The Criterion Channel’s February Lineup Includes Melvin Van Peebles, Douglas Sirk, Laura Dern & More
Another month, another Criterion Channel lineup. In accordance with Black History Month their selections are especially refreshing: seven by Melvin Van Peebles, five from Kevin Jerome Everson, and Criterion editions of The Harder They Come and The Learning Tree.
Regarding individual features I’m quite happy to see Abderrahmane Sissako’s fantastic Bamako, last year’s big Sundance winner (and Kosovo’s Oscar entry) Hive, and the remarkably beautiful Portuguese feature The Metamorphosis of Birds. Add a three-film Laura Dern collection (including the recently canonized Smooth Talk) and Pasolini’s rarely shown documentary Love Meetings to make this a fine smorgasboard.
See the full list of February titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
Alan & Naomi, Sterling Van Wagenen, 1992
All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, 1955
The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970
Babylon, Franco Rosso, 1980
Babymother, Julian Henriques, 1998
Bamako, Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006
Beat Street, Stan Lathan, 1984
Blacks Britannica, David Koff, 1978
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,...
Regarding individual features I’m quite happy to see Abderrahmane Sissako’s fantastic Bamako, last year’s big Sundance winner (and Kosovo’s Oscar entry) Hive, and the remarkably beautiful Portuguese feature The Metamorphosis of Birds. Add a three-film Laura Dern collection (including the recently canonized Smooth Talk) and Pasolini’s rarely shown documentary Love Meetings to make this a fine smorgasboard.
See the full list of February titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
Alan & Naomi, Sterling Van Wagenen, 1992
All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, 1955
The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970
Babylon, Franco Rosso, 1980
Babymother, Julian Henriques, 1998
Bamako, Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006
Beat Street, Stan Lathan, 1984
Blacks Britannica, David Koff, 1978
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,...
- 1/24/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Melvin Van Peebles is an amazing real-life character. As documented in Joe Angio's How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It), Van Peebles lived his life as he saw fit from an early age, following his artistic muse wherever it led him. In his twenties, while working as a cable car conductor, he wrote a book about his experiences, which promptly got him fired. Someone suggested he become a filmmaker, and in pursuit of that dream he made several short films. Hollywood was not interested in his calling cards, but he found work in The Netherlands. The famed Henri Langlois (Cinémathèque Française) invited him to Paris to screen his shorts, where the budding filmmaker was rapturously received -- and then abandoned completely...
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- 2/2/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Being known for being unknown is a bit of a booby prize, but over the course of 35 years, the British multi-genre-punk band the Mekons has managed to make underachieving a heroic ideal. After recording more than 20 albums, what began as a bit of an art-school lark evolved into something stirring, earning the band a star turn in Joe Angio’s documentary, Revenge of the Mekons, which is screening at Film Forum for two more days.A few of the esteemed devotees they’ve picked up over the years gathered last Thursday night in a Columbia University auditorium for an Ivy League symposium: Novelist Jonathan Franzen, critic Greil Marcus, American Psycho director Mary Harron, nonfiction writer Luc Sante, and artist and architect Vito Acconci gave readings on the band after a screening of excerpts of the film, while band guitarist and singer Jon Langford sat among them, offering a song about...
- 11/3/2014
- by Alex Yablon
- Vulture
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a personal revelation in a Businessweek essay, we get a behind the scenes look at Peter Pan Live!, Jake Gyllenhaal says his Nightcrawler role emotionally affected him, and more of today’s First Dibs.
In a Businessweek essay, Tim Cook publicly discusses his sexuality: “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” [Businessweek] Allison Williams and Christopher Walken are camera ready in the first Peter Pan Live! preview. Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about the mental repercussions of playing a sociopath in Nightcrawler. [Vulture] Celebs react to the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory. [Gossip Cop] Jennifer Aniston‘s engagement ring was missing because she was getting it cleaned. You can calm down now. [E!] Jim Carrey tests David Letterman for Ebola. [Vulture] Is Mary-Kate Olsen actually married? [Lucky] Revenge of the Mekons, directed by Joe Angio, opened last night in NYC.
In a Businessweek essay, Tim Cook publicly discusses his sexuality: “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” [Businessweek] Allison Williams and Christopher Walken are camera ready in the first Peter Pan Live! preview. Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about the mental repercussions of playing a sociopath in Nightcrawler. [Vulture] Celebs react to the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory. [Gossip Cop] Jennifer Aniston‘s engagement ring was missing because she was getting it cleaned. You can calm down now. [E!] Jim Carrey tests David Letterman for Ebola. [Vulture] Is Mary-Kate Olsen actually married? [Lucky] Revenge of the Mekons, directed by Joe Angio, opened last night in NYC.
- 10/30/2014
- by Taylor Ferber
- VH1.com
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a personal revelation in a Businessweek essay, we get a behind the scenes look at Peter Pan Live!, Jake Gyllenhaal says his Nightcrawler role emotionally affected him, and more of today’s First Dibs.
In a Businessweek essay, Tim Cook publicly discusses his sexuality: “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” [Businessweek] Allison Williams and Christopher Walken are camera ready in the first Peter Pan Live! preview. Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about the mental repercussions of playing a sociopath in Nightcrawler. [Vulture] Celebs react to the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory. [Gossip Cop] Jennifer Aniston‘s engagement ring was missing because she was getting it cleaned. You can calm down now. [E!] Jim Carrey tests David Letterman for Ebola. [Vulture] Is Mary-Kate Olsen actually married? [Lucky] Revenge of the Mekons, directed by Joe Angio, opened last night in NYC.
In a Businessweek essay, Tim Cook publicly discusses his sexuality: “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” [Businessweek] Allison Williams and Christopher Walken are camera ready in the first Peter Pan Live! preview. Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about the mental repercussions of playing a sociopath in Nightcrawler. [Vulture] Celebs react to the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory. [Gossip Cop] Jennifer Aniston‘s engagement ring was missing because she was getting it cleaned. You can calm down now. [E!] Jim Carrey tests David Letterman for Ebola. [Vulture] Is Mary-Kate Olsen actually married? [Lucky] Revenge of the Mekons, directed by Joe Angio, opened last night in NYC.
- 10/30/2014
- by Taylor Ferber
- TheFabLife - Movies
Broad Green Pictures, which announced its presence on the distribution scene in Toronto with a marquee $3 million deal for 99 Homes, has acquired North American rights to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden. The pic, set in the underground electronic dance movement in early-’90s Paris, had its world premiere in Toronto and is playing the New York Film Festival that kicks off Friday.
Broad Green plans a spring 2015 release for the pic, which follows Paul (Félix de Givry), a teenager drawn to the more soulful rhythms of Chicago’s garage house than rave music forms a DJ collective named Cheers (two of his friends form another one called Daft Punk, who float throughout the movie). Together they plunge into the ephemeral nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music. Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne co-star with appearances by Brady Corbet, Laura Smet and Greta Gerwig. The deal was negotiated by Grégoire Melin and Ram...
Broad Green plans a spring 2015 release for the pic, which follows Paul (Félix de Givry), a teenager drawn to the more soulful rhythms of Chicago’s garage house than rave music forms a DJ collective named Cheers (two of his friends form another one called Daft Punk, who float throughout the movie). Together they plunge into the ephemeral nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music. Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne co-star with appearances by Brady Corbet, Laura Smet and Greta Gerwig. The deal was negotiated by Grégoire Melin and Ram...
- 9/23/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Festival’s music documentaries include Revenge of the Mekons [pictured] and Harlem Street Singer.
The 27th Leeds International Film Festival (Nov 6-21) will open with Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity.
The festival programme includes 163 films in 250 screenings at four main venues: Leeds Town Hall, Hyde Park Picture House, Vue Leeds at the Light and the Everyman.
The official selection includes festival hit such as Blue is the Warmest Colour, Child’s Pose, Nebraska and Stranger By The Lake; plus discovery titles including Harmony Lessons, The Strange Little Cat and the UK premiere of Finnish veteran Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night.
Leeds’ cult cinema section Fanomenon will include the UK premiere of Korea’s Cold Eyes, a Batman offering with a new documentary about Frank Miller, and the Night of the Dead and Day of the Dead series with films such as 100 Bloody Acres and Big Bad Wolves. Cult classics to screen include Deadlock, Wake in Fright, and Ikarie...
The 27th Leeds International Film Festival (Nov 6-21) will open with Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity.
The festival programme includes 163 films in 250 screenings at four main venues: Leeds Town Hall, Hyde Park Picture House, Vue Leeds at the Light and the Everyman.
The official selection includes festival hit such as Blue is the Warmest Colour, Child’s Pose, Nebraska and Stranger By The Lake; plus discovery titles including Harmony Lessons, The Strange Little Cat and the UK premiere of Finnish veteran Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night.
Leeds’ cult cinema section Fanomenon will include the UK premiere of Korea’s Cold Eyes, a Batman offering with a new documentary about Frank Miller, and the Night of the Dead and Day of the Dead series with films such as 100 Bloody Acres and Big Bad Wolves. Cult classics to screen include Deadlock, Wake in Fright, and Ikarie...
- 10/8/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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