Criterion Confessions

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2013.  " For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those wh...

This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2014. Imagine a time when we all thought Julie Taymor was going to be a bold, important v...

This review was originally written for  DVDTalk.com  in 2012. The 1963 Italian film La visita ( The Visitor ) is a mild romantic comedy sta...

Following last week’s review of Charles Chaplin’sLimelight , I considered how Jacques Tati’s final film, the 1974 television feature Pa...

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...

1960s New Wave cinema certainly loved the emerging ideal of a modern “it” girl and the travails she suffered on the way to adulthood, as...

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...

In a cinematic universe where so much of what makes it into theaters is commodified and homogenized to fit into recognizable norms, one m...