The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: The lure of erotic thrillers

By rahmat hidayat

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Plus: A. V. Rockwell's Top 10, an interview with playwright and filmmaker debbie tucker green, and the documentaries of Deepa Dhanraj

Current HIGHLIGHTS MAY 7, 2023 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion's online magazine. Happy reading!

Perilous Pleasures Untangling the Twisted Politics of Erotic Thrillers. Influenced by soft-core porn and film noir, one of the most popular Hollywood genres of the 1980s and '90s captured the era's fraught aspirationalism and sexual mores. By Beatrice Loayza WATCH The Criterion Channel's Erotic Thrillers lineup includes Body Heat, Crimes of Passion, Dressed to Kill, and The Last Seduction.

Together in the Struggle Deepa Dhanraj Chronicles Working-Class Indian Women's Activism. Over the course of her four-decade career, the pioneering documentary filmmaker has demonstrated the important roles that joy, hope, and solidarity play in the process of political change. By Devika Girish WATCH Eight of Dhanraj's documentaries are now playing on the Criterion Channel.

A. V. Rockwell's Top 10 The director of A Thousand and One, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, throws the spotlight on movies that paved the way for the kinds of stories she strives to tell. READ MORE Previous Top 10 list contributors include Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kasi Lemmons, Kelly Reichardt, and Martin Scorsese.

Blurring the Line Between Stage and Screen A Conversation with debbie tucker green. The celebrated British playwright talks about her film adaptation of ear for eye, an uncompromising and boldly staged exploration of racism, violence, and protest. By Ife Olujobi WATCH ear for eye is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE "Part of the brilliance of Chan Is Missing is its ability to present a small-scale story with an underrated comic flair, and use that to lure the audience into an expansive treatise about social identity and belonging." —Oliver Wang on Wayne Wang's landmark solo debut feature, one of twelve films playing in the Criterion Channel's Asian American '80s collection

THE DAILY Cannes 2023 This Year's Lineup. Among the films competing for the Palme d'Or are the latest from Catherine Breillat, Alice Rohrwacher, Todd Haynes, and Marco Bellocchio. READ MORE David Hudson takes a look at the latest edition of Prismatic Ground, a festival of experimental documentary and avant-garde film in New York.

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