The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: A tour of noir’s favorite neighborhood

Plus: Sebastian Meise’s Top 10, an interview with Rosine Mbakam, and Michael Sporn’s low-budget animated gems [Current]( HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 3, 2022 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [Where the Darkness Lives]( A Visit to Bunker Hill. The latest Dark Passages column explores the shadows and seedy corners of a once-exclusive area of downtown Los Angeles featured in films like Kiss Me Deadly, Somewhere in the Night, and Act of Violence. By Imogen Sara Smith READ MORE [In previous Dark Passages articles, Smith examines other symbolically charged locations in noir history, including hotels, waterfronts, and the American West.]( [A]( Cinema of Social Relation]( How Rosine Mbakam Empowers Her Subjects. In this new interview, the Cameroonian filmmaker talks about her collaborative methods and her resistance of the colonial tendencies in documentaries about Africa. By Yasmina Price WATCH [Three of Mbakam’s films are now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [Sebastian Meise’s Top]( 10 The director of Great Freedom shares a list of provocative and stylistically daring films that have long lingered in his mind. WATCH [In an episode of Observations on Film Art, Jeff Smith analyzes the cinematography in Meise’s number-one pick, Breaking the Waves.]( [An]( Miracles on the Cheap]( Michael Sporn’s Artful Cartoons Speak to Our Inner Child. Working with meager budgets and few resources, the animator created a graceful aesthetic that was distinctive in the realm of family entertainment. By Dan Schindel READ MORE [Critic Michael Sicinski pays tribute to the work of another animation innovator, Norman McClaren.]( [Hot Property]( The Queer Contradictions of Bringing The Children’s Hour to the Screen. The differences between William Wyler’s two film versions of the controversial play reveal the changing but ever-present challenges of representing same-sex desire in Hollywood cinema. By Michael Koresky WATCH [This pair of Wyler films are now playing on the Criterion Channel as part of the latest installment of Queersighted, curated by Koresky and featuring a conversation with professor and author Shonni Enelow.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“]( Campion is a rarity, not simply because she is a world-class female director but because she has devoted her career to exploring female subjectivity.”]( —Amy Taubin on the Oscar-winning director, in the essay for our edition of An Angel at My Table THE DAILY [A]( Cannes 2022]( Best Guesses at This Year’s Lineup. Ahead of the festival’s first announcement, publications are predicting the premieres of films by James Gray and Park Chan-wook, as well as Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men (pictured). READ MORE [Early reviews are in for Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.]( 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.]( © 2022 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003