Now on the Criterion Channel, watch our 16-film celebration of legendary record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and 28-time Grammy winner Quincy Jones, who forged a hugely successful career as a film composer, changing the way that movies sounded with his eclectic scores. criterionchannel.com/scores-by-quincy-jones Encompassing jazz, blues, pop, funk, lounge, psychedelia, bossa nova, and beyond, his ultracool, sophisticated style graces classics like IN COLD BLOOD, IN THE HEAT OF THE

Now playing on the Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-mike-leigh The great prickly humanist of British cinema, Mike Leigh has forged a body of work unique in its concern for the struggles of ordinary people and the social fabric of working-class London. Famously born from a process of extensive improvisation with his powerhouse actors, Leigh’s films inhabit a register of tragicomic despair that, thanks to their unwavering compassion, never slips into miserabilism. |