Criterion Confessions

Toni is the 1935 drama from revered French director Jean Renoir. By his own admission (as seen in the intro included on this disc), Toni w...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2012. "' Give me time and I will dig a hole for you,' said the wo...

Released in 1976, Canoa: A Shameful Memory is considered a milestone of Mexican cinema, influencing future filmmakers (Guillermo del T...

Criterion fans know the name Ermanno Olmi from his excellent Neorealist films, Il posto [ review ] and I fidanzati [ review ], small dra...

There’s a scene near the very end of The Kid With aBike where the titular kid, Cyril (Thomas Doret), is riding side by side with his un...

My thing about movies that are about movies is that the good ones make me want to watch other movies. If I watch The Bad and the Beautif...

NeoRealism meets noir in Giuseppe De Santis’ 1949 crime drama Bitter Rice . The bulk of the story is set in the rice fields of Verce...

While I would eventually like to review each film of the Apu Trilogy in full, in the meantime, I am reposting my short review from The Oreg...

There are many scenes in La dolce vita that get referenced over and over, including its bizarre ending and Anita Ekberg’s famous dance i...