Ryan’s Criterion Link Collection: Monday, November 10th 2014

All of the Criterion-related links from this past weekend.

Official Criterion business:

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The great Vilmos Zsigmond working with one of our favorite colorists Joe Gawler on something very exciting.

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Criterion’s Instagram account snapped a shot of Vilmos Zgismond with one of their colorists. Many think that they’re working on Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller (maybe The Deer Hunter?)

Our good friend, and all around wonderful Criterion-blogger, Michele Rosenthal (Criterion Affection) is selling some prints. Go buy them.

News

Wes Anderson might go back to stop motion for his next film:

Speaking this weekend at the Lisbon And Estoril Film Festival, Anderson revealed during a Q&A that he may return to the world of stop-motion for his next picture. Even more, he said that the story would be divided into episodes, not unlike Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold Of Naples.

Reviews

Philip French reviews the new Arrow Blu-ray for The Naked City for The Guardian:

The hero of The Naked City is New York itself, forever encapsulated during the hot summer of 1947. Its citizens are the unknowing supporting cast. The film deliberately forgoes the noir director’s opportunities to dramatically frame the scenes and Hellinger provides a knowing, intimate, folksy commentary on the action that domesticates the narrative and deliberately undermines the suspense.

Interesting

Jonathan Rosenbaum has reposted his 2007 entry on the death of Edward Yang

Reflecting on why so many of his films should remain out of reach, I’m reminded of the little-known fact that a surprisingly large amount of the art cinema of both Taiwan and Hong Kong is financed by gangsters — or so it would appear, according to some of my more knowledgeable friends — which may or may not help to explain such anomalies as his films remaining inaccessible.

Over at Badass Digest, Devin featured the trailer for Midnight Cowboy:

At the center of Midnight Cowboy is a pair of performances so beautiful that just watching Rizzo and Joe Buck interact in this trailer made me emotional. Jon Voight is such a sweet, hopeful doofus and Dustin Hoffman is incredible, a greasy streak of a man whose soul is broken but maybe healed just a little bit by being friends with this big palooka.

Check out Patricia Highsmith’s “Desert Island Discs” on the BBC. (Via Boing Boing)

She talks about writing for comic books, her childhood, her interest in snails, her favorite music, and more.

For Film On Paper, Eddie Shannon has an incredible post on “Visiting the Noriyoshi Ohrai exhibition in Japan”

Noriyoshi Ohrai is one of my favourite poster artists, responsible for many iconic pieces of art used to advertise films including The Empire Strikes Back, The Goonies and several fantastic posters for the Heisei series of Godzilla films. Until recently the artist was almost a complete enigma to me since there was little information about him online beyond the basics and there are certainly no English-language books that have been written about his life and career.

Now available to stream on Netflix: