Mabou Mines will delight to this foundational work, a film that Lee Breuer filmed in Paris in 1968 -- and his son completed a half century later. I wrote about it for @nytimestheater: nytimes.com/2025/02/26/theat…

Time to pick May's #Criterion viewing! Already seen KILLER OF SHEEP and THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, so: 1 -- IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT/THE WIND WILL CARRY US 2 -- ROOM 666/ROOM 999 3 -- HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING/WITHNAIL & I 4 -- THE THREE MUSKETEERS/THE FOUR MUSKETEERS

Time to pick April's #Criterion viewing! I have already seen (deep breath) UGETSU, SOME LIKE IT HOT, CHUNGKING EXPRESS, BASQUIAT and ANORA, so it's down to a pair of Claude Berri period epics and an early Sean Baker. Thanks!

Time to pick March's #Criterion viewing! Plenty of action from Henri-Georges Clouzot, Michael Mann and Kazuki Omori, plus a Little Tramp-free Chaplin, an Arthur Penn noir (with Gene Hackman) and a romantic drama from Alan Rudolph. Thanks!

Time to pick February's #Criterion viewing! I've already seen PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, PERFORMANCE and CRONOS, so it's down to Shakespearean Godard, wistful Micklin Silver, lyrical Van Sant and unsettling Breillat. Thanks!

Fairly massive CHALLENGERS, SUBSTANCE and I SAW THE TV GLOW spoilers, so hold off if you need to, but this may be @davidehrlich's best countdown yet.

Time to pick January 2025's #Criterion viewing! I've already seen THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE and THE GRIFTERS, so it's down to a pair of Akira Kurosawa samurai films, Anthony Mann's noirish Western and Richard Pryor's semi-auto-biopic JO JO DANCER, YOUR LIFE IS CALLING. Thanks!

I am so upset with whoever discovered that MARISA TOMEI is an anagram for IT'S-A ME, MARIO!!

Time to pick December's #Criterion viewing! I've already seen 8 1/2 and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, so it's either an 1980s film from Wim Wenders or Sammo Hung, or a more recent offering from Bertrand Bonello or Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Thanks!

If I ever came up with a line as good as the various GREAT GATSBY adaptations "miss[ing] the green light for the trees," I would get it tattooed on my forehead. @Helen_E_Shaw just plunks it in the middle of a review and brilliantly moves on. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Time to pick November's #criterion viewing! I've already seen SEVEN SAMURAI and THE SOUND OF WATER, which leaves Ishiro Honda, Howard Hawks, Neo Sora, William Wyler (with one of the few major Broadway adaptations I haven't seen) and Peter Bogdanovich. Thanks!

I'll be discussing political plays like WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME and POTUS with my @WXXIrochester pals on "Connections" today at 1 p.m. Tune in for what should be a sprightly chat. wxxinews.org/2024-10-18/roch…