Some personal favorites that are available now...

(Dark and/or Weird films):
Bacurau
Black Christmas
Black Narcissus
Blood and Black Lace
Come and See
Cruel Gun Story
Eyes Without a Face
Fantastic Planet
Gomorrah
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Hit
The Human Condition (trilogy)
Island of Lost Souls (a must for Devo fans)
Lady Snowblood
Lone Wolf and Cub (film series)
Man Bites Dog (in 1080p! - Not for the squeamish)
Marketa Lazarova (seriously one of the greatest films ever made)
Pathfinder
Sans Soleil
Shame
Stalker (my favorite Tarkovsky)
Streetwise
Teorema
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

(Not particularly Dark and/or Weird films):
Downtown '81
Hopscotch
Monterey Pop
My Dinner With Andre
Red Beard
Secrets and Lies
Wings of Desire (must see for Nick Cave / Crime and the City Solution fans + a great film regardless)

Happy viewing.

been watching the hitchcock marathon

vertigo really got me

anybody have trouble with the channel playing?

scrotescape wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:29 pm been watching the hitchcock marathon

vertigo really got me

anybody have trouble with the channel playing?

I had all kinds of trouble with it when I was on the firestick. I got a Roku stick (my t and v is vintage Panasonic Plasma job) and my Criterion Channel playing issues went away.

thanks
I watch it through 2012 macbookpro usually frequent pauses with the 'loading' circle spinning even at lowest resolution, utube and ntflix work fine.
a couple times it was just not happening so I closed the window and started over and it then worked better.
gonna read a book

scrotescape wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:29 pm been watching the hitchcock marathon

vertigo really got me

anybody have trouble with the channel playing?

I have been trouble with exactly one film playing, which is Peppermint Frappe. It never loads for me! I had my sister try it out and she had no issue. Boy, I would really like to watch it again. Everything else plays fine.

My girlfriend and I have been going through the Les Blank documentaries up there, and they're all great! Watched In Heaven There Is No Beer? most recently and, boy, what a delight.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the 7-hour Hungarian movie "Satantango." Grim as hell, funny at times, moments of brilliance. And I will always stan the director's cut of "Until the End of the World," vastly superior to the shorter theatrical version. In other tremendously long foreign films, I somehow let "An Elephant Sitting Still" get away, hopefully it will return to CC before long.

In movies of reasonable length, I also just noticed the restored version of the reggae film "Babylon" has returned, I missed that first time around.

Otto Parts wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:29 pm I'm about 2/3 of the way through the 7-hour Hungarian movie "Satantango." Grim as hell, funny at times, moments of brilliance. And I will always stan the director's cut of "Until the End of the World," vastly superior to the shorter theatrical version. In other tremendously long foreign films, I somehow let "An Elephant Sitting Still" get away, hopefully it will return to CC before long.

In movies of reasonable length, I also just noticed the restored version of the reggae film "Babylon" has returned, I missed that first time around.

Satantango is fantastic. Have only watched it all the way through twice, first time on a 4xVHS tape bootleg and then the Facets DVD that came out in the 00s.

I’ve never seen a Douglas Sirk movie—it’s a pretty major blind spot—so I’m planning to watch at least Imitation of Life from the collection that just went up.

Otto Parts wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:29 pm I'm about 2/3 of the way through the 7-hour Hungarian movie "Satantango." Grim as hell, funny at times, moments of brilliance. And I will always stan the director's cut of "Until the End of the World," vastly superior to the shorter theatrical version. In other tremendously long foreign films, I somehow let "An Elephant Sitting Still" get away, hopefully it will return to CC before long.

In movies of reasonable length, I also just noticed the restored version of the reggae film "Babylon" has returned, I missed that first time around.

I'm a long movie guy. too and have become more of one since the pandemic began, for obvious reasons. Although, one of the last films I saw in a theater before covid was Satantango, which I forced my parents to attend with me because they were visiting at the time and it was the only day I could see it. They thanked me profusely afterward. Very fond memory. I don't know if you've encountered this minor time paradox, but I find that a four hour films feels shorter to me than a three hour film. Something about when they get to that length where you get into a rhythm and stop wondering in the back of your head how much time is left, because there is soooo much time it doesn't matter. Co-sign on the director's cut on UTEOTW. All the stuff that got cut out of the theatrical cut is the best stuff! And incredible work from Robby Muller. I liked An Elephant Standing Still a lot. A lot. I think it's on Kanopy (as is Satantango and Tarr's Damnation) if your library is signed up. It's free if you do.

andyman wrote:

Clyde wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:02 pm

scrotescape wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:29 pm been watching the hitchcock marathon

vertigo really got me

anybody have trouble with the channel playing?

I have been trouble with exactly one film playing, which is Peppermint Frappe. It never loads for me! I had my sister try it out and she had no issue. Boy, I would really like to watch it again. Everything else plays fine.

Delete all your cookies for the site and log back in?

First thing I tried! Everything else plays fine, just that one won't load! Will somebody else check to see if they have the same issue?


(edited to fix some minor but appalling typos)