December 2022 additions:
All the Crows in the World, Tang Yi, 2021American Movie, Chris Smith, 1999April and the Extraordinary World, Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci, 2015*Artaud Double Bill, Atom Egoyan, 2007*The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey, 1937Bad Night for the Blues, Chris Shepherd, 2010Ball of Fire, Howard Hawks, 1941The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert, 2017Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, Ernst Lubitsch, 1938The Broker, Azadi Moghadam, 2018Celluloid Man, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2012Christine, John Carpenter, 1983Day of the Outlaw, André de Toth, 1959Diamantino, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, 2018*Easy Living, Mitchell Leisen, 1937En passant, Atom Egoyan, 1991*The Far Country, Anthony Mann, 1954Freedom Fields, Naziha Arebi, 2018The Girls, Mai Zetterling, 1968The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1972The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, 1968Gregory’s Girl, Bill Forsyth, 1980Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Sturges, 1944The Headhunter’s Daughter, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, 2022Here the Seats Are Vacant, Shiva Sanjari, 2016His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, 1940Holiday, George Cukor, 1938Infinite Football, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2018It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934It Happens Every Spring, Lloyd Bacon, 1949The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, 1941Little Big Man, Arthur Penn, 1970Love Is News, Tay Garnett, 1937Loving Couples, Mai Zetterling, 1964McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, 1971Me and My Gal, Raoul Walsh, 1932Midnight, Mitchell Leisen, 1939Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Preston Sturges, 1944Mirage, Szabolcs Hajdu, 2014The More the Merrier, George Stevens, 1943Murder, He Says, George Marshall, 1945My Man Godfrey, Gregory La Cava, 1936Night Games, Mai Zetterling, 1966The Palm Beach Story, Preston Sturges, 1942Peep Show, Atom Egoyan, 1981*Platform, Sahar Mosayebi, 2021Poetry, Lee Chang-dong, 2010Radiograph of a Family, Firouzeh Khosravani, 2020Ravenous, Antonia Bird, 1999Rhubarb, Arthur Lubin, 1951Ride the High Country, Sam Peckinpah, 1962The Second Game, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2014The Secret of Convict Lake, Michael Gordon, 1951Shaolin Soccer, Stephen Chow, 2001Spettacolo, Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen, 2017Tattoo, Farhad Delaram, 2019Theodora Goes Wild, Richard Boleslawski, 1936Three Wishes for Cinderella, Václav Vorlíček, 1973Tootsie, Sydney Pollack, 1982Track of the Cat, William A. Wellman, 1954Trouble in Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, 1934The White Wall, Stig Björkman, 1975The Wild North, Andrew Marton, 1952You Never Can Tell, Lou Breslow, 1951Premiering December 5Marx Can Wait, Marco Bellocchio, 2021Premiering December 12Cane Fire, Anthony Banua-Simon, 2020Premiering December 14Clara sola, Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, 2021*Available in the U.S. only
Features, bundles, departments, etc: https://criterioncast.com/news/december-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Stoked for the Mai Zetterling stuff!
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 5 December 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Finally caught Night Games in a theatrical screening this year and it is quite remarkable; did not disappoint.
― Josefa, Monday, 5 December 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
Re Mitchell Leisen: Easy Living has a Sturges script, I believe, don’t remember if I ever saw. Midnight I remembering enjoying, was it a Wilder script?
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
January 2023 additions:
3 Women, Robert Altman, 1977ABC Africa, Abbas Kiarostami, 2001Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh, 1977American Dream, Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk, 1990The American Sector, Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez, 2020Attica, Cinda Firestone, 1974Beauty and the Dogs, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2017Belizaire the Cajun, Glen Pitre, 1986Big Brown Eyes, Raoul Walsh, 1936*The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963*The Boss, Fernando Di Leo, 1973The Bread and Alley, Abbas Kiarostami, 1970Breaktime, Abbas Kiarostami, 1972Caliber 9, Fernando Di Leo, 1972The Clay Bird, Tareque Masud, 2002The Colors, Abbas Kiarostami, 1976The Day After Trinity, Jon Else, 1981Deep End, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970Diary for My Children, Márta Mészáros, 1984Diary for My Lovers, Márta Mészáros, 1987Diary for My Mother and Father, Márta Mészáros, 1990Election, Johnnie To, 2005Election 2, Johnnie To, 2006Experience, Abbas Kiarostami, 1973First Case, Second Case, Abbas Kiarostami, 1979First Graders, Abbas Kiarostami, 1984Four Days in July, Mike Leigh, 1984Grown-Ups, Mike Leigh, 1980Hard Labour, Mike Leigh, 1973Home Sweet Home, Mike Leigh, 1982INAAT/SE/, Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil, 2016The Italian Connection, Fernando Di Leo, 1972Kidnap Syndicate, Fernando Di Leo, 1975The Kiss of Death, Mike Leigh, 1977Le quattro volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010Little Women, George Cukor, 1933Man Hunt, Fritz Lang, 1941Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964*Masquerade, Olive Nwosu, 2021Moonlighting, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982Nationtime, William Greaves, 1972A New Year, George Sikharulidze, 2018Nina, Hristo Simeonov, 2019Nuts in May, Mike Leigh, 1976Oklahoma!, Fred Zinnemann, 1955Orderly or Disorderly, Abbas Kiarostami, 1981Party Girl, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, 2015Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960*The Reagan Show, Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill, 2017Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang, 1945Shoot First, Die Later, Fernando Di Leo, 1974The Shout, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978So Can I, Abbas Kiarostami, 1975Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro, Jerry Carlsson, 2021The Task, Leigh Ledare, 2017There’s Always Tomorrow, Douglas Sirk, 1956*Toothache, Abbas Kiarostami, 1980Tribute to Teachers, Abbas Kiarostami, 1977Two Solutions for One Problem, Abbas Kiarostami, 1975The Village Detective: A Song Cycle, Bill Morrison, 2021A Wedding Suit, Abbas Kiarostami, 1976We’re No Angels, Michael Curtiz, 1955*Who’s Who, Mike Leigh, 1979Wild Girl, Raoul Walsh, 1932The Woman in the Window, Fritz Lang, 1944The Woman on the Beach, Jean Renoir, 1947Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, 1970
Premiering January 5Il buco, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2021*
Premiering January 11Kamikaze Hearts, Juliet Bashore, 1986
Premiering January 14Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990
Premiering January 19Keane, Lodge Kerrigan, 2004
*Available in the U.S. only
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Daaaam, hoping this portends a Bergman-like Kiarostami box in the works.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
Ha, was wondering about that too.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Being unaware that Mike Leigh had made a film called Grown-Ups, I was for a split second very confused.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Grownupsmovie.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
Really intrigued by the Fernando Di Leo titles. The poster for Shoot First Die Later is really something else.
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/375/0812/21/shoot-first-die-later-italian-1p-74_375_9f9a1d3623f3212e603041b82a2087ac.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
I just realized The Archers' The Small Back Room (spine #441) is still on the channel, though it doesn't show up in https://www.criterionchannel.com/criterion-editions. It does show up if you search for it directly, though. It was added March 2020, I thought for a limited engagement, and...never removed? Hard to know if it's part of the permanent streaming library now or not.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
Criterion is really bad for searching imho. Never totally sure what's on there.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
I've asked several times for a flat text-only sortable table of everything currently available but nooooooooo.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
The Small Back Room seems to be on there, with commentary track and other bonus videos to boot.https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-small-back-room
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
Doesn't Criterion Editions mean there is a physical non-streaming version? Maybe that was discontinued which is why you don't see it. Or that is where the information gap manifested itself, on that page.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/films/747-the-small-back-roomDVD OUT OF PRINT
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
Ah yeah, that'll be the reason.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
One of the things that is kind of a source of pain for me is all the "ghosts" in there, emptied out directorial series, bonus videos but not the actual film etc.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
There is a spectre haunting Criterion.
My god, a Starring Joan Bennett special. Hard-to-find obscurities by Jean Renoir and Douglas Sirk among them. Watch her two Fritz Lang films Scarlet Street and especially The Woman in the Window.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
I saw those two as a double feature years ago and saw one of them again at some point and can't say I remember which is which.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
They're both similar; the latter has a frankly unbelievable twist.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
I forgot what the twist is so will have to watch again. Can't remember if I've seen Scarlet Street.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
Your favorite actress is also in that Sirk obscurity.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Yep!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Meant to watch it this weekend but didn’t get to it.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
It absolutely blows my mind that someone would forget seeing Scarlet Street ... maybe the bleakest noir ending of any noir ever made
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
Also, it goes without saying that AK's Childhood Films series is at the top of my list for January
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
Can you talk about those on Iranian Cinema thread?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
Or maybe on one of the four Kiarostami threads.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
People seem to like the Milieu Trilogy: Caliber 9 (Milano Calibro 9, 1972), The Italian Connection (La Mala Ordina, 1972), The Boss (Il Boxx, 1973).
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
Lots of good noirs leaving this month.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
The Sony Pictures Classics bundle left midmonth, without warning. It arrived mid-November and had a 2 month streaming license apparently. :(
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
I hate it when that happens :(
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
I'm really hoping that the Dekalog returns at some point.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
Done got to be a drag, a man can't stream nothin' no more. We got to let the services know what they got to do for us, heh heh heh
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
That Joan Bennett series on Criterion continues to impress me. I watched the delightful Big Brown Eyes (1936), co-starring Cary the Grant. Only 75 minutes!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
DId you watch the Sirk yet/
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
I had never seen Force of Evil. Recommended if you haven't seen it. There was a good piece linked in the noir thread ten years ago.
https://newrepublic.com/article/105544/david-thomson-force-of-evil
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
It's a pretty famous film! Can't remember if I have seen it once or zero times.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
Recommending THE GLASS KEY, FALLEN ANGEL and THE BLUE DAHLIA.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
Have we discussed the idea of all Film Noirs being components of one master narrative, one master story or is that a challops at this point?
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
I don't think Dekalog was ever on the Channel or on Filmstruck! The two features expanded from Dekalog chapters are still there.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
Huh. Why would Dekalog have not made an appearance yet? I wonder if Criterion still has the rights?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
Physical release rights and streaming rights are different things. The physical release is still in print, as are dozens/hundreds of other things that are on CC disc but not streaming.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
i am screaming ILPLEX at you people but nobody wanna hear me
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 04:33 (one year ago) link
Is that a sub board?
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 04:50 (one year ago) link
thread on 77
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:10 (one year ago) link
we watched Scarlet Street (which rips) from the Joan Bennett collection so i was reading about her. her husband Walter Wanger, who was a big producer, shot her agent bc he thought he was having an affair with her. the agent lived and the husband/producer went to jail for a few months
― na (NA), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Thanks. Just noticed MAN HUNT is in that series, have never seen that one.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link