The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: An unsung genius of Czechoslovak cinema

By rahmat hidayat

Sunday, April 2, 2023

Plus: A new personal essay by novelist Jean Chen Ho and a Top 10 list from director Davy Chou

Current HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 2, 2023 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion's online magazine. Happy reading!

Feasts of Imagination Celebrating a Visionary of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Primarily known as a costume and production designer, Ester Krumbachová deserves to be widely recognized as a vital creative force behind one of the great movements in 1960s and '70s world cinema. By Jonathan Owen WATCH Nine of Krumbachová's films are now playing in a collection on the Criterion Channel.

Disappearing Acts Love and Time in Long Day's Journey into Night. In the latest entry in our ongoing series First Person, a novelist contemplates a relationship that never quite solidified—and a future that never quite arrived—through the prism of Bi Gan's shape-shifting cinematic odyssey. By Jean Chen Ho Illustration by Eric Skillman READ MORE Bi spoke with us about Long Day's Journey into Night in an interview we published in 2019.

Davy Chou's Top 10 The director of Return to Seoul expresses what he values most in cinema through this selection of ten favorite films. WATCH Chou's number-one pick, The Koker Trilogy, is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

Refusing Absolutes A Conversation with Film Scholar Janaína Oliveira. The programmer of Opacity—a collection of boundary-breaking works now playing on the Criterion Channel—discusses her expansive, transnational approach to curating, which draws from the influential writing of philosopher Édouard Glissant. By Yasmina Price WATCH The lineup of films that Oliveira curated—which includes Isaac Julien's Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (pictured above)—is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE "Safety Last is a meditation on time and money, on fame and misfortune, that holds up a mirror to the life of its creator." —Ed Park on Harold Lloyd's silent-comedy classic, which celebrated its hundredth anniversary this week

THE DAILY Explicit Content A Look Back on a Raunchy Decade. This week, Karina Longworth launched Erotic '90s, a season of podcast episodes that will dive into sexual morality in the era of Basic Instinct, Pretty Woman, and Henry & June (pictured). WATCH Things get steamy in a collection of erotic thrillers now playing on the Criterion Channel.

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