Ryan GallagherEach month, the programmers at the Criterion Channel produce incredible line-ups for their subscribers. For September, the Channel will feature films from Ang Lee, Carlos Saura, Sofia Bohdanowicz, and more!
Below you’ll find the programming schedule for the month, along with a complete list of titles that Criterion has in store for us. Don’t forget to check the Criterion Channel’s main page regularly though, as they occasionally will drop surprises that aren’t included in the official press release.
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Premiering September 1
Cinematography by James Wong Howe
Featuring an appreciation by cinematographer Bradford Young
When the opening credits read “Cinematography by James Wong Howe,” it’s a sure sign of quality. A brilliant innovator whose career spanned from the silent era to the 1970s, the Chinese American trailblazer became one of golden-age Hollywood’s preeminent cameramen, renowned for his mastery of light and shadow and pioneering use of deep-focus cinematography, low-key lighting (earning him the nickname Low-Key Howe), wide-angle lenses, and dolly shots, always in service of enhancing a film’s dramatic and psychological impact. Witness the Weegee-like tabloid punch he gives to the sleazy New York cityscapes of the noir classic Sweet Smell of Success; the fantastical, phosphorescent colors of the witchy romantic romp Bell, Book and Candle; and the distorted expressionist flourishes he brings to John Frankenheimer’s paranoiac nightmare Seconds for a taste of Howe’s inimitable artistry.
- Manhattan Melodrama, W. S. Van Dyke, 1934
- Whipsaw, Sam Wood, 1935
- The Prisoner of Zenda, John Cromwell, 1937
- Fire over England, William K. Howard, 1937
- Shining Victory, Irving Rapper, 1941
- The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941
- Out of the Fog, Anatole Litvak, 1941
- Kings Row, Sam Wood, 1942
- Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942
- Air Force, Howard Hawks, 1943
- The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, H. C. Potter, 1948
- The Baron of Arizona, Samuel Fuller, 1950
- He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951
- Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952
- Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955
- The Rose Tattoo, Daniel Mann, 1955
- Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957
- Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1958
- The Old Man and the Sea, John Sturges, 1958
- Hud, Martin Ritt, 1963
- Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
- This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, 1966
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968
- Funny Lady, Herbert Ross, 1975
Starring Romy Schneider
If there was ever a born movie star, it was Romy Schneider. The radiantly beautiful daughter of German acting royalty, Schneider was propelled to stardom while still a teenager with her performance as the young Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the much beloved Sissi. Not content to play the ingenue for long, however, Schneider soon relocated to France, where she sought out more complex, challenging, and provocative roles in films like the languidly sexy thriller La piscine, which capitalized on her smoldering chemistry with her onetime lover Alain Delon, and Andrzej Żuławski’s intense psychodrama That Most Important Thing: Love, in which she delivered a fearlessly raw turn that earned her the inaugural César Award for Best Actress. Though her career was cut tragically short by her death at age forty-three, Schneider’s mystique has only grown over time thanks to the alluring combination of passion and intelligence she brought to every performance.
- Sissi, Ernst Marischka, 1955
- Bocaccio ’70, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, and Federico Fellini, 1962
- Good Neighbor Sam, David Swift, 1964
- La piscine, Jacques Deray, 1969
- Les choses de la vie, Claude Sautet, 1970
- Max and the Junkmen, Claude Sautet, 1971
- César and Rosalie, Claude Sautet, 1972
- Ludwig, Luchino Visconti, 1973
- That Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Żuławski, 1975
- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009
British New Wave
Featuring an introduction by critic Alicia Malone
Of the myriad cinematic revolutions that swept the globe in the 1950s and ’60s, the British New Wave stood out for the raw immediacy and intense realism with which it rendered working-class lives and experiences. Emerging alongside the “angry young men” of England’s literary scene, filmmakers like Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, and Lindsay Anderson broke new ground by giving voice to the frustrations and disillusionment felt by average Britons in tough, hard-hitting touchstones of what came to be known as “kitchen-sink realism,” including Look Back in Anger, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and This Sporting Life. Throughout the 1960s, directors such as John Schlesinger (Billy Liar, Darling) and Richard Lester (The Knack … and How to Get It) would continue to push the boundaries of the movement, taking it into increasingly expressionistic, fanciful, and experimental territory that reflected the liberated spirit of swinging-sixties London.
- Room at the Top, Jack Clayton, 1959
- Look Back in Anger, Tony Richardson, 1959
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Karel Reisz, 1960
- The Entertainer, Tony Richardson, 1960
- A Taste of Honey, Tony Richardson, 1961
- The L-Shaped Room, Bryan Forbes, 1962
- A Kind of Loving, John Schlesinger, 1962
- This Sporting Life, Lindsay Anderson, 1963
- Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, 1963
- Billy Liar, John Schlesinger, 1963
- The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Bryan Forbes, 1964
- Girl with Green Eyes, Desmond Davis, 1964
- Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965
- The Knack … and How to Get It, Richard Lester 1965
- If…., Lindsay Anderson, 1969
- Kes, Ken Loach, 1970
Directed by Carlos Saura
Reality and fantasy, dreams and memories flow freely into one another in the haunting, layered works of iconoclastic auteur Carlos Saura, arguably the most important Spanish filmmaker to emerge between Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar. Achieving international renown during the repressive years of Francisco Franco’s rule, Saura became a model for how to make dissident political cinema under an authoritarian regime, using potent metaphors and symbolism to dodge censors and examine his nation’s troubled twentieth-century history. In complex and often controversial works like Peppermint Frappé, Cousin Angelica, and Cría cuervos … —frequently starring his longtime partner Geraldine Chaplin—Saura explored the legacy of fascism and its devastating effects on a generation of Spanish citizens, while in often-overlooked post-Franco films such as Deprisa, deprisa he captured the turbulence of a society experiencing the first shockwaves of liberalization.
- The Hunt, 1966
- Peppermint Frappé, 1967
- Stress Is Three, 1968
- Honeycomb, 1969
- The Garden of Delights, 1970
- Ana and the Wolves, 1973
- Cousin Angelica, 1974
- Cría cuervos … , 1976
- Elisa, vida mía, 1977
- Blindfolded Eyes, 1978
- Deprisa, deprisa, 1981
- Sweet Hours, 1982
- Marathon, 1993
Premiering September 12
The Cinema 5 Story
Featuring the exclusive streaming premiere of the documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff
How did era-defining art films like Z, Gimme Shelter, and Scenes from a Marriage find an audience in the U.S.? It was thanks in large part to a groundbreaking movie-theater chain and distribution company called Cinema 5, the brainchild of an inspired, often difficult impresario named Donald Rugoff. Selected to accompany the exclusive streaming premiere of Ira Deutchman’s documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff, this survey of some of the films that Cinema 5 helped make classics includes underground landmarks (Putney Swope), international provocations (WR: Mysteries of the Organism), documentary triumphs (Harlan County USA), cult favorites (The Man Who Fell to Earth), and even the movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name (Pumping Iron).
- The Soft Skin, François Truffaut, 1964
- Elvira Madigan, Bo Widerberg, 1967
- The Firemen’s Ball, Miloš Forman, 1967
- Putney Swope, Robert Downey Sr., 1969
- Z, Costa-Gavras, 1969
- Gimme Shelter, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dušan Makavejev, 1971
- Greaser’s Palace, Robert Downey Sr., 1972
- State of Siege, Costa-Gavras, 1972
- Scenes from a Marriage, Ingmar Bergman, 1973
- Visions of Eight, Miloš Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Kon Ichikawa, John Schlesinger, Arthur Penn, and Michael Pfleghar, 1973
- Swept Away, Lina Wertmüller, 1974
- Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmüller, 1975
- Coup de grâce, Volker Schlöndorff, 1976
- Harlan County USA, Barbara Kopple, 1976
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
- A Special Day, Ettore Scola, 1977
- Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam, 1977
- One Sings, The Other Doesn’t, Agnès Varda, 1977
- Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977
- Searching for Mr. Rugoff, Ira Deutchman, 2019
Criterion Editions
Premiering September 1
Kes: Criterion Collection Edition #561
Ken Loach’s poignant tale of a young boy’s bond with a wild kestrel remains cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A television profile of Loach; a documentary on the making of the film; and more.
Death in Venice: Criterion Collection Edition #962
Based on Thomas Mann’s classic novella, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A documentary about Visconti featuring interviews with his peers and collaborators; a short film by Visconti on his efforts to cast the character of Tadzio; interviews with Visconti, costume designer Piero Tosi, and scholar Stefano Albertini; and more.
Exclusive Streaming Premieres
Thursday, September 1
Bronco Bullfrog
Seventeen-year-old Del (Del Walker), with no money and nowhere to go, breaks into train cars with his pal Bronco Bullfrog (Sam Shepherd). But one day he meets the lovely Irene (Anne Gooding), and despite an earful from his dad (and her mum), the two young lovers run away together—but to where? Shot in London’s East End in 1969, cast with Doc Marten–wearing “suedehead” locals, and set to a dynamic soundtrack by the art-rock band Audience, Barney Platts-Mills’s Bronco Bullfrog blends the intimate-character based sensitivity of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach with early hints of the hard, wild edges that would come to define the punk movement in the following decade. After a minuscule American release following its Edinburgh and Cannes premieres, this unsung counterculture anthem returns over fifty years later as a cult landmark.
Thursday, September 1
Pushing Hands
Newly arrived from Beijing, elderly tai chi master Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) struggles to adjust to life in New York, living with his Americanized son Alex (Ye-tong Wang). Chu immediately butts heads with his white daughter-in-law, Martha (Deb Snyder), a put-upon writer who seems to blame him for her own paralyzing inability to focus. But when Chu begins teaching tai chi at a local school, his desire to make a meaningful connection comes to fruition in the most unexpected of ways. Pushing Hands is the warm, irresistible debut film from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, forming the first chapter in his Father Knows Best trilogy, which depicts the tensions between the traditional Confucian values of the older generation and the realities of modern life.
Monday, September 12
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
This illuminating, unexpected slice of forgotten film history tells the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the groundbreaking midcentury theater chain and film-distribution company. Rugoff was a difficult (some would say impossible) person but was also the man who brought international art films to mainstream attention with outrageous marketing schemes and pure bluster. Rugoff’s impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art-film business is undeniable. Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff is now virtually forgotten. Searching for Mr. Rugoff tells the story of this fascinating, elusive personality through the eyes of his former employee Ira Deutchman, who sets out to find the truth about the man who had such a major impact on his life, and to understand how such an important figure could have disappeared so completely.
Searching for Mr. Rugoff is accompanied by The Cinema 5 Story, a series of films distributed by the legendary Cinema 5.
Thursday, September 15
Neptune Frost
Codirected by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, this visually wondrous sci-fi punk musical takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anticolonialist hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources—and its people. Set between states of being—past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience—Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.
Monday, September 19
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Accompanied by Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World follows Björn Andrésen, who was propelled to international stardom at the age of fifteen based on his looks. In 1969, filmmaker Luchino Visconti scoured Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. One year later, he discovered Björn, a shy Swedish teenager whose performance as Tadzio brought him overnight fame and led to a brief, intense, and turbulent odyssey that took him from the Lido in Venice to London, the Cannes Film Festival, and faraway Japan. At the London premiere of Death in Venice, Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio “the world’s most beautiful boy.” Fifty years later, Björn takes us on a remarkable journey made of personal memories, cinema history, stardust, and tragedy in what could be his last attempt to finally get his life back on track.
Women Filmmakers
Wednesday, September 7
Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz
Many of the rigorously intelligent and slyly playful films of singular Canadian auteur Sofia Bohdanowicz play out like offbeat detective stories, with her own family history as the mystery to be solved. The inspector, as it were, is Bohdanowicz’s frequent collaborator and on-screen alter ego Deragh Campbell, who has played the character of Audrey Benac—a persistent, ever-curious young woman digging through the fragments of her family’s past—in two acclaimed features (Never Eat Alone, MS Slavic 7) and two more shorts (Veslemøy’s Song, Point and Line to Plane) to date. With each tantalizing new entry, Bohdanowicz and Campbell reveal new dimensions of a fascinating lineage and of Audrey herself. Their collaborations are accompanied by several of Bohdanowicz’s solo efforts, including the captivating documentary Maison du bonheur.
Features
- Never Eat Alone, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016
- Maison du bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017
- MS Slavic 7, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, 2019
Shorts
- An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
- A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2014
- Another Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2014
- A Drownful Brilliance of Wings, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016
- The Soft Space, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Melanie J. Scheiner, 2018
- Veslemøy’s Song, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2018
- Point and Line to Plane, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2020
Wednesday, September 14
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
Using dance, printed texts, folk poetry, and the words and experiences of her subjects, Trinh T. Minh-ha explores the role of Vietnamese women throughout history and the present.
Wednesday, September 21
Sambizanga by Sarah Maldoror
Newly restored and streaming for the first time, Sarah Maldoror’s electrifying chronicle of Angola’s awakening independence movement is a revolutionary bombshell.
Wednesday, September 28
The Woman Condemned
One of the very few features directed by a woman during the 1930s, this atmospherically tawdry, twist-filled thriller by Dorothy Davenport boasts a strange, almost surreal power.
More women filmmakers featured in this month’s programming:
- Two Short Films by Lori Felker
- Dance in the Sun, Shirley Clarke, 1953
- A Moment in Love, Shirley Clarke, 1956
- Gimme Shelter, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970
- Visions of Eight, Miloš Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Kon Ichikawa, John Schlesinger, Arthur Penn, and Michael Pfleghar, 1973
- Swept Away, Lina Wertmüller, 1974
- Four Women, Julie Dash, 1975
- Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmüller, 1975
- Harlan County USA, Barbara Kopple, 1976
- One Sings, The Other Doesn’t, Agnès Varda, 1977
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Initiation, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Mysterium, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: One-Two-Three, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Trans, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Two Friends, Jane Campion, 1986
- Praise House, Julie Dash, 1991
- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009
- Papal Broken-Dance, Marie Losier, 2009
- And I Will Rise If Only to Hold You Down, Jennifer Reeder, 2012
- Liberian Boy, Mati Diop, 2015
- Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2017
- A Guide to Breathing Underwater, Raven Jackson, 2018
- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021
- Neptune Frost, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021
Criterion Originals
Thursday, September 1
Spotlight on To Be or Not to Be
In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, critic Alicia Malone unpacks Ernst Lubitsch’s brilliant political satire, one of the most acclaimed comedies of all time.
Thursday, September 8
Observations on Film Art No. 48: Associative Editing in The Sweet Hereafter
Adapted from Russell Banks’s novel about a small town reckoning with trauma in the wake of a tragic school-bus accident, Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter is a profound meditation on grief and loss that manages to find compassion and hope in the bleakest of circumstances. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor Jeff Smith explores the bold decisions that Egoyan made in bringing Banks’s novel to the screen—particularly his complex use of nonlinear, associative editing that moves the story back and forth in time to reveal unexpected resonances between the film’s characters and themes. In forgoing traditional narrative structure, Egoyan arrives at something altogether deeper, more mysterious, and uniquely cinematic.
Thursday, September 15
Meet the Filmmakers: Terence Davies
In the latest installment of our Meet the Filmmakers interview series, Terence Davies—subject of a recent Channel retrospective—revisits his early cinema experiences and the beginning of his career, and explores the inspiration behind his lush, memory-saturated films.
Saturday Matinees
Saturday, September 3
Patang
In Patang (“The Kite”), a complicated family reunion unfolds amid the spectacular sights of India’s largest and most magnificent kite festival.
Saturday, September 10
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators
Discover the larger-than-life true story of the daring couple behind one of the most treasured children’s-book series of all time.
Saturday, September 17
The Wonderland
This dazzling animated adventure from Japan brings a spectacular fantasy world to life with exuberant charm and imagination.
Saturday, September 24
The Secret of Roan Inish
The great John Sayles gently evokes a world brimming with fairy-tale wonder and mystery in this lovely magical-realist fable steeped in Irish folklore.
True Stories
Monday, September 5
The September Issue
Capitalism and creativity collide in this behind-the-seams look at legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s fashion-industry empire as it prepares for the release of the magazine’s flagship issue.
Monday, September 26
This Is Not a Movie
Travel alongside the late, intrepid journalist Robert Fisk as he journeys into some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts in relentless pursuit of the truth.
More documentaries featured in this month’s programming:
- Gimme Shelter, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970
- Visions of Eight, Miloš Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Kon Ichikawa, John Schlesinger, Arthur Penn, and Michael Pfleghar, 1973
- Harlan County USA, Barbara Kopple, 1976
- Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977
- Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989
- Marathon, 1993
- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009
- Maison du bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017
- Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2017
- Searching for Mr. Rugoff, Ira Deutchman, 2019
- Spontaneous, Lori Felker, 2020
- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021
Short-Film Collections
Tuesday, September 6
Ordeals on Wheels
Sound of the Night and Man Push Cart
The experiences of food-cart workers offer a window into the everyday struggle of life on the margins of the big city in a pair of understated gems.
Tuesday, September 13
Two Short Films by Lori Felker
Utilizing fractured editing, cacophonous sound design, and a whole lot of (possibly imaginary) cats, Lori Felker’s Discontinuity brilliantly evokes the rapidly escalating pileup of interruptions, incongruities, and absurdities that arise when a long-term couple reunite after an extended separation. While at the Slamdance Film Festival for the premiere of Discontinuity, Felker experienced a miscarriage, an incident that inspired Spontaneous, a fearlessly honest, vividly observed essay film that viscerally conveys the confusion, trauma, and surreality of an experience common to so many women.
- Discontinuity, 2015
- Spontaneous, 2020
Tuesday, September 20
Shorts for Days: Dance on Film
One of the world’s oldest art forms meets one of the youngest in this suite of shorts that showcase the beauty, grace, grit, and endless innovation of dance in its myriad forms. Including boundary-breaking works by directors like Shirley Clarke (Dance in the Sun, A Moment in Love), Julie Dash (Four Women, Praise House), and Krzysztof Kieślowski (Seven Women of Different Ages), these films fuse dazzling choreography with the technical possibilities of cinema to heighten the ecstatic expression of the human body in motion.
- Dance in the Sun, Shirley Clarke, 1953
- A Moment in Love, Shirley Clarke, 1956
- A Dancer’s World, Peter Glushanov, 1957
- Appalachian Spring, Peter Glushanov, 1958
- Night Journey, Alexander Hammid, 1960
- Four Women, Julie Dash, 1975
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Initiation, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Mysterium, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: One-Two-Three, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Trans, Shirley Clarke, 1978
- Seven Women of Different Ages, Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1978
- Cake Walk, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983
- About Tap, George T. Nierenberg, 1985
- Praise House, Julie Dash, 1991
- Papal Broken-Dance, Marie Losier, 2009
- And I Will Rise If Only to Hold You Down, Jennifer Reeder, 2012
- Liberian Boy, Mati Diop, 2015
- You and I and You, Terence Nance, 2015
- A Guide to Breathing Underwater, Raven Jackson, 2018
- Other People, Bryson Chun, 2018
Tuesday, September 27
Last Round
This Student Academy Award–nominated short film by future Dogme 95 revolutionary Thomas Vinterberg displays his facility for rendering the raw-nerve emotional extremes of the human experience.
Double Features
September 2
Honor Among Thieves
The Asphalt Jungle and Blue Collar
Two midwestern-set capers from John Huston and Paul Schrader infuse the genre with grit and fatalism.
September 9
Stage to Screen
Topsy-Turvy and The Mikado
Musical-theater devotees rejoice in a dazzling double helping of Gilbert and Sullivan.
September 16
The Brice Is Right
Funny Girl and Funny Lady
Twice the Fanny Brice is extra nice when Barbra Streisand steps into one of her most iconic roles in a pair of lavish period musicals.
September 23
Her Stories
Two Friends and Career Girls
The complexities and evolution of women’s friendships over time are explored with a humanist touch and playful approach to structure by Jane Campion and Mike Leigh.
September 30
Domestic Affairs
Charulata and Repast
Two women find their staid marriages upended by the arrival of an outsider into their home in a pair of acclaimed literary adaptations by master filmmakers attuned to women’s lives and social pressures.
Additions to Previous Programs
September 1
Now Playing in Beyond Blaxploitation: Car Wash
“Workin’ at the car wash, yeah!” It doesn’t get more awesomely ’70s than this funky, freewheeling disco comedy with a dynamite ensemble cast that includes Richard Pryor and George Carlin.
Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month:
- Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972
- Air Force, Howard Hawks, 1943
- Ana and the Wolves, Carlos Saura, 1973
- Another Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
- Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1958
- Billy Liar, John Schlesinger, 1963
- Boccaccio ’70, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, and Luchino Visconti, 1962
- Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills, 1969
- Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976
- César and Rosalie, Claude Sautet, 1972
- Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952
- Cousin Angelica, Carlos Saura, 1974
- Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965
- Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971
- Discontinuity, Lori Felker, 2015
- A Drownful Brilliance of Wings, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016
- Elisa, vida mía, Carlos Saura, 1977
- An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
- Elvira Madigan, Bo Widerberg, 1967
- Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968*
- Funny Lady, Herbert Ross, 1975
- The Garden of Delights, Carlos Saura, 1970
- Good Neighbor Sam, David Swift, 1964
- The Hard Way, Vincent Sherman, 1943
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968
- He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951
- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno,” Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009*
- Honeycomb, Carlos Saura, 1969
- Hud, Martin Ritt, 1963
- The Hunt, Carlos Saura, 1966
- If…., Lindsay Anderson, 1968
- Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam, 1977
- Kes, Ken Loach, 1969
- A Kind of Loving, John Schlesinger, 1962
- Kings Row, Sam Wood, 1942
- The Knack … and How to Get It, Richard Lester, 1965
- Late August, Early September, Olivier Assayas, 1998
- Les choses de la vie, Claude Sautet, 1970
- The L-Shaped Room, Bryan Forbes, 1962*
- Ludwig, Luchino Visconti, 1973
- Maison du bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
- Max and the Junkmen, Claude Sautet, 1971
- Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 2017
- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021
- MS Slavic 7, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell, 2019
- Neptune Frost, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021
- Never Eat Alone, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2016
- The Old Man and the Sea, John Sturges, 1958
- Patang, Prashant Bhargava, 2011
- Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955
- Point and Line to Plane, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2020
- A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013
- The Prisoner of Zenda, John Cromwell, 1937
- Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977
- Pushing Hands, Ang Lee, 1991
- Room at the Top, Jack Clayton, 1959
- The Rose Tattoo, Daniel Mann, 1955*
- Sambizanga, Sarah Maldoror, 1972
- Searching for Mr. Rugoff, Ira Deutchman, 2019
- The Secret of Roan Inish, John Sayles, 1994
- The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963
- The September Issue, R. J. Cutler, 2009*
- Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmüller, 1975
- Shining Victory, Irving Rapper, 1941
- Sissi, Ernst Marischka, 1955
- The Soft Space, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Melanie J. Scheiner, 2018
- Sound of the Night, Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann, 2021
- Spontaneous, Lori Felker, 2020
- The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, 1941
- Stress Is Three, Carlos Saura, 1968
- Sweet Hours, Carlos Saura, 1982
- Swept Away, Lina Wertmüller, 1974
- That Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Żuławski, 1975
- The Wonderland, Keiichi Hara, 2019
- This Is Not a Movie, Yung Chang, 2019*
- This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, 1966
- Veslemøy’s Song, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2018
- Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942
*Available in the U.S. only
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