Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. This August will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below.
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Tuesday, August 1
Tuesday’s Short + Feature: These Boots and Mystery Train
Music is at the heart of this program, which pairs a zany music video by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki with a tune-filled career highlight from American independent-film pioneer Jim Jarmusch. In the 1993 These Boots, Kaurismäki’s band of pompadoured “Finnish Elvis” rockers, the Leningrad Cowboys, cover a Nancy Sinatra classic in their signature deadpan style. It’s the perfect prelude to Jarmusch’s 1989 Mystery Train, a homage to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the musical legacy of Memphis, featuring appearances by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer.
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Tuesday, August 1
Tuesday’s Short + Feature: These Boots and Mystery Train
Music is at the heart of this program, which pairs a zany music video by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki with a tune-filled career highlight from American independent-film pioneer Jim Jarmusch. In the 1993 These Boots, Kaurismäki’s band of pompadoured “Finnish Elvis” rockers, the Leningrad Cowboys, cover a Nancy Sinatra classic in their signature deadpan style. It’s the perfect prelude to Jarmusch’s 1989 Mystery Train, a homage to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the musical legacy of Memphis, featuring appearances by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer.
- 7/24/2017
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The 2014 Viennale gets underway on October 23rd and runs to November 6th. The festival has published a preview of their lineup:
Features
Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Two Day, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Li'l Quinguin (Bruno Demont)
Hard to Be a God (Aeksej German)
Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
Mambo Cool (Chris Gude)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)
The Last Summer of the Rich (Peter Kern)
Time Lapse (Bradley King)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Sorrow and Joy (Nils Malmros)
Suddarth (Richie Mehta)
Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
I'm Not Him (Tayfun Pirselimoglu)
Favula (Raúl Perrone)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
A Proletarian Winter's Tale (Julian Radlmaier)
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
Mauro (Hernán Rosselli)
The Sad Smell of Flesh (Cristóbal Arteaga Rozas)
Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?...
Features
Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Two Day, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Li'l Quinguin (Bruno Demont)
Hard to Be a God (Aeksej German)
Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
Mambo Cool (Chris Gude)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)
The Last Summer of the Rich (Peter Kern)
Time Lapse (Bradley King)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Sorrow and Joy (Nils Malmros)
Suddarth (Richie Mehta)
Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
I'm Not Him (Tayfun Pirselimoglu)
Favula (Raúl Perrone)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
A Proletarian Winter's Tale (Julian Radlmaier)
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
Mauro (Hernán Rosselli)
The Sad Smell of Flesh (Cristóbal Arteaga Rozas)
Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?...
- 8/22/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
by Brian Darr
The Criterion Collection lives up to its name, having in the past twelve years released over five hundred DVDs and box sets, generally with the best available image and sound quality, lovingly lavish packaging and supplemental features, a body of product containing a large proportion of the most noteworthy films in world cinema history. However, for every Jean-Luc Godard or Akira Kurosawa whose filmography has been well-served by Criterion's curatorial mission, there's a whole cinematic realm in which the company falls short. Films directed by women are few and far between, as are films from Asian nations other than Japan. Nothing at all has been released from South America or Africa, unless one counts Europeans' excursions there, such as Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus and Gillo Pontocorvo's The Battle of Algiers.
Surprisingly, the entire silent era, representing over three decades of moviemaking history, has yielded only a...
The Criterion Collection lives up to its name, having in the past twelve years released over five hundred DVDs and box sets, generally with the best available image and sound quality, lovingly lavish packaging and supplemental features, a body of product containing a large proportion of the most noteworthy films in world cinema history. However, for every Jean-Luc Godard or Akira Kurosawa whose filmography has been well-served by Criterion's curatorial mission, there's a whole cinematic realm in which the company falls short. Films directed by women are few and far between, as are films from Asian nations other than Japan. Nothing at all has been released from South America or Africa, unless one counts Europeans' excursions there, such as Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus and Gillo Pontocorvo's The Battle of Algiers.
Surprisingly, the entire silent era, representing over three decades of moviemaking history, has yielded only a...
- 8/28/2010
- GreenCine Daily
True Blood: The Complete Second SeasonI really dug the first season and can't wait to revisit the citizens of Bon Temps.
Extras include:
Enhanced Viewing ExperienceCommentariesCharacter Perspectives - in-character shortsFellowship of the Sun: Reflections of LightThe Vampire Report: Special Edition
The Road
Australian director John Hillcoat (who made the badass western The Proposition) adapts Cormac McCarthy! I must see this.
Extras include:
CommentaryDeleted ScenesThe Making of The RoadMystery Team
Online sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy make their film debut with this hilarious Sundance hit. Check them out, you won't regret it. Unfortunately no blu-ray.
Extras include:
CommentaryDeleted ScenesWho Is Wally Cummings? Short FilmThe Making of Mystery TeamTest SceneSword Club
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Dear John
It looks very cliche, but director Lasse Hallström (The Hoax, What's Eating Gilbert Grape) and character actor Richard Jenkins always bring it.
Extras include:
Deleted ScenesA Conversation with Channing, Amanda, and LasseTransforming CharlestonMilitary in Movies: Dear John's Military AdvisersMr.
Extras include:
Enhanced Viewing ExperienceCommentariesCharacter Perspectives - in-character shortsFellowship of the Sun: Reflections of LightThe Vampire Report: Special Edition
The Road
Australian director John Hillcoat (who made the badass western The Proposition) adapts Cormac McCarthy! I must see this.
Extras include:
CommentaryDeleted ScenesThe Making of The RoadMystery Team
Online sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy make their film debut with this hilarious Sundance hit. Check them out, you won't regret it. Unfortunately no blu-ray.
Extras include:
CommentaryDeleted ScenesWho Is Wally Cummings? Short FilmThe Making of Mystery TeamTest SceneSword Club
[Read More...]
Dear John
It looks very cliche, but director Lasse Hallström (The Hoax, What's Eating Gilbert Grape) and character actor Richard Jenkins always bring it.
Extras include:
Deleted ScenesA Conversation with Channing, Amanda, and LasseTransforming CharlestonMilitary in Movies: Dear John's Military AdvisersMr.
- 5/26/2010
- by josh@reelartsy.com (Joshua dos Santos)
- Reelartsy
DVD Playhouse—May 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Avatar (20th Century Fox) James Cameron beat his own title as box office champ, set with Titanic over a decade ago, with this eye-popping sci-fi epic about a paraplegic Marine name Sully (Sam Worthington), who takes the form of an “avatar,” or virtual being, to go undercover on the planet Pandora, attempting to infiltrate the native Na’vi to gather intelligence that will aid a joint corporate and military operation to rape the planet of its natural resources, destroying its indigenous population in the process. When Sully suddenly “goes native,” he locks horns with the company CEO (Giovanni Ribisi) and his gung-ho commanding officer (Stephen Lang, in a wonderful, scenery-chewing turn from a long-underrated actor). Thought of by many scholars and film buffs as a “game-changer” as much as the first Star Wars film was—and they may be right. While Cameron’s politically-correct...
By
Allen Gardner
Avatar (20th Century Fox) James Cameron beat his own title as box office champ, set with Titanic over a decade ago, with this eye-popping sci-fi epic about a paraplegic Marine name Sully (Sam Worthington), who takes the form of an “avatar,” or virtual being, to go undercover on the planet Pandora, attempting to infiltrate the native Na’vi to gather intelligence that will aid a joint corporate and military operation to rape the planet of its natural resources, destroying its indigenous population in the process. When Sully suddenly “goes native,” he locks horns with the company CEO (Giovanni Ribisi) and his gung-ho commanding officer (Stephen Lang, in a wonderful, scenery-chewing turn from a long-underrated actor). Thought of by many scholars and film buffs as a “game-changer” as much as the first Star Wars film was—and they may be right. While Cameron’s politically-correct...
- 5/18/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
A silent cowboy film made by legendary director John Ford has been discovered in France - 70 years after it went missing. The western, Bucking Broadway, stars Ford's favorite silent film cowboy, Harry Carey, who had the lead role in 26 of the director's films. Patrick Brion, program director at the France 3 channel, who will screen the film, said the find was an exceptional event, comparable to the discovery of a lost painting by Cezanne. Bucking Broadway is dated 1917, making it one of Ford's earliest films. He made 140 films in total, including shorts, from 1917 until he retired in 1966. He died in 1973 aged 81. Only eight of his 70 silent films are known to still exist, although the discovery of Bucking Broadway has raised hopes that more are stored on the miles of shelves in film warehouses in the Parisian suburbs.
- 4/22/2003
- WENN
France's Centre National de la Cinematographie has unearthed and restored one of the many silent movies directed by John Ford of which no surviving copies were thought to exist. Bucking Broadway was filmed in 1917 and released in France the following year. The picture stars Harry Carey as Cheyenne Harry, a cowboy who leaves the countryside to go to New York City to rescue his true love from an undeserving suitor. The CNC's film archive department digitally restored the feature film, complete with English intertitles, with the technical help of French company Centrimages. Working from a single, badly damaged copy, the restoration removed scratches and fixed the image stability. Ford directed some 70 silent movies. Until now, copies of only eight were thought to have survived. The restored movie was scheduled to premiere Sunday at the Gramercy Theatre in New York as part of the Film Preservation Festival organized by the Museum of Modern Art. It will screen again Friday.
- 10/12/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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