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At Criterion, Don Hertzfeldt selects his top 10 titles:
I love this film! I was lucky enough to discover [Harold and Maude] when I was a little kid . . . It was one of the few VHS tapes my local library had, so I would just check it out over and over again. This used to be one of those titles you couldn’t wait to recommend to friends who’d never heard of them and then feel proud of yourself, but by now it seems like finally everyone’s heard of it. Criterion did a particularly beautiful job on this Blu-ray—even the main menu is lovely.
After reading our interview with Alexandre Aja, check out his take on The Shining at LA Times:
The first time I saw “The Shining” it changed my life.
There was a video club right down the street from us, a two- or three-minute walk from our house. As soon as I was old enough, my mother gave me permission to go to the video club and rent films. Even then I loved movies. I knew there was that section at the end of the store where they had all the horror movies. I remember the poster for “Evil Dead II” was the scariest thing I’d seen. I knew I was too young, I was kind of a scared kid and I had big nightmares so I didn’t even want to try to rent one of those.
Shoah will start streaming online for the first time ever at SundanceNow Doc Club beginning November 9th, Criticwire reports.
Watch Criterion’s video essay on Nobuhiko Obayashi‘s House:
At The Film Exchange, Will Harper reviews Rohmer in Paris, and shares the trailer:
Compiled almost entirely of clips from Rohmer’s back catalogue and edited together with Misek’s own obsessive narration, we get a true sense of what it is to be a cinephile. Misek’s own obsession with Rohmer came about purely by chance when he was accidentally caught on camera during the filming of ‘Rendezvous in Paris’ in 1995 where his own life mimicked the storyline of Rohmer’s characters, as he too was caught up in an illicit affair. This chance meeting is what sparked his interest and inspired him to watch Rohmer’s entire life’s work.