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dwk wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 5:58 am New Channel additons tha open with the Criterion and Janus logos:
Mother India

dwk wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 5:58 am New Channel additons tha open with the Criterion and Janus logos:
Mother India
Faithless

Beloved Aunt wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 6:13 am

therewillbeblus wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 8:45 pm It was well-received critically, but seems largely forgotten amongst the public. I imagine a lot of people were put off by Hathaway's character and struggled to find a way in to connect with the picture

I never finished RGM so I won't (and can't) mouth off on any other aspect (acting seemed good), but to me (what I saw of) this film is ground zero for obnoxious, somehow-incredibly-trite handheld crunchy granola "Indie! Indie! Indie!" cinematography, to the point where its too grating for me to appreciate any other aspect of the film, and to the point where, such things being unworthy of an aesthete and man of taste like Demme, I wondered if the look of this film was created by him + Declan Quinn maybe, basically to oblige the ill-advised wishes of someone else involved with the project.

Q: You’ve been moving between features, documentaries, and music performance films for much of your career. Have you seen them cross-pollinating one another in terms of developing a style?

A: What struck me at a certain point was that with features we’re trying to make everything seem real, and when we do documentaries we attempt to make them very entertaining. It’s a wonderful contrast, but I learn something every time I shoot, so in that way there’s been tremendous cross-pollination, but it changes every time for me. For instance, I’d shot a number of documentaries with Declan Quinn, so for Rachel Getting Married I thought it would be exciting to pretend that’s what we were doing. We never preplanned shots, just knew where the staging was and that the actors were comfortable with the scene. Declan was with his camera; I’d be in my chair at the monitor. I’d say, ‘Action!’ and suddenly a shot comes alive. I felt like we were getting better shots than you could ever design.

Q: Sound design is so much a part of what you do too. Can you talk about crafting the sound for two very different films, The Silence of the Lambs and Rachel Getting Married (2008)?

A: The sound design of Rachel Getting Married proceeded on the premise that, over the course of this weekend, there were musicians around who would always be practicing or noodling, so the sound was going to be real. We wanted it to feel and sound like a documentary. That was my strongest effort to make a Dogme film; a number of the vows of chastity were honored there, including no music added. There’s so much music in that movie, all recorded live while the actors were working. That was really cool.

Matt wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 8:19 am

(You forgot about Pecker, but I can't blame anyone for forgetting about Pecker.)

Child actors perform a 'kid-friendly' table read version of John Water's notorious 1972 X-rated cult classic film, Pink Flamingos.

Finch wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 8:10 amKino have Cry Baby and Cecil (I think, not sure about Cecil but it got released recently).

crimlaw wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 1:46 pm With all the WB being bought by Netflix news out there, it’s probably time for Criterion to start releasing all the WB movies they have been rumored for sitting on before Netflix slams the door. Hopefully some this month:

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Adams Rib
Bad Day at Black Rock
Lolita
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Point Blank
Petulia
Zabriskie Point
Cabaret
What’s Up Doc
Deliverance
Scarecrow
O Lucky Man
Dog Day Afternoon
The Mission
The Sheltering Sky

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:59 pm This list seems rather random to me. There are some films on it that have either been confirmed or have been attached to Criterion based on prior lists (O Lucky Man). But most just seems to be wishing

beamish14 wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 6:58 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:59 pm This list seems rather random to me. There are some films on it that have either been confirmed or have been attached to Criterion based on prior lists (O Lucky Man). But most just seems to be wishing

A lot are definitely wishlist titles that many are trying to manifest. Still, I had thought that a handful of Ladd Company titles were confirmed at some point (Twice Upon a Time, Mike’s Murder, The Right Stuff)

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:59 pm This list seems rather random to me. There are some films on it that have either been confirmed or have been attached to Criterion based on prior lists (O Lucky Man). But most just seems to be wishing

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 7:13 pm Not that it’s any indication but Body Heat has been on the Channel a lot