That’s just where the similarities begin between Steven Soderbergh’s hallucinatory revenge thriller The Limey and David Lynch’s feverish Hollyweird freak-out Mulholland Dr., which also share a time-scrambling puzzle-box structure, uncanny visual references, and even a key cast member. The films they’ve chosen to present include slice-of-life gems from Mike Leigh (Meantime) and Billy Woodberry (Bless Their Little Hearts); gritty thrillers from Elaine May (Mikey and Nicky) and John Cassavetes (Gloria); and self-reflexive revelations from Krzysztof Kieślowski (Camera Buff) and Jafar Panahi (The Mirror), all of which reflect the abiding humanism that courses through the duo’s own work. Sharing the same lead actress (Brigitte Mira), cinematographer (Jürgen Jürges), and editor (Thea Eymèsz), these twin works offer a searing indictment of prejudice within German society. Set over the course of a languid South Brooklyn summer, this unflinchingly honest, refreshingly unsentimental tale of sexual exploration and awakening centers on Lila (Gina Piersanti, in a remarkable debut), a lonely fourteen-year-old girl who pushes herself into frightening and dangerous new territory in a quest to experience love. A.2 The Applicant must ensure that it at all times – (a) is ordinarily resident in the UK, Gibraltar or a member state of the European For almost three decades, Frances Marion was Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriter (male or female), a pioneer who shaped the nascent art of script writing and whose seemingly boundless imagination yielded some of the most unforgettable words and stories ever put on screen. It makes for an appropriately outré intro to Yorgos Lanthimos’s startlingly perverse international sensation Dogtooth, which introduced the world to one of the most dementedly dysfunctional families in all of cinema. Featuring: Stella Dallas (Henry King, 1925), The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926), The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926), The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928), Their Own Desire (E. Mason Hopper, 1929), Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930), The Big House (George W. Hill, 1930), Min and Bill (George Hill, 1930), The Champ (King Vidor, 1931), Blondie of the Follies (Edmund Goulding, 1932), Cynara (King Vidor, 1932), Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933)**, Secrets (Frank Borzage, 1933), Riffraff (J. Walter Ruben, 1936), Knight Without Armour (Jacques Feyder, 1937), Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (Bridget Terry, 2000), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970)Criterion Collection Edition #682, Short + Feature: Fassbinder and His FriendsAngst isst Seele auf and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Check out Criterion Channel's full list of May lineup below. Volume 17, Issue 5, Supplement, Pages A1-A6, S1-S334 (May 2020) Download full issue. Saturday Matinee: The Boy with Green Hair. Featuring: Lovely & Amazing (2001), Friends with Money (2006)**, Please Give (2010)**, Three by Jacques RivetteFeaturing a 1990 profile of Rivette directed by Claire Denis, from the series Cinéastes de notre temps. Here's where you can see the new Angelina Jolie thriller from the creator of 'Yellowstone'. . The kids are not all right in two bracingly visceral visions of teenage turmoil made manifest. Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival, Little Fugitive bursts with a freewheeling inventiveness that would go on to influence both the French New Wave (particularly François Truffaut, who cited it as a key reference for The 400 Blows) and a generation of DIY American filmmakers. These films, however, are only some of the many titles that have received the special curation of one of the most important film distributors of physical… Alfre Woodard delivers a brilliant performance as a floundering, drug-addicted mother living in Chicago whose own mother sends her to stay with an uncle (Al Freeman Jr.) in the Mississippi Delta, where she gradually reconnects with her heritage and discovers strength in her roots. Over decades of competition, the Palme has crowned instant classics like Rome Open City and Taste of Cherry, recognized the mastery of auteurs like Ermanno Olmi and Mike Leigh, and occasionally singled out controversial choices like Maurice Pialat’s Under the Sun of Satan. It’s amazing to think that through the years Criterion has given us many releases of THE SEVENTH SEAL, from LD all the way up to the recent box set. This series gathers select titles from the year’s official lineup, alongside a scene-setting introduction by film historian Dudley Andrew, so that you can decide for yourself which film should have won the never-presented Palme d’Or. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India. Anna Sewell’s classic novel about the bond between a boy and his horse receives a stirring, handsomely mounted screen adaptation, complete with spectacular scenery and a lively sense of adventure. Jeff Sneider is the Senior Film Reporter at Collider, where he breaks film and television news and curates the Up-and-Comer of the Month column in addition to hosting The Sneider Cut podcast and the awards-themed series For Your Consideration with Scott Mantz and Perri Nemiroff. . On 27 May 2020, WHO published updated interim guidance on the clinical management of COVID-19, 1,2 and provided updated recommendations on the criteria for discharging patients from isolation. As her latest film, the 2020 Sundance and Berlin award winner Never Rarely Sometimes Always, garners critical acclaim, the Criterion Channel revisits the revelatory debut feature from director Eliza Hittman. Although ridiculed by his classmates and the local townspeople, Peter soon realizes that there is power in being different. Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories, Featuring a conversation between guest programmer Nellie Killian and actor Jenny Slate, plus a conversation about the filmmaking collective New Day Films, In 1979, poet Adrienne Rich observed that “one of the most powerful social and political catalysts of the past decade has been the speaking of women with other women, the telling of our secrets, the comparing of wounds and sharing of words.” Curated by guest programmer Nellie Killian, Tell Me celebrates female filmmakers who took the simple, radical step of allowing women space and time to talk about their lives. Posted on February 14, 2020 by Justin Sluss – Commissions Earned – The 1963 film “The Great Escape“ is officially getting a new Blu-ray Disc release from The Criterion Collection on May 12th. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. While her remarkable versatility meant that she could move easily between acclaimed literary adaptations, sparkling comedies, and gritty crime dramas, Marion’s piercing insight into human nature transcends genre and makes her work uniquely timeless. A similarly unsettling phenomenon overtakes a girls’ dance team in Anna Rose Holmer’s stunning debut feature, The Fits, which fuses mesmerizing sound and movement to create a visceral coming-of-age dreamscape. Perhaps best known for their gothic classic Street of Crocodiles, the Quays display a passion for detail, a breathtaking command of color and texture, and an uncanny use of focus and camera movement that unite their darkly surreal, marvelously macabre works. May 2020 - Criterion Channel Highlights. Featuring: Paris Belongs to Us (1961), Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), La belle noiseuse (1991), Double Feature: Tramps and ScampsThe Kid and Sidewalk Stories. Featuring an introduction by director Eliza Hittman and two of her early short films. Starring Jackie ChanFeaturing a new interview with Grady Hendrix, author and cofounder of the New York Asian Film Festival. Preserving the elegant slapstick invention and heart-tugging poignancy of Chaplin’s vision, Lane infuses the story with a newfound sense of realism and social consciousness to create one of the unsung miracles of 1980s independent cinema. And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986). The updated criteria reflect recent findings that patients whose symptoms have resolved may still test positive for the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) by RT-PCR for many weeks. By Sam van der Meer May 25, 2020 292 views Hello and welcome to the monthly round-up of all that is good and cinematic coming to the Criterion Channel this month. With a centenary tribute to the legendary title-sequence designer Saul Bass, a trio of enigmatic films from French New Wave titan Jacques Rivette, early work from acclaimed director Eliza Hittman, oneiric shorts by the Quay brothers, the exclusive streaming premiere of Horace B. Jenkins’s long-lost Cane River, and a new episode of Adventures in Moviegoing with the Safdie brothers, there’s something for everyone in our eclectic May lineup. Grab some tissues and get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day with two sterling adaptations of Olive Higgins Prouty’s classic, tear-wringing tale of maternal sacrifice. Saturday Matinee: Around the World in 80 Days. Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s StoriesFeaturing a conversation between guest programmer Nellie Killian and actor Jenny Slate, plus a new documentary about the filmmaking collective New Day Films, In 1979, poet Adrienne Rich observed that “one of the most powerful social and political catalysts of the past decade has been the speaking of women with other women, the telling of our secrets, the comparing of wounds and sharing of words.” Tell Me celebrates female filmmakers who took the simple, radical step of allowing women space and time to talk about their lives. Other May 2020 highlights include the California movies The Limey and Mulholland Drive, Eliza Hittman's first film It Felt Like Love, Yorgos Lanthimos' confounding comedy Dogtooth, and Down in the Delta, which is the only film directed by Maya Angelou. Though she is often overlooked in the pantheon of great contemporary French auteurs, Kurys makes films that manage to be at once deeply personal and universally resonant. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America. Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales. Making the leap to director with The Fearless Hyena and The Young Master, Chan embarked on a dazzling run of 1980s successes that culminated with Police Story and its sequel, blockbuster megahits in which his death-defying, adrenaline-rush set pieces reached new heights of giddy virtuosity. Short films: Second Cousins Once Removed (2010), Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight (2011). Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month: The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993**, Anamorphosis, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1991, Bless Their Little Hearts, Billy Woodberry, 1983, The Boy with Green Hair, Joseph Losey, 1948, The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1984, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974, Children of the Century, Diane Kurys, 1999, The Cloud-Capped Star, Ritwik Ghatak, 1960, The Comb, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1990, Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, Eliza Hittman, 2011, Friends with Money, Nicole Holofcener, 2006**, Growing Up Female, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, 1971, Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Chen Chi-hwa, 1980, In a Year of 13 Moons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978, In Absentia, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 2000, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970, Little Fugitive, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Raymond Abrashkin, 1953, Lovely & Amazing, Nicole Holofcener, 2001, The Phantom Museum, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 2003, Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, 1992, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, 1987, The Salt Mines, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1990, Second Cousins Once Removed, Eliza Hittman, 2010, Stille Nacht I: Dramolet, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1988, Stille Nacht III: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1992, Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1993, Street of Crocodiles, Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1986, The Third Generation, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979, The Transformation, Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio, 1995, This Unnameable Little Broom, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, and Keith Griffiths, 1985, The Wayward Cloud, Tsai Ming-liang, 2005**.