CRITERION CLOSET PICKS - AMY IRVING
The incomperable Amy Irving picks some films and talks about them with #Criterion
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Stuff I got in the mail today haul. #haul #criterion #thriftbooks #physicalmedia
Shhh 
Don't tell anybody, but the 24 hour Criterion Collection 50% off Flash Sale is here!
About 18 hours left right now.
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6 cents shy of free shipping in the #Criterion Sale. Guess i have to buy another movie.
I hate the Criterion closet.
"Oh no WAIT!"
Carrie Coon’s Closet Picks
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Mar 17, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms
Mitchell Leisen's MIDNIGHT (1939) w/ Claudette Colbert is coming to Criterion Blu-ray in a new 4K restoration.
Sparkling screwball comedy w/ a heavy dose of social satire from screenwriters Charles Bracket and Billy Wilder!
Among all the people Godard was thinking about casting as King Lear, he missed the obvious choice right in front of him: Menahem Golan.
One of my favorite movies, Midnight (1939), is currently on the Criterion Channel.
It’s a fun take in the Cinderella story, with delightful performances by the legendary John Barrymore, a young Don Ameche, and academy award winning actress Claudette Colbert.
It’s absolutely worth a watch if you have access to it.
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One of my favorite end of year pleasures is the #Criterion room-tone montage #video
[And, at the risk of sounding pretentious, it seems to me that, although everyone loves movies (probably), if one doesn't recognize at least 80% of the folks featured in this video one is not a cinephile. 
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a lot of criterion collection titles on sale right now, a fair number as low as $4.99
(filtered here for Apple TV/iTunes, but there are other platforms catalogued as well): https://www.blu-ray.com/deals/?sortby=popularity&category=ituneshd&popularity=all&releases=all&studioid=70&covers=8 #criterion #sale #films #movies
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Pamela Anderson’s Closet Picks by
#CRITERION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U
Continued thread
The chase scene ends in a bathroom, with a bathtub full of water. A Luger is involved, which is how we know which British actors are playing Germans. And a bar of soap, used in Pythonesque jape fashion, which ends up in the hand of the proprietor after a clasic slip. Shown here in a fuzzy screen cap (since #Criterion hides the video). Just after, the bar goes in their pocket.
I'm mesmerized by the Criterion Closet videos, wherein actors or directors are set loose to exclaim over their favorites — in that magic little room stacked floor to ceiling with the world's most notable films, on Blu-ray or DVD. This episode from 2015, though, with Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory of the sublime "My Dinner With Andre," features weirdly low-energy lighting & discussion. Which last may be explained by Shawn's final words here:
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Checked out the mobile Criterion Closet van earlier today while I'm visiting NYC for the New York Film Festival as a friend invited me to the festival.
Seeing it in the wild instead of pics online is a much more of a fun experience.
My Closet pics in the Polaroid photo:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
PAPER MOON (1973) helped turn me into a classic film lover.
As a kid, I was convinced it was an actual old movie — and I wanted to see more like it. So glad to hear it's coming to Criterion Blu-ray and 4K in Nov.
Watched "Blue Collar" yesterday, via #Criterion stream. Late 1970s, with Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel. All looking lean and hungry, this is no "Silver Streak" silliness. Roger Ebert at the time called it radical.
Auto factory workers find their union is as corrupt as management, running loan sharking and worse. Alas, a very unhappy ending.
https://www.rogerebert.com/Blue Collar movie review & film summary (1978) | Roger EbertDetroit. Dawn. The next shift arrives for work. On the sound track, music of pounding urgency, suggesting the power of the machines that stamp out car doors from sheets of sheel. The camera takes us into the insides of an automobile factory, takes us close enough to almost smell the sweat and shield our eyes against the sparks thrown off by welding torches.
Anyone subscribed to The Criterion Channel streaming service? Curious your experience with it.