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Rarely one finds a friend on the Criterion Channel—discounting the parasitic relationship we form with filmmakers, I mean—but it’s great seeing their March lineup give light to Sophy Romvari, the <bias>exceptionally talented</bias> filmmaker and curator whose work has perhaps earned comparisons to Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman but charts its own path of history and reflection. It’s a good way to lead into an exceptionally strong month, featuring as it does numerous films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the great Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara, newfound cult classic Arrebato, and a number of Criterion editions.

On the last front we have The Age of Innocence, Bull Durham, A Raisin in the Sun, The Celebration, Merrily We Go to Hell, and Design for Living. There’s always something lingering on the watchlist, but it might have to wait a second longer—March is an opened floodgate.

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Mubi is kicking off the new year with a selection of our 2021 highlights, including some of which haven’t picked up proper distribution yet. Most notably, their own release, Alexandre Koberidze’s dazzling What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, will premiere along with a New Voices in Georgian Cinema series. Also arriving is Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden, Ana Katz’s The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu, and Nino Martínez Sosa’s Liborio.

As part of a series of first films, they’ll also feature works from Janicza Bravo, Noah Baumbach, Garrett Bradley, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Terry Gilliam, and more. A double bill of Federico Fellini classics, Nights of Cabiria and The White Sheik, will also come to the platform.

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Nouchka van Brakel’s Masterpiece The Cool Lakes Of Death starring Renee Soutendijk and Derek de Lint premiering on Blu-ray & DVD May 11th From the acclaimed novel by Frederik van Eeden, The Cool Lakes of Death (Van de Koele Meren des Doods) is the magnum opus from pioneering feminist filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel. A celebrated …

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French actress Maria Schneider has died in Paris after a long illness reports Reuters. She was 58 years old.

Daughter of late French actor Daniel Gélin and model Marie-Christine Schneider, she became internationally famous at just 20 years old when she starred alongside then 48-year-old Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s infamous 1972 romance "Last Tango in Paris".

Other roles include Franco Zeffirelli’s 1992 adaptation of "Jane Eyre", Jacques Rivette's "Merry-Go-Round," Dominique Goult's "Haine," Nouchka van Brakel's "A Woman Like Eve," Cyril Collard's "Savage Nights", Josiane Balasko’s "Cliente", and Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" alongside Jack Nicholson.