The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: Fast cars and gaslight noirs

Plus: Andrew Bujalski’s Top 10, a new essay by Jonathan Lethem, and an interview with Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew [Current]( HIGHLIGHTS OCTOBER 8, 2023 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion’s online magazine. Happy reading! [A Decade on the Road]( Car Movies of the 1970s. Amid the anxiety and social turbulence of the Nixon era, films like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Last Run, and Le Mans served to explore and embody the contradictions of American masculinity. By Christina Newland WATCH [The Criterion Channel’s ’70s Car Movies lineup features films by Gordon Parks Jr., Steven Spielberg, Jacques Tati, and Peter Weir.]( [Out of the Past]( Gaslight Noir’s Sinister Pleasures. A cycle of films from the 1940s and ’50s combine twisted crime narratives with romance and late-nineteenth-century settings. By Farran Smith Nehme WATCH [Thirteen gaslight-noir classics are now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( [Andrew Bujalski’s Top]( 10 The writer-director of Computer Chess and Support the Girls lets his eye and heart wander freely through our collection, and comes up with a list of films he admires. READ MORE [In an article from 2018, Bujalski describes the surreal power of a scene in Opening Night.]( [Mad World]( The Audacious Kafka Adaptation That Orson Welles Considered One of His Best Films. The great director found a cinematic language equal to the vertiginous effects and subterranean perversity of The Trial. By Jonathan Lethem READ MORE [Lethem takes on another brilliant literary adaptation in Welles’s oeuvre:Â]( Magnificent Ambersons.]( [Screen Warp]( Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew in Conversation. In the work of this New York–based filmmaking duo, the internet is an omnipresent force in everyday life, radically distorting our perceptions and desires. By Maya Binyam WATCH [Durand and Chew’s films are now playing on the Criterion Channel.]( OLDIE BUT GOODIE [“It’s both timeless and specific, a story about falling in love that is also a tale of identity and self-definition.”]( —Dennis Lim on Andrew Haigh’s Weekend. The director’s new film, All of Us Strangers, will be released in December. THE DAILY [The Return of Víctor Erice]( The Director’s First Film in Over Thirty Years. Traces of the eighty-three-year-old filmmaker’s life and career emerge throughout Close Your Eyes, which screened in the New York Film Festival this week. WATCH [David Hudson gathers reviews of Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary.]( 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