A couple months after spotlighting the world’s greatest actress, the Criterion Channel have taken a logical next step towards America’s greatest actress. May (or: next week) will bring an eleven-film celebration of Jennifer Jason Leigh, highlights including Verhoeven’s Flesh + Blood, Miami Blues, Alan Rudolph’s Mrs. Parker, her directorial debut The Anniversary Party, and Synecdoche, New York, and a special introduction from Leigh. Another actor’s showcase localizes directorial collaborations: Jimmy Stewart’s time with Anthony Mann, an eight-title series boasting the likes of Winchester ’73 and The Man from Laramie. Two more: a survey of ’80s Asian-American cinema (Chan Is Missing being the best-known) and 14 movies by Seijun Suzuki.
That would be enough for one month (or two), but No Bears and Cette maison will have their streaming premieres, while Criterion Editions offers the Infernal Affairs trilogy (plus its packed set), Days of Heaven, and the aforementioned Chan Is Missing.
That would be enough for one month (or two), but No Bears and Cette maison will have their streaming premieres, while Criterion Editions offers the Infernal Affairs trilogy (plus its packed set), Days of Heaven, and the aforementioned Chan Is Missing.
- 4/20/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
May on the Criterion Channel will be good to the auteurs. In fact they’re giving Richard Linklater better treatment than the distributor of his last film, with a 13-title retrospective mixing usual suspects—the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Slacker—with some truly off the beaten track. There’s a few shorts I haven’t seen but most intriguing is Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, the only available description of which calls it a four-hour (!) piece “edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas from 1987 to 1990. It is Linklater’s tribute to the film countdown, used by many projectionists over the years to cue one reel of film after another when switching to another reel on another projector during projection.” Pair that with 2008’s Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach and your completionism will be on-track.
- 4/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
A while ago I had a discussion with Mark Adler while I was researching the history of Kayo Hatta's Picture Bride, a beautiful emotional film about the titular institution which involved the shipping of hundreds of girls to Hawaii, where they had to live in unhappy matrimony. The picture was originally scored by Cliff Eidelman whose music was released by Varése Sarabande, but the movie eventually had music by Mark. It took a while, but he managed to put all his thoughts into this recollection and now with his kind permission, I'll post the full story, picking up from the moment he was selected for the project.
Director Wayne Wang recommended me to Miramax for the rescore of Picture Bride. My understanding was they were looking for someone with experience in writing film scores that had successfully integrated Asian musical influences. I had scored two films for Wayne--Eat A Bowl of Tea,...
Director Wayne Wang recommended me to Miramax for the rescore of Picture Bride. My understanding was they were looking for someone with experience in writing film scores that had successfully integrated Asian musical influences. I had scored two films for Wayne--Eat A Bowl of Tea,...
- 1/2/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
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