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
Really intrigued by the Fernando Di Leo titles. The poster for Shoot First Die Later is really something else.
― 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
TICKET OF NO RETURN looking good to me from the expiring list.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
February 2023 additions:
All I Desire, Douglas Sirk, 1953Alma’s Rainbow, Ayoka Chenzira, 1994The Angelic Conversation, Derek Jarman, 1985Blue, Derek Jarman, 1993Boy Meets Girl, Leos Carax, 1984Cane River, Horace Jenkins, 1982Caravaggio, Derek Jarman, 1986Criss Cross, Robert Siodmak, 1949Edward II, Derek Jarman, 1991Eleanor’s Secret, Dominique Monfery, 2009*Eleanor’s Secret: French Version, Dominique Monfery, 2009*Flaming Ears, A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek, and Ursula Pürrer, 1992The Garden, Derek Jarman, 1990Glitterbug, Derek Jarman, 1994Go Tell It on the Mountain, Stan Lathan, 1985I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016*James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, Karen Thorsen, 1989The Killers, Robert Siodmak, 1946The Last of England, Derek Jarman, 1987Lata, Alisha Tejpal, 2020Lover Come Back, Delbert Mann, 1961Murder in Harlem, Oscar Micheaux, 1935On-Gaku: Our Sound, Kenji Iwaisawa, 2019Phantom Lady, Robert Siodmak, 1944Pillow Talk, Michael Gordon, 1959Safe, Ian Barling, 2021Sebastiane, Derek Jarman, 1976Send Me No Flowers, Norman Jewison, 1964The Sounds of Science, Jean Painlevé, 2002The Suspect, Robert Siodmak, 1944The Tall Men, Raoul Walsh, 1955The Tarnished Angels, Douglas Sirk, 1957The Tempest, Derek Jarman, 1979Thunder on the Hill, Douglas Sirk, 1951The Velvet Queen, Vincent Munier and Marie Amiguet, 2021*War Requiem, Derek Jarman, 1989Wittgenstein, Derek Jarman, 1993
PREMIERING FEBRUARY 13Baldwin’s Nigger, Horace Ové, 1968James Baldwin: From Another Place, Sedat Pakay, 1973Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, Terence Dixon, 1970*Available in the U.S. only
Bundles, features, etc: https://criterioncast.com/news/february-2023-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
Jarman, Sirk, and Siodmak the winners here.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
I’m definitely gonna watch those Sirks.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
Never even heard of Thunder on the Hill.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
The Baldwin and Micheaux features are at the top of my list.
JAMES BALDWIN ON-SCREENTowering literary lion, fierce social critic, and inimitable cultural icon James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society. He also left behind a dynamic cinematic legacy, as seen in these portraits that capture his electrifying presence, passionate eloquence, and incisive commentary on everything from art to religion to love to liberation to his most personal experiences as a gay Black man who lived much of his life abroad but who never stopped examining his own complex relationship to the United States. This collection also includes Go Tell It on the Mountain, a star-studded television film based on Baldwin’s first novel, one of the few screen adaptations of his fiction.Go Tell It on the Mountain, Stan Lathan, 1985James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, Karen Thorsen, 1989I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016Baldwin’s Nigger, Horace Ové, 1968Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, Terence Dixon, 1970James Baldwin: From Another Place, Sedat Pakay, 1973OSCAR MICHEAUX: TRAILBLAZERA pioneering American writer, director, and producer whose films are among the boldest of the silent and early sound eras, independent auteur Oscar Micheaux gave Black audiences a reflection of their own experiences crafted with a complexity and seriousness that stood in stark contrast to the racist stereotypes propagated by his contemporary D. W. Griffith and the nascent Hollywood studio system. Tackling issues of race relations, systemic injustice, and the struggles of Black Americans striving for better lives with both stirring power and a showman’s sense of spectacle, these films—including the bold exposé of racist violence Within Our Gates; Body and Soul, a potent critique of religious hypocrisy starring the great Paul Robeson; and the subversive detective mystery Murder in Harlem, presented here in a major new restoration—offer a vital counter-history of American cinema, one with the Black experience at its fore.Within Our Gates, 1920The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1920Body and Soul, 1925The Darktown Revue, 1931The Exile, 1931The Girl from Chicago, 1932Ten Minutes to Live, 1932Veiled Aristocrats, 1932Murder in Harlem, 1935Birthright, 1938
Go Tell It on the Mountain, Stan Lathan, 1985James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, Karen Thorsen, 1989I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016Baldwin’s Nigger, Horace Ové, 1968Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, Terence Dixon, 1970James Baldwin: From Another Place, Sedat Pakay, 1973
OSCAR MICHEAUX: TRAILBLAZERA pioneering American writer, director, and producer whose films are among the boldest of the silent and early sound eras, independent auteur Oscar Micheaux gave Black audiences a reflection of their own experiences crafted with a complexity and seriousness that stood in stark contrast to the racist stereotypes propagated by his contemporary D. W. Griffith and the nascent Hollywood studio system. Tackling issues of race relations, systemic injustice, and the struggles of Black Americans striving for better lives with both stirring power and a showman’s sense of spectacle, these films—including the bold exposé of racist violence Within Our Gates; Body and Soul, a potent critique of religious hypocrisy starring the great Paul Robeson; and the subversive detective mystery Murder in Harlem, presented here in a major new restoration—offer a vital counter-history of American cinema, one with the Black experience at its fore.
Within Our Gates, 1920The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1920Body and Soul, 1925The Darktown Revue, 1931The Exile, 1931The Girl from Chicago, 1932Ten Minutes to Live, 1932Veiled Aristocrats, 1932Murder in Harlem, 1935Birthright, 1938
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
that Ové is a blast
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Looking forward to some Painlévé films with YLT music, finally.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
I notice that a bunch of stuff that is about to leave first appeared on August 2022, so I am assuming that is a thing, a six month arrangement.
― The Big O RLY (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 January 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
Guess I should finally see a Jarman film.
― Chris L, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
Is THE TARNISHED ANGELS really considered a rarity?
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link