The Silver Screen Oasis

Full list....

"5 Centimeters per Second," Makoto Shinkai, 2007

"After Hours," Martin Scorsese, 1985

"Alix's Pictures," Jean Eustache, 1980

"All the Days of May," Miryam Charles, 2023

"The Asphalt Jungle," John Huston, 1950*

"An Autumn's Tale," Mabel Cheung, 1987

"As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night," Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour, 2022

"Assault on Precinct 13," John Carpenter, 1976

"Bad Lieutenant," Abel Ferrara, 1992

"Before Sunrise," Richard Linklater, 1995

"Born in Flames," Lizzie Borden, 1983

"Born to Be Bad," Nicholas Ray, 1950

"The Breaking Point," Michael Curtiz, 1950

"Caged," John Cromwell, 1950

"Children Who Chase Lost Voices," Makoto Shinkai, 2011

"Collateral," Michael Mann, 2004*

"Come Back, Africa," Lionel Rogosin, 1959

"Comrades: Almost a Love Story," Peter Ho-sun Chan, 1996

"The Damned Don't Cry," Vincent Sherman, 1950

"Deal of the Century," William Friedkin, 1983

"A Dirty Story", Jean Eustache, 1977

"Doors of the Past," Rosine Mbakam, 2011

"Employment Offer," Jean Eustache, 1982

"The Exorcist," William Friedkin, 1973

"Exterior Turbulence," Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 2023

"Family Nest," Béla Tarr, 1979

"Farewell China", Clara Law, 1990

"The File on Thelma Jordon," Robert Siodmak, 1950*

"Full Moon in New York," Stanley Kwan, 1989

"The Garden of Words," Makoto Shinkai, 2013

"Gun Crazy," Joseph H. Lewis, 1950

"Heat," Michael Mann, 1995

"Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights," Jean Eustache, 1981

"House of Pleasures," Bertrand Bonello, 2011

"In a Lonely Place," Nicholas Ray, 1950

"L'escale," Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Rob Jacobs, and Anne Reijniers, 2022

"Lush: A Far from Home Movie," Phil King, 2024

"Mambar Pierrette," Rosine Mbakam, 2023

"Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back," John Carluccio, 2019

"Microcosmos," Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, 1996

"Mommie Dearest," Frank Perry, 1981

"The Mother and the Whore," Jean Eustache, 1973

"A Movement Against the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas," Esy Casey, 2023

"My Little Loves," Jean Eustache, 1974

"Night and the City," Jules Dassin, 1950

"No Way Out," Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950

"Nocturama," Bertrand Bonello, 2016

"Numéro zéro," Jean Eustache, 1971

"One Way Street," Hugo Fregonese, 1950*

"Oslo, August 31st," Joachim Trier, 2011*

"Panic in the Streets," Elia Kazan, 1950

"Party on the CAPS," Meriem Bennani, 2018

"Personal Shopper," Olivier Assayas, 2016

"Phase IV," Saul Bass, 1974

"Pier Paolo Pasolini – Agnès Varda – New York – 1967," Agnès Varda, 2022

"The Pig," Jean Eustache, 1975

"The Place Promised in Our Early Days," Makoto Shinkai, 2004

"Promised Lands," Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, 2018

"Regrouping," Lizzie Borden, 1976

"Robinson's Place," Jean Eustache, 1963

"Running Scared," Wayne Kramer, 2006

"Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes," Jean Eustache, 1966

"She and Her Cat," Makoto Shinkai, 1999

"The Sleeping City," George Sherman, 1950*

"Sorcerer," William Friedkin, 1977

"Stage Fright," Alfred Hitchcock, 1950

"The Strangler," Paul Vecchiali, 1970

"Sunset Boulevard," Billy Wilder, 1950

"The Taking," Alexandre O. Philippe, 2021

"Them!," Gordon Douglas, 1954

"Theta," Lawrence Lek, 2022

"Try and Get Me!," Cy Endfield, 1950

"The Virgin of Pessac," Jean Eustache, 1969

"The Virgin of Pessac 79," Jean Eustache, 1979

"A Visual Diary," Shirley Clarke, 1980

"Voices of a Distant Star," Makoto Shinkai, 2002

"Werckmeister Harmonies," Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000

"Where the Sidewalk Ends," Otto Preminger, 1950

"The Witches of the Orient," Julien Faraut, 2021

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Mike Nichols, 1966

"Yaangna Plays Itself," Adam Piron, 2022

"You Will Be My Ally," Rosine Mbakam, 2012

82 films in total. And personally it is an insult to William Friedkin to include Deal of the Century in a "tribute" to him.

I looked through the list of films included in the "Peak Noir" theme:

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Born to Be Bad (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Caged (1950)
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
Gun Crazy (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Night and the City (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
One Way Street (1950)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
The Sleeping City (1950)
Stage Fright (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Try and Get Me! (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

Several excellent Noir films on this list, of course. A couple of titles that stand out are One Way Street (1950) and The Sleeping City (1950), which have never been shown on TCM. These must be relatively new restorations.

I am fascinated that the films of Jean Eustache are now available. They languished on old VCR tapes for years. I've only seen THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE, which I probably couldn't take in the theater, but is ideal for home viewing in two segments. A great film, if you've seen the Truffaut, Godard, and Cassavetes films implicitly (or explicitly, given the presence of Jean-Pierre Léaud) being trashed.

kingrat wrote: ↑March 21st, 2024, 6:06 pm I am fascinated that the films of Jean Eustache are now available. They languished on old VCR tapes for years. I've only seen THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE, which I probably couldn't take in the theater, but is ideal for home viewing in two segments. A great film, if you've seen the Truffaut, Godard, and Cassavetes films implicitly (or explicitly, given the presence of Jean-Pierre Léaud) being trashed.

This is very exciting news!
Jean-Pierre Léaud is one of my favorite actors, and I have been wanting to see THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE [LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN] for a long time.
I see that Jean Eustache's short film SANTA CLAUS HAS BLUE EYES [LE PÈRE NOËL A LES YEUX BLEUS]. which also features Jean-Pierre Léaud, is also scheduled for April on the Criterion Channel.

Jean-Pierre Léaud is one oaf my favorite actors. He was included on a TCM Summer Under The Stars wish lists that I put together on the old TCM message boards.
I especially enjoy his work in the early 1970s.

Anyone notice that the Criterion Channel now has a programmed streaming channel? They call it Criterion 24/7. When I started the Criterion app on my TV last night, I noticed that the layout was slightly different. There's a new option at the top called Criterion 24/7.

It's programmed, meaning they decide what films to show on it, but they don't publish a schedule. So it's complete serendipity, like it was in the days before on-screen guides when you couldn't find the TV listings in the paper or a TV guide.

txfilmfan wrote: ↑April 14th, 2024, 4:09 pm Anyone notice that the Criterion Channel now has a programmed streaming channel? They call it Criterion 24/7. When I started the Criterion app on my TV last night, I noticed that the layout was slightly different. There's a new option at the top called Criterion 24/7.

It's programmed, meaning they decide what films to show on it, but they don't publish a schedule. So it's complete serendipity, like it was in the days before on-screen guides when you couldn't find the TV listings in the paper or a TV guide.

Didn't know about that, but that kind of makes it the 21st century equivalent of the LA-area Z Channel of the 70s and 80s.

txfilmfan wrote: ↑April 14th, 2024, 4:09 pm Anyone notice that the Criterion Channel now has a programmed streaming channel? They call it Criterion 24/7. When I started the Criterion app on my TV last night, I noticed that the layout was slightly different. There's a new option at the top called Criterion 24/7.

It's programmed, meaning they decide what films to show on it, but they don't publish a schedule. So it's complete serendipity, like it was in the days before on-screen guides when you couldn't find the TV listings in the paper or a TV guide.

I saw that.

I'm a relatively new subscriber so I thought it was something that they always offered.

BELLE DE JOUR is playing now.

txfilmfan wrote: ↑April 14th, 2024, 4:09 pm Anyone notice that the Criterion Channel now has a programmed streaming channel? They call it Criterion 24/7. When I started the Criterion app on my TV last night, I noticed that the layout was slightly different. There's a new option at the top called Criterion 24/7.

It's programmed, meaning they decide what films to show on it, but they don't publish a schedule. So it's complete serendipity, like it was in the days before on-screen guides when you couldn't find the TV listings in the paper or a TV guide.

I've been reading where Disney+ might be looking into the same thing.
I'm not a fan of On-Demand. I'd rather be lazy and let someone else choose for me.
The idea of hundreds of choices is overwhelming.
I use the Xfinity TV app to scroll quickly to see what is on.
The onscreen guide is one click at a time, which is painfully slow and gobbles up batteries.

Playtime ('76) Tati's film. I've seen it and have the DVD, but there I am hooked. Sort of. But then I gave it up and went back to whatever I was doing before. But it took some effort.

I caught the ending credits of a film. They lasted forever but I stuck to the patience point. Following was "The Cat" a Japanese horror/comedy as I gather. I didn't watch long. //

It sounds like the Criterion streaming app could use the equivalent of an 'info' button that would show you the title of the film that is currently playing.

Here's a link for the possibility that Disney may follow suit with dedicated channels:

https://www.engadget.com/disney-may-add ... 35875.html

I will probably blow it off. You see a movie in progress and you know not the title. You have grow in your mind a quantity of half seen movies of which the titles you may never know. Gosh, we might think of something later on, yeah a few good scenes, I wonder what the movie was. The CC is too cute with this. They can't even show the title? Isn't it bad enough they don't let us know when movies begin? I don't get the point of this. Does the CC think that this idiocy might be counter intuitive in that it makes viewers irritated! What a mess.

Where can you see the list of movies that are leaving Criterion Channel at the end of the month?