The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: Jean-Pierre Melville’s silences and Ephraim Asili’s influences

Plus: a newly translated piece by Hirokazu Kore-eda [Current]( HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER 5, 2021 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [A Radical Inheritance]( The Films That Shaped Ephraim Asili. The formally innovative and politically incisive filmmaker discusses a series he has curated for the Criterion Channel, which spotlights work that disrupts the status quo. By Beatrice Loayza WATCH [Alongside Asili’s curated series, the Criterion Channel presents the exclusive streaming premiere of his feature debut, The Inheritance.]( [Bliss in Bologna]( Celebrating Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021. With its magnificent outdoor screenings and wide-ranging selection of repertory discoveries, this year’s festival was a rapturous escape after months of pandemic seclusion. By Imogen Sara Smith READ MORE [Smith’s report from the 2019 edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato focuses on underappreciated films by Hollywood directors Henry King and Rowland Brown.]( [The Dying of the Light]( Death Arrives as a Melody in Ikiru. A popular ballad from the 1910s becomes a a meditation on mortality in Akira Kurosawa’s portrait of an ordinary man’s final days. By Geoffrey O’Brien READ MORE [Previous articles in our Songbook series have examined Mike Leigh’s use of music by the Cure, the rock-and-roll epiphany in Cold War, and Fassbinder’s affinity for Kraftwerk.]( [F]( Screen to Page]( After Life’s Literary Transformation. Translated into English for the first time, this afterword to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s novelization of his film explores the director’s attraction to fiction writing and how the art form differs from narrative cinema. By Hirokazu Kore-eda READ MORE [Author Viet Thanh Nguyen describes being “swept away in bliss” by After Life in his liner essay for our edition of the film.]( [It’s Oh So Quiet]( Silence in Le samouraï. In the latest entry of our ongoing series One Scene, the author of the acclaimed new thriller Velvet Was the Night pays tribute to a memorably minimalist moment in Jean-Pierre Melville’s noir classic. By Silvia Moreno-Garcia WATCH [Le samouraï is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“It is the teeming, unscripted life of the city that gives the movie its sweep and its intrinsic documentary interest.”]( —Luc Sante on The Naked City, one of sixty-one films now playing in the Criterion Channel series New York Stories THE DAILY [In the Works]( A Roundup of Exciting New Film and TV Projects. Highlights include an adaptation of a novella by Karen Blixen (pictured) that Bille August is directing for Netflix. READ MORE [David Hudson takes a look at the award winners at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.]( 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.]( © 2021 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003