Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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

Co-sign on The Swimmer, see it if you haven’t before it leaves at the end of the month. Very thought provoking.

I was also really moved by Testament, a nuclear war film that starts like a Hallmark Channel movie, but gets deeper and darker as it progresses.

Jean Eustache?

That will make for an interesting streaming challenge

After Hours, which I watched last night, is better than I remembered but not much better.

Really? I remember liking it when it came out but maybe you had to be there

I love After Hours, but it's a love that began as an adolescent so ...

Highly recommend Mambar Pierette.

After Hours gets better the more you watch it.

I felt like it accuratedly captured something of the vibe of the time- the sights, the sounds, the smells, if you will. Plus a lot of it very funny-funny and menacing and scary at the same time! Just like life itself!

I only know that era of SoHo from articles, photos, firsthand accounts, and songs, and YES, it captures a mood -- the lighting reminds me of period Alan Rudolph.

idk the movie's amiable. I appreciate how Scorsese didn't dehumanize the leather guys -- they kiss onscreen! -- and a couple of the performers make their mark (John Heard is as real as he always is; Linda Fiorentino too), while others (Teri Garr) do unfunny variants on previous performances. Dunne's slow burn is better paced than I remember. But this is the point at which Rosanna Arquette started to annoy me as an actress; like in Desperately Seeking Susan she's tentative, unfocused, a drip. And the setup for the coincidences didn't have much payoff.

I guess NYC was a different animal in that era, but it's hard to watch After Hours today and wonder why he didn't just hoof it from Soho to Midtown.

Fair enough. Always felt her best performance was early on, in Baby, It’s You, but I haven’t seen The Executioner’s Song, which is course even earlier.

xp obv.

Which feature doesn’t seem to be working correctly in latest Zing Touch.

Had to leave thread and come back

Hey, just noticed two Bonello films are available. I really liked the one I've seen and KJB told me that new one was his favorite of last year.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/criterion24-7

Their new thing, a 24/7 stream. Seems to be taken mostly from the core of the core of the permanent collection. I've seen bits of Daisies, Black Narcissus, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (on now), Seven Samurai in the last 2 days. But also Cane Toads: An Unnatural History.

May 2024 additions: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8444-the-criterion-channel-s-may-2024-lineup

Madame Sousatzka ! I haven't seen it since the Poppy Bush era.

Lots of good stuff in this month's Hollywood Crack-Up collection

https://www.criterionchannel.com/hollywood-crack-up-the-decade-american-cinema-lost-its-mind

i don't know why but everyone i follow on letterboxd (including me) watched "what a way to go!" from the shirley mclaine collection. it is a pretty insane movie, with dean martin, dick van dyke, paul newman, robert mitchum, and gene kelly, several movie genre pastiches/parodies, a ton of insane edith head gowns, and some very wacky sight gags. i didn't rate it as high as some other people but it's very enjoyable and did make me laugh out loud a few times.

old soviet recs? tyia

https://films.criterionchannel.com/?country=Soviet%20Union

Tarkovsky, Shepitko, Eisenstein and Come and See, for sure.

June 2024 additions: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8471-the-criterion-channel-s-june-2024-lineup

from this month's additions, The Plot Against Harry is great. you'd think if it was actually released at the time instead of rejected by studios, it'd have launched Michael Roemer into an even more considerable career. Just absolutely excellent throughout, and meandering in the best way.

No Jean Grémillon before 1937? CC I am disappoint. (I've seen all of the scheduled films except The Strange M. Victor, and will vouch for them, but we need good copies of Daïnah la Métisse and La Petite Lise.)

Oh man! End of the Century on Queersighted -- one of the 2010s least seen good films.

Oh I might have to finally work myself up to Come and See. How bad could it be, right? :)

It's really intense.

Give yourself a couple extra hours or days to recover from it, but see it.