Criterion Newsletter

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

"I Remember" has GOT to be Fellini. (I could also go for Lola Montes, though.)

[Cinephrenic]

Max Ophuls is far overdue. I wouldn't be surprised even though I don't know the reference.

[bunuelian]

Someone described Constantine as "the Matrix with swarming demons instead of swarming robots." It is therefore CONSTANTINE. Move over Michael Bay!

[Dear Catastrophe Totoro]

Crap, and here I was thinking of haikus all day at work. Thanks a lot, Elpenor. My haikus are going to seem tame and so second rate now.



Ingrid Bergman, oh!
Where could your left shoulder be?
So Notorious

Grandma from Yi Yi
Please don't take out the garbage
It can wait a day

Poison-pen writer
Put down that Linklater film
Your wife's my lover

Shakespeare means much
To Laurence, to Harold Bloom --
Not the Rushmore guy

Kubrick's Spartacus:
Only one with a number.
Where's the love, Becker?

An Ozu Late Spring...!
I fill my pants with warm waste
A girl points and cries

Donald Richie-san
Sexual Liberator
Balthazar Lover

And finally, a tribute to my handle.

Paper lanterns float
An American flag waves
Here comes The Cat Bus

[godardslave]

excellent totoro! bravo!

this wins the "best thirty-sixth post on this forum" award.

[PfR73]

Here's my first two:

Slow zooms, ensembles,
Overlapping dialogue.
I need more Altman!

Numbered collection?
An OCD overdrive
Gotta catch em all!

[domino harvey]

O Criterion!
Like cherry blossoms in drought:
Only three per month.

this is just fantastic

[PfR73]

Just thought of some more:

Over three hundred
Yet still no Bottle Rocket.
Becker a crack fiend?

Alphaville, Contempt,
A Woman Is A Woman.
No spine for Breathless.

Tears flow down my face:
Reversed shots in Jules et Jim.
No fix forthcoming?

Dreyer reads e-mail:
"Gertrud is in OAR"
And rolls in his grave.

Reissue Brazil
In anamorphic widescreen
My first child is yours

Wacky animal
Says "new look new line this fall"
An Eclipse coming?

How to organize?
Alphabet or spine number?
Eternal question.

Each weekend I scour
Pawn shops, used bookstores for a
Good deal on Doinel.

[Gregory]

I wonder if Criterion will ever live down asking Richie to read piles of complaints and in-jokes about their company in the form of haiku.

[JonoQ]

Equinox in June?
Autumnal Rohmer box ends
Late Spring Confusion

[Ishmael]

I wonder if Criterion will ever live down asking Richie to read piles of complaints and in-jokes about their company in the form of haiku.

The person who really deserves your sympathy is the hapless intern who's going to have to sort through all the haiku and weed out the complaining ones so Richie doesn't have to be bothered with them.

[richast2]

Generic greeting.
Nose army. Bunny bucket.
Idea missing.

[justeleblanc]

From my buddy who's a big Sturges fan:

Christmas in Late Spring?
It is not the translation
It is the futon!

[Derek Estes]

From my buddy who's a big Sturges fan:

Christmas in Late Spring?
It is not the translation
It is the futon!

That is fucking brilliant!

[life_boy]

Pull a ship through the
Jungle and you can swallow
Indigenous spit

Two discs of Brakhage
Is involving and all, but
Two more would be nice

Powell not Chaucer
Decent release, finally
Is that a spaceship?

Arab dude can't get
No acceptance in this gent
A snack for the soul

Equinox Flower
Famed scientist disappears
Wait, that's not Ozu

[Gordon]

Pull a ship through the
Jungle and you can swallow
Indigenous spit

Genius!

[cdnchris]

Elmo did his wife
"I wonder what that is like?"
Poor T. A. Schwitters

[Doctor Sunshine]

Japanese movies
are very enjoyable
Donald Richie's rad

[skuhn8]

Hey Criterion
Give me a free DVD!
Late Spring should be mine.


Not sure the aggressive tone will go down well.

[Donald Trampoline]

Can anyone provide me with this most recent newsletter? I signed up on the site after it came out, and it didn't come to me. Usually someone posts a link here, but I don't see one for this one.

[justeleblanc]

It may not be archived on the criterion website yet, which is strange since it usually is right away. I noticed this last week. Maybe it has something to do with the contest.

[ByMarkClark.com]

I tried, but could not resist.

Backwards drag racing
Steve McQueen -- world's oldest teen
Beware of The Blob

White-faced phantoms and
Creepy church organ music
Carnival of Souls

Flying brains arise
In your stop-motion fury
Fiend Without a Face

Satanic rangers,
Monsters, runes, hidden castles
Equinox - at last!

[Cinesimilitude]

Anyone get the June newsletter yet? its supposed to come on the first each month, is it not?

[Antoine Doinel]

They don't send out the newletter on the first of every month. The May newsletter arrived on May 8th.

[godardslave]

Look for the new criterion newsletter to be delivered to your email inbox on June 8th, 9.51am EST. #-o