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'Sorcerer' – a dark odyssey through the jungle on Criterion Channel
In William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977), four men hiding out in a grimy South American village who agree to drive two trucks with unstable dynamite in the back over 200 miles through the jungle.
If that sounds familiar, it because it’s a remake of Henri George-Clouzot’s survival thriller The Wages of Fear, and apart from a lengthy prologue that introduces the men and the crimes that sent them into…
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#1977#Amido#Blu-ray#Bruno Cremer#Criterion Channel#DVD#Francisco Rabal#Roy Scheider#Tangerine Dream#The Wages of Fear#VOD#Walon Green#William Friedkin
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Coming Attractions: Streaming in May 2024
Jeff Daniels is “A Man in Full” (Netflix, 5/2), an Atlanta real estate mogul who finds himself on verge of losing his business and his status, in the limited series adapted from the novel by Tom Wolfe. Producer David E. Kelly scripts the entire series and Diane Lane, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Camp costar.
“Shardlake” (Hulu, 5/1), a limited series based on the novel by C.J. Sansom, stars…
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#Acorn TV#Amazon Prime Video#AMC+#Apple TV+#Disney+#Hulu#Max#MGM+#Netflix#Paramount+#Peacock#Shudder#Starz
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'Deadwood' – TV's greatest western at 20 on Max
David Milch reinvents the TV western in Deadwood (2004-2006), brilliant, unpredictable, utterly original take on the frontier drama.
Walter Hill won an Emmy and a DGA award for his superior direction of the pilot episode, which indelibly establishes the muddy, grubby, dusty frontier atmosphere of the undeveloped west pushed to the extreme in the town of Deadwood, a lawless gold rush town…
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#2004#Al Swearengen#Blu-ray#Brad Dourif#Calamity Jane#David Milch#Dayton Callie#Deadwood#DVD#Gerald McRaney#Ian McShane#Jim Beaver#John Hawkes#Keith Carradine#Kim Dickens#Max#Molly Parker#Powers Booth#Robin Weigert#Timothy Olyphant#VOD#W. Earl Brown#Walter Hill#Wild Bill Hickock
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'The File on Thelma Jordon' – Barbara Stanwyck plays her mark on Criterion Channel
Robert Siodmak’s The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) is one of the most low key film noir dramas of its era.
Barbara Stanwyck in fine form as a gentle seductress who targets assistant D.A. and married man Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey), playing into his self-pity during a drunken night out. When she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her aunt, a high society matron who names her in her…
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#1950#Barbara Stanwyck#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#DVD#Joan Tetzel#Paul Kelly#Richard Rober#Robert Siodmak#Stanley Ridges#The File on Thelma Jordon#VOD#Wendell Corey
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Robert Bresson's 'Pickpocket' – crime and redemption on Criterion Channel
Robert Bresson draws from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” for Pickpocket (France, 1959), his examination of an arrogant young pickpocket who deems himself “above” the laws and conditions of ordinary men.
Michel (Martin Lassalle), a rather bland looking young man with a perpetually blank face, haunts the subways, city streets, and race tracks to ply his trade. He plays a game of wits…
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#1959#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#DVD#France#Marika Green#Martin Lassalle#Pickpocket#Pierre Leymarie#Robert Bresson#VOD
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'A Fistful of Dynamite' – Sergio Leone's revolution on Prime Video
Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), also known as Duck, You Sucker, drops the spaghetti western in the midst of the Mexican revolution. James Coburn stars as John, an IRA revolutionary with a penchant for dynamite who has fled Ireland for Mexico, and Rod Steiger is Juan, a Mexican bandit who targets the rich and pompous.
In the face of the decadence and hypocrisy of the rich and the…
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#1971#A Fistful of Dynamite#Amazon Prime Video#Blu-ray#Duck You Sucker#DVD#Ennio Morricone#Italy#James Coburn#Rod Steiger#Sergio Leone#VOD
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'49th Parallel' – WWII on Canadian soil on Max and Criterion Channel
During World War II, Michael Powell and his writer/producer partner Emeric Pressburger were enlisted to make films in support of the British war effort, but while many of their contemporaries turned out routine thrillers Powell and Pressburger created inventive dramas with a patriotic purpose.
Their wartime adventure 49th Parallel (1941), about a small German U-Boat crew stranded in Canada off…
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#1941#49th Parallel#Anton Walbrook#Blu-ray#Canada#Criterion Channel#DVD#Emeric Pressberger#Eric Portman#Glynis Johns#Laurence Olivier#Leslie Howard#Max#Michael Powell#Raymond Massey#VOD
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Coming Attractions: Streaming in April 2024
Andrew Scott takes on the role of American-in-Europe conman and grifter Tom Ripley—previously portrayed onscreen by such actors as Matt Damon, John Malkovich, and Alain Delon—in “Ripley” (Netflix, 4/4). Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian directs and scripts this adaptation of the novels of Patricia Highsmith, which costars Johnny Flynn and Dakota Fanning.
“Fallout” (Prime Video, 4/11), a…
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'Blood Simple' – The Coen Bros. begin on Max and Criterion Channel
There’s a complicated web of murder and betrayal in a small Texas town in Blood Simple (1984), the assured debut feature from Joel and Ethan Coen (Ethan has sole director credit on screen but is was a collaborative effort). It all springs from an adulterous affair between a terse barman and the lonely, frustrated wife of his pathologically vengeful boss.
It opens on the drawling commentary of a…
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#1984#Barry Sonnenfeld#Blood Simple#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#Dan Hedaya#DVD#Ethan Coen#Frances McDormand#Joel and Ethan Coen#Joel Coen#John Getz#M. Emmet Walsh#Max#Samm-Art Williams#VOD
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'Ray' – Jamie Foxx is R&B legend Ray Charles on Peacock
Jamie Foxx is electric as Ray Charles in Taylor Hackford’s biographical drama Ray (2004).
The film sweeps us from his humble beginnings as an R&B piano man in Seattle in the early 1950s through his rocket-ride to the top of the R&B and pop charts (and his heroin addiction and philandering along the way) to his successful rehab in the mid-1960s, with sun-burned flashbacks in the red dirt Florida…
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#2004#Blu-ray#Bokeem Woodbine#Clifton Powell#Curtis Armstrong#DVD#Harry Lennix#Jamie Foxx#Kerry Washington#Larenz Tate#Peacock#Ray#Ray Charles#Regina King#Richard Schiff#Sharon Warren#Taylor Hackford#Terrence Howard#VOD#Wendell Pierce
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'24 Hour Party People' – Sex, drugs, and the Manchester music scene on Criterion Channel
24 Hour Party People (2002) brings to life the rise and fall of Factory Records and the Manchester music scene from the glory days of the punk era to the early 1990s, presented as a decade-long party hosted by TV journalist turned entrepreneur, record producer, and bon vivante Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan).
It opens on a fateful concert where Wilson (and many other folks who will become…
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#2002#24 Hour Party People#Andy Serkis#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#DVD#Factory Records#John Simm#John Thomson#Lennie James#Michael Winterbottom#Paddy Considine#Paul Popplewell#Robby Müller#Shirley Henderson#Steve Coogan#Tony Wilson#VOD
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'Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India' – a Bollywood revolution on Netflix
No country in the world has preserved the innocence and underdog joy of classic Hollywood musicals like India’s Bollywood industry.
The plot of Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (India, 2001) could be effortlessly played out in ninety minutes or less. The opening scene sets the tone: the colorful citizens of a drought stricken 19th century village gather in the parched town square to celebrate…
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#2001#Aamir Khan#Ashutosh Gowariker#Blu-ray#DVD#Gracy Singh#India#Lagaan#Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India#Netflix#Paul Blackthorne#Rachel Shelley#VOD
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'Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance' – Son for hire, sword for hire on Max and Criterion Channel
“Son for Hire – Sword for Hire,” reads the banner flying from the wooden cart of rogue samurai Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama) in Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Japan, 1972).
Once the official executioner of the Emperor, Itto roams the countryside with his infant son and a baby carriage stocked with a veritable arsenal in tow. He rents his services for 500 pieces of gold while awaiting…
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#1972#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#DVD#Itto Ogami#Japan#Kazuo Koike#Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance#Max#Tomisaburo Wakayama#VOD
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'Kiss the Blood off My Hands' – Burt Lancaster in London on Criterion Channel
The shadow of the war hangs over Kiss the Blood off My Hands (1948), an American film noir set in London starring Burt Lancaster as a brooding American ex-G.I. Bill has a chip on his shoulder and a hair-trigger temper, which explodes just seconds after the credits end. One reflexive punch and bad fall and he’s wanted for murder, running through the rain-slicked cobblestone streets and ducking…
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#1948#Blu-ray#Burt Lancaster#Criterion Channel#DVD#Joan Fontaine#Kiss the Blood off My Hands#Norman Foster#Robert Newton#Russell Metty#VOD
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'Last Year at Marienbad' – a mysterious romance on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy
The very definition of “French art cinema,” Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (France, 1961), defies audience identification, narrative clarity, even any assurance that anything we see is “real” in any sense.
Characters without names, played by actors who barely change expression, walk through the lavish but coldly alienating vacation castles reserved for the rich and aristocratic, lost in…
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#1961#Alain Resnais#Alain Robbe-Grillet#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#Delphine Seyrig#DVD#France#Giorgio Albertazzi#Last Year at Marienbad#Sacha Pitoëff#Sacha Vierny#VOD
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'Odd Man Out' – Irish noir on Max and Criterion Channel
Odd Man Out (1947) has been called Carol Reed’s first masterpiece, and with good reason.
His first film after World War II is drenched in a darkness (both visually and dramatically) and a sense of isolation and doom. It also made a star of James Mason, who plays the IRA leader who leads a bank robbery gone wrong. Wounded and alone, he stumbles through Belfast at night as the police and his mates…
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#1947#Belfast#Blu-ray#Criterion Channel#Cyril Cusak#Dan O&039;Herlihy#DVD#F.J. McCormick#Fay Compton#IRA#James Mason#Kathleen Ryan#Max#Odd Man Out#Robert Krasker#Robert Newton#VOD#William Hartnell
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Abel Gance's epic 'La Roue' restored on Criterion Channel
For too long, Abel Gance was the forgotten master of silent cinema, a pioneering innovator whose experiments in cinematic storytelling and expressive techniques inspired filmmakers all over the world. Gance was a master conductor of the cinematic form, as influential and consequential as D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein in his impact.
After the worldwide success of his anti-war drama…
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