded by the director in 1990, will kick off its series on May 9 with 'I Know Where I’m Going!'.

deadline.com

I tried to post a separate thread for this but I kept getting error message about not meeting minimum "Prefix" whatever that means.

I wish this article told us how we can access this virtual screening room. Still, this bodes well for a future release of the film by Criterion since Janus still owns the film. Maybe Criterion will release this in 1.85 ratio to atone for their mistake in the botched Summertime release. All kidding aside, this is one of my favorite films, a litmus test. And yes, I know it's 1.37 AR.

 

[Garysb]

May 2022

See the full list of May titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.

’night, Mother, Tom Moore, 1986*

A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater, 2006

Abar, the First Black Superman, Frank Packard, 1977

Action in the North Atlantic, Lloyd Bacon, 1943

The Alchemist Cookbook, Joel Potrykus, 2016

Another Day at the Office, Richard Linklater, 2019

Ape, Joel Potrykus, 2012

Banana Split, Kip Fulbeck, 1991

Bernie, Richard Linklater, 2011*

The Big Knife, Robert Aldrich, 1955

Bittersweet Survival, J. T. Takagi and Christine Choy, 1982

Bontoc Eulogy, Marlon Fuentes, 1995

Buzzard, Joel Potrykus, 2014

Charade, Stanley Donen, 1963

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Robert Altman, 1982

Coonskin, Ralph Bakshi, 1975

A Cry in the Dark, Fred Schepisi, 1988

The Dead, John Huston, 1987

Dolemite, D’Urville Martin, 1975

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater, Gabe Klinger, 2013

Down a Dark Stairwell, Ursula Liang, 2020

Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, 2020

Falling in Love, Ulu Grosbard, 1984

A Family Portrait, Joseph Pierce, 2009

A Few Miles South, Ben Pearce, 2021

Fire Ted Cruz, Richard Linklater, 2018

Five Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and ‎Guy Davidi, 2011

Frances, Graeme Clifford, 1982

Fresh Kill, Shu Lea Cheang, 1994

From Spikes to Spindles, Christine Choy, 1976

The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943

Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, Richard Linklater, 1991

High Sierra, Raoul Walsh, 1941*

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, Rea Tajiri, 1991

Hold Back the Dawn, Mitchell Leisen, 1941

Homes Apart: Korea, J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy, 1991

Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach, Richard Linklater, 2008

The Jackie Robinson Story, Alfred E. Green, 1950*

Kelly Loves Tony, Spencer Nakasako, 1998

The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese, 1978

Le navire Night, Marguerite Duras, 1979

Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor, Richard Linklater, 2003

Lord Shango, Ray Marsh, 1975

Lust for Gold, S. Sylvan Simon, 1949

The Man I Love, Raoul Walsh, 1947

Marguerite as She Was, Dominique Auvray, 2003

Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, 2008*

Melons (At a Loss), Patty Chang, 1998

Mississippi Triangle, Christine Choy, Worth Long, and Allan Siegel, 1983

A Monkey in Winter, Henri Verneuil, 1962

Moontide, Archie Mayo, 1942

Murphy’s Romance, Martin Ritt, 1985

The Newton Boys, Richard Linklater, 1998

Out of the Fog, Anatole Litvak, 1941

The Parallax View, Alan J. Pakula, 1974

Peter and the Farm, Tony Stone, 2016

Peter Ibbetson, Henry Hathaway, 1935

Petey Wheatstraw, Cliff Roquemore, 1977

Picture Bride, Kayo Hatta, 1994*

The Point, Fred Wolf, 1971

Radiance, Naomi Kawase, 2017*

Raggedy Man, Jack Fisk, 1981*

Relaxer, Joel Potrykus, 2018

Resurrection, Daniel Petrie, 1980*

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, Louis Black and Karen Bernstein, 2016

Sally’s Beauty Spot, Helen Lee, 1990

Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung, 2000

The Sea Wolf, Michael Curtiz, 1941

Shopping for Fangs, Quentin Lee and Justin Lin, 1997

Something Wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986

Still the Water, Naomi Kawase, 2014

Strawberry Fields, Rea Tajiri, 1997

SubUrbia, Richard Linklater, 1996

Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, 1989

Sweet Bean, Naomi Kawase, 2015

Tape, Richard Linklater, 2001

Terminal USA, Jon Moritsugu, 1993

The Trained Chinese Tongue, Laurie Wen, 1994

The Trouble With Angels, Ida Lupino, 1966

They Drive by Night, Raoul Walsh, 1940

Thing from the Factory by the Field, Joel Potrykus, 2022

Trick Baby, Larry Yust, 1972*

True Mothers, Naomi Kawase, 2020

Violets Are Blue . . . , Jack Fisk, 1986

Voices of the Morning, Meena Nanji, 1992

Wait Until Dark, Terence Young, 1967

While the City Sleeps, Fritz Lang, 1956

Willie Dynamite, Gilbert Moses, 1973*

Woman in Hiding, Michael Gordon, 1950*

Women’s Prison, Lewis Seiler, 1955

Yentl, Barbra Streisand, 1983

 

[Robert Crawford]

May 2022 Programming on the Criterion Channel Announced

For May, the Channel will feature films from Richard Linklater, Christine Choy, Juzo Itami, and more!

criterioncast.com

 

[TravisR]

See the full list of May titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.

Dolemite, D’Urville Martin, 1975

Petey Wheatstraw, Cliff Roquemore, 1977

Two of the finest pictures that the Criterion Channel has been lucky enough to have.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

May 2022 Programming on the Criterion Channel Announced

For May, the Channel will feature films from Richard Linklater, Christine Choy, Juzo Itami, and more!

criterioncast.com

You know... I have ta say... I appreciate the effort they put into curating and presenting each new month's run of films on the CC that none of the other streaming platforms do even though I don't often spend the time reading thru an entire announcement. They aren't merely dumping (or cycling thru) some seemingly random/arbitrary list of flicks on their platform, but giving the whole endeavor very noticeable, yet elegantly simple (as befits good cinema presentation), care and attention and still charge less than most for ad-free streaming (and of generally higher quality catalog offerings of much wider, interesting range)...

Kudos, Criterion!

_Man_

 

[Garysb]

COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS PREMIERING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL June 2022:​

• Anything Goes, Lewis Milestone, 1936
• Atlantis, Valentyn Vasyanovych, 2019
• Babes in Arms, Busby Berkeley, 1939
• Beauty and the Beast, Christophe Gans, 2014
• Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan, 1981
• Chameleon Street, Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989
• Chamisso’s Shadow, Ulrike Ottinger, 2016
• Charlatan, Agnieszka Holland, 2020
• Children, Terence Davies, 1976
• A Chorus Line, Richard Attenborough, 1985
• Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
• Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, 2011
• Cleopatra Jones, Jack Starrett, 1973
• The Clock, Vincente Minnelli, 1945
• The Darkside, Warwick Thornton, 2013
• Death and Transfiguration, Terence Davies, 1983
• The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies, 2011 *
• Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence Davies, 1988 *
• Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press, Ulrike Ottinger, 1984
• Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder, 1944
• Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948
• Fannie’s Film, Fronza Woods, 1982
• Fire Music, Tom Surgal, 2018
• Five Graves to Cairo, Billy Wilder, 1943
• For Me and My Gal, Busby Berkeley, 1942
• A Foreign Affair, Billy Wilder, 1948
• Forbidden Planet, Fred M. Wilcox, 1956
• Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, 1953
• Girl Crazy, Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley, 1943
• The Gospel of Eureka, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, 2018
• Green Bush, Warwick Thornton, 2005
• Hansel and Gretel, Len Talan, 1987
• The Harvey Girls, George Sidney, 1946
• Head On, Ana Kokkinos, 1998
• The Hole, Tsai Ming-liang, 1998*
• In the Good Old Summertime, Buster Keaton and Robert Z. Leonard, 1949
• Joan of Arc of Mongolia, Ulrike Ottinger, 1989
• Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, Robert Yapkowitz and Richard Peete, 2020*
• Keyboard Fantasies, Posy Dixon, 2019 *
• Killing Time, Fronza Woods, 1979
• Laocoon & Sons, Tabea Blumenschein and Ulrike Ottinger, 1975
• Lilting, Hong Khaou, 2014
• The Longest Day, Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki, 1962
• The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder, 1945
• Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, Ulrike Ottinger, 1977
• Madonna and Child, Terence Davies, 1980
• Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, Mouly Surya, 2017
• Meet Me in St. Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944
• Mimi, Warwick Thornton, 2002
• Nana, Warwick Thornton, 2007
• The Neon Bible, Terence Davies, 1995
• Of Time and the City, Terence Davies, 2008 *
• Owd Bob, Rodney Gibbons, 1998
• Paris Calligrammes, Ulrike Ottinger, 2020
• The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948
• The Poseidon Adventure, Ronald Neame, 1972
• Prater, Ulrike Ottinger, 2007
• Presenting Lily Mars, Norman Taurog, 1943
• A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies, 2016 *
• ’Round Midnight, Bertrand Tavernier, 1986
• Samson & Delilah, Warwick Thornton, 2009
• Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
• Stud Life, Campbell Ex, 2012
• Summer Stock, Charles Walters, 1950
• Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton, 2017
• Taiga, Ulrike Ottinger, 1992
• Victor and Victoria, Reinhold Schünzel, 1933
• Zero Patience, John Greyson, 1993 *
• Ziegfeld Girl, Robert Z. Leonard, 1941

June 2022 Programming on the Criterion Channel Announced

For June, the Channel will feature films from Billy Wilder, Terence Davies, Fronza Woods, and more!

criterioncast.com

 

[Garysb]

COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS PREMIERING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL JULY 2022:​

• a.k.a. Cassius Clay, Jim Jacobs, 1970
• Accused of Murder, Joseph Kane, 1956
• Adoption, Márta Mészáros, 1975
• Africa on the Seine, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Mamadou Sarr, 1955
• Ahed’s Knee, Nadav Lapid, 2021
• Air Doll, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2009
• All Dogs Go to Heaven, Don Bluth, 1989
• And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold, 1953
• Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955*
• The Badlanders, Delmer Daves, 1958*
• Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, 2013*
• Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater, 1995
• Before Sunset, Richard Linklater, 2004
• Birago Diop, conteur, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1981
• Black Widow, Nunnally Johnson, 1954
• Blow-Ball, Márta Mészáros, 1964
• The Bravados, Henry King, 1958
• By the Time It Gets Dark, Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016
• The Champ, King Vidor, 1931
• Champion, Mark Robson, 1949
• Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962
• Desert Fury, Lewis Allen, 1947
• Destry Rides Again, George Marshall, 1939
• Dziga and His Brothers, Evgeny Tsymbal, 2002
• Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962
• Fat City, John Huston, 1972
• Foreign Intrigue, Sheldon Reynolds, 1956
• Gentleman Jim, Raoul Walsh, 1942
• The Great Race, Blake Edwards, 1965
• The Gunfighter, Henry King, 1950
• Hammer, Bruce D. Clark, 1972
• The Harder They Fall, Mark Robson, 1956
• He Laughed Last, Blake Edwards, 1956
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Alexander Hall, 1941
• House of Bamboo, Samuel Fuller, 1955
• I Died a Thousand Times, Stuart Heisler, 1955*
• Iba N’Diaye, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1982
• The Image You Missed, Dónal Foreman, 2018
• In Old Chicago, Henry King, 1938
• Inferno, Roy Ward Baker, 1953
• A Kiss Before Dying, Gerd Oswald, 1956
• Lamb, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1964
• Leave Her to Heaven, John M. Stahl, 1945
• Lemon, Janicza Bravo, 2017*
• Lure of the Wilderness, Jean Negulesco, 1952
• Man of the West, Anthony Mann, 1958
• Matilda, Daniel Mann, 1978
• Mississippi Masala, Mira Nair, 1991
• Môl, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1966
• Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, 2012
• A Nation Is Born, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1961
• Niagara, Henry Hathaway, 1953
• Party Girl, Nicholas Ray, 1958
• Peter & the Wolf, Suzie Templeton, 2006
• Petition, Zhao Liang, 2009
• Pink Flamingos, John Waters, 1972
• Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, Ralph Nelson, 1962
• The Ring, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927
• Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, Dan Klores and Ron Berger, 2005
• The River’s Edge, Allan Dwan, 1957
• Scaffold, Kazik Radwanski, 2017
• The Set-Up, Robert Wise, 1949
• Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
• Somebody Up There Likes Me, Robert Wise, 1956
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Henry King, 1952
• The Song of Bernadette, Henry King, 1943
• State Fair, Henry King, 1933
• Sunset Song, Terence Davies, 2015
• Swamp Water, Jean Renoir, 1941
• That’s Life!, Blake Edwards, 1986
• Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made, Mika Kaurismäki, 1994
• Twelve O’Clock High, Henry King, 1949
• Victor/Victoria, Blake Edwards, 1982
• Walker, Alex Cox, 1987
• Western, Valeska Grisebach, 2017
• The Winning of Barbara Worth, Henry King, 1926

 

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August 2022​

TOP STORIES
PREMIERING AUGUST 1​

Starring Myrna Loy​

Featuring a new introduction by critic Imogen Sara Smith​

Wickedly witty and effortlessly elegant, Myrna Loy embodied 1930s romantic comedy at its most urbane. American audiences in 1937 voted her “Queen of the Movies,” and she has enchanted ever since with her lively intelligence and sly humor, her cool poise and warm heart. Loy and William Powell formed one of the screen’s greatest couples, and in the Thin Man movies they pioneered an ideal of modern marriage as a partnership of equals, nourished by a ceaseless flow of jokes and martinis. A passionate activist for social justice throughout her life, Myrna Loy brought substance and spirit to every film, elevating melodramas, crime thrillers, and comedies with her subtle underplaying, unaffected honesty, and timeless sense of style.

FEATURING: Love Me Tonight (1932), Penthouse (1933), The Thin Man (1934), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Stamboul Quest (1934), Whipsaw (1935), Libeled Lady (1936), After the Thin Man (1936)**, Double Wedding (1937), Test Pilot (1938), I Love You Again (1940), Love Crazy (1941), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), The Red Pony (1949)

The Swinging Soundtracks of Henry Mancini​

Henry Mancini combined elements of jazz, pop, easy listening, and exotica into lush, loungey scores that all but defined space-age, cocktail-shaker sophistication. Bright, breezy, and casually inventive, Mancini’s music lends that little something extra to works by Orson Welles (Touch of Evil), Stanley Donen (Charade, Two for the Road), and especially Blake Edwards, with whom Mancini collaborated on twenty-seven films, including the classics Days of Wine and Roses and Victor/Victoria.

FEATURING: Touch of Evil (1958), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Experiment in Terror (1962), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), Charade (1963), Arabesque (1966), Two for the Road (1967), Sunflower (1970), Once Is Not Enough (1975), Silver Streak (1976), Little Miss Marker (1980), Victor/Victoria (1982), That’s Life! (1986)

Hollywood Chinese​

Featuring a new introduction by filmmaker Arthur Dong​

As long as Hollywood has existed, Chinese and Chinese American lives and artists have been an integral part of its story—though their contributions have often been marginalized, erased, and complicated by a tangled history of racism and (mis)representation. Presented alongside curator Arthur Dong’s illuminating documentary Hollywood Chinese, this program spans cinema’s first hundred years to explore the ways in which the Chinese have been imagined in American feature films, confronting an often grotesque legacy of stereotypes (exemplified by the practice of white actors portraying Asian characters in yellowface) and spotlighting the indelible contributions of trailblazing talents like stars Anna May Wong (Daughter of the Dragon) and Nancy Kwan (The World of Suzie Wong), directors Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing) and Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet), and cinematographer James Wong Howe (Sweet Smell of Success). What emerges is a fascinating cross-cultural mosaic shaped by both racist histories and groundbreaking artistry.

Please be advised: Some films include racist stereotypes and tropes, including yellowface and offensive slurs. For context, we recommend watching the series introduction by curator Arthur Dong and his documentary Hollywood Chinese.

FEATURING: Massacre of the Christians by the Chinese (1900), The Heathen Chinese and the Sunday School Teachers (1904), The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), The Letter (1929), Daughter of the Dragon (1931), The Cat’s Paw (1934), The Good Earth (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), King of Chinatown (1939), China Sky (1945), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), China Doll (1958), The World of Suzie Wong (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Rider on a Dead Horse (1962), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Chan Is Missing (1982), Year of the Dragon (1985), M. Butterfly (1993), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998), Hollywood Chinese (2007)

Starring David Gulpilil​

Featuring the documentaries Gulpilil—One Red Blood and My Name Is Gulpilil​

“I know how to walk across the land in front of a camera, because I belong there,” said David Gulpilil, the late, legendary Yolngu actor who, beginning as a teenager with his very first film role in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, redefined the the way that Indigenous people were represented in Australian cinema and became an international ambassador for the resilience and dignity of his culture. His physical grace (he was an equally celebrated dancer) and intense charisma made him a defining face of the Australian New Wave in classics such as Storm Boy and The Last Wave, while acclaimed personal projects like Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country—which he cowrote and for which he won an acting award at the Cannes Film Festival—allowed him to explore Australian history and society from an Aboriginal perspective.

FEATURING: Walkabout (1971), Storm Boy (1976), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The Last Wave (1977), Dark Age (1987), Gulpilil—One Red Blood (2002), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Mimi (2002), The Tracker (2002), The Proposition (2005)**, Ten Canoes (2006), Charlie’s Country (2013), Another Country (2015), My Name Is Gulpilil (2021)

Starring Yaphet Kotto​

Featuring a new introduction by journalist Jamelle Bouie​

With his powerful presence and refusal to take on roles he deemed demeaning, the late Yaphet Kotto left behind a legacy of dynamic performances that helped blaze a new trail for Black actors on-screen. Intense, fearless, and committed, Kotto often lent his passion and intelligence to finely shaded characters distinguished by their moral ambiguity and psychological complexity. Whether playing a villain for the ages in Larry Cohen’s ruthlessly subversive racial satire Bone, an autoworker fed up with the indignities of working-class life in Paul Schrader’s piercing drama Blue Collar, or an unsung American hero in the stirring historical drama A House Divided: Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion, Kotto was never less than electric.

FEATURING: Across 110th Street (1972)*, Bone (1972), Truck Turner (1974), Friday Foster (1975), Blue Collar (1978), A House Divided: Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion (1982), Midnight Run (1988)

CRITERION COLLECTION EDITIONS
PREMIERING AUGUST 1​

The Asphalt Jungle** (John Huston, 1950)​

Criterion Collection Edition #847​

One of the all-time great heist films offers an uncommonly naturalistic, detailed view of a seamy criminal underworld.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by film historian Drew Casper; a documentary about actor Sterling Hayden; interviews with director John Huston, film noir historian Eddie Muller, and cinematographer John Bailey; and more.

Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)​

Criterion Collection Edition #1029​

John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its electrifying limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A television appearance by Cassavetes and actors Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk, audio commentary by critic Marshall Fine, interviews with producer Al Ruban and actor Jenny Runacre, and more.

Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)​

Criterion Collection Edition #1129​

Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung share a love that transcends death in this lush, opium-wreathed ghost story that movingly bridges Hong Kong’s past and present.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Two documentaries by director Stanley Kwan, on queer representation in Chinese cinema and his Hong Kong identity, and a conversation between Kwan and filmmaker Sasha Chuk.

Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)​

Criterion Collection Edition #555​

Burt Lancaster oozes venom as a vicious Broadway gossip columnist in this cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Documentaries on director Alexander Mackendrick and cinematographer James Wong Howe, audio commentary by film scholar James Naremore, an interview with critic and historian Neal Gabler about the inspiration for Lancaster’s character, and more.

STREAMING PREMIERES​

Donbass​

MONDAY, AUGUST 1​

In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine during the mid-2010s, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news? This scathing, powerfully prescient satire from director Sergei Loznitsa is both a crucial interpretation of the Russo-Ukrainian war and a dark portrait of a world lost in post-truth distortions and fake identities.

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange​

MONDAY, AUGUST 1​

Krasnohorivka: a town on the front lines of the war-torn region of Eastern Ukraine. When poet and filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk first visits the Trofymchuk-Gladky family home, she is surprised by what she finds: while the outside world is riven by bombings and chaos, single mother Anna and her four children are managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, so they begin to shoot a film inspired by their own lives during wartime. The creative process raises questions about what kind of impact cinema might have during times of disaster, and how to picture war through the camera’s lens. For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange stands not only as a remarkable document of the Russo-Ukrainian War through the lens—literally—of this family’s creative process, but as an optimistic testament to the power of art and beauty in the face of destruction.

Wood and Water​

MONDAY, AUGUST 1​

In one of the most arresting feature debuts of recent memory, director Jonas Bak journeys halfway across the world to spin a delicate, quietly revelatory meditation on time and distance, alienation and connection. Facing the void of retirement after leaving her job at a church in Germany’s Black Forest, Anke (played by the director’s real-life mother, Anke Bak) looks forward to reconnecting with her adult children. When her estranged son, who has been living in Hong Kong, announces that he is unable to visit because of the ongoing prodemocracy protests, Anke makes the decision to go and see him herself. Adrift in an unfamiliar city rocked by social unrest, Anke moves through a series of experiences and encounters that begin to point the way toward a new chapter in her life. Sublimely shot on 16 mm, Wood and Water astutely subverts travelogue clichés to evoke a woman’s interior journey.

Damnation​

MONDAY, AUGUST 1​

This newly restored midcareer masterwork by legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, the first of his internationally acclaimed collaborations with author László Krasznahorkai, chronicles the doomed affair between bar Titanik regular Karrer (Miklós B. Székely) and the cruel cabaret singer (Vali Kerekes) he pines for while scheming to displace her brutish husband (György Cserhalmi). A poignant political allegory that solidified Tarr’s arresting aesthetic, Damnation features the exquisite black-and-white cinematography and mesmerizing long takes that would come to be the director’s trademark.

CRITERION ORIGINALS​

Spotlight on Great Expectations​

In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, critic and novelist Grady Hendrix finds an unlikely favorite horror movie in David Lean’s adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic.

WOMEN FILMMAKERS​

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing​

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3​

Two vastly different women form a surprising connection in Toronto’s 1980s art scene in this charming, whimsical, and much-loved lesbian classic by Patricia Rozema.

Valley Girl​

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10​

Before there was Clueless, there was Valley Girl: Martha Coolidge’s SoCal romantic comedy is a sincere, authentic portrayal of 1980s teenage life refreshingly devoid of cliché.

Directed by Gurinder Chadha​

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17​

Best known for her breakout sensation Bend It Like Beckham, prolific filmmaker Gurinder Chadha has been exploring the intricacies of British-Indian identity for more than three decades, bringing a playful and personal perspective to the experiences of women navigating questions of tradition and change within the South Asian diaspora. These early short documentary and narrative films—including I’m British But . . . , a firsthand look at second-generation Asians in late-1980s Britain, and A Nice Arrangement, a wry tale of a bride preparing for her arranged marriage—balance warm humor with thought-provoking insight in order to challenge and expand ideas of what constitutes “British” identity.

FEATURING: I’m British But . . . (1989), A Nice Arrangement (1990), Acting Our Age (1992), What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who’s Funny? (1994)

Fran​

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24​

A compassionate social realism suffuses Glenda Hambly’s candid, funny, unflinching portrait of a woman struggling to balance the demands of single motherhood with her own desires.

Three by Marguerite Duras​

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31​

Having revolutionized French literature with her spare yet haunting prose, novelist Marguerite Duras next turned her attention to cinema, the rules of which she rewrote just as radically with her groundbreaking screenplay for Alain Resnais’s influential Hiroshima mon amour and in more than a dozen entrancingly enigmatic films that she directed herself. Experimenting daringly with narrative construction, temporality, and the relationship between sound and image, Duras’s films—including her masterpiece India Song, a mesmerizing evocation of colonial guilt and ennui—rank among the most fascinating and neglected works of twentieth-century cinema.

FEATURING: India Song (1975), Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977), Le navire Night (1979)

More women filmmakers featured in this month’s programming: Under the Magnifying Glass: Three Documentaries by Jessica Oreck, From Spikes to Spindles (1976), Mississippi Masala (1991), Fresh Kill (1994), Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998), The Betrayal (2008), Another Country (2015), Les 3 boutons (2015), The Wolfpack (2015), Mizuko (2019), Stay Close (2019), The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020), August Sky (2020), Queenie (2020), Flatbush! Flatbush! (2021), My Name Is Gulpilil (2021), Life Without Dreams (2022)

THREE DIMENSIONS​

Three Starring Anna May Wong​

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11​

The first Chinese American movie star, a Jazz Age style icon, and an undeniably magnetic screen presence, Anna May Wong both defied the prejudices of her time and languished under them, charting a trailblazing career at a time when Asian characters were still typically played by white actors in yellowface, while often finding herself reduced to “exotic” and stereotypical roles unworthy of her talents. Nevertheless, her cool glamor elevated every project she appeared in, as seen in this selection of films from her heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, including her finest on-screen hour, Piccadilly, an ultrastylish silent sizzler and one of a string of films that Wong made in England and Europe, where she found the kind of serious dramatic roles that had eluded her in Hollywood.

FEATURING: Piccadilly (1929), Daughter of the Dragon (1931), King of Chinatown (1939)

SATURDAY MATINEES​

We Are the Best!​

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6​

Punk is alive and well in this exuberant ode to nonconformity from Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson.

Misty​

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13​

A brother and sister form a bond with a beautiful, elusive mare in this heartwarming horse’s tale based on a classic children’s novel.

Brigadoon**​

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20​

Vincente Minnelli’s sublime musical is an enchantingly poignant expression of the allure of imaginative fantasy as an escape from everyday life.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes​

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27​

The fifth and final installment of the original blockbuster science-fiction series balances exciting action with thought-provoking social commentary.

TRUE STORIES​

Under the Magnifying Glass: Three Documentaries by Jessica Oreck​

MONDAY, AUGUST 1​

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmaker​

The mystery and history of Japan’s love affair with insects; the starkly beautiful lives and routines of reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland; and the haunted, fairy-tale forests of Eastern Europe—these are just some of the surprising subjects that globe-trotting filmmaker Jessica Oreck has explored in her wondrously idiosyncratic, perception-altering documentaries. Fascinated by ethnobiology—the exchange between human beings and the natural world—Oreck draws on diverse cultural traditions, mythologies, and philosophies to reveal the sublime in the everyday world.

FEATURING: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009), Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys (2013), The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014)

Portrait of Kaye​

MONDAY, AUGUST 8​

A seventy-four-year-old agoraphobic widow explores personal and sexual freedoms that have long been hidden away in this bittersweet study of a woman in the process of reshaping her identity.

The Betrayal​

MONDAY, AUGUST 15​

Filmed over the course of twenty-three years, this haunting documentary follows a refugee family’s epic journey from war-torn Laos to New York City.

The Wolfpack​

MONDAY, AUGUST 22​

Not since Grey Gardens has a documentary brought us inside the secret, troubling world of an unconventional family with such gripping, powerful results.

A Place of Our Own​

MONDAY, AUGUST 29​

Director Stanley Nelson explores the complex history, significance, and changing landscape of an African American resort community on Martha’s Vineyard.

More documentaries featured in this month’s programming: From Spikes to Spindles (1976), I’m British But . . . (1989), Acting Our Age (1992), What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who’s Funny? (1994), Gulpilil—One Red Blood (2002), Hollywood Chinese (2007), Another Country (2015), Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy (2016), The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020), My Name Is Gulpilil (2021)

SHORT-FILM PROGRAMS​

IF/Then Presents​

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2​

Dedicated to supporting documentary storytellers whose voices have long been marginalized within the film industry, IF/Then Shorts breaks down barriers to access, exposure, and funding in the media landscape. To date, IF/Then has been instrumental in bringing more than fifty projects from across the globe to the screen, including a mesmerizing exploration of insomnia set in the outer space of consciousness (Life Without Dreams), an intimate portrait of a Black lesbian elder fighting for access to housing in New York City (Queenie), and an animated meditation on the relationship between Japanese philosophy and abortion (Mizuko).

FEATURING: Mizuko (2019), Stay Close (2019), Queenie (2020), Flatbush! Flatbush! (2021), Nonstop (2021), Life Without Dreams (2022)

Crossing Borders with Christine Choy
Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy and From Spikes to Spindles​

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9​

Trailblazing activist filmmaker Christine Choy narrates an extralegal animated adventure and documents awakening political consciousness in New York’s Chinatown.

Toxic Environments
August Sky and Red Desert​

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16​

Two atmospheric explorations of environmental catastrophe are filtered through the fractured psyches of their protagonists.

Age of Anxiety
Past Perfect and All These Sleepless Nights​

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23​

The millennial generation confronts the existential void in a pair of blissfully melancholic reveries steeped in the pop-culture aesthetics of their time.

Les 3 boutons​

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30​

Agnès Varda replaces fantasy wish fulfillment with feminist self-empowerment in this playfully imaginative anti-Cinderella fairy tale.

DOUBLE FEATURES​

Cocktail Hour with Nick and Nora
The Thin Man and After the Thin Man​

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5​

Mix up a martini and settle in with William Powell and Myrna Loy as everyone’s favorite boozy, bantering, crime-solving couple.

Très Audrey
Charade and Two for the Road​

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12​

Audrey Hepburn displays the elegance and trendsetting taste that made her a fashion icon in a pair of stylish, French-set charmers directed by Stanley Donen.

Love and Apocalypse
Mississippi Masala and Fresh Kill​

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19​

The luminous Sarita Choudhury finds love and a sinister corporate conspiracy in a pair of early-nineties touchstones by trailblazing Asian American women filmmakers.

Outback in the Saddle Again
The Proposition** and Sweet Country​

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26​

Two gorgeously shot Australian revisionist westerns explore the country’s cruel and troubled past.

 

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September 2022 FILMS PREMIERING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL :​

• 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

 

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The Criterion Channel’s October 2022 Lineup

This October, we’re summoning our demons with an expansive collection of ’80s horror and a roundup of Universal monster movies.

www.criterion.com

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

 

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The Criterion Channel’s October 2022 Lineup

This October, we’re summoning our demons with an expansive collection of ’80s horror and a roundup of Universal monster movies.

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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

Blacula, Bride, Creature, Dracula(s), Frankensteins, The Funhouse, The House By The Cemetery, The House Of The Devil, Island Of Lost Souls, Lady In A Cage, The Mummy, Near Dark, Prince Of Darkness, Q, Slumber Party Massacre, The Wolf Man- What a lineup!