#Criterion Theater

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The silent Paramount picture The Covered Wagon, starring Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson and produced by Jesse Lasky, at the Criterion Theater, 1923.

Photo: Masheter Movie Archive/Alamy

[orlaite]

No waaaay Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) reference

[madman731]

Movie time again!

[francis-mulcahys-angels]

Idk if there’s a criterion release of Stop Making Sense but I need it to be a thing like how True Stories has a criterion release, it just makes sense

[this-is-the-ticket]

025 Show Notes

Ilona Maher's TikTok

USA Women's Gymnastics video

Aly Raisman's video on gymnastics scoring

Men's Canoe Slalom 2024

COOL RUNNING'S, MAN!

Nodar Kumaritashvili - the luger who died in 2022

Top Banned Gymnastics Moves lol

The banned move Casey refers to is a Thomas Salto, the Russian gymnast he refers to is Yelena Shushunova - here is her at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she successfully completes the Thomas Salto at 1:05

Why do these people run for 24 hours in a basement?

Fast may allow you to reset your circadian rhythm faster according to this 2016 article lol

In Defense of Taste - CASEY'S SUBSTACK BABY!

She Came to Me Trailer

Casey's review of She Came to Me

TOXIC AVENGER WITH OUR BOI DINKLAGE!

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore trailer

Peter Dinklage Peter Dinklage Peter Dinklage

The Emotional Bank Account

Start paying attention to the bids in your relationship

The video Ari watched that mentioned Limerence

As cliche as it is now, James Clear was a huge influence on Ari after college.

Criterion 40 is upon us

Malia Obama is 26. She was born on Independence Day.

The critical reception of Last Man Standing is hilarious

VHS vs Laserdisc Star Wars

Article on Hezly Rivera's gold medal win

Article on Kerri Strug's 1996 injury

Ian Gunther's video on the Men's Gymnastics selection

Pommel Horse Guy lol

Japan won gold in men's artistic team all-around, China won silver.

Casey said "Matthew Brody," his name is Brody Malone

Aly Raisman's last Olympics was 2016.

"Why is Team USA so bad at 3x3 basketball?"

Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter doing Waiting for Godot

Ari is full of lies! Steve Martin & Robin Williams doing Waiting for Godot video!

Pauly Shore being annoying about Richard Simmons

Ramon Novarro, pioneering Mexican actor

Casey's Criterion 40 SPREAD SHEET FOR YOU NERDS!

Winona Ryder's Criterion Closet

[marisatomay]

Anti-intellectuals are always making up a cinephile that can’t shut up about experimental short films that only screen once every ten years at a specific theater in Toronto and no you’re not invited because they’re better than you meanwhile the Criterion Channel and I are both trying to get people to watch Cocktail (1988)

[dyke-o-matic]

So you saw fell in love with Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon and now you want her on your screen as much as possible? I’m here to help.

Certain Women directed by Kelly Reichardt

This was the first time I saw Lily Gladstone in anything and I screamed about her specifically for days. The film is segmented into three stories about women living in the northwestern plains region of the US. All three segments are good, but Lily Gladstone’s is by far my favorite. She plays a ranch hand who starts sitting in on a night school law class when she develops a crush on the teacher, played by (bonus!) Kristen Stewart.

Certain Women is streaming on The Criterion Channel, AMC+, and Kanopy (Kanopy is free!). It is also available to rent on the major platforms.

The Unknown Country directed by Morrisa Maltz

This movie is stunning. Think Nomadland but even more stripped down. Lily Gladstone plays a character on a roadtrip to reunite with her estranged family after the death of her grandmother. Along the way she tries to learn more about who her grandmother was in life and reconnect with her memory. A lot of the film is unscripted, and breathtaking shots of the western US landscape punctuate the brief encounters she has at each stop on her journey.

The Unknown Country is available to rent on the major platforms such as Apple TV, Amazon, and YouTube.

Quantum Cowboys directed by Geoff Marslett

This one’s for the multiverse fans. A really fun romp that might make your head hurt if you think about it too hard. Lily Gladstone plays a character in the 1870’s southwest who encounters a pair of travelers stuck in a time loop (sort of). She enlists their help (sort of) in a plan to recover land that was taken from her and in return helps them in their attempt to break their cycle. Most of the film is rotoscope animation, so it’s a completely different type of a performance from Lily Gladstone. I had the extraordinary luck of meeting her at a festival screening last year and they said it was such a fun deviation from their usual hyper realistic work.

Quantum Cowboys is available to rent on major platforms such as Apple TV, Amazon, and YouTube.

Fancy Dance directed by Erica Tremblay

The most recent Lily Gladstone film to blow me away, and maybe my favorite film of 2023. Lily Gladstone plays a character who has been trying to find her missing sister while simultaneously providing care for her sister’s daughter. When it appears she may lose custody, the two hit the road to search for the teen’s mother. It’s sad and sweet and beautiful. I have to warn that the subject matter is heavy and all too real but that’s why it’s an important story. It’s about something that is so pervasive, yet people outside of the community affected turn a blind eye to it.

Fancy Dance can be seen in select theaters and is now streaming on Apple TV+. Erica Tremblay previously directed Lily Gladstone in the short film Little Chief, which can be found on Vimeo.

[tbhclove]

You’re So Dark - Live Perfomances

San Diego, CA, USA (The Observatory) - May 2, 2018

videos: 1, 2, 3, 4

Los Angeles, CA, USA (Hollywood Forever Cemetery) - May 5, 2018

videos: 1, 2, 3, 4

Brooklyn, NY, USA (Brooklyn Steel) - May 9, 2018

video: x

Berlin, Germany (Columbiahalle) - May 22, 2018

videos: 1, 2, 3

Oklahoma City, OK, USA (The Criterion) - October 10, 2018

videos: 1, 2

Houston, TX, USA (Revention Music Center) - October 12, 2018

video: x

Seattle, WA, USA (WaMu Theater) - October 23, 2018

video: x

[letzternachtzug]

ANGELINA JOLIE ph. by Jim Smeal - taken during the 'Playing God' premiere at the Criterion Theater, New York. October 14, 1997

[sincericida]

«A charming visit from ANDREW GARFIELD! ✨

You can see him in John Crowley's "WE LIVE IN TIME", playing in theaters now c/ o A24.»

(Criterion Collection tt)

[scavengedluxury]

Junction of 7th Avenue and 44th Street, with the Criterion Theater in the foreground, New York, 1990. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Employees of the Fleischer Studios picket the New Criterion Theater to protest the showing of Popeye and other cartoons drawn by striking Fleischer artists, 1937. The five-month strike led to the first union contracts in animation, a later strike at the Disney studios, and groundbreaking new works from frustrated employees who left these animation shops to set out on their own.

Photo: Getty Images/Business Insider

[eardefenders]

The Criterion Bar

The site where we meet our narrator, John Watson, and where John runs into Stamford leading to his meeting with Sherlock Holmes, The Criterion Restaurant and Bar has been around since 1873. It was conceived as a restaurant with ancillary rooms for events. The original building has a theater in the basement, a long bar on the ground floor, dining on the 1st and 2nd floors, and a ballroom on the third floor.

The restaurant and bar has been a favorite among the rich, famous, the everyday populous, and the literary stop for many characters over the years. It's an opulent place and quite deserved of it's reputation as a place of fine food and even finer wines.

Currently, it has been reimagined as the fourth restaurant in a series of mid-market fine dining Indian food establishments serving delicious, reasonably priced, authentic Indian food.

Below are some images of The Criterion over the years down to the current interior and what we can imagine it was like inside when John ran into 'Stamo'.

Also here's the travel time from 221B Baker Street to Masala Zone (The Criterion Restaurant and Bar).

And the plaque commemorating John's meeting with Stamford that hung over one of the tables (I believe it has been removed since the current owners took over.)

[madman731]

More Theater and TV Viewings

[waitingforseason5]

Dethklok will hit the road for their Mutilation on a Spring Night tour this April and May, and they're taking Dragonforce and Nekrogoblikon with 'em. Tickets are available here.

4/7 – Myrtle Beach, SC, at House of Blues 4/8 – Charlotte, NC, at The Fillmore 4/9 – Silver Spring, MD, at The Fillmore 4/11 – Columbus, OH, at KEMBA Live! 4/12 – Cincinnati, OH, at The Andrew J Brady Music Center 4/14 – Indianapolis, IN, at Egyptian Room @ Old National Center 4/15 – Waukee, IA, at Vibrant Music Hall 4/16 – Kansas City, MO, at Uptown Theater 4/17 – Oklahoma City, OK, at The Criterion 4/19 – Albuquerque, NM, at Revel Entertainment Center 4/20 – Flagstaff, AZ, at Pepsi Amphitheater 4/21 – Riverside, CA, at Riverside Municipal Auditorium 4/22 – San Diego, CA, at The Observatory North Park 4/28 – Spokane, WA, at The Podium 4/30 – Billings, MT, at Metra Park Arena 5/1 – Idaho Falls, ID, at Mountain Center Arena 5/2 – Garden City (Boise), ID, at Revolution Concert House and Event Center 5/3 – Portland, OR, at Roseland Theatre

[chthonic-cassandra]

more generally, though.

some hard things:

the state of the goddamned world and all the places I can't do anything of substance to make things better

this deep pit of my trauma, shivering as I look down into it, unable to see to the bottom

secrecy & aloneness & feeling different from other people & c

[x]

assorted work stuff

feeling that I will never stop being tired, that I will never find a way to get enough rest

missing making theater

missing academic library access, and doing academic writing

trauma & sex nonsense

some good things:

day off tomorrow, vacation in less than two months

assorted other work things

flowers flowers flowers

walking from the train to work today in my boots and my gray wool skirt with my coat open and the wind blowing at my scarf

not being pregnant! and knowing that if I was my right to make that stop is protected! (a thing to be celebrated and cherished when it is true)

wanting to bake so many things!

wanting to write so many things!

generally just having access to the experience of wanting

apartment is still the best apartment ever

chocolate

tea

the Criterion Channel

spiders