Sorry for the double post but watched God Told Me To last night. Solid little b-movie that somehow is a police procedural, religious horror, and alien abduction flick all in one.
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blow out was pretty fun. the score was great at building tension until it breaks out randomly into some late 70s funk instrumental or whatever that was lmao
halloween homage in the beginning was amazing, followed up by them straight up clowning on the actress's horrible scream hahaha
halloween homage in the beginning was amazing, followed up by them straight up clowning on the actress's horrible scream hahaha
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Really fun movie! Enjoyed the hell out of it.
Also reminded me that young Travolta was a grade-A hottie.
Coming to the Channel in Feb
- Adaptation, Spike Jonze, 2002
- Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
- Atlantiques, Mati Diop, 2009
- The Bad and the Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli, 1952
- Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964**
- The Beast, Samantha Nell and Michael Wahrmann, 2016
- Big in Vietnam, Mati Diop, 2012
- The Big Knife, Robert Aldrich, 1955
- Birthright, Oscar Micheaux, 1939
- The Blood of Jesus, Spencer Williams, 1941
- Body and Soul, Oscar Micheaux, 1925
- Britannia Hospital, Lindsay Anderson, 1982
- The Bronze Buckaroo, Richard C. Kahn, 1939
- Brother John, James Goldstone, 1971
- Buck and the Preacher, Sidney Poitier, 1972
- By Right of Birth, Harry A. Gant, 1921
- La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
- Closely Watched Trains, Jiří Menzel, 1966
- The Comfort of Strangers, Paul Schrader, 1990
- Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940, Zora Neale Hurston, 1940
- Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963
- Cry, the Beloved Country, Zoltán Korda, 1951
- The Darktown Revue, Oscar Micheaux, 1931
- Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash, 1991
- David Holzman's Diary, Jim McBride, 1967
- Day for Night, François Truffaut, 1973
- The Day of the Locust, John Schlesinger, 1975
- The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer, 1958
- Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA, Spencer Williams, 1946
- Duel at Diablo, Ralph Nelson, 1966
- The Edge of Heaven, Fatih Akin, 2007**
- Eleven P.M., Richard Maurice, 1928
- The Exile, Oscar Micheau, 1931
- Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard, 2010
- The Flying Ace, Richard E. Norman, 1926
- Footlight Parade, Lloyd Bacon, 1933
- For Ever Mozart, Jean-Luc Godard, 1996
- Le gai savoir, Jean-Luc Godard, 1969
- Gas Food Lodging, Allison Anders, 1992
- The Girl from Chicago, Oscar Micheaux, 1932
- Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard, 2014
- The Graduate, Mike Nichols, 1967
- The Grifters, Stephen Frears, 1990
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer, 1967
- Hail Mary, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985
- Heaven-Bound Travelers, James Gist and Eloyce Gist, 1935
- Hell-Bound Train, James Gist and Eloyce Gist, 1930
- Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend, 1987
- Hot Biskits, Spencer Williams, 1931
- House of Games, David Mamet, 1987
- If …., Lindsay Anderson, 1968
- In the Heat of the Night, Norman Jewison, 1967
- Invention for Destruction, Karel Zeman, 1958
- Jason and the Argonauts, Don Chaffey, 1963
- Lamb, Yared Zeleke, 2015
- Liberian Boy, Mati Diop, 2015
- Light Sleeper, Paul Schrader, 1992
- Lilies of the Field, Ralph Nelson, 1963
- Long Day's Journey into Night, Bi Gan, 2018
- Made in U.S.A, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966**
- A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, 1966
- A Married Woman, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964
- Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled, R.W. Phillips, 1918
- Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015**
- The Naked Prey, Cornel Wilde, 1965
- The Nun, Jacques Rivette, 1966
- O Lucky Man!, Lindsay Anderson, 1973
- The Official Story, Luis Puenzo, 1985
- Paris Blues, Martin Ritt, 1961
- Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
- A Place in the Sun, George Stevens, 1951
- Pressure Point, Hubert Cornfield, 1962
- A Raisin in the Sun, Daniel Petrie, 1961
- A Reckless Rover, C.N. David, 1918
- Red River, Howard Hawks, 1948
- Regeneration, Richard E. Norman, 1923
- Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movies, Reverend Solomon Sir Jones, 1924–1926
- The Scar of Shame, Frank Peregini, 1929
- The Shop on Main Street, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, 1965
- The Slender Thread, Sydney Pollack, 1965
- Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder, 1959
- Snow Canon, Mati Diop, 2011
- Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, 1950
- The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK, Oscar Micheaux, 1920
- Ten Minutes to Live, Oscar Micheaux, 1932
- Ten Nights in a Bar Room, William A. O'Connor, 1931
- The Image Book, Jean-Luc Godard, 2018
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, Gordon Douglas, 1970
- A Thousand Suns, Mati Diop, 2013
- Tuesday, After Christmas, Radu Muntean, 2011
- Tungrus, Rishi Chandna, 2017
- Two Knights of Vaudeville, director unknown, 1915
- Two Weeks in Another Town, Vincente Minnelli, 1962
- Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier, 1974
- Vanya on 42nd Street, Louis Malle, 1994
- Veiled Aristocrats, Oscar Micheaux, 1932
- Verdict Not Guilty, James Gist and Eloyce Gist, 1934
- A Warm December, Sidney Poitier, 1973
- Within Our Gates, Oscar Micheaux, 1920
- A Woman is a Woman, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961
- Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage, Zora Neale Hurtston, 1928
Some weird stuff comes back after its left a few months earlier and it makes me think its less about licensing and more about some sort of artificial shuffling in and out of a vault which I am not a big fan of. But who can say I guess.
I think this is the right time for Criterion to expand to 4k UHD discs. I know I'd buy Atlantics in that format.
Added six or seven to The List. I guess we don't know what's leaving?
Not until the app updates sadly :(
its usually just everything you want to watch
Haha, yeah. I'm just saying, usually I catch what's leaving two days before the cutoff and am left scrambling to watch a movie or three. I'll keep an eye out!
I'm just glad they tell us at all upfront, clearly, and a month ahead of time. Better than most other services. Even if it does just leave you scrambling and feeling behind constantly.
Another fantastic month. Everyone whom hasn't seen Daughters of the Dust needs to check it out. Superb film. 👍
They sent out an email with what's leaving.
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris, 1992)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
And the rest:
Thank you! Per usual, I now have a couple movies I need to watch...
5 or 6 things just popped up in the leaving tomorrow list (could have been a few days ago though)
i don't know any of it and they all seem to be short films by jonas mekas
its just kind of lame to have them leave without a full months disclosure though
i don't know any of it and they all seem to be short films by jonas mekas
its just kind of lame to have them leave without a full months disclosure though
I finally caught A Clockwork Orange before it disappeared(not a moment to spare, lol).
It's certainly peak Crazytown Kubrick. I'm not sure how I felt about the story, but the second half with the comeuppance was far more interesting than the depravity in the first.
One thing that still stands out, that man had an inimitable eye for framing a scene.
The way everything is framed, lit, zoomed in on, etc. It feels like a lost art form.
And the sets are 70s as f, in all the right ways.
Same can be said of Soylent Green, but wasn't nearly as intriguing, just pretty, in that rundown 70s aesthetic way.
I think it's just the dim colors and stark interior design that does it.
It's certainly peak Crazytown Kubrick. I'm not sure how I felt about the story, but the second half with the comeuppance was far more interesting than the depravity in the first.
One thing that still stands out, that man had an inimitable eye for framing a scene.
The way everything is framed, lit, zoomed in on, etc. It feels like a lost art form.
And the sets are 70s as f, in all the right ways.
Same can be said of Soylent Green, but wasn't nearly as intriguing, just pretty, in that rundown 70s aesthetic way.
I think it's just the dim colors and stark interior design that does it.
I watched Soylent Green literally over midnight, lol. It was a miracle I got to finish it in time.
there was one scene in particular that showed that yeah Kubrick was a big fan of it
lifted wholesale and might be his most famous scene
blows my mind ive never heard anyone talk about it
yeah a bunch of good stuff is leaving this month
Me too. There is too much to watch that's leaving every month.
Marriage Story deserves it. Just watched it last night. Baumbach never disappoints. Between the framing and character direction, few directors these days are able to make such small stories seem so large and grandiose. I adored the film.
Why do films leave Criterion Channel? I'm not a subscriber, but a huge Criterion fan from my blu ray days. Dont they maintain their rights? Streaming rights are different in sure, but who else is hosting these films?
Still waiting on the xb1 app personally
The monthly films seem to be ones they don't have the rights to, like A Clockwork Orange and such. I bet money they've been trying to land a CC of it for years, but never quite managed it. I know Barry Lyndon took them forever.
I can't recommend Long Day's Journey Into Night enough, especially for Tarkovsky folks....it's pretty similar to Kaili Blues (which isn't on the channel anymore) but imo better and more thematically interesting in pretty much every way
Would you recommend it to someone who didn't care for Kaili Blues at all? It did work as a travel documentary I guess.
Hmmm, I guess it depends what you didn't like about it. The story in Long Day's Journey is much more straightforward (which I think is a good thing since it was pretty hard to understand why anyone does what they're doing in Kaili Blues) but pretty much every other stylistic aspect (interspersed poetry, long complex shots, mirrors, etc.) is still present.
a lot of the stuff that leaves really quick (a month or two) has never been on a criterion disc, i guess theyre not officially in the collection
my only answer is streaming rights on complicated and weird, especially for old goofy shit
All the Schlesinger movies are leaving at the end of the month and I haven't watched any yet. Any on there that I can't miss?
Bee tee dubs, I finally watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and holy shit! It rocketed up to one of my favorite movies ever. Need to watch the featurettes about its production, it's wild to think it was directed via translation.
Bee tee dubs, I finally watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and holy shit! It rocketed up to one of my favorite movies ever. Need to watch the featurettes about its production, it's wild to think it was directed via translation.
Many of the films which appear on the channel are actually short-term licensed from other labels:
Once this license expires, Criterion loses the rights to stream it. Simple.
Some great films and series in February. Starring Sidney Poitier, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Frownland, Directed by Godard (I've been meaning to watch a bunch of the 70s and 80s stuff for forever), Pioneers of African-American Cinema.
These launching does give me an opportunity to gripe about two facets of how this service is organized.
1) Series aren't available as soon as as the month starts even though the films are. E.g. All the Godard films and supplements are up, but the "Directed By Godard" collection doesn't launch until 2/23. Same for the Poitier collection—all the films are there now, but the collection that just groups them all in one place doesn't launch until tomorrow. Why? I can't see any point to this.
2) I wish the series were better curated. By that I don't mean I wish they were selecting different films—I wish they were organizing the films in series/collections with a purpose. Right now every series is sorted by year. Why not do it the way every repertory/cinematheque has been doing it since time immemorial? I.e. curate. Organize them by "importance" or theme or how well they embody the subject. sequence them in a way where you have more weighty longer works paired with a shorter entry that could be the b-film. so on.
Take the Godard series. A Godard retrospective at a repertory house probably wouldn't just show them in chronological order of release, they'd be organized by pairings and how "major" a work is. You could kick off with Breathless but then Le petit soldat since it was filmed next, Vivre sa Vie and Band of Outsiders, skip forward and back to Alphaville and A Woman is a Woman for some genre exercises, Masculin feminine plus A Married Woman, etc etc.
The organizing by year thing makes it a little harder to choose what to watch because even with a purportedly organized and curated series like Seventies Sci-fi, I feel the need to do research to decide what to actually watch.
These launching does give me an opportunity to gripe about two facets of how this service is organized.
1) Series aren't available as soon as as the month starts even though the films are. E.g. All the Godard films and supplements are up, but the "Directed By Godard" collection doesn't launch until 2/23. Same for the Poitier collection—all the films are there now, but the collection that just groups them all in one place doesn't launch until tomorrow. Why? I can't see any point to this.
2) I wish the series were better curated. By that I don't mean I wish they were selecting different films—I wish they were organizing the films in series/collections with a purpose. Right now every series is sorted by year. Why not do it the way every repertory/cinematheque has been doing it since time immemorial? I.e. curate. Organize them by "importance" or theme or how well they embody the subject. sequence them in a way where you have more weighty longer works paired with a shorter entry that could be the b-film. so on.
Take the Godard series. A Godard retrospective at a repertory house probably wouldn't just show them in chronological order of release, they'd be organized by pairings and how "major" a work is. You could kick off with Breathless but then Le petit soldat since it was filmed next, Vivre sa Vie and Band of Outsiders, skip forward and back to Alphaville and A Woman is a Woman for some genre exercises, Masculin feminine plus A Married Woman, etc etc.
The organizing by year thing makes it a little harder to choose what to watch because even with a purportedly organized and curated series like Seventies Sci-fi, I feel the need to do research to decide what to actually watch.
There's a lot of stuff on here that isn't part of the criterion collection. I don't know why the stuff that they have as part of the collection leaves.
Billy Liar for sure. Although that particular movie has been on/off the channel a few times I believe.
Thank you! Just saw the Melville flicks were leaving too and I don't know when I will have the time ;-;
Double post, but I watched Bad and the Beautiful, Cure, Billy Liar, and Something Wild (the Demme one) over the weekend. Cure was my favorite of the lot, really enjoyed the contrast between the pulp-y narrative and almost Tarkovsky-like direction. The other three all served as interesting time capsules, strangely enough. Something Wild's shockingly brutal finale was not what I expected. Bad and the Beautiful was unfortunately a bit too tame in its criticism of the Hollywood system but had a good performance from Kirk Douglas. Billy Liar suffered I think from me having seen too many narratives that draw inspiration from it. I like that it didn't shy away from its lead being a scuzzbag though.
Have you seen Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence? I've had Senses on Blu for a while but haven't watched it yet, I watch MCML every Xmas though. I'm sure it's a more middlebrow/convention movie that Senses but the performances in it are electrifying (and the title theme inspired an Ariana Grande track of all things)
According to the Criterion subreddit, Barnes and Noble members got a 15% off coupon and it stacks with Roma being 30% off at the store.
So if you are a member you can do that!
I certainly didn't expect Billy Liar to be about a guy who drugs his girlfriend and fantasizes about people who annoy him being gunned down.
I forgot to check for March's movies!
$, Richard Brooks, 1971
3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves, 1957
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
The Anderson Tapes, Sidney Lumet, 1971
Angels in the Outfield, Clarence Brown, 1951
Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
Art School Confidential, Terry Zwigoff, 2006
Blackboard Jungle, Richard Brooks, 1955
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Paul Mazursky, 1969
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
Cactus Flower, Gene Saks, 1969
Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2017
The Canterbury Tales, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972
Counterfeit Kunkoo, Reema Sengupta, 2018
Cover Girl, Charles Vidor, 1944
Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, 1995
The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy, Kathleen Collins, 1980
A Dandy in Aspic, Anthony Mann, 1968
The Daytrippers, Greg Mottola, 1996
The Deadly Affair, Sidney Lumet, 1967
The Decameron, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971
Destiny, Fritz Lang, 1921
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, Michal Leszczylowski, 1988
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Fritz Lang, 1922
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
Edge of the City, Martin Ritt, 1957
Fail Safe, Sidney Lumet, 1964
Fly Away Home, Carroll Ballard, 1996
The French Lieutenant's Woman, Karel Reisz, 1981
The Getaway, Sam Peckinpah, 1972
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
Gilda, Charles Vidor, 1946
The Hands of Orlac, Robert Wiene, 1924
The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983
The Girl on the Train, André Téchiné, 2009**
The Golem, Carl Boese and Paul Wegener, 1920
In Cold Blood, Richard Brooks, 1967
Kill the Umpire, Lloyd Bacon, 1950
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles, 1947
The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971
Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012**
Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins, 1982
Mackenna's Gold, J. Lee Thompson, 1969
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
Mississippi Mermaid, François Truffaut, 1969
Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, 1922
Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983
Of Time and the City, Terence Davies, 2008**
On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013**
On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, 1954
Only Angels Have Wings, Howard Hawks, 1939
Orlando, Sally Potter, 1992
The Out-of-Towners, Arthur Hiller, 1970
Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973
The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975**
A Patch of Blue, Guy Green, 1965
Repulsion, Roman Polanski, 1965
The Sacrifice, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986
Safe, Todd Haynes, 1995
The Skin, Liliana Cavani, 1981
Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme, 1984
Sweetgrass, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, 2009
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Busby Berkeley, 1949
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, 1968
Too Late to Die Young, Dominga Sotomayor, 2018
Varieté, Ewald André Dupont, 1925
Vice and Virtue, Roger Vadim, 1963
Would You Look at Her, Goran Stolevski, 2017
You Were Never Lovelier, William A. Seiter, 1942
You'll Never Get Rich, Sidney Lanfield, 1941
Young Sherlock Holmes, Barry Levinson, 1985
I watched Fly Away Home so many times as a kid on vhs. I'm not sure why it's coming to the channel, maybe it's way better than I remember and I'll find a new appreciation for it if I rewatch it!
$, Richard Brooks, 1971
3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves, 1957
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
The Anderson Tapes, Sidney Lumet, 1971
Angels in the Outfield, Clarence Brown, 1951
Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
Art School Confidential, Terry Zwigoff, 2006
Blackboard Jungle, Richard Brooks, 1955
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Paul Mazursky, 1969
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
Cactus Flower, Gene Saks, 1969
Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2017
The Canterbury Tales, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972
Counterfeit Kunkoo, Reema Sengupta, 2018
Cover Girl, Charles Vidor, 1944
Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, 1995
The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy, Kathleen Collins, 1980
A Dandy in Aspic, Anthony Mann, 1968
The Daytrippers, Greg Mottola, 1996
The Deadly Affair, Sidney Lumet, 1967
The Decameron, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971
Destiny, Fritz Lang, 1921
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, Michal Leszczylowski, 1988
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Fritz Lang, 1922
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
Edge of the City, Martin Ritt, 1957
Fail Safe, Sidney Lumet, 1964
Fly Away Home, Carroll Ballard, 1996
The French Lieutenant's Woman, Karel Reisz, 1981
The Getaway, Sam Peckinpah, 1972
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
Gilda, Charles Vidor, 1946
The Hands of Orlac, Robert Wiene, 1924
The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983
The Girl on the Train, André Téchiné, 2009**
The Golem, Carl Boese and Paul Wegener, 1920
In Cold Blood, Richard Brooks, 1967
Kill the Umpire, Lloyd Bacon, 1950
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles, 1947
The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971
Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012**
Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins, 1982
Mackenna's Gold, J. Lee Thompson, 1969
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
Mississippi Mermaid, François Truffaut, 1969
Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, 1922
Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983
Of Time and the City, Terence Davies, 2008**
On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013**
On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, 1954
Only Angels Have Wings, Howard Hawks, 1939
Orlando, Sally Potter, 1992
The Out-of-Towners, Arthur Hiller, 1970
Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973
The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975**
A Patch of Blue, Guy Green, 1965
Repulsion, Roman Polanski, 1965
The Sacrifice, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986
Safe, Todd Haynes, 1995
The Skin, Liliana Cavani, 1981
Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme, 1984
Sweetgrass, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, 2009
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Busby Berkeley, 1949
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, 1968
Too Late to Die Young, Dominga Sotomayor, 2018
Varieté, Ewald André Dupont, 1925
Vice and Virtue, Roger Vadim, 1963
Would You Look at Her, Goran Stolevski, 2017
You Were Never Lovelier, William A. Seiter, 1942
You'll Never Get Rich, Sidney Lanfield, 1941
Young Sherlock Holmes, Barry Levinson, 1985
I watched Fly Away Home so many times as a kid on vhs. I'm not sure why it's coming to the channel, maybe it's way better than I remember and I'll find a new appreciation for it if I rewatch it!