The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: (Dis)honored at the Razzies

Plus: Molly Manning Walker’s Top 10, the early films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, and a tribute to David Bordwell [Current]( HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 7, 2024 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [The Bad and the Beautiful]( A Feast of Golden Raspberry Award Winners. By surveying the bombs, disasters, and secret masterpieces (dis)honored at the Razzies, we can learn much about American cinema’s prevailing standards of taste. By Mark Asch WATCH [A collection of Razzie winners is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [How Hou Hsiao-hsien Found His Voice]( A Close Look at the Taiwanese Auteur’s Early Films. Though the director began working in commercial genres, even his earliest mainstream movies contain hints of the inimitable style that would establish him as one of the world’s most important filmmakers. By Sean Gilman READ MORE [Film scholar Jean Ma explores a later period in Hou’s career in her essay for our edition of Flowers of Shanghai, one of the director’s most acclaimed works.]( [Molly Manning Walker’s Top]( 10 The writer and director of How to Have Sex shares her love for Carol Reed, discusses her favorite Adam Sandler performance, and names her ultimate feel-good movie. WATCH [Fish Tank, which Manning Walker cites as an inspiration, is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [Visions of Black Queer Liberation]( Ryan Clarke and S*an D. Henry-Smith in Conversation. Two curators behind New York City’s premier Black electronic music festival talk about the films they selected for Radical Dreams, Underground Sounds, a collection on the Criterion Channel. By Dessane Lopez Cassell WATCH [Clarke and Henry-Smith’s thirteen-film lineup is an eclectic mix of narrative, documentary, and experimental works.]( [A Mexican-Cinema Pioneer in the Spotlight]( Fernando de Fuentes’s Adventurous and History-Making Career. Celebrated in a revelatory retrospective at last year’s Morelia International Film Festival, this groundbreaking director specialized in vibrant explorations of his country’s folk traditions and revolutionary past. By Imogen Sara Smith WATCH [De Fuentes’s]( Phantom of the Monastery]( of the most influential Mexican horror films—is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“]( absorbed cinema so fully that my work has unavoidably been influenced by it.”]( —Nan Goldin in an interview published in 2020. Goldin is the subject of Laura Poitras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, released last month in a new Criterion edition. THE DAILY [Tributes to David Bordwell]( Remembering a Towering Figure of Film Studies. Friends and admirers reflect on the scholar’s influential work, boundless enthusiasm, and warm generosity. WATCH [David Hudson gathers writing about director Lee Chang-dong, whose films are playing this month at New York City’s Metrograph.]( For further information on Criterion and our products, please visit our website at [criterion.com.]( To start streaming the Criterion Channel, please visit [criterionchannel.com.]( If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to be added, please [click here]( to register at [criterion.com.]( To unsubscribe, [click here.]( © 2024 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003