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#576 Post by fiendishthingy » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:14 pm

Three of the films that were supposed to be part of the Italian Neorealism collection -- The Bandit, The Mill on the Po and The Gold of Naples -- don't appear to be available, and they're not listed with the other films on Criterion's site. The number of films on the banner has also been changed from twenty-one to eighteen.

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#577 Post by JakeStewart » Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:17 am

Hmm. That’s kind of a weird one. It’s possibly part of the collection but won’t be added until next month? I know there were a few films added to the Robert Ryan collection the following month after it debuted. Usually those films would have an asterisk beside them indicating as much, though. Maybe the site that announced December’s lineup just wasn’t privy to that information.

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#578 Post by Fred Holywell » Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:22 pm

fiendishthingy wrote:
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:14 pm
Three of the films that were supposed to be part of the Italian Neorealism collection -- The Bandit, The Mill on the Po and The Gold of Naples -- don't appear to be available, and they're not listed with the other films on Criterion's site. The number of films on the banner has also been changed from twenty-one to eighteen.
The Bandit and The Mill on the Po are both available now. And the number of films on the banner has been changed to 20.

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#579 Post by fiendishthingy » Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:59 pm

Great! Thanks for the update. I was looking forward to those two in particular because they were two of the three films in the collection that I hadn't seen (along with Girl in the Window, which opens with Criterion and Janus logos).

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#580 Post by jwd5275 » Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:09 am

fiendishthingy wrote:
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:14 pm
Three of the films that were supposed to be part of the Italian Neorealism collection -- The Bandit, The Mill on the Po and The Gold of Naples -- don't appear to be available, and they're not listed with the other films on Criterion's site. The number of films on the banner has also been changed from twenty-one to eighteen.
The Bandit and The Mill on the Po are up now, though still no Gold of Naples

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#581 Post by yoloswegmaster » Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:58 pm

January 2022 Titles

Not that these titles are bad or anything but I wish they add more titles and do more series' of titles from Asian countries. It seems like the last time we saw a big series like that was when they tackled New Korean Cinema.

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#582 Post by ryannichols7 » Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:20 pm

yoloswegmaster wrote:
Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:58 pm
January 2022 Titles

Not that these titles are bad or anything but I wish they add more titles and do more series' of titles from Asian countries. It seems like the last time we saw a big series like that was when they tackled New Korean Cinema.
or the Jia Zhangke program, which was excellent

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#584 Post by The Narrator Returns » Mon Feb 21, 2022 3:38 pm

March 2022 titles

Cannot recommend the collection of Sophy Romvari shorts highly enough, she's an incredible talent.

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#585 Post by ryannichols7 » Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:05 pm

so pre-code Paramount, Foreign Language Oscar Winners, a Kazuo Hara program, and music films? not bad

still pretty surprised Drive My Car is debuting on HBO Max but won't have a simultaneous release on the channel. interesting stuff

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#586 Post by beamish14 » Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:37 pm

The Narrator Returns wrote:
Mon Feb 21, 2022 3:38 pm
March 2022 titles

Cannot recommend the collection of Sophy Romvari shorts highly enough, she's an incredible talent.

Without You I'm Nothing is amazing. One of the best stand-up comedy films ever made, if not the best

Joseph Strick's The Balcony is a nice surprise. I'd love to finally see the incredibly underrated Road Movie (1974) in HD. The Image DVD has one of the ugliest mailbox-slot presentations I've ever seen.

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#587 Post by dadaistnun » Tue Feb 22, 2022 3:17 pm

The Narrator Returns wrote:
Mon Feb 21, 2022 3:38 pm
March 2022 titles

Cannot recommend the collection of Sophy Romvari shorts highly enough, she's an incredible talent.
I like all of the Romvari shorts I've seen, but It's Him and Still Processing are particularly excellent and would make for a good double bill. I saw the former a few years ago and the latter when it was making online festival rounds last year; Still Processing gives the earlier film quite the retroactive punch.

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#588 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:17 pm

Hopefully people with the Channel who didn't order Altered Innocence's Arrebato will check out the new restoration. It's a terrific film, and one that is currently (somehow) not seconded yet here

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#589 Post by Furstemberg » Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:25 pm

I would like to download a supplemental video from the Channel but I guess that can't be done without breaking the law and going to jail and ruining my life? Imogen Sara Smith is kinda worth it though. Please advise.

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#590 Post by yoloswegmaster » Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:07 am

Coming to the Channel in April 2022. Excited to see the films of Guru Dutt being added.

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#591 Post by ando » Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:38 am

yoloswegmaster wrote:
Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:07 am
Coming to the Channel in April 2022. Excited to see the films of Guru Dutt being added.
I got exited when I saw the Ethan Hawke bi-line, thinking we’d get a collection of some of his best work. But, alas, we get another “curated” list of personal favorites (available with Criterion). There are too many of these on the channel for my taste but the artist interviews are sometimes fun.

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#592 Post by movielocke » Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:59 am

Kentucky Pride? That’s one of the Ford silents that’s never never had a proper release, very cool to see it made available. Black watch and men without women were also not part of ford at fox but are available to rent on some streaming services but also nice to see them included. Black watch isn’t a good movie but the first reel has a lot of interesting sound work for a 1929 film.

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#593 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:14 pm

Excited to see Kentucky Pride as well. Joseph McBride speaks quite highly of it in his Ford bio and Huillet-Straub selected it at least a couple of times when invited to guest-program a selection of their favorites. The copy that's floating around online is so bad I wasn't able to get more than a minute or two into it.

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#594 Post by ando » Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:45 am

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It was initially nice to see this blazoned across my computer screen after logging into the site this morning. But a further investigation proved rather disappointing. So going beyond Blaxploitation means watching sequels to flicks that helped to define the so-called genre, like Shafts Big Score? Most of the other well known titles were and/or a part of other curated lists on the channel. Come on Criterion, there were all kind of black films made in the 70s that bolstered black identity and featured the kind of sensationalism in the best known blaxploitation movies which drews crowds to the cinemas and drive-ins.

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#595 Post by knives » Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:30 am

I saw a real great one recently called Five on the Black Hand Side which with humour is one of the greatest discriminations of black identity I’ve ever witnessed.

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#596 Post by ando » Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:17 am

knives wrote:
Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:30 am
I saw a real great one recently called Five on the Black Hand Side which with humour is one of the greatest discriminations of black identity I’ve ever witnessed.
One of my favorites. Course, that one probably wouldn't fit the Beyond Blaxploitation category. Imo, the term (Blaxploitation) is less filmic than sociological (and a very imprecise one at that), an opinion usually seconded by the people dubbed as its creators and/or disseminators. I think at this point, for most film lovers, its a convenient way to define a small window of cinema history.

That said, I'm glad to see a great edition of Black Belt Jones, especially after Jim Kelly's lynching in Enter The Dragon, a writing choice that Bruce Lee, who usually wrote his own films, was forced to comply with. To their credit the same producers of Dragon (Weintraub/Heller) did give Kelly a chance to showcase his martial arts prowess with his own starring role in BBJ.

(Btw, tubi has been better with curating black film's from this era, imo. Black Dynamite, a 2009 send up of Blaxploitation flicks currently streaming on that service, would have fit quite nicely in the Criterion survey.)

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#597 Post by movielocke » Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:35 am

The picture quality of Kentucky Pride is extraordinary, it might be the highest image quality of Fords surviving silents (but not the best cinematography), comparable to how surviving films of the late thirties look today. It’s presented without a score like most of the silent Ozu’s. It’s an on the nose picture that is enjoyable but it’s not a forgotten masterpiece. Out of the 70-ish Ford films I’ve seen this one lands in the middle of his filmography for me. I wish they had managed to include Submarine Patrol in the series, but alas it will remain Fords 30s film that is almost impossible to see

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#598 Post by ando » Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:45 pm

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3 Years. Keep the Kurosawa rolling!

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#599 Post by yoloswegmaster » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:27 pm

Films coming in May 2022
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’night, Mother, Tom Moore, 1986*

A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater, 2006

Abar, the First Black Superman, Frank Packard, 1977

Action in the North Atlantic, Lloyd Bacon, 1943

The Alchemist Cookbook, Joel Potrykus, 2016

Another Day at the Office, Richard Linklater, 2019

Ape, Joel Potrykus, 2012

Banana Split, Kip Fulbeck, 1991

Bernie, Richard Linklater, 2011*

The Big Knife, Robert Aldrich, 1955

Bittersweet Survival, J. T. Takagi and Christine Choy, 1982

Bontoc Eulogy, Marlon Fuentes, 1995

Buzzard, Joel Potrykus, 2014

Charade, Stanley Donen, 1963

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Robert Altman, 1982

Coonskin, Ralph Bakshi, 1975

A Cry in the Dark, Fred Schepisi, 1988

The Dead, John Huston, 1987

Dolemite, D’Urville Martin, 1975

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater, Gabe Klinger, 2013

Down a Dark Stairwell, Ursula Liang, 2020

Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, 2020

Falling in Love, Ulu Grosbard, 1984

A Family Portrait, Joseph Pierce, 2009

A Few Miles South, Ben Pearce, 2021

Fire Ted Cruz, Richard Linklater, 2018

Five Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and ‎Guy Davidi, 2011

Frances, Graeme Clifford, 1982

Fresh Kill, Shu Lea Cheang, 1994

From Spikes to Spindles, Christine Choy, 1976

The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943

Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, Richard Linklater, 1991

High Sierra, Raoul Walsh, 1941*

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, Rea Tajiri, 1991

Hold Back the Dawn, Mitchell Leisen, 1941

Homes Apart: Korea, J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy, 1991

Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach, Richard Linklater, 2008

The Jackie Robinson Story, Alfred E. Green, 1950*

Kelly Loves Tony, Spencer Nakasako, 1998

The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese, 1978

Le navire Night, Marguerite Duras, 1979

Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor, Richard Linklater, 2003

Lord Shango, Ray Marsh, 1975

Lust for Gold, S. Sylvan Simon, 1949

The Man I Love, Raoul Walsh, 1947

Marguerite as She Was, Dominique Auvray, 2003

Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, 2008*

Melons (At a Loss), Patty Chang, 1998

Mississippi Triangle, Christine Choy, Worth Long, and Allan Siegel, 1983

A Monkey in Winter, Henri Verneuil, 1962

Moontide, Archie Mayo, 1942

Murphy’s Romance, Martin Ritt, 1985

The Newton Boys, Richard Linklater, 1998

Out of the Fog, Anatole Litvak, 1941

The Parallax View, Alan J. Pakula, 1974

Peter and the Farm, Tony Stone, 2016

Peter Ibbetson, Henry Hathaway, 1935

Petey Wheatstraw, Cliff Roquemore, 1977

Picture Bride, Kayo Hatta, 1994*

The Point, Fred Wolf, 1971

Radiance, Naomi Kawase, 2017*

Raggedy Man, Jack Fisk, 1981*

Relaxer, Joel Potrykus, 2018

Resurrection, Daniel Petrie, 1980*

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, Louis Black and Karen Bernstein, 2016

Sally’s Beauty Spot, Helen Lee, 1990

Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung, 2000

The Sea Wolf, Michael Curtiz, 1941

Shopping for Fangs, Quentin Lee and Justin Lin, 1997

Something Wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986

Still the Water, Naomi Kawase, 2014

Strawberry Fields, Rea Tajiri, 1997

SubUrbia, Richard Linklater, 1996

Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, 1989

Sweet Bean, Naomi Kawase, 2015

Tape, Richard Linklater, 2001

Terminal USA, Jon Moritsugu, 1993

The Trained Chinese Tongue, Laurie Wen, 1994

The Trouble With Angels, Ida Lupino, 1966

They Drive by Night, Raoul Walsh, 1940

Thing from the Factory by the Field, Joel Potrykus, 2022

Trick Baby, Larry Yust, 1972*

True Mothers, Naomi Kawase, 2020

Violets Are Blue . . . , Jack Fisk, 1986

Voices of the Morning, Meena Nanji, 1992

Wait Until Dark, Terence Young, 1967

While the City Sleeps, Fritz Lang, 1956

Willie Dynamite, Gilbert Moses, 1973*

Woman in Hiding, Michael Gordon, 1950*

Women’s Prison, Lewis Seiler, 1955

Yentl, Barbra Streisand, 1983

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#600 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:50 pm

What do the asterisks mean? ;-)

As to the Kawase films -- I liked Sweet Bean and True Mothers quite a bit, and seem to recall being ambivalent about Still the Water. Haven't seen Radiance yet.
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