Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1560 followers · 14883 posts · Server mstdn.social#WhiteMaterial, 2009, directed by #ClaireDenis and starring #IsabelleHuppert is another look into the #HeartOfDarkness, this time that of the arrogance of #whiteDenial born of #whitePrivilege.
Marie chooses to ignore reality and believe she, her family, and their plantation will be safe even as a righteous reckoning closes in.
She clings desperately to what was never hers, and earns her just, brutal fate.
A tense, slow-burn of a #film on #TheCriterionChannel
#thecriterionchannel #Film #whiteprivilege #whitedenial #heartofdarkness #IsabelleHuppert #ClaireDenis #whitematerial
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1498 followers · 13397 posts · Server mstdn.social"How did someone like you produce a child who thinks so very, very much?" (also me, to my parents)
And that last #scene 👏🏿
#LosingGround is well-written and #acted, with a lot of really great #shots.
The #film covers #issues of #womanhood, #patriarchy, #race, #cultures, and more using serious #adult and #intellectual #dialogue that's still too rare in #Black #cinema.
I strongly recommend this #movie.
#thecriterionchannel #movie #cinema #black #dialogue #intellectual #adult #cultures #Race #patriarchy #womanhood #issues #Film #shots #Acted #losingground #scene
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1498 followers · 13367 posts · Server mstdn.social"Apparently, this is my first #incarnation as a #Negro. I must have built up a lot of #karmic #debt." 💀
#Movies #Film #cinema #black #thecriterionchannel #losingground #debt #karmic #negro #incarnation
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1498 followers · 13367 posts · Server mstdn.social
#NowWatching: #LosingGround, 1982, #DirectedBy #KathleenCollins on #TheCriterionChannel.
#Filmmaker #JustinSimien on Losing Ground:
https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/justin-simien-on-losing-ground
#justinsimien #filmmaker #cinema #black #thecriterionchannel #kathleencollins #directedby #losingground #nowwatching
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1498 followers · 13367 posts · Server mstdn.social#NowWatching: #Tampopo, 1985, #DirectedBy #JuzoItami, a "#Ramen #Western" on #TheCriterionChannel
#thecriterionchannel #western #ramen #juzoitami #directedby #tampopo #nowwatching
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1497 followers · 13331 posts · Server mstdn.social
I just started watching the #series, #SplitScreen, which originally ran 1997-2001 on #TheIndependentFilmChannel, and is now on #TheCriterionChannel.
The #trailer, and introduction by #producer and #author #JohnPierson, to this encore #presentation do give a good sense of the #show, based on the first #episode, and I look forward to watching all 60.
#episode #show #presentation #johnpierson #author #producer #trailer #thecriterionchannel #theindependentfilmchannel #splitscreen #series
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1496 followers · 13264 posts · Server mstdn.social#InSearchOfOzu, #TheCriterionChannel 2018, #DirectedBy #DanielRaimi, is an interesting, gentle look at #objects the #director #YasujiroOzu used in, and to create, his #films, done in a way that imbues the #inanimate with an #essence, a sense of #spirit, that let them #act as representations of the #artist and shows, literally, how they helped #Ozu express his ideas on #film.
#Documentaries like this #teach me how little I really know or understand about making #movies.
#Movies #teach #documentaries #Film #ozu #Artist #act #spirit #essence #inanimate #films #yasujiroozu #director #objects #danielraimi #directedby #thecriterionchannel #insearchofozu
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1467 followers · 12869 posts · Server mstdn.social
#NowWatching: #Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: #TakeOne, 1968, #DirectedBy #WilliamGreaves, presented on #TheCriterionChannel by #StevenSoderbergh.
A "one-of-a-kind #fiction / #documentary"..."one of the most tightly focused and insightful #movies ever made about making movies."
#Film #Trailer
https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one-trailer
The #movie:
http://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one
#filmmaking #black #movie #trailer #Film #Movies #Documentary #fiction #StevenSoderbergh #thecriterionchannel #williamgreaves #directedby #TakeOne #symbiopsychotaxiplasm #nowwatching
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1467 followers · 12869 posts · Server mstdn.social@MoiraEve It's amazing and I don't use my charter membership enough (humblebrag).
In solidarity with the striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA unions, though not something they've asked for, I've cancelled my AMPTP streaming memberships where I can, and deleted the apps for the ones I can't.
That has me finally working through my backlog on #TheCriterionChannel while, of course, adding more to my list 😂
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1429 followers · 12816 posts · Server mstdn.social#NeptuneFrost on #TheCriterionChannel is:
#GhostInTheShell, #TheMatrix, #RockyHorror, #BloodDiamonds, #HotelRwanda in an #African #prose, #poetry, #musical.
*with a heart ♥️
#Musical #Poetry #prose #african #HotelRwanda #blooddiamonds #rockyhorror #thematrix #ghostintheshell #thecriterionchannel #NeptuneFrost
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1429 followers · 12816 posts · Server mstdn.socialWow!
#NeptuneFrost is amazing! A #dream, beautiful, blunt, and #surreal, it touches on universal topics of #gender, #politics, #exploitation, #oppression, #economics, #technology, #love, #resistance, and more.
Great #cinematography, #primal #electronic #soundtrack, #poetic, #lyrical, razor sharp, #writing, stunning #costumes and #SetDesign combine to create something new in #cinema.
Why isn't this everywhere in #Nonbinary, #Trans, #Genderqueer and other #communities?
#thecriterionchannel #communities #surreal #dream #genderqueer #Trans #NonBinary #cinema #setdesign #costumes #lyrical #poetic #Writing #Soundtrack #electronic #primal #cinematography #resistance #love #Technology #economics #oppression #exploitation #Politics #gender #NeptuneFrost
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1429 followers · 12816 posts · Server mstdn.social"The worker pays the price, it seems."
"That old Black-bodied currency."
#NeptuneFrost #TheCriterionChannel #Afrofuturism #Film #Movie
#movie #Film #afrofuturism #thecriterionchannel #NeptuneFrost
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1405 followers · 12787 posts · Server mstdn.social#NowWatching: #NeptuneFrost, 2021, #DirectedBy #SaulWilliams and #AnisiaUzeyman, part of the #Afrofuturism #series on #TheCriterionChannel
#Movie #Trailer: https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/neptune-frost-trailer
#Film: http://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/neptune-frost
Series #teaser: https://www.criterionchannel.com/afrofuturism/videos/afrofuturism-teaser
#Black people will exist in every possible #future in which #humans exist.
#humans #future #black #teaser #Film #trailer #movie #thecriterionchannel #series #afrofuturism #anisiauzeyman #saulwilliams #directedby #NeptuneFrost #nowwatching
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1399 followers · 12707 posts · Server mstdn.socialThe most devastating #movie about #war.
Relentless, a discordant, disconcerting barrage of sounds and images leading you before you realize what's happening into a #cinematic experience unlike any other I've experienced.
Should be required viewing before any who haven't experienced #warfare can advocate for war.
#SovietUnion #Germany #Belorussia #WW2 #Masterpiece
#ComeAndSee on #TheCriterionChannel and #YouTube
https://www.criterionchannel.com/come-and-see/videos/come-and-see-trailer
#YouTube #thecriterionchannel #comeandsee #masterpiece #ww2 #Belorussia #Germany #sovietunion #warfare #cinematic #War #movie
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1399 followers · 12707 posts · Server mstdn.social
A long-forgotten, recently highlighted #movie that showcases #Method #acting and delivers a devastating emotional experience is #Wanda, the most heartbreaking #film I've seen on this list (I've only seen 7, so far).
#MethodActing on #TheCriterionChannel
#thecriterionchannel #Methodacting #Film #wanda #Acting #method #movie
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1399 followers · 12707 posts · Server mstdn.social
#IntroToMethodActing on #TheCriterionChannel makes clear that the boorish, often bordering on violent, behavior of many current #Method #actors isn't Method, at all, but an excuse for their shitty, insecure, personalities.
#actors #method #thecriterionchannel #introtomethodacting
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1389 followers · 12350 posts · Server mstdn.socialI'm a charter member of #TheCriterionChannel but only watch a few #movies every 2-3 months.
The last decade of my life may have been the most unsettled time of my unsettled life; a series of massive upheavals, like catastrophic earthquakes.
Now, as I enter the winter of my life, it's often difficult to sink into dark, serious movies, which I used to love (#Melancholia and #Moonlight reflect my soul).
I often feel not quite enough at peace to find my stillness and easily lose myself in #films.
#films #moonlight #melancholia #Movies #thecriterionchannel
Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
1387 followers · 12327 posts · Server mstdn.socialI just watched the #trailer for #Godland, a #2022 joint #Icelandic / #Danish #film #DirectedBy #HylnurPálmason
The description has a quote from a #Variety review comparing it to #ThereWillBeBlood. The #plot description and trailer make it seem also like #ThePoisonwoodBible.
Seems intense, in a good way.
#thecriterionchannel #thepoisonwoodbible #plot #ThereWillBeBlood #variety #hylnurpalmason #directedby #Film #danish #Icelandic #godland #trailer
Brooks Seymore · @industrialmoth
2 followers · 11 posts · Server mastodon.social
Tonight's film was Fritz Lang's thriller MAN HUNT (1941) starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, and a young Roddy McDowell. #Film #TheCriterionChannel #CriterionChannel
#film #thecriterionchannel #criterionchannel
Pirate Bear · @ewisniowski
7 followers · 44 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
Just so you know, I spend plenty of time watching all sorts of goofy films on #TheCriterionChannel, including these great classics from Ishiro Honda.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-ishiro-honda
🏴☠️ 🐻
#thecriterionchannel #saturdaymatinee