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  1. I’ve been watching “The Prisoner” on the #CriterionChannel. I’d only ever seen a few episodes on old VHS copies. It looks fantastic remastered.

    It’s such a masterfully weird show about surveillance and individuality.

    Anyway, I’m only on ep 4, but happy to discuss #ThePrisoner with folks.

    Be seeing you. 👌🏻

    criterionchannel.com/the-priso

  2. I’ve been watching “The Prisoner” on the #CriterionChannel. I’d only ever seen a few episodes on old VHS copies. It looks fantastic remastered.

    It’s such a masterfully weird show about surveillance and individuality.

    Anyway, I’m only on ep 4, but happy to discuss #ThePrisoner with folks.

    Be seeing you. 👌🏻

    criterionchannel.com/the-priso

  3. I’ve been watching “The Prisoner” on the #CriterionChannel. I’d only ever seen a few episodes on old VHS copies. It looks fantastic remastered.

    It’s such a masterfully weird show about surveillance and individuality.

    Anyway, I’m only on ep 4, but happy to discuss #ThePrisoner with folks.

    Be seeing you. 👌🏻

    criterionchannel.com/the-priso

  4. I’ve been watching “The Prisoner” on the #CriterionChannel. I’d only ever seen a few episodes on old VHS copies. It looks fantastic remastered.

    It’s such a masterfully weird show about surveillance and individuality.

    Anyway, I’m only on ep 4, but happy to discuss #ThePrisoner with folks.

    Be seeing you. 👌🏻

    criterionchannel.com/the-priso

  5. Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild" (1986) has really stuck with me after seeing it yesterday. I almost turned it off as it seemed like another manic-pixie-dream-girl meets straight-laced-everyman film — one of those bromides for '80s materialism.

    But it manages to subvert expectations through noirish twists while showing a weird-ass and occasionally violent America.

    The soundtrack is stellar, and I even liked Melanie Griffith who is well matched with Jeff Daniels.

    #CriterionChannel

  6. One thing I find pretty consistent in my liking of a movie is the long take. It’s both technically impressive but also just feels so much less manipulative than lots of quick takes, close-ups, and reverse shots. They show a moment’s true time and choreography.

    Thinking of this because I just saw “Deep Crimson” (1996) — and, oooh boy — there are long takes with pans that are virtuosic. And in the age of film too, it’s truly impressive.

    #CriterionChannel

  7. Wow. “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” (2020) renewed my #sobre card for another year. This quasi-documentary (really a drunken improv exercise) is the best movie about the closing of a dive bar since “Last Night at the Alamo.”

    I didn’t find it a warm & fuzzy alcohol film, though it is compassionate for its characters. But it reminded me of all the reasons drunken conversations are so pointless, with all the declarations and forgettable epiphanies.

    On the #CriterionChannel

    youtu.be/uEvilRp8we4

  8. @fskornia For sure. It’s the only big one we pay for.

    We should start hashtagging #CriterionChannel for recommendations.

  9. Watching Wall Street for the first time in a long time. #CriterionChannel

  10. Now showing on the #criterionchannel : “Lumière Le Cinema”. 130 year old 50 second films by the Lumière bros. that show how the art of film got its start. Beautifully restored & shown at natural speed with a narrative that ties it all together. We live at a special time: Pick a year from 1895 to now & you can see images of how real people lived. Amazing. A critic at the time these came out said, “…death is not absolute anymore.” #movies #film #cinema #silentfilm

    youtu.be/_3BEsMtLhzU

  11. Now showing on the #criterionchannel : “Lumière Le Cinema”. 130 year old 50 second films by the Lumière bros. that show how the art of film got its start. Beautifully restored & shown at natural speed with a narrative that ties it all together. We live at a special time: Pick a year from 1895 to now & you can see images of how real people lived. Amazing. A critic at the time these came out said, “…death is not absolute anymore.” #movies #film #cinema #silentfilm

    youtu.be/_3BEsMtLhzU