With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Author: The Jt Leroy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig)
Author: The Jt LeRoy Story relives the literary hoax of the early aughts, the truly weird and out of control tale of Jt LeRoy. An allegedly gender-fluid HIV positive son of a West Virginia truck stop hooker, he rose to the heights of indie stardom befriending the likes of Courtney Love, Shirley Manson, Lou Reed, Michael Pitt, Billy Corgan and filmmakers Gus Van...
Author: The Jt Leroy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig)
Author: The Jt LeRoy Story relives the literary hoax of the early aughts, the truly weird and out of control tale of Jt LeRoy. An allegedly gender-fluid HIV positive son of a West Virginia truck stop hooker, he rose to the heights of indie stardom befriending the likes of Courtney Love, Shirley Manson, Lou Reed, Michael Pitt, Billy Corgan and filmmakers Gus Van...
- 12/9/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Each week, the fine folks at Fandor add a number of films to their Criterion Picks area, which will then be available to subscribers for the following twelve days. This week, the Criterion Picks focus on eight films from Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Fall in love with a giant of New German Cinema with a selection of curated highlights from the prolific yet truncated career of iconoclast director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise, and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats The Soul,...
Fall in love with a giant of New German Cinema with a selection of curated highlights from the prolific yet truncated career of iconoclast director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise, and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats The Soul,...
- 9/29/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Above: German poster for The American Friend (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1977).
Running concurrently with the Berlin International Film Festival, at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, there is a beautiful exhibition of some fifty posters by husband and wife graphic artists Margrit and Peter Sickert, who sign their posters simply “Sickerts.” In a year in which the festival seems to have been less than rosy for the old guard of the New German Cinema, it is nice to see some of the posters from the movement’s heyday on display.
The Sickerts, who attended the opening of the exhibition, created over 300 posters from the 1960s to the 1990s in a wide variety of styles ranging from hyperrealist illustration to monochrome photographic minimalism. Their painting of Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz for Wim Wenders’ The American Friend—which for years I thought was by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert who did many of...
Running concurrently with the Berlin International Film Festival, at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, there is a beautiful exhibition of some fifty posters by husband and wife graphic artists Margrit and Peter Sickert, who sign their posters simply “Sickerts.” In a year in which the festival seems to have been less than rosy for the old guard of the New German Cinema, it is nice to see some of the posters from the movement’s heyday on display.
The Sickerts, who attended the opening of the exhibition, created over 300 posters from the 1960s to the 1990s in a wide variety of styles ranging from hyperrealist illustration to monochrome photographic minimalism. Their painting of Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz for Wim Wenders’ The American Friend—which for years I thought was by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert who did many of...
- 2/14/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Stroszek
Written an directed by Werner Herzog
Germany, 1977
You really can’t go wrong with any of the 16 titles included in Herzog: The Collection, the recently released limited edition Blu-ray set. This stunning compendium features several of the incomparable Werner Herzog’s finest fiction and documentary films (including many that fall somewhere between those categories), most available for the first time on Blu-ray. Though the strongest cases could be made for Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, it would be difficult to necessarily pick the “best” film included here, but one movie that has always stood out as being among Herzog’s most unusual is Stroszek, from 1977. Well received upon its release, and now recognized as one of the German filmmaker’s finest films, Stroszek is something of an enigma in Herzog’s career full of enigmatic works.
The picture follows three Berliners as they flee their homeland for...
Written an directed by Werner Herzog
Germany, 1977
You really can’t go wrong with any of the 16 titles included in Herzog: The Collection, the recently released limited edition Blu-ray set. This stunning compendium features several of the incomparable Werner Herzog’s finest fiction and documentary films (including many that fall somewhere between those categories), most available for the first time on Blu-ray. Though the strongest cases could be made for Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, it would be difficult to necessarily pick the “best” film included here, but one movie that has always stood out as being among Herzog’s most unusual is Stroszek, from 1977. Well received upon its release, and now recognized as one of the German filmmaker’s finest films, Stroszek is something of an enigma in Herzog’s career full of enigmatic works.
The picture follows three Berliners as they flee their homeland for...
- 8/20/2014
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
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