Criterion Channel

Hi, new here, and want a space for what in my opinion is the best streaming service, what have you been watching there?

Hello and welcome! I agree Criterion is the best streaming service. The last films I watched on Criterion Channel were:

Jubilee (1978)
Victim (1961)
Vera (1986)
5th Avenue Girl (1939)
Breakfast For Two (1937)

'Godland' arrived on the Criterion channel yesterday. One of the best films of the year. It's like Scorsese's 'Silence' on 16mm, set in Iceland with a Fargo like premise. Highly recommended.

Shinoda's Silence is also on the criterion channel. No idea how tonally similar it might be to Scorsese's but I've decided to slowly work through the Shinoda on there since I did really like Pale Flower.

Not super enthused with next months lineup announcement, but the one film I’m excited for is Eight Deadly Shots in its original 4 hour form.
It recently made a return to the cinemas this past March but didn’t make it out to my are. Shame. Would have loved to see it on the big screen.

I hated Silence, but Godland looks good. Never heard of it, but it’s now in my watchlist.

__________________
I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

I want to make it official by going back to my first post here, to end my use of this place, as i have with all other sites. I want to just exist online as an anonymous consumer who doesn't share anymore.

There are films to watch as there is also books to read and music to listen to, all keeping track of them will be done privately on my google documents, i will not even comment on YouTube videos anymore.

This is what the free falling song quote means for me, without anymore connection with others via sharing i feel like i'm falling in a bottomless void and so far as i'm enjoying my time it is of extreme pleasure.

So you’re saying goodbye?

I have had it for about a full year now, and I have watched dozens and dozens of movies on it. All Pasolini, several Bergman, most Oshima, most Lynch, most Haneke, as well as a wide variety of random films, shorts, and other documentaries. I cannot praise that site highly enough!

Riki-Roh: The Story of Ricky is coming to Criterion channel next month.
Guess it’s as a good a time as any to finally watch this cult classic.

Criterion Channel added several good films today, including some Ken Russell and Bertrand Tavernier films. Most importantly, they added a collection of cat themed films! Meow!

Meowser!

Psyched for some Ken Russell, is The Devils the director's cut?

I don't think so. It's an hour and 48 minutes and I believe the director's cut is slightly longer.

The Cassandra Cat looks interesting. Will look to dig into the Russell and Tavernier collections.

Ikarie XB1 is one I’ve waited for a long time.

I got a free preview for 7 days. Half way through The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Criterion is nice because they don't do that tiered pricing garbage (ads/no ads). I was last there in August for their Chahine retrospective



Caught up on a lot of his movies I'd not seen before, and revisited one of my favorites, Cairo Station.

I finally caught Bergman's The Magic Flute and really enjoyed it. Also, Love Under the Crucifix, which a lot of folks feel is Tanaka's weakest... I disagree. Others I admired - Our Father, the Devil, La Llorona, Cleaners, Vengeance Is Mine, Plan 75, Chicken for Linda!

The first one I watched that month? I'm a fan of Emilio Fernández films, so I was looking forward to Victims of Sin (1951), with 4K restoration, and it did not disappoint. The story is slight, its run time filled out with a lot of musical numbers (as you'd expect for a cabaretera film), but it's heartfelt and dramatic, with sensuality and the stench of crime woven throughout.

__________________
Completed Extant Filmographies: Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Andrei Tarkovsky, Buster Keaton, Yasujirō Ozu - (for favorite directors who have passed or retired, 10 minimum)

I had this channel for a week for the first time ever. Some thoughts

I am not a DVD guy so I don't really value all the extras and interviews.
Most of the mainstream movies on there I have seen. Most of the film noir for instance.
A lot of art house types movies that I am not really interested in.
Similar to kanopy, the library movie service

The best thing was the foreign movies which are difficult to find elsewhere. So that's what I watched for seven days

I've seen extra features on YouTube.. Even deleted scenes from "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" - a favorite of mine, but never even thought of looking for. Not sure if its even on Criterion.

__________________
https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition

Criterion often has extras, at least the extras from their physical media, for the films up there. Often such a movie is in a collection of the movie's name (possibly in addition to whatever other collections it might be in). That collection will have the movie, possibly different versions of the movie, and the extras that came with it.


It's worth noting the service has a ton of movies not predominantly featured in any of the collections on the home page to browse through. You just have to search for them to know that they're there (or, for me, realistically, I'm going through letterboxd on a list of movies I want to watch (e.g. the filmography of a director), and use the filter of, on a streaming service I have (I think you need the paid version of letterboxd to have that filter, but I'm not sure)).


This was relevant when going through what I could for Oshima and Shinoda.


But I guess the lesson is, in my experience, there's a lot more than what's in the Browse section.