Criterion Confessions

This review was originally written in 2008 for DVDTalk.com . Sophia Loren made three films with Italian Neorealist pioneer Vittorio De Sica ...

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...

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...

Okay, so maybe Kenji Mizoguchi's 1948 drama Women of the Night wasn't the best choice for a Saturday evening's entertainmen...

Wow, I have been so out of it in November, I never even posted a list of movies I reviewed in October! My apologies for being drag-ass this ...

When Criterion was releasing their most recent Eclipse set, Raffaelo Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas , a fellow Portland-based film criti...

There was no post here on the blog last week, so I have fallen a bit behind again. As you'll see in the monthly round-up, it's not f...

A round-up of my reviews for non-Criterion movies in the past month. IN THEATRES... * The Beaver , Jodie Foster directs Mel Gibson, who talk...

I'm a cat person. Anyone who knows me will tell you. Hell, anyone who has read my fiction can tell you, too. Only my odd little book I W...