Criterion Channel

I tend to not have a natural aptitude for navigating smart phones, the onlines, fuctions on webpages, and the like. As such it took me a bit to even realize it had an embedded filter function on the browse website to narrow down the search.

Here's a link to it if anyone needs it reference so they can search and filter out results... for instance by decade, director, genre, or country of release:

https://films.criterionchannel.com/

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Since we posting the not-obvious criterionchannel resources (good find actually. I didn't know they had a page for searching what's currently on the channel).


For seeing what's currently streaming on their 24/7 service (in case you turn it on, find something interesting and really want to know what it is)
https://whatsonnow.criterionchannel.com/


I think I once saw a link to where they show the calendar/line-up for the live stream, but can't currently find it anywhere (my old, rickety, google skills are failing me).

Nice article on Ida Lupino, to go with the movies they are showing with her

https://www.criterion.com/current/po...ing-ida-lupino

Is there a way to download the video on Criterion? My internet is slow/laggy, and frustrating to try and watch this way.

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I think you can usually download movies in most devices, which device do you normally use to watch?

My laptop.

I just checked on mine and I don't see the download option. It's usually there on the AppleTV app, or the iPhone app.

I don't have a smart phone.

There's always a way, though it can be quite complicated to do. At any rate I couldn't say about any clandestine methods and of course I can't talk about that.

This month (Feb 2025) they are featuring Argentine Noir, with an intro from one of my favorite writers. Here's the summary...

I've seen and liked the Woolrich adaptations from director Carlos Hugo Christensen; and Bitter Stems is an all-timer IMHO - I own that one on disc, which includes a commentary track (I wonder if that'll be an extra on the channel? They sometimes do bonus material)

Never seen Native Son or this version of The Beast Must Die.

Yeah, I’m stoked about this. Looking forward to diving into it soon.

Free Movie Week starting Tuesday (April 2025), and what a line-up

https://www.criterionchannel.com/free-movie-week

Free Movie Week

Tuesday 4/8
6 p.m. ET - BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
8 p.m. ET - THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello, 2023)
10:30 p.m. ET - CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
12:30 p.m. ET - PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Wednesday 4/9
6 p.m. ET - 8 ˝ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
9 p.m. ET - THE DAYTRIPPERS (Greg Mottola, 1996)
10:30 p.m. ET - EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)
12 a.m. ET - HOUSE (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
Thursday 4/10
6 p.m. ET - THE TRIAL (Orson Welles, 1962)
8:30 p.m. ET - EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2023)
10:30 p.m. ET - MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Friday 4/11
6 p.m. ET - ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia, 2024)
8:30 p.m. ET - MIKEY AND NICKY (Elaine May, 1976)
10:30 p.m. ET - NIGHT ON EARTH (Jim Jarmusch, 1991)
Saturday 4/12
3 p.m. ET - TAMPOPO (Juzo Itami, 1985)
5 p.m. ET - PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967)
8 p.m. ET - BLOOD SIMPLE (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 1984)
9:35 p.m. ET - BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, 1999)
11:10 p.m. ET - POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan, 1985)
Sunday 4/13
3 p.m. ET - BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
4:40 p.m. ET - DAISIES (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
6 p.m. ET - PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, 1984)
9 p.m. ET - CURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
11 p.m. ET - TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, 1992)
MONDAY 4/14
6 p.m. ET - CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnčs Varda, 1962)
7:30 p.m. ET - RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
9 p.m. ET - THE PLAYER (Robert Altman, 1992)
11:30 p.m. ET - STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

One of the featured collections released to Criterion this month is Vietnam Across the Divide. It has the usual Hollywood films (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Casualties of War) but also includes older North Vietnam war films as well as the acclaimed When The Tenth Month Comes.
To me, that’s the true value here. The Vietnam war told through the lens of older North Vietnamese directors.
Don’t get me wrong, Platoon et all are all worth watching but I’m sure most have by now.

Good movie, and I'm glad to see you bring it up especially now when the 90s Countdown thread has me a bit down the dumps. The Criterion thread might be one of my few zones of comfort on the forum.

Other collections recently added that are worth looking at are French Poetic Realism, Chinese Crime Thrillers, Dogme 95, and Lee Chang-Dong’s films.

Nice to see they have Green Fish, Chang-Dong's debut and the only one I've yet to see (aside from the short he filmed in 2022)

I also want to catch The Little Girl of Hanoi and On the Same River

Love French Poetic Realism, though I think I've seen most of them there.

With Shinoda's recent passing, it is still a little wild to think of how many of his films I could only see through the criterionchannel.
I've got a re-watch of Himiko queued up for later this month. Which, in turn, is kind of a reminder of how much stuff is buried in the service that isn't promoted on the front page of collections.

When he passed did they put him on the front page like they usually do? He has a page...

https://www.criterionchannel.com/dir...sahiro-shinoda

so at least it's easy to save that on a person's que. That said, I saw my first in 2016 (Double Suicide) but just happened to stumble upon it while looking around the site.

I was involved in a conversation about underrated directors last year, but in most cases, it was not that they are underrated, but underseen, and most of that is because they are not easily available... but I'm astonished that with all that's been hosted on the Criterion Channel, that Shinoda's still relatively under watched. Based on Letterboxd stats, Pale Flower is at the top with 18k, but then it slips - Double Suicide and Himiko at 6.6k, Cherry Trees at 4k, Silence at 2k, Ballad of Orin at 1.2k, Gonza the Spearman at 580, Love Old and New, only 289 have marked it as watched?

He's out there at least (19 of them at Criterion), which is more than talented people like Dinara Asanova or Bimal Roy are (though Roy did get a retrospective month at Filmstruck, when they were around, which is how I watched him - that was pretty cool, to be able to finally see his pictures)