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Blu-ray Review: THE BREAKING POINT, Brutal, Merciless Melodrama on Criterion

Remakes are not always bad things. Take, for example, The Breaking Point, based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. First published in 1937, To Have and Have Not followed the adventures of Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain in Key...

Blu-ray Review: Criterion's MILDRED PIERCE Stuns

What exactly is Mildred Pierce? Is it a drama? A film noir? A proto-feminist declaration? You could argue that the Hollywood watermark is all of the above. Directed by Micaael Curtiz and starring the indomitable Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce is freshly out on...

Criterion in February 2017: Linklater's THE BEFORE TRILOGY, Almodóvar's WOMEN and More

Everybody loves Linklater!! OK, maybe not everybody, but even if the collaboration between Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, and Richard Linklater, doesn't speak to you from its highly personal viewpoint, the trilogy consisting of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight...