Jordan M. Smith

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Iris | Review

Summer Hours: In Life's Twilight, Maysles Looks at a Late Life Fashion Icon and Finds Love in Work, Marriage & Stuff Watching Iris, a...

Blind Woman’s Curse | Blu-ray Review

Equal parts yakuza revenge picture, sexualized exploitation romp, bakeneko (or ghost cat horror flick), and absurd comedy, Teruo Ishii’s bizarro Blind Woman’s Curse refuses...

Criterion Collection: Hoop Dreams | Blu-ray Review

"This is one of the best films about American life that I have ever seen", Roger Ebert famously stated during the first of many...

Crocodile Gennadiy | 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Review

Soviet Nostalgia: Hoover's Complex Portrait of a Ukrainian Vigilante Pastor Opens Cultural Can of Worms Steve Hoover’s sophomore feature opens on a Ukrainian industrial landscape...

Criterion Collection: Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida | Blu-ray Review

Long before he developed the still controversial cinematic technique of utilizing reenactments in The Thin Blue Line or his confessional-esque straight-to-lens Interrotron which was...

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Caught by the Tides | Review

The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across...

Black Tea | Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level...
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