As much as we adore and revere the theatrical experience, as theater chains prep to reopen amidst a virus that is spreading rapidly in certain areas of the country, one is far better off staying at home and enjoying films from around the world. There’s no better place to do that than The Criterion Channel, and now they’ve unveiled their July lineup.
Coming to the channel next month are retrospectives dedicated to the stellar early films of Atom Egoyan, works by Miranda July, films featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto scores, Olympic films (including their recent release Tokyo Olympiad), plus Kelly Reichardt’s masterful Certain Women, Med Hondo’s Soleil Ô (coming soon to disc with Scorsese’s next World Cinema Project release), Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and much more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
Coming to the channel next month are retrospectives dedicated to the stellar early films of Atom Egoyan, works by Miranda July, films featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto scores, Olympic films (including their recent release Tokyo Olympiad), plus Kelly Reichardt’s masterful Certain Women, Med Hondo’s Soleil Ô (coming soon to disc with Scorsese’s next World Cinema Project release), Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and much more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
- 6/26/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I just learned, via the Africa Is A Country blog, that French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche is working on a film centered on the story of Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman, otherwise derogatorily known as the Hottentot Venus.
The film titled Black Venus, will be the first feature film with Baartman as its subject – at least, that’s what my research tells me – the closest being a 2006 independent erotic film called Afrodite Superstar, directed by a feminist filmmaker (Abiola Abrams) who adopted the name Venus Hottentot to direct the film, with the intention of “reclaiming the strength and voice of Sarah Baartman as a sexually-exploited woman of color.”
I couldn’t find much info on Kechiche’s Black Venus project, however, I did find it odd that the cast members on the film’s IMDb page doesn’t list a Saartjie Baartman (or even Hottenton Venus) as a character. All I see is...
The film titled Black Venus, will be the first feature film with Baartman as its subject – at least, that’s what my research tells me – the closest being a 2006 independent erotic film called Afrodite Superstar, directed by a feminist filmmaker (Abiola Abrams) who adopted the name Venus Hottentot to direct the film, with the intention of “reclaiming the strength and voice of Sarah Baartman as a sexually-exploited woman of color.”
I couldn’t find much info on Kechiche’s Black Venus project, however, I did find it odd that the cast members on the film’s IMDb page doesn’t list a Saartjie Baartman (or even Hottenton Venus) as a character. All I see is...
- 4/22/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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