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Featuring an essay on Bill Plympton, Amy Seimetz’s Top 10, an interview with Nan Goldin, and more [The Current]( HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [Arrested Development]( Bill Plympton’s Anarchic Visions. The eye-popping work of this lo-fi animation pioneer is a testament to the pleasures of painstaking craftsmanship. By Michael Atkinson WATCH [Twenty-two of Plympton’s features and shorts are now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [The Movies That Made Her]( Nan Goldin’s Cinephilic Obsessions. In this in-depth interview, the legendary photographer explains how a lifetime of compulsive movie-watching has influenced her artistic practice. By Hillary Weston WATCH [Goldin delivers a rare on-screen performance in Bette Gordon’s Variety, now playing on the Criterion Channel with a new introduction by the director. Â]( [Amy Seimetz’s Top]( 10 The director of the acclaimed new film She Dies Tomorrow shares a list of favorite movies that subvert narrative convention. WATCH [Seimetz’s Floridian noir Sun Don’t Shine is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [A Matinee Idol’s]( The Role That Made Uttam Kumar Immortal. The latest installment in our Performances series throws the spotlight on The Hero, the Bengali star’s first collaboration with director Satyajit Ray. By Mayukh Sen READ MORE [In his liner essay on The Hero, author Pico Iyer asks, “How does one make art while also appealing to the man on the street?”]( [Fresh from the Canvas]( A Close-Up on Our Portrait of a Lady on Fire Cover Art. Painter Hélène Delmaire’s intensive collaboration with director Céline Sciamma yielded a wealth of preliminary studies that came in handy for our edition. By Benjamin Mercer READ MORE [Critic Ela Bittencourt examines Sciamma’s preoccupations with longing and looking.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“Few male stars of his era pushed themselves further than Burt Lancaster into areas of weariness and vulnerability.”]( —Dan Callahan on the Hollywood icon, who stars in the Jules Dassin film Brute Force, newly issued on Blu-ray this week. THE DAILY [Remembering Jiří Menzel]( Tributes to a Defiant Artist. The actor and director passed away last weekend, leaving behind a provocative body of work that remains a cornerstone of Czech cinema. WATCH [Menzel’s Oscar-winning debut feature, Closely Watched Trains, is playing now on the Criterion Channel.]( 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.]( © 2020 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003