The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: An unsung genius of Czechoslovak cinema

Plus: A new personal essay by novelist Jean Chen Ho and a Top 10 list from director Davy Chou [Current]( HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 2, 2023 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [Feasts of Imagination]( Celebrating a Visionary of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Primarily known as a costume and production designer, Ester Krumbachová deserves to be widely recognized as a vital creative force behind one of the great movements in 1960s and ’70s world cinema. By Jonathan Owen WATCH [Nine of Krumbachová’s films are now playing in a collection on the Criterion Channel.]( [Disappearing Acts]( Love and Time in Long Day’s Journey into Night. In the latest entry in our ongoing series First Person, a novelist contemplates a relationship that never quite solidified—and a future that never quite arrived—through the prism of Bi Gan’s shape-shifting cinematic odyssey. By Jean Chen Ho Illustration by Eric Skillman READ MORE [Bi spoke with us about Long Day’s Journey into Night in an interview we published in 2019.]( [Davy Chou’s Top]( 10 The director of Return to Seoul expresses what he values most in cinema through this selection of ten favorite films. WATCH [Chou’s number-one pick, The Koker Trilogy, is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [Refusing Absolutes]( A Conversation with Film Scholar Janaína Oliveira. The programmer of Opacity—a collection of boundary-breaking works now playing on the Criterion Channel—discusses her expansive, transnational approach to curating, which draws from the influential writing of philosopher Édouard Glissant. By Yasmina Price WATCH [The lineup of films that Oliveira curated—which includes Isaac Julien’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (pictured above)—is now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“]( Last is a meditation on time and money, on fame and misfortune, that holds up a mirror to the life of its creator.”]( —Ed Park on Harold Lloyd’s silent-comedy classic, which celebrated its hundredth anniversary this week THE DAILY [Explicit Content]( A Look Back on a Raunchy Decade. This week, Karina Longworth launched Erotic ’90s, a season of podcast episodes that will dive into sexual morality in the era of Basic Instinct, Pretty Woman, and Henry & June (pictured). WATCH [Things get steamy in a collection of erotic thrillers now playing 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.]( © 2023 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003