30 minutes in the plot begins but it's been a good ride
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This movie is awesome so far, 19 minutes in, no plot, but lots of establishing characters engagingly
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This movie is so sharp & beautiful, both visually & aurally.
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1. That is a great sunroom
2. You could cut a marriage license with those cheekbones.
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Regardless of other plotlines, these films are bikeporn.
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Night 3 of #Nordic #Noir with #2MinutesTooLate #2MinutterForSent on #CriterionChannel
Criterion Channel Acquires ‘Perfectly A Strangeness,’ Oscar-Nominated Documentary Starring Three Donkeys
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https://deadline.com/2026/02/perfectly-a-strangeness-criterion-channel-acquisition-1236714955/
Watching #GirlWithHyacinths on #CriterionChannel to get some #Noir in before the big #NoirAlley drought.
The detective finds an addressed, unsent letter on a dead woman's desk and delivers it, unopened.
My apologies for the loud thunk when my jaw hit the floor.
Just about the only thing that grabbed me amongst this month’s #CriterionChannel stuff — the least Criterion of films. Last few weeks of the gift subscription I was given. Probably won’t be renewing.
I saw Megalopolis in 15/70 IMAX and loved the experience.
The dialogue, plot, editing, and philosophy of "let's get along with fascists", are a mess, but his visual artistry is astounding, and he included many little touches paying homage to the history of the art form.
I believe this will be considered a "rediscovered" masterpiece someday.
The "making of" now playing:
#link: https://www.criterionchannel.com/megadoc/videos/megadoc-trailer
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Criterion Channel’s December Lineup Will Help You Survive the Holidays
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Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan`s works are now part of the prestigious Criterion Channel, marking a historic achievement for Indian cinema. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/adoor-enters-criterion-collection-malayalam-cinema-finds-place-in-worlds-finest-film-archive-kbc1alhn?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AdoorGopalakrishnan #CriterionChannel #Malayalamcinema #Indiancinema
Sometimes I think having a woman like Gloria Grahame on screen can take the place of or give the illusion of visual flair.
Like, there’s nothing exceptionally striking about most of the photography in In a Lonely Place, but you come away thinking it was spectacular because of how many frames she’s in.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ReturnOfTheLivingDoug/115489028791089078
For those of us without the #CriterionChannel , #JohnWoo's #ABetterTomorrow (& sequels) are free on Plex (depends on your location)
https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/a-better-tomorrow
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Your New Favorite Halloween Movie Is Streaming On The Criterion Channel
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Finally using the three-month Criterion channel gift subscription that my sister gave me two years ago.
Great selection of movies and additional content, but so poorly organized and curated. You’d think there’d be tools for searching by country, decade, genre, etc. There is nothing like that. You can’t click on a director and see what other movies there are by him or her. Just the least fun, least browsable app.
October 2025 Criterion Channel Lineup
Hey, I’m using the year in the titles now! Shows I didn’t have much confidence that I’d keep this going a year ago. Well, a big raspberry to younger me.
We’re getting spooky again, of course, with a lineup that is varied both in types of horror and in quality. I think we have another contender for worst movie to ever play on the Channel — read on to find out which one.
The first featured collection is Directed by John Carpenter. Good choice; he’s a master and he deserves first billing. This is not just his horror movies; it includes early efforts like Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13. Alas, no Halloween or The Thing, although we do get Big Trouble in Little China. If you haven’t ever seen the other two films in his Apocalypse Trilogy, In The Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness are very interesting. This collection also includes Ghosts of Mars, which is the aforementioned strong contender for worst thing on the Channel. So it goes.
Next: 2000s Horror. Honestly a mixed bag. Ghosts of Mars again! Trouble Every Day is phenomenal; [•REC] is really good, and I will probably now get around to seeing Lake Mungo finally. I like this as an overview of what was going on in that era. Playing backseat programmer here: I think Cabin in the Woods could have been in this collection as an interesting summation of the era even if it came out in 2011.
Skipping ahead one collection to hit another horror-themed one: Body Horror is way too big to capture in 12 movies but this is a noble attempt, going all the way back to Eyes Without a Face through some excellent Cronenberg all the way to Bug. Missing the recent wave of body horror, alas.
OK. We’ll return to a final horror collection and mention a couple of horror-themed individual restorations/Criterion editions before we’re done. For now, let’s move on to the incredibly exciting October collection, which was pre-announced a couple of weeks ago.
Hong Kong Action Classics! This requires some history. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were three significant Hong Kong studios. Most people have heard of Shaw Brothers, which popularized the wuxia (kung fu) genre in the 60s and 70s. In 1970, a few executives at Shaw Brothers went off to found Golden Harvest, which succeeded after making a few movies with this young guy named Bruce Lee. They also worked with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Both Shaw and Golden Harvest have big libraries which have become fairly available on streaming services and physical media over the years. You can see their movies.
The third studio was Golden Princess. This studio has a slightly complex story involving comedy specialists Cinema City Entertainment; for the purposes of this overly long digression, what matters is that they produced legendary Hong Kong action movies from the great John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, and others. Unfortunately, the rights to their library wound up with (as I understand it) a large Hong Kong real estate developer which was uninterested in doing deals for single pictures. These absolutely seminal action movies have languished in rights limbo for decades.
Until Shout! Studios bought the rights as a package. They are busily releasing them on Blu-ray, creating new restorations, and apparently licensing a bunch of them to the Criterion Channel. The new collection includes a lot of those movies, plus some from other studios. It’s too much to summarize: watch The Killer, Hard Boiled, Police Story, Once Upon a Time in China, Heroic Trio, Peking Opera Blues, Election, Infernal Affairs, Prison on Fire, and then follow up on any of the directors or stars you liked. 30 year old me would have been unable to comprehend having access to this collection on demand. I’m not sure 55 year old me really gets it.
OK, deep breath. Some director spotlights! Kira Muratova is a Ukrainian filmmaker; promising me a “dark con-artist comedy” is enough to get me interested in The Tuner. Any other month I’d expect the Edward Yang collection to get top billing; he’s one of the masters of Taiwanese cinema and this is a small but brilliant collection. It’s nice to see Charles Burnett getting a spotlight, including a rediscovery, The Annihilation of Fish — plus a bunch of shorts which is nice for someone like me who wants to familiarize himself with Burnett’s style.
And then there’s another horror collection: Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin. I have only seen one of his movies, The Living Dead Girl. Rollin is a guy who puts his entire psychosexual outlook right up there on the screen; it’s not always anything I care about, but it’s certainly interesting. I like the idea of watching movies from most of his career, watching the way he develops. This collection has many of his most-watched films.
The last collection for the month, Hong Kong Ghost Stories, unifies horror and Hong Kong. The Mr. Vampire movies are really goofy and the Chinese Ghost Story trilogy is evocative and spooky. I wouldn’t call any of them scary per se. Worth dipping into, though.
Hm. No New England Haunted Houses collection? Criterion Channel still hates Boston.
OK, what do we have among the individual movies? Three more horror movies — the great cave flick The Descent, from when Neil Marshall was still directing taut horror; the best vampire movie ever, Ganja & Hess; and the very interesting Eurosleaze Daughters of Darkness, which is fun for the Marlene Dietrich/Louise Brooks homage if nothing else.
My Winnipeg is absolutely wild and if you can get onto Maddin’s wavelength, this is a superb movie that’s about how we think of our home towns as much as it’s about Winnipeg. Pierrot le Fou was the Godard that really clicked with me — I love the pop culture vibe and the way French colonialism is woven in and of course Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. I wanna see Christiane F. for a look at 70s German culture that isn’t Fassbinder.
Great, great month that plays to my personal obsessions almost as well as possible.
September Criterion Channel Lineup
Well holy crap, that’s a year’s worth of these. I’m certainly not blogging like I used to but the monthly commitment is working out!
And what a good lineup for my 12th month. The top line collections rotate around two unquestionable masters, and the good programming doesn’t end there. We’ll eat well in September. Let’s get to it.
Starting with Robert Altman. 24 titles. His best — McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville — and his worst. Sorry, Prairie Home Companion. His first theatrical movie, Countdown. If I stretched, I could complain that O.C. and Stiggs isn’t included, I guess. Kind of a minor complaint: this is just a great collection.
And then we get a Jodie Foster collection. This is not quite as extensive; in particular there’s no Silence of the Lambs, which I’m sure would have been awfully expensive. No Accused, unfortunately. It’s still great: the 1976 double feature of Bugsy Malone and Taxi Driver (seriously, see Bugsy Malone if you never have, it’s unique), Panic Room which also features a very young Kristen Stewart, and more. Maybe skip Mel Gibson’s rehabilitation vehicle, though.
So we’ve got a couple of filmmakers who got big in the ’70s. I don’t know if this is an intentional theme but the next collection is ’70s Thrillers. It is solid, ranging from one of Alan Pakula’s paranoid thrillers (The Parallax View) to the white knuckle Sorcerer. They’re not all masterpieces — you could probably save The Anderson Tapes for last — but it’s a lovely overview.
Should all three of Pakula’s paranoid thrillers be in that category? Yes, but Criterion decided to just add a category for them instead, and they’re worth highlighting. Welcome to Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy. Block out a weekend for this or something, they’re all great. The Parallax View comes first because of the Space Needle.
The final collection is one of those low-brow collections that Criterion likes to throw in now and again, Nunsploitation. It is what it says it is. Good chance to see Ken Russell’s difficult to find The Devils. Alucarda also looks very interesting if you’re curious about 70s Mexican horror which of course.
Phew. See? What an insane month. We’re not quite done, though…
The Criterion Collection Editions are cool. These are often not new additions to the Channel; still, I live in the inaccurate hope that I’ll take the time to watch some of this supplemental material. Grey Gardens has been on my watchlist for a while. So has Carlos. The Rediscoveries and Restorations are similarly low key interesting; City of Ghosts has an excellent cast and Fresh Kill might well be my kind of surrealism.
The smaller filmmaker collections are for Paul Thomas Anderson, Alain Kassanda, and Walerian Borowczyk. I’m never going to complain about another way to see Magnolia! As to the other two, these collections are doing their job which is to make me interested in directors I haven’t heard of.
On the Anime front (still pleased about this category), we have Millennium Actress. Great movie, see it if you like movies about movies.
And… stuffing Possession casually down at the bottom of the announcement post is almost a crime; it’s not hard to watch right now, but if for some reason you haven’t, this is a great excuse. Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill kill it.
The only thing missing is a Boston Crime Thriller collection.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Cloud’ Streams Soon on Criterion: The Master Explains How It’s an Ode to American Action Movies
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