Criterion Confessions

A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.

Showing posts with label Nicholas Ray. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Nicholas Ray. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2020

THE LUSTY MEN - CRITERION CHANNEL

This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2014 . Equal parts modern western and prototypical sports picture, Nicholas Ray's 1952...

Sunday, February 23, 2020

LA CHINOISE - CRITERION CHANNEL

" We need to confront vague ideas with clear images ." - slogan painted on the wall in La Chinoise " In any case, you need ...

Saturday, June 24, 2017

THEY LIVE BY NIGHT - #880

The first feature from director Nicholas Ray, 1948’s They Live By Night prefigures his iconic Rebel Without a Cause as a story about t...

Sunday, May 1, 2016

IN A LONELY PLACE - #810

Note: The screengrabs here are from an earlier DVD release and not the Criterion Blu-ray being reviewed. Oh, the sick mind of a writer...

Friday, November 30, 2012

SIDELINE: MORE REVIEWS FOR 11/23

My reviews of non-Criterion movies for November. IN THEATRES... * Anna Karenina , in which Joe Wright goes as crazy as his heroin...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

BIGGER THAN LIFE - #507

"You're a poor substitute for Abraham Lincoln." That may have just leaped to the head of the pack for the best denouement of a...

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Jamie S. Rich: Author of prose novels and comic books like Cut My Hair, It Girl & the Atomics, You Have Killed Me, and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her. Jamie's most recent novel is the serialized book Bobby Pins and Mary Janes, and his most recent graphic novels are the sci-fi romance A Boy and a Girl with Natalie Nourigat; Madame Frankenstein with Megan Levens; and the weird crime comic Archer Coe & the Thousand Natural Shocks with Dan Christensen.

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