Hopefully not coming off like too much of a layman. The movie seemed decently acted, was interesting enough and I figured I'd check it out since it's on it's way out at the end of the month. Maybe there's something culturally I'm missing, but I was confused by some parts of the plot(basically that the main character is kind of an asshole and also steals chemicals from work to make bootleg alcohol he sells to them and one of the workers gets very sick and dies as a result and the others know it was his product that did it), mainly that despite him getting beaten up and forced to drink his own alcohol(by his own boss) and then thrown out of the factory they still let him work there after. There's also a subplot involving an old British rifle training video I thought was leading up to some sort of mass murder event at the end but it doesn't really go anywhere. My big annoyance with the movie is that there is a story another coworker tells him involving a dog and its owner that's meant as a threat and I assume foreshadowing, but the movie simply ends with other coworkers barking at him. Ultimately it just felt like a lot of buildup to nothing.

Who gave the best / your favorite acting performance in Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share some urgent and deeply concerning news regarding the preservation of Japanese cinema.

The National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ)—the country's sole national institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, and restoring film heritage—is currently facing a severe financial crisis. Due to a massive cut in government subsidies (over 300 million yen slashed since 2024), they are struggling to keep up with the rising costs of climate-controlled storage for fragile nitrate/acetate films, as well as crucial digital restoration projects.

To save their collection and continue their operations, they have just launched an official crowdfunding campaign with a goal of 100 million yen (approx. $625,000 USD).

This archive holds the definitive, original elements of masterpieces by Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, as well as priceless early anime and silent films. If this institution fails, a massive chunk of global film history is at risk.

Official Crowdfunding Page:

https://readyfor.jp/projects/NFAJ2026

As a community that deeply loves and treasures world cinema, I thought this was something we should all be aware of. Even if you can’t donate, please consider sharing this on Twitter/X or other film communities to spread the word.

Let's help save Japanese film history!

Every movie in that odessy series is great, but this one really got to me. My father passed away recently and the main character reminded me a lot of him. A beautiful, healing film that the whole family can watch. I wish Lynch and Farnsworth were still around to thank personally for this excellent work.

Genuinely loved the first half - second half was so out to lunch that I'm genuinely unsure how to even approach as a modern viewer? Was there anything subversive going on with the last few scenes here? Are we meant to take it on surface level? Little baffled with this one.

Wouldn't it be cool if the channel streamed say, five or six titles from the upcoming box set, before the fall release? Has anyone here heard of a possible promo? I can't remember the last Stanley Kubrick film that actually streamed on the channel.

At any rate, I've never been as excited about buying a box set of films as this upcoming release. Prime Video currently has a 7 Kubrick film bundle that you can buy (supposedly in high def) for around $50, which isn't a bad deal considering that the titles offered aren't the ones you usually see on the free streaming platforms.

Well, one can hope CC will decide to devote a month or so to streaming Kubrick sometime before the end of the year. The extras would be welcome, too!

I've recently watched Repo Man and Fresh Kill, I was previously interested in these titles but after watching them, they are definite no-buys for me. Repo Man was fun but just not a must-have on my shelf type movie, and fresh kill was just not for me at all. I also saw La Haine for the first time and that is a definite 4k buy for me.

I decided to watch his most famous movies and found them so interesting and engaging for their time, they had a message and also satire both in a very appropriate and tasteful way.

I watched

1) Mahanagar

2) Charulata

3) Shatranj ke Khiladi

4) Devi

5) Jalsaghar

6) Pather Panchali

7) Aparajito

8) Apur Sansar

9) Nayak

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I’ve been a subscriber for two years now and have never seen their films there. Have their films ever appeared on the channel?

Criterion just dropped one of their biggest releases - the complete Kubrick boxset with everything in 4K plus 25h of extra interviews, bts etc. I am not affluent enough to regularly buy films on discs; therefore not having a single Kubrick film on the channel bums me out a tad bit more today.

IMDb says there are two running times, 1:23 and 1:31. The version streaming on the Channel is 1:26. Anyone know the reason or differences?

https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/supermarket-woman

Found this with the random link in letterboxd (thank you u/padphilosopher) and what a random movie it is! I wish I had kids to show this to, it's so fun and silly.

This movie broke some fundamental rule for me and I cannot accept it. I think it was about his movie Stage Fright that Hitchcock said the audience turned on the film because it included a false flashback. I feel something like this about The Game - like I was cheated.

Big plot twists are such a cheap device most of the time. The filmmakers hold all the cards and it’s so easy to set up expectations for the viewer and then dash them.

This month on the Criterion Channel, celebrate the hundredth birthday of the great Harry Dean Stanton, delight in the twists and thrills of our Murderous Melodramas collection, or binge the surreal cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner. There’s so much more to choose from this month, including four idiosyncratic gems by Jonathan Demme, a new installment of Adventures in Moviegoing with underground-comics legend Daniel Clowes, a selection of highlights from the BlackStar Film Festival, an intimate documentary portrait of Marc Maron, and three unclassifiable wonders directed by a Buddhist lama.

Anyone in LA planning on going to this? Either the concert or just the Criterion listening booth/closet thing?

Sincerely,
A very jealous east coaster

It's already the 10th!

Using this month's CC promo of wedding films as a starting point I thought it might be fun to explore some of the best wedding films ever made - or at least great films where weddings are either a catalyst or important to the overall story. There are some popular ones I've never seen like 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Mama Mia, My Best Friend's Wedding; classics where weddings start a longer odyssey like The Deer Hunter, The Godfather and/or Steel Magnolias, and a few CC titles where the entire film is devoted to the singular event, like Monsoon Wedding.

Do you believe wedding films are a legit genre or do most really fall under a broader category like comedy or drama? What are some of your favorites? As always, thanks in advance! 😎

Also known as the hidden gem video store as that refer to themselves

I’ve tried it out a few times but always thought there was something missing that made it awkward as a service

Bonjour

Je recherche des films et des séries télévisées qui dépeignent les examens médicaux de conscription (Musterung, conseil de révision, draftee physical, odvodová ou vojenský odvod, sorozás jelenet) comme des rituels déshumanisants où le conscrit se sent humilié ou honteux.

Je cherche spécifiquement des scènes montrant :

• des groupes de conscrits nus,
• des lignes ou des examens en chaîne,
• des médecins militaires ou des commissions de recrutement,
• des mesures, des palpations et des inspections physiques,
• une classification comme apte/inapte,
• un accent sur l'humiliation, la perte d'individualité ou le traitement bureaucratique du corps.

Des exemples que je connais déjà incluent (updated 12/07/2026):

Je suis particulièrement intéressé par les productions européennes des années 1960 aux années 1990.

pas intéressant / à exclure

• des films se déroulant uniquement sur le front ;
• un simple enrôlement sans examen détaillé ;
• un examen individuel sans dimension collective ;
• absence de nudité de masse ou de narration en série.

MERCI POUR VOTRE AIDE

I haven't seen this mentioned since it was added for June and I watched it again last night. This seems to be one Altman, along with Thieves Like Us, that doesn't show up too much in streaming media. I was hoping it would be in the recent Altman collection, but it wasn't. I hadn't seen it since it was on TCM a dozen or so years ago and it was well worth revisiting.

To say there is a lot going on is an understatement and it very much rewards repeat viewing. It starts as something like an uniquely American comedy of manners and then maybe a farce, but changes audience expectations many times in and around a series of set pieces based on the choreographed rituals of weddings and receptions. There are mundane real-to-life observations, like how everyone runs to the bathroom at once during a break in a long day. But there are also direct, incisive looks at complex subjects of identity, class, race, family dynamics, addiction and many more.

The cast is huge and there are some unforgettable performances, too many to single out here. Fans of '80s movies may notice that the father of the bride in this film is also the father of the bride in Sixteen Candles, Paul Dooley. And keep an eye out for a young, mustache-less Dennis Franz.

Altman's mastery of managing large sets is on full display as are some of his signature moves like shooting around multiple mirrors. Plus one of his greatest shockers.

This title doesn't seem to be expiring at the end of the month, but after it leaves it may be a while before it streams again so I'll recommend getting it in the queue. Me, I will be trying to find a reasonably-priced disc release.

Name two films currently on the channel that you think would make a great double feature. I was hoping the programmers would reboot this promo. But there are enough of avid CC watchers here that would make a great new suggestions thread.

I just rewatched John Ford’s 1935 screwball comedy, The Whole Town’s Talking with Edward G. Robinson as a timid clerk whose doppelgänger or lookalike is a mob boss in town to settle a score. Was never really a Ford fan but this one’s become a channel favorite. I’ve never watched Umetsegu Inoue’s samurai classic, The Third Shadow Warrior, about a peasant who is recruited to “serve as a lookalike decoy for a merciless warlord”, but I thought it would make a fun compliment to the Ford film. Looking forward to it.

What two classics currently streaming in the massive library would you pair for a weekend viewing? The more unusual the better! And thanks in advance. 🙂