Mondo Kane

Warning:
-Some of the segments reach up to 4 hours long
-The Finnish commentators (During the '52 Olympics) act like they've never seen non-whites before
-Watch out for an abundance of female armpit-hair as you approach the 70's

mhg83

I just subscribed for the year and was looking for recommendations. I like horror and disturbing films like Requiem For A Dream.

My first movie i watched was Alice . I then moved on to the Olympics documentary series and watched the 90s L.A. games. Good stuff.

rbrown498

You might enjoy Antichrist; I like it a lot, but two of my best movie buddies think it's pretentious twaddle.

Clean, Shaven is different, and it certainly has its disturbing moments.

If you've never seen Bob Clark's Deathdream, you should probably remedy that.

Eraserhead. The list really could begin and end with this one.

LorenzoL

https://criterioncast.com/column/cal...nnel-announced

some great films coming in September but I’m really excited for Center Stage with Maggie Cheung.

TheAllPurposeNothing

My son gave me two months of The Criterion Channel as a gift. Excited to try out the service, and with the two week trial, that should be closer to 2-1/2 months of service.

Now I'm trying to determine if there's a best time to activate service, as I'm not sure how limited availability is for some titles/collections. For example, when they run a special collection of films in a month, are you best having service at the start of the month or do those films remain available for months following? Similarly, do the Adventures in Moviegoing and Double Features remain past the initial month? Esp. curious with the Edgar Wright Adventures in Moviegoing and the Doris Wishman and Jim Jarmusch collections this month but with less that a week remaining to the month, I want to make sure I'd have time to properly explore them.

dex14

andicus

I didn't realize the price was going to be $129. For some reason I thought the normal price was $99.

Definitely glad we early adopters are locked in at $89.

LorenzoL

It’s it increasing? I pay $99 USD for the service and there’s no mention of going up.

andicus

That's what Dex14's post seems to indicate, and the website shows the same. But it'd be a pretty big mistake, IMHO, to jack prices up 30% in a single shot.

For some reason, I thought you were an early adopter too, Lorenzol?

LorenzoL

No, I’m not. I was a dumbass and did not do it.

andicus

Ah, hold on... They're indicating what you'll save over the 'regular monthly rate,' so probably a false alarm. The monthly rate is $10.99. Sounds like your $99 annual rate should remain the same, for now.

Why So Blu?

For CC "charter" members, they sent out a $10 gift certificate yesterday that can be used at the CC shop. It can also be used on the 50% off sales and has no expiration date. FYI

LorenzoL

COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS PREMIERING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL MAY 2022:

• ’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

*Available in the U.S. only

https://criterioncast.com/column/cal...nnel-announced

Some great films coming in May. I'm excited for the Ida Lupino and Linklater films. I definitely need to use VPN to circumvent the US only releases.

andicus

I was just thinking the same thing. I also know it works with CC, as I had my son log in to my account using his VPN, and confirm he was able to stream US only content.

LorenzoL

I’m really excited for the Chinese in Hollywood series along with the Myrna Loy one for the month of August.

Dan

Check your emails if you’re a subscriber. They’re sending out $20 coupons that can be used for discs and merch, though I don’t know if it’s just for day one subscribers, or everyone.

dex14

$20? I saw $10.

Dan

Yeah, this was the email I got

dex14

I wish I had that Big Dan Energy.

dex14

This would be awesome.