As I've proposed many times, the Criterion Channel introduces me to so many films and directors and actors that I'd never see elsewhere. This also relates to documentaries, and last night I watched a wonderful one: Thierry Fremaux's 2025 Lumiere, Le Cinema! It tells the story of the Lumieres, especially Louis, and the origins of cinema. It must show all of some of a hundred of the Lumiere 50 second films (usually of events in real life, although some more staged). The narrator was classically French, so there's a lovely running commentary on aesthetics and references so many artists and thinkers (Proust, naturally, the Renoirs, both Auguste and Jean; Fellini; Rossellini, etc.). It's amazing how beautifully preserved the films were, especially since some of them are 130 years old. Essential for film nuts.
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