General Discussion The Criterion Channel Streaming Service (Official Thread) (1 Viewer)

[Robert Crawford]

January Schedule:

The Criterion Channel’s January 2024 Lineup

We’re kicking off the new year with a heap of catnip for fans of film felines, a spotlight on classic screen siren Ava Gardner, the New York dramas of James Gray, a series of postapocalyptic sci-fi movies, a tribute to Ken Russell, and much more.

www.criterion.com

 

[dpippel]

The Criterion Channel is offering a 20% off deal on the cost of new annual subscriptions (discount priced at $79.99) through January 31st:

The Criterion Channel

APRIL ANNIVERSARY SALE This month we're celebrating five years of the Criterion Channel! Sign up by April 30 and get 15% off your first year of a new annual or monthly subscription! Just use promo code “HAPPY5” for annual or “HAPPY5MO” for monthly to start your adventure in moviegoing and save...

www.criterionchannel.com

 

[Garysb]

February 2024

Back By Popular Demand
Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, 1960

Husbands, John Cassavetes, 1970

The Bedroom Window, Curtis Hanson, 1987

The Limey, Steven Soderbergh, 1999

Premiering In February
24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom, 2002

After Sherman, Jon-Sesrie Goff, 2022

The Bedroom Window, Curtis Hanson, 1987

Birth, Jonathan Glazer, 2004

Code 46, Michael Winterbottom, 2003

Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash, 1991

Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks, 1991

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel, 1972

Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, 1989

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, 2004*

Exhibitionist—Purpose Maker Mix, Jeff Mills, 2004

Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige, 1993

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947

Good Time, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, 2017

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

Heaven Can Wait, Ernst Lubitsch, 1943

Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Alexander Hall, 1941

Husbands, John Cassavetes, 1970

Hyperfate, Christelle Oyiri, 2022

I Held the Truth in My Hands, Anaïs Duplan, 2020

It’s All About Love, Thomas Vinterberg, 2003*

Je t’aime, je t’aime, Alain Resnais, 1968

Kiss the Blood off My Hands, Norman Foster, 1948*

The Last Angel of History, John Akomfrah, 1996

Lightning Strikes Twice, King Vidor, 1951

The Limey, Steven Soderbergh, 1999

Love Affair, Leo McCarey, 1939

Love unto Death, Alain Renais, 1984

Lunar New Year, S*an D. Henry-Smith, 2021

Lured, Douglas Sirk, 1947

Made in Heaven, Alan Rudolph, 1987

Maestro, Josell Ramos, 2003

A Matter of Life and Death, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946

Maurice, James Ivory, 1987

Ministry of Fear, Fritz Lang, 1944

MOSQUITO: The Movie, LYZZA, 2022

My Name Is Julia Ross, Joseph H. Lewis, 1945

Pacific Club, Valentin Noujaïm, 2023

Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, 1960

Pivot, Tarona, 2020

A Place of Rage, Pratibha Parmar, 1991

Sexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer, 2000

The Sign of the Ram, John Sturges, 1948

Solaris, Steven Soderbergh, 2002

Starman, John Carpenter, 1984

To Be Free, Adepero Oduye, 2017

Trial Period, Kiernan Francis, 2023

Truth, AG Rojas, 2017

Undercurrent, Vincente Minnelli, 1946

Unrest, Cyril Schäublin, 2022

The Upturned Glass, Lawrence Huntington, 1947

Waking the Dead, Keith Gordon, 2000

When Strangers Marry, William Castle, 1944

Woman in Hiding, Michael Gordon, 1950*

Yeast, Mary Bronstein, 2008

You Got To Move, Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver, 1985

Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola, 2007

 

[Garysb]

A complete list with everything coming to The Criterion Channel in March 2024​

The Criterion Channel’s March 2024 Lineup

Among the highlights of this month’s programming are a selection of notorious Golden Raspberry Award winners, Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno series, and a collection of extreme and virtuosic Method performances.

www.criterion.com

Gina Gershon in Showgirls
The Criterion Channel continues to find new ways to mix it up. Last month, they released a series of interdimensional romance/heartbreak films, and in prior months, they’ve even dedicated a playlist to movies with famous cats. March 2024 is no different as they’re spotlighting a famous (and occasionally controversial) awards ceremony – and not the one you’re thinking.

Here’s what’s coming to The Criterion Channel in March 2024:


And the Razzie Goes to…

A 14 movie collection of Golden Raspberry Award (a.k.a. Razzie) winners, celebrating the “worst” contemporary films of each year. Includes:

• Cruising (1980)
• Heaven’s Gate (1980)
• Xanadu (1980)
• Querelle (1982)
• Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
• Ishtar (1987)
• Cocktail (1988)
• Showgirls (1995)
• Barb Wire (1996)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
• Swept Away (2002)
• Gigli (2003)
• The Wicker Man (2006)

Living the Part

A 9 film playlist shining light on physical transformations by some of cinema’s most acclaimed actors and actresses (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Joaquin Phoenix, and more). Includes:

• The Unknown (1927)
• Cruising (1980)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Sophie’s Choice (1982)
• Basquiat (1996)
• I’m Not There (2007)
• My Week with Marilyn (2011)
• The Master (2012)
• Kate Plays Christine (2016)

Starring Jane Russell

A 4 movie playlist about one of Hollywood’s brightest stars of the golden age. Honoring Jane Russell, this collection includes:

• Macao (1952)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• The Tall Men (1955)
• The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

Three Series from Isabella Rossellini

A trio of acclaimed series by Isabella Rossellini. This collection will also feature a handful of the filmmaker’s recent feature films and shorts. Includes:

Series:

• Green Porno (2008–2009)
• Seduce Me (2010)
• Mammas (2013)

Feature:

• Animals Distract Me (2011)

Shorts:

• Darwin, What? (2020)
• Darwin, What? What? (2020)
• Fox Film (2020)

Kinuyo Tanaka Directs

Kinuyo Tanaka is a staple in Japanese movie history, and her six movies featured in this collection were directed over the course of a decade after she was already well within the public eye. Includes:

• Love Letter (1953)
• The Moon Has Risen (1955)
• Forever a Woman (1955)
• The Wandering Princess (1960)
• Girls of the Night (1961)
• Love Under the Crucifix (1962)

Streaming Premieres

There will be two streaming premieres on The Criterion Channel in March 2024. The first is Our Body, which the Channel comments is “timely, intimate, and deeply empathetic” and that it “observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris.”

The other is Our Father, the Devil, which is described as “a grippingly intense exploration of trauma, revenge, and forgiveness that stands as one of the most exciting feature debuts in recent memory.” Count me in on both of these.

More from The Criterion Channel in March 2024​

This is just the beginning of what’s to come for The Criterion Channel in March 2024. There will also be a ton of returning restorations and American independent films. Included among them are Mulholland Drive, Frances Ha, Drive My Car, and the recently restored 4k version of Raging Bull.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Huh? The Blair Witch Project won a Razzie?

I didn't love it or anything, but that seems wrong to me, heh...

Oh... it was for the actress, not the film itself, although the film also got nominated, LOL... but still...

_Man_

 

[TravisR]

Huh? The Blair Witch Project won a Razzie?

I didn't love it or anything, but that seems wrong to me, heh...

Oh... it was for the actress, not the film itself, although the film also got nominated, LOL... but still...

_Man_

If I remember correctly, there was a pretty big backlash against the movie so that's probably why they got Razzies. The performance from the woman in BW is fantastic so the Razzies show themselves to be ridiculous yet again.

 

[Garysb]

April 2024

.https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8418-the-criterion-channel-s-april-2024-lineup

“5 Centimeters per Second,” Makoto Shinkai, 2007

“After Hours,” Martin Scorsese, 1985

“Alix’s Pictures,” Jean Eustache, 1980

“All the Days of May,” Miryam Charles, 2023

“The Asphalt Jungle,” John Huston, 1950*

“An Autumn’s Tale,” Mabel Cheung, 1987

“As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night,” Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour, 2022

“Assault on Precinct 13,” John Carpenter, 1976

“Bad Lieutenant,” Abel Ferrara, 1992

“Before Sunrise,” Richard Linklater, 1995

“Born in Flames,” Lizzie Borden, 1983

“Born to Be Bad,” Nicholas Ray, 1950

“The Breaking Point,” Michael Curtiz, 1950

“Caged,” John Cromwell, 1950

“Children Who Chase Lost Voices,” Makoto Shinkai, 2011

“Collateral,” Michael Mann, 2004*

“Come Back, Africa,” Lionel Rogosin, 1959

“Comrades: Almost a Love Story,” Peter Ho-sun Chan, 1996

“The Damned Don’t Cry,” Vincent Sherman, 1950

“Deal of the Century,” William Friedkin, 1983

“A Dirty Story”, Jean Eustache, 1977

“Doors of the Past,” Rosine Mbakam, 2011

“Employment Offer,” Jean Eustache, 1982

“The Exorcist,” William Friedkin, 1973

“Exterior Turbulence,” Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 2023

“Family Nest,” Béla Tarr, 1979

“Farewell China”, Clara Law, 1990

“The File on Thelma Jordon,” Robert Siodmak, 1950*

“Full Moon in New York,” Stanley Kwan, 1989

“The Garden of Words,” Makoto Shinkai, 2013

“Gun Crazy,” Joseph H. Lewis, 1950

“Heat,” Michael Mann, 1995

“Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights,” Jean Eustache, 1981

“House of Pleasures,” Bertrand Bonello, 2011

“In a Lonely Place,” Nicholas Ray, 1950

“L’escale,” Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Rob Jacobs, and Anne Reijniers, 2022

“Lush: A Far from Home Movie,” Phil King, 2024

“Mambar Pierrette,” Rosine Mbakam, 2023

“Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back,” John Carluccio, 2019

“Microcosmos,” Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, 1996

“Mommie Dearest,” Frank Perry, 1981

“The Mother and the Whore,” Jean Eustache, 1973

“A Movement Against the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas,” Esy Casey, 2023

“My Little Loves,” Jean Eustache, 1974

“Night and the City,” Jules Dassin, 1950

“No Way Out,” Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950

“Nocturama,” Bertrand Bonello, 2016

“Numéro zéro,” Jean Eustache, 1971

“One Way Street,” Hugo Fregonese, 1950*

“Oslo, August 31st,” Joachim Trier, 2011*

“Panic in the Streets,” Elia Kazan, 1950

“Party on the CAPS,” Meriem Bennani, 2018

“Personal Shopper,” Olivier Assayas, 2016

“Phase IV,” Saul Bass, 1974

“Pier Paolo Pasolini – Agnès Varda – New York – 1967,” Agnès Varda, 2022

“The Pig,” Jean Eustache, 1975

“The Place Promised in Our Early Days,” Makoto Shinkai, 2004

“Promised Lands,” Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, 2018

“Regrouping,” Lizzie Borden, 1976

“Robinson’s Place,” Jean Eustache, 1963

“Running Scared,” Wayne Kramer, 2006

“Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes,” Jean Eustache, 1966

“She and Her Cat,” Makoto Shinkai, 1999

“The Sleeping City,” George Sherman, 1950*

“Sorcerer,” William Friedkin, 1977

“Stage Fright,” Alfred Hitchcock, 1950

“The Strangler,” Paul Vecchiali, 1970

“Sunset Boulevard,” Billy Wilder, 1950

“The Taking,” Alexandre O. Philippe, 2021

“Them!,” Gordon Douglas, 1954

“Theta,” Lawrence Lek, 2022

“Try and Get Me!,” Cy Endfield, 1950

“The Virgin of Pessac,” Jean Eustache, 1969

“The Virgin of Pessac 79,” Jean Eustache, 1979

“A Visual Diary,” Shirley Clarke, 1980

“Voices of a Distant Star,” Makoto Shinkai, 2002

“Werckmeister Harmonies,” Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000

“Where the Sidewalk Ends,” Otto Preminger, 1950

“The Witches of the Orient,” Julien Faraut, 2021

“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Mike Nichols, 1966

“Yaangna Plays Itself,” Adam Piron, 2022

“You Will Be My Ally,” Rosine Mbakam, 2012

 

[Robert Crawford]

This month on The Criterion Channel:

 

[Garysb]

May 2024

The Criterion Channel’s May 2024 Lineup

Three of this month’s programs blast back to the turbulent midcentury moment when old Hollywood gave way to something new.

www.criterion.com

95 and 6 to Go, Kimi Takesue, 2016

a.k.a. Don Bonus, Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Ny, 1995

Adaptation., Spike Jonze, 2002

Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001

The Apartment, Billy Wilder, 1960

Artists and Models, Frank Tashlin, 1955*

Being There, Hal Ashby, 1979

Bernie, Richard Linklater, 2011*

Bold Eagle, Whammy Alacazaren, 2022

Bonjour Tristesse, Otto Preminger, 1958

Born Yesterday, George Cukor, 1950

The Bowery, Sara Driver, 1994

Brainstorm, William Conrad, 1965

The Breaking Ice, Anthony Chen, 2023

The Bridge on the River Kwai, David Lean, 1957

Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese, 1999*

Bye Bye Africa, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 1999

Can-Can, Walter Lang, 1960

Casting Blossoms to the Sky, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012

The Chase, Arthur Penn, 1966

The Children’s Hour, William Wyler, 1961

Cleaners, Glenn Barit, 2019

Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971

Dikit, Gabriela Serrano, 2021

Don’t Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, 1973

First Person Plural, Deann Borshay Liem, 2000

For My Alien Friend, Jet Leyco, 2019

From Here to Eternity, Fred Zinnemann, 1953

Gambit, Ronald Neame, 1966*

Girl, Interrupted, James Mangold, 1999

Go, Doug Liman, 1999

The Gossips of Cicadidae, Vahn Leinard Pascual, 2022

Guarding Tess, Hugh Wilson, 1994

Hair Piece: A Film For Nappy Headed People, Ayoka Chenzira, 1984

Hanagatami, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2017

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001

HERadventure, Ayoka Chenzira, 2014

Hito, Stephen Lopez, 2023

The Honey Pot, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1967

i get so sad sometimes, Trishtan Perez, 2021

The Insider, Michael Mann, 1999

I Was Born, But . . ., Roddy Bogawa, 2004

In Cold Blood, Richard Brooks, 1967

In the Rivers of Mercy Angst, Ayoka Chenzira, 1997

Irma la Douce, Billy Wilder, 1963

It’s Raining Frogs Outside, Maria Estela Paiso, 2021

Italian for Beginners, Lone Scherfig, 2000*

Lilith, Robert Rossen, 1964

A Little Romance, George Roy Hill, 1979

The Lure and the Lore, Ayoka Chenzira, 1988

Madame Sousatzka, John Schlesinger, 1988*

The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer, 1962

MOTV (My Own TV), Ayoka Chenzira, 1993

My America . . . or Honk if You Love Buddha, Renee Tajima-Pena, 1997

Fisting: Never Tear Us Apart, Whammy Alacazaren, 2018

No Data Plan, Miko Revereza, 2019

Nothing but a Man, Michael Roemer, 1964

OctoGod, Shievar Olegario, 2019

Oh, Saigon, Doan Hoang, 2007

On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, 1954

Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone, 1984

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, Shirley MacLaine and Claudia Weill, 1975

Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955

The Plot Against Harry, Michael Roemer, 1971

Point Blank, John Boorman, 1967

Postcards from the Edge, Mike Nichols, 1990

Pressure Point, Hubert Cornfield, 1962

Pretty Poison, Noel Black, 1968

Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women, Ayoka Chenzira and David Roussève, 1992

A Raisin in the Sun, Daniel Petrie, 1961

the river that never ends, JT Trinidad, 2022

Rocks in a Windless Wadi, EJ Gagui, 2022

Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966

Seven Weeks, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2014

Shaihu Umar, Adamu Halilu, 1976

Sleepwalk, Sara Driver, 1986

When Pigs Fly, Sara Driver, 1993

Snowfire, Ayoka Chenzira, 1994

Somewhere a Destination, Celeste Lapida, 2021

The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999*

Suddenly, Last Summer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959

Summer of Sam, Spike Lee, 1999

Sweet Charity, Bob Fosse, 1969*

Syvilla: They Dance to Her Drum, Ayoka Chenzira, 1979

Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, 1968

Trick, Jim Fall, 1999

The Trouble with Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, 1955

Twinsters, Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, 2015

Uptight, Jules Dassin, 1968

Vengeance Is Mine, Michael Roemer, 1984

What a Way to Go!, J. Lee Thompson, 1964

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Robert Aldrich, 1962

When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, 2013

Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?, Janice Tanaka, 1992

Williamswood, Ayoka Chenzira, 1992

Wisdom Gone Wild, Rea Tajiri, 2022

You Are Not I, Sara Driver, 1981

Young Soul Rebels, Isaac Julien, 1991

Zajota and the Boogie Spirit, Ayoka Chenzira, 1989

*Available in the U.S. only