Eric Grode

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/the…

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

We got a new Pope

Jamie Lloyd’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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!

@theater_lovers Well, depending on where Merman is now, she might need to make a few of those CALL ME MADAM performances after all.

It’s fun to imagine that while Elaine Stritch is in heaven, she still has to commute to New Haven for tryouts of Pal Joey

I may be showing my age here but I thought once you made it to Oregon you and your family no longer died of dysentery.

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!

Think Of Meesa

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!!

Massive away win for the little fella.

I'd give anything to go back to a barter system. Which suggests I wouldn't fare well under a barter system.

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/…

@theater_lovers SWEET SMELL!: THE SUCCESS MUSICAL

Also retitled is Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUND: THE MUSIC MUSICAL

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!