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Coming Soon on Criterion: THE GREAT ESCAPE, HUSBANDS, DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
Also: 'Scorsese Shorts,' Paul Dano's 'Wildlife,' Eric Rohmer's 'Six Moral Tales.'
Review: THE DAYTRIPPERS Steers Into the Criterion Collection
Ultra-low budget indie comedy/drama stars Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber and Parker Posey.
Coming Soon on Criterion: ARMY OF SHADOWS, THE CREMATOR, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
'Me and You and Everyone We Know' and 'Destry Rides Again' will also see release in April 2020 from the Criterion Collection.
Blu-ray Review: LOCAL HERO Arrives on Criterion Blu-ray, A Cynical Delight
Is it the old-world Scottish charm? The delightfully murky eco-morality of it all? The chance to see Burt Lancaster acting all weird? What exactly is it that makes Bill Forsyth’s sublime 1983 film Local Hero click? The charm of it is almost as...
Review: Criterion's WHEN WE WERE KINGS Kills it on Blu-ray
When We Were Kings is an undeniably lean and mean piece of work; hard-hitting but not an attack, genuine while showcasing a grand hullabaloo. Boxing! Music! Ali! Foreman! Black power! Cinema power! In its tight eighty-eight-minute runtime, we casually witness the...
Blu-ray Review: THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE
The Criterion Collection has recently released The Story of Temple Drake, a film that was essentially lost to quite a few of us. It was adapted from the notorious William Faulkner novel "Sanctuary," and directed by Stephen Roberts (who made nearly...
Now on Blu-ray: OLD JOY, New Pleasures
Kelly Reichardt's beautiful tale of memory and friendship, now released on a lovely Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.
Blu-ray Review: ALL ABOUT EVE Shines
Back in 1950, famed Hollywood director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Dragonwyck, Suddenly, Last Summer) released the soon-to-be-classic tale of stardom and backstabbing, All About Eve. The film won a whopping six Academy Awards and garnered another 17...
Blu-ray Review: Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy Serves as a Brilliant, Ongoing Warning
As advertised, Germany’s “economic miracle” (translated from the native term “Wirtschaftswunder”) of the postwar era was something of an unforeseen godsend. In a short time, the defeated, decimated country saw a sharp spike in prosperity and wealth. The scars of...
Blu-ray Review: HAXAN Seduces in a Gorgeous 2K Restoration
Just in time for Halloween, Criterion has unleashed a new edition of the witchy classic, Haxan. Made in 1922, this Danish silent film directed by Benjamin Christensen --- and I'm shocked at how good this film looks on Blu-ray. The new...
Criterion in January 2020: Celebrating Directors Almodovar, Godard, Lumet and Cukor
The Criterion Collection will release 5 films by 4 directors on 2 different home video formats to start the year off right.
Criterion Whips out HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
In its day, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch fired a major salvo across a great divide that, nearly twenty years later, would prove to be eroded if not torn down -- not unlike the Berlin Wall itself. ...
Blu-ray Review: POLYESTER Stinks of Glory
Intro to Oderama Close those noses and thank sweet Blu-ray Jesus, Polyester - John Waters’ smellodramatic Sirkian assault on the suburbs - has arrived in 4K in all its technicolor glory to stink up your personal Criterion collections. I’m not...
Criterion in December 2019: A Suppressed Gem and a Massive Director's Cut
As we would hope, the Criterion Collection will conclude the calendar year with a bevy of goodies for dedicated film fans, including a suppressed gem and a massive director's cut. Let's start with the director's cut by Wim Wenders. The...
Blu-ray Review: 1984: Everything Old is New Again
One of the Criterion Collection's latest releases is the, well, 1984 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian classic, 1984. The story is as timely as ever, unfortunately. Lies are spun and accepted as truth. Slavery is freedom. Big brother is watching....
Criterion in November 2019: In COLD WAR and BETTY BLUE, Love Gets Heated
Also: 'The Daytrippers' and two Bette Davis essentials.
Blu-ray Review: KLUTE Channels an Era Ahead of its Time
I'd never seen Alan J. Pakula's 1971 film Klute before now. I had seen another of his films, All The President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford and was quite impressed. Looking at his filmography, I've even more amazed...
Criterion October 2019 Highlights Include MATEWAN, HAXAN, WHEN WE WERE KINGS
Three silent features from Josef von Sternberg are also promised.
