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Featuring Carrie Coon’s Top 10, tributes to Mae West and Soumitra Chatterjee, and more. [The Current]( HIGHLIGHTS DECEMBER 6, 2020 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [Homegrown Legend]( Soumitra Chatterjee’s Lifelong Devotion to Bengali Cinema. The esteemed actor, who died in November, became the face of Satyajit Ray’s oeuvre. But his legacy extends far beyond his most internationally known work. By Mayukh Sen READ MORE [Back in September, Sen paid tribute to another Bengali star, Uttam Kumar, who also collaborated with Ray but whose career was much more commercial than Chatterjee’s.]( [Romance, Auteurist Style]( A Movie Lover Comes to Terms with a Dating Don’t. In the latest installment of our First Person series, a celebrated essayist shares what he learned after many fumbled attempts at merging his cinephilia with his love life. By Phillip Lopate READ MORE [In earlier First Person entries, André Aciman, Sloane Crosley, and Jonathan Lethem revisit their own moviegoing pasts.]( [Carrie Coon’s Top]( 10 The Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor chooses a list of favorites with an emphasis on unforgettable female performances. WATCH [Dive into her selections with the number-one pick, Mike Leigh’s Naked, now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [No Angel]( Classic Hollywood’s Favorite Sinner. With her contralto drawl, genius for innuendo, and fierce control behind the camera, Mae West pioneered a sex-positive cinema far ahead of its time. By Farran Smith Nehme WATCH [The eight bawdy comedies in the Criterion Channel’s Mae West series show off both her star power and her piercingly funny writing.]( [Defender of the Art]( Meet Cuban Film History’s Leading Champion. Luciano Castillo, the director of the Cinemateca de Cuba, has been an invaluable resource for our releases of Memories of Underdevelopment and Lucía. By Valeria Rotella WATCH [Lucía, Humberto Solás’s vision of Cuban revolutionary history, is now playing on the Criterion Channel in a stunning restoration by The Film Foundation.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“]( didn’t know that filmmakers were allowed to go off on tangents, and since I don’t think linearly, this introduced me to the idea that I had a place in cinema.”]( —Terence Nance on Y tu mamá también, one of his picks for the Top 10 he wrote for us in 2016. Don’t miss our spotlight on his films, now playing on the Criterion Channel! THE DAILY [Godard at Ninety]( The French New Wave Icon Celebrated His Birthday This Week. And he has two new projects in the works! READ MORE [Another milestone we’re celebrating: the fiftieth anniversary of New York City’s Anthology Film Archives.]( 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