"They walk and they talk and they like each other" is the most accurate description of the Before trilogy I've ever heard.

@massi6528

8 ай бұрын

I hope Rick Linklater doesn't read your comment.

@angelrojo6466

8 ай бұрын

Is it true that Criterion is going back and editing dialogue from older films that do not adhere to "modern audiences"?

@Walking_Ears

8 ай бұрын

@@angelrojo6466 No, it's not true. There's at least one instance of a film on Criterion channel that's streamed with original dialogue edited, but Criterion itself didn't make that change, they were provided the edited version by another company

@robertdegiorno8690

5 ай бұрын

Well i mean up until they dont like each other, yeah

Alden Eherenreich was a revelation in “Hail Caesar!” and “Oppenheimer”. An actor whose quality sneaks in in high powered ensembles. His depth of film knowledge was fun to watch. May he break out of the cinematic universe purgatory some Hollywood executive put him in.

@mouradlad

8 ай бұрын

He was so good in Hail Caesar that I want to send him back in time to actually be in those studio westerns

@blakeandcamp

8 ай бұрын

Him and Josh Hartnett stole every scene they were in in Oppenheimer, even with all the star power. Always thought Alden was underappreciated.

@mikeywalt8918

8 ай бұрын

You should watch Fair Play. He gives the performance of his career.

@zmani4379

8 ай бұрын

Very well put - I first noticed him in Tetro, one of Coppola's better recent movies, and a love letter to Buenos Aires -

@automatics1im

8 ай бұрын

@@mikeywalt8918 I will!

This guy is into films. I really, non-sarcastically appreciate someone with that level of love for film making. I love that Criterion is heralding the newer breed of filmmaker as well as cinematic lover. It's important to keep the spirit and love of film and film making alive and vibrant.

Would it 'twere so simple to make a career just to enter the Closet

@FastEddie86

8 ай бұрын

Beat me to it

@crackstuntman22

8 ай бұрын

Maybe he was talking about something...more important.

@ericwilson5161

8 ай бұрын

Great joke. Just, great.

@lukeshioshio

8 ай бұрын

Isn't it "would it were so simple?"

@FastEddie86

8 ай бұрын

@@lukeshioshio don’t ruin it

Alden really picked great choices especially Yi Yi and Colonial Blimp. And his sign off at 6:09 was 😅😅😅😅😅

@anti0918

8 ай бұрын

Colonel Blimp is perfection. I haven’t seen Yi Yi yet but I need to fix that.

“It feels almost like somebody is outside of life or like an angel is watching life itself”. This shook me to the core what a beautiful distinction to make

The man who appeared in the Han Solo movie and Oppenheimer is in the Closet? Cool. Nice choice of movies he selected.

@kinhamid9665

8 ай бұрын

Don't forget Hail Caesar!

Actively cheered when he chose Colonel Blimp. A wonderful film!

@wsampod

8 ай бұрын

Very much!

@youngspook9461

8 ай бұрын

Colonel Blimp is one of the greats

@roachboy8583

8 ай бұрын

I have been immersed in a BFI Powell & Pressburger season recently and Colonel Blimp is the Bomb.

“Who’d want to justify their whole life right?” His performance in Oppenheimer is just so good “Well they’re not.” Nolan gave him a lot of great lines too.

Great closet video. I loved his description of Cassavetes and Midnight Cowboy. Spot on.

I like how they've created ads with actors that people don't realize are just ads to sell Criterion.

First got into Criterion in 1991 when I was 16 and used my first job at Taco Bell to buy laserdiscs. Warms my heart that the Criterion tradition is still going strong.

I discovered Cassevettes on new years eve. Literally 45-60 seconds into Chinese Bookie I was inspired by the cinematography alone. He is the father of American independent filmmaking. Chinese Bookie and Shadows are my favorite of his.

I look forward to seeing where Alden's career leads

@MonkeyspankO

8 ай бұрын

oh yeah, I think he recovered from his association with the house of mouse

@garyfenlon5769

8 ай бұрын

@@MonkeyspankO nothing to recover from, 'SOLO' is a Great Blockbuster Movie and apart from 'Rogue One' is the ONLY Disney Star Wars film that captures some of the magic that the Original Trilogy had.

@davidcatlett4052

6 ай бұрын

I would have liked to have seen what those two other guys did with the Han Solo movie before everything was changed around. Their inspiration for it was the movie McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

@MonkeyspankO

6 ай бұрын

@@davidcatlett4052 Me too, there was a lot of potential in that film. The whole Solo's imperial service what have been interesting.

Love to see Alden in the Closet. Great actor with great Criterion film choices.

His outfit is really giving dad vibes

@ianwagner1912

8 ай бұрын

george lucas vibes

@jadasheekstyles2000

8 ай бұрын

Rich Evans George Lucas vibes

@creasefold1986

8 ай бұрын

@@jadasheekstyles2000 Its all that juicy Shaq meat

Rosalind Russell is amazing. She is the reason to watch George Cukor's "The Women" . Her comedic timing in both "His Girl Friday" and "Auntie Mame" is amazing.

i'm really excited to watch alden ehrenreich's directing career rise! he's giving huge warren beatty energy here to me, in terms of actor transitioning to a directing career, but it seems like he just loves the medium so much that he'll be bouncing through roles all throughout his career. how he talks about the movies, and the intentionality and spontaneity of what filmmakers are capturing, but also appreciating the naturalistic performances of the allan king films or the poise of cary grant in his girl friday leveraging his stage acting knowledge -- some folks just seem like good eggs and I'm hopeful for alden's career! this was a nice closet vid

These days, I love watching the way the guests slide the Blurays into their shoulder bags, as much as the selections themselves. Is that some sort of kink?!

@burgesssam

8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Holy mackerel, dude picked some surprising flicks. Outstanding.....

Love his work in "Rules Don't Apply."

finally! what a phenomenal actor that I wish more upcoming, young directors utilize in the future.

I’m so jealous of him being able to watch the ‘Before’ trilogy for the first time.

Man, he was amazing in "Hail, Caesar!", what a great role

I exclaimed “OOOH YESSS!!!” a little too emphatically with that last pick. One of my favorites!

I first saw Alden in Beautiful Creatures like a decade ago.... I always liked him

Again, someone who picks the John Cassavetes box - probably one of the most-picked objects from the closet. Just shows how extremely important he was for the development of independent cinema and cinema in general. My personal favorites are "A Woman Under the Influence" and "Love Streams", with the phenomenal Gena Rowlands.

Love his choices. Especially Colonel Blimp

OK, let's quickly talk about Yi Yi. This is considered one of two Edward Yang masterpieces, the other being A Brighter Summer Day (which sounds like a Guadagnino film, but isn't). It was made right at the turn of the millennium (I only watched it once, back around then) about a multi-generation Taiwanese family. It really is a movie about the millennium in a way few movies are and how Asian countries embraced both tradition and technology (much like Korea and Japan). First, the title. Yi means one, and Yi Yi is one repeated twice. If you know how two is written in Chinese, you could think of it as one written twice (it's two horizontal lines for two and one horizontal line for one). This could mean, for example, how two individuals don't quite make two, that there is a separation and desire. The movie centers around the patriarch of the family whose mother in law has just passed away (I think) and his wife takes time off to mentally recover. Meanwhile, he meets a childhood girlfriend (I think), sort of a PAST LIVES in reverse. She's gone to America, both have families, and she's come back for a visit. This movie is meaningful even if you don't know Chinese, but if you know Taiwanese and Mandarin or can recognize it, you hear it used. Many people who speak Taiwanese also speak Mandarin, and use Mandarin in different contexts. Taiwanese being more familiar and Mandarin in more official ways. It's a kind of code switch for Taiwanese speakers. The father in the movie works for a video game company in a technical role and they have a Japanese video game creator that works for the company come from Japan for a visit. So, how do they speak to one another? They talk in English. It's these language subtleties that can fly over the heads of those that don't know it well. Also, I'm skipping the daughter and her relationships and her relation to her grandmother (the one that passes away at the start of the movie). Alden makes a remark about this and compares it to Wings of Desire which may be a little more famous. This movie I haven't seen, but I do recall Siskel and Ebert's review of it. It is in German in black and white, and involves an angel watching a woman trapeze artist from afar? She doesn't know he's there. But who does know? Peter Falk. Falk can see this angel and speaks in English. I recally Siskel and Ebert loving this movie. Alden talks about Yi Yi and compares it to Wings of Desire in less than a minute. The guy really has an encyclopedic knowledge of movies, many of which were before he was born.

We love YOU a lot in every version of this as a miracle ✨🙌🏽❤️🙌🏽✨

Alden has never seen The Before Trilogy!?!?! Whoa!!!! 😮😮😮

I love the Lynchian soundscape of the Criterion Closet

Love the picks. I'd be right there with you watching.

_His Girl Friday..._ greatest comedy EVER! 🥰

This was my favorite Criterion closet episode. So good!

I know Criterion isn't the first place one goes to gush over Star Wars but him in Solo is just so *chefs kiss. Him, Donald and Emilia make it a personal favourite of mine the franchise

Fantastic picks ❤️

Heard he was playing Donathan in the upcoming Sinfeld game, and got so excited.

You know who else should visit the Criterion closet? This junior senator from Massachusetts…

Love the picks! ❤

I have got to watch more of Jimmy Stewart’s stuff. He was the star of my favorite Hitchcock film: Rear Window. Hitch’s funniest movie, Grace never looked more stunning and Thelma Ritter steals every single scene she’s in.

Young Han Solo's favorite actor is Jimmy Stewart?! He's got good taste. 👍

This was so interesting and endearing to listen to

Great choices.

“The before trilogy. Thats where they walk and they talk and they like each other a lot, right?” Yes exactly

Wish this guy was in my class. Seems to really appreciate cinema authentically.

“It’s very cool to be inside this closet after watching it on KZread many, many times.” @ 0:02. Somewhat similar. I am just hoping that I can get in the closet one of these days!!!

@GRAHFMETAL

8 ай бұрын

But you died 34 years ago

@LadyAmerican

8 ай бұрын

But I can come back as a ghost and you wouldn't notice!!! HA!!!

He's sooo so talented and gorgeous

Great choices!

great choices!

I wonder if he can now say "Would that it were so simple"

I dig his Sam Neill from Jurassic Park cosplay.

Dude loves the Aero!!! Incredible space for cinephiles

Yoo Alden picked up Yi Yi. This guy knows his movies, props to him. Glad some people like Ehrenreich and Sean Baker recognize Edward Yang's works

Midnight cowboy is THE movie that sparked the cinema boom in the 1970’s; literally rated x and won best picture.

This man-- Nice picks

One of the best actors in Hollywood

Please invite Hou Hsiao-hsien.

I will never understand why the collective narrative around Alden and the Solo movie tends to be, I don't know, like something went wrong. I think it's simply based around the fact that Solo didn't make a billion goddamned dollars at the box office because, holy shit, he was great in it. I thought it was a fantastic film, in and of itself, too. I think he's been remarkably great in everything I've seen him do. I can't even begin to imagine anyone else in his Hail Caesar! role. I'm also just noticing that I've begun every sentence with "I"... My apologies.

@SR-ob3wn

8 ай бұрын

You liked it? Cool. Most people hated it, thought he was woefully miscast and it lost tons of money. He seems like a nice enough guy though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@StanleyCullerEsq.

8 ай бұрын

@@SR-ob3wn I sincerely did. You know, after reading your reply, I went and read about the box office to see if it really bombed, or, if it bombed in comparison. It made almost $400 million at the box office, but it had a production budget of nearly $275 million, which is insane. Crazy to think that a $400 million return could still be a money loser, but here we are/lol.

@SR-ob3wn

8 ай бұрын

@@StanleyCullerEsq. If I remember correctly, after marketing etc it lost about $200 million. All these Hollywood budgets have gotten out of control. When a James Bond film costs $350 million to make and a 25 minute long She Hulk episodes cost $25 million each (more than game of thrones), you know Hollywood has completely lost their minds.

@StanleyCullerEsq.

8 ай бұрын

@@SR-ob3wn All it will probably take is a smart, low-budget movie to come out and have massive surprise box office to make the pendulum swing in the opposite direction.

@Njbear7453

8 ай бұрын

He is not han solo and he’s also Not Harrison Ford lol

Loved this

Good lord this man has an incredible rapport with the camera.

“Where be Yi Yi” 😂😂

It’s a Wonderful Life might just be my favorite movie

This was great

He knows his movies

Cool choices

Criterion invite Daisuke Beppu. Although i don't know what he'd take, he has everything.

loved you in Solo, no joke

PLEASE take a note from Amoeba's "What's In My Bag" and start inserting clips of the films they're talking about, especially if it's a specific scene. It's the only frustrating part of this series.

You know what would be neat? Once a month (or whatever) allow a fan of the channel have their time in the closet. You'd be adding something new and as well probably giving someone possibly a highlight of their life.

Off topic ... I would love a 4K for LOVE EXPOSURE

Love this kid.

Alden's an old soul, isn't he?

Alden is underrated

Colonel Blimp is sooooo good. Yi Yi too.

Tetro is my jam !

I want Solo 2 dammit! :-)

@benerationx

8 ай бұрын

oh man me too! that was a blast and by the end of it i felt he really made the character his own while also honouring Ford's Solo. not an easy job!

@carlosyamara

8 ай бұрын

Right?! I loved that movie so much. He was outstanding in it.

ALDEN THE GOAT!!!!!

SAG? How much do screenwriters typically make?

Where be Yi Yi?

Yi Yi 😍

At last i find out how to pronounce his name... It was easier than i thought

@linusfotograf

8 ай бұрын

As a lover of the German language I cringed a bit but that’s the way it is.

FINALLY! I know how to pronounce his fuckin name.

Dude is cool man 😎

…no Buffalo’66? Would like to see him in another movie with Vincent Gallo, I think they had great chemistry in Tetro.

love a married couple!!

Getting future director vibes

Dear Criterion why no Herzog movies in your collection? You have 3 about him but none of his work.

Wonderful to see a young artist who is articulate, passionate and actually appreciates great artists from the past, rather than stupidly, arrogantly and naïvely dismissing them.

*"Young Solo!'"*

Tetro release when?

@linusfotograf

8 ай бұрын

I love that movie.

Instant crush

Tetro--see it!

As I’ve become wiser I’m convinced jimmy Stewart was the greatest cinema actor of all time. So versatile

John Cassavetes 🙂

All those incredible films, pick my favorites you say? "If only it t'wer so simple." (I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist)

Oh...I see. 😏

People always yell about him playing a younger Han Solo but I thought he was damn good - he knew how to carry Solo’s arrogance and pride and the movie wasn’t entirely horrible like everyone wants to believe.

Tetro!!!

Han Salò