The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: Jean-Pierre Melville’s silences and Ephraim Asili’s influences

By rahmat hidayat

Monday, September 6, 2021

Plus: a newly translated piece by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Current HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER 5, 2021 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion's online magazine. Happy reading!

A Radical Inheritance The Films That Shaped Ephraim Asili. The formally innovative and politically incisive filmmaker discusses a series he has curated for the Criterion Channel, which spotlights work that disrupts the status quo. By Beatrice Loayza WATCH Alongside Asili's curated series, the Criterion Channel presents the exclusive streaming premiere of his feature debut, The Inheritance.

Bliss in Bologna Celebrating Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021. With its magnificent outdoor screenings and wide-ranging selection of repertory discoveries, this year's festival was a rapturous escape after months of pandemic seclusion. By Imogen Sara Smith READ MORE Smith's report from the 2019 edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato focuses on underappreciated films by Hollywood directors Henry King and Rowland Brown.

The Dying of the Light Death Arrives as a Melody in Ikiru. A popular ballad from the 1910s becomes a a meditation on mortality in Akira Kurosawa's portrait of an ordinary man's final days. By Geoffrey O'Brien READ MORE Previous articles in our Songbook series have examined Mike Leigh's use of music by the Cure, the rock-and-roll epiphany in Cold War, and Fassbinder's affinity for Kraftwerk. From Screen to Page After Life's Literary Transformation. Translated into English for the first time, this afterword to Hirokazu Kore-eda's novelization of his film explores the director's attraction to fiction writing and how the art form differs from narrative cinema. By Hirokazu Kore-eda READ MORE Author Viet Thanh Nguyen describes being "swept away in bliss" by After Life in his liner essay for our edition of the film. It's Oh So Quiet Silence in Le samouraï. In the latest entry of our ongoing series One Scene, the author of the acclaimed new thriller Velvet Was the Night pays tribute to a memorably minimalist moment in Jean-Pierre Melville's noir classic. By Silvia Moreno-Garcia WATCH Le samouraï is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE "It is the teeming, unscripted life of the city that gives the movie its sweep and its intrinsic documentary interest." —Luc Sante on The Naked City, one of sixty-one films now playing in the Criterion Channel series New York Stories

THE DAILY In the Works A Roundup of Exciting New Film and TV Projects. Highlights include an adaptation of a novella by Karen Blixen (pictured) that Bille August is directing for Netflix. READ MORE David Hudson takes a look at the award winners at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

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