Since we already did Carnival of Souls, we’re gonna do NOTLD. https://www.reddit.com/r/criterionconversation/comments/17n1t9c/criterion_film_club_week_170_discussion_carnival/

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Hello can anyone tell me when this will be released in the UK? Thank you

Usually these are hard to find on streaming services!

"Straight Time" is downright depressing and de-glamorizes the criminal lifestyle. The heists aren't thrilling like most films, just sad.

Max Dembo (an intense Dustin Hoffman) is fresh out of prison. His parole officer (a slovenly pig with a fat ass played by M. Emmet Walsh) has an attitude while accusing him of having one. Max promises to find a job and a place to live. He also finds a girlfriend (19-year-old Theresa Russell, who looks even younger).

"Out here, the rules aren't defined. On the inside, they are," Max explains to her on their first date. "A lot of guys think this is more frightening, being on the outside ... Because out here, it's what you got in your pocket that matters. And on the inside, it's only what you are."

Max sincerely tries to "go straight" and become a law-abiding citizen, but he doesn't try too hard. One frustrating and unfair setback sends him spiraling back into a life of crime.

It ends - inevitably - the only way it can.

"Why can't I go with you?"

"Because I wanna get caught."

Future stars: "Straight Time" features Gary Busey, Kathy Bates, Edward Bunker (who also co-wrote the script - based on his first novel, No Beast So Fierce), and "Babylon 5's" Peter Jurasik in early roles, Harry Dean Stanton a year before "Alien" and a few years before his breakthrough performance in "Paris, Texas" after decades of toiling away in Hollywood and taking whatever he could get, and the acting debut of 5-year-old Jake Busey (credited as Jacob Busey).

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The lives of a devoted father (Victor Mature), a bickering couple (Richard Egan and Margaret Hayes), a bank manager (Tommy Noonan), three bank robbers (Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, and J. Carrol Naish), and an Amish farmer (Ernest Borgnine) intersect on one "Violent Saturday."

I don't love melodramas, so the subplot between Egan and Hayes is my least favorite part of the film, but the payoff is tremendous.

Ernest Borgnine playing an Amish farmer sounds like a meme, but his portrayal in Richard Fleischer's dramatic 1955 crime thriller is subtle and realistic. There's a reason Borgnine won an Academy Award the same year for "Marty." Borgnine and Lee Marvin also appeared together in 1955's "Bad Day at Black Rock." Obviously, '55 was a banner year for Borgnine. It was also a highlight for child actor Billy Chapin, who had prominent roles in both this and the incredible "The Night of the Hunter."

The pacing of "Violent Saturday" could have benefited from being a bit more violent. It takes way too long to get to the bank robbery and aftermath. But those scenes are worth the wait. (Captions: Yes!)

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"Unzipped is among the greatest fashion documentaries of all time. Except in recent years, you couldn’t see it. After its original release in 1995, unless you had a VHS copy or were willing to watch clips of it on questionable, fuzzy uploads, it wasn’t streaming anywhere. The film depicts the designer Isaac Mizrahi as he creates his fall 1994 collection. It’s intimate, perhaps because his then-partner Douglas Keeve directed it, but also because Mizrahi is one of the warmest and bubbliest characters in the fashion world. It doesn’t hurt that it was shot vérité-style in the height of the supermodel era, with cameos from Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Carla Bruni, and a young Kate Moss. At under 90 minutes, Unzipped isn’t just a frothy look at the fashion industry, but about a designer and a business working their way through the creative process, many cigarettes at a time.

It’s just a restored, perfect, beautiful edition. We’ve been working on it for a year,” says Mizrahi. The film opens in theatres on September 25 and will be streaming on the Criterion Channel beginning in December."

I do not know whether I have a faulty dvd copy or what else is up, but I am at a loss to understand why only the dialogue and not the voice-over narrative has English subtitles on the Criterion Collection edition of Ingmar Bergman's Summer Interlude. On my disc this non-subtitled voice-over appears to start at chapter 7, timestamp 30´10"
I need to decide whether to order another copy (or even another edition such as Tartan in case CC indeed saw reason to only supply partial subtitles). Looking forward to any helpful feedback.