All posts tagged "Criterion Collection"
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Disc Reviews
Criterion Collection: Diamonds of the Night (1964) | Blu-ray Review
May 7, 2019There’s a reason director Jan Nemec’s name isn’t immediately conjures in superficial conversations on the Czech...
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Criterion Collection: A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Blu-ray Review
April 30, 2019“There’s nothing as trustworthy as the ordinary mind of the ordinary man,” is the haunting mantra...
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Criterion Collection: Japón (2002) | Blu-ray Review
April 16, 2019Nearly two decades after the acclaim it received in Un Certain Regard at the 2002 Cannes...
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Criterion Collection: Wanda (1970) | Blu-ray Review
March 26, 2019A director and a film unfortunately stymied shortly after its premiere, Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) remains...
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Disc Reviews
Criterion Collection: Detour (1945) | Blu-ray Review
March 26, 2019An old American proverb reads “Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.”...
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Criterion Collection: To Sleep with Anger | Blu-Ray Review
March 19, 2019Interlopers have long been meddlesome disruptors in cinema and literature. From those whose presence is expected...
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Disc Reviews
Criterion Collection: La Vérité (1960) | Blu-ray Review
February 26, 2019What is the truth? And can you handle it? Notions of truth, perspective and judgment have...
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Criterion Collection: Mikey and Nicky (1976) | Blu-ray Review
February 5, 2019Of the four noted directorial efforts from writer-director Elaine May, whose career behind the camera ended...
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Criterion Collection: Panique (1946) | Blu-ray Review
January 8, 2019Initially a box office flop and critical failure, French auteur Julien Duvivier’s 1946 title Panique is...
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Criterion Collection: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) | Blu-ray Review
January 1, 2019As John Simon’s insert essay “The Lower Depths” asserts in Criterion’s Blu-ray re-release of Ingmar Bergman’s...