Criterion Confessions

Man, I’ve been waiting a long time for A Matter of Life and Death to get the Criterion treatment. If there ever was a movie to deserve i...

In honor of Filmstruck and TCM naming Leslie Caron the  Star of the Week , I'm de-archiving some old reviews.  Original source from 200...

This review was originally written in 2010 for DVDTalk.com .  " Never dismiss the legends, Pandora... " The tale of the F...

This review was originally written for the Criterion Cast in 2011. Any cinema fan knows the story of a good cinematographer is really ...

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

Films about the afterlife and how hapless shmoes interact with divinity seem to have had their heyday in the 1940s, when inventive filmm...

The interesting thing about boxed sets sometimes is, if you’re not familiar with a particular filmmaker, they offer a crash course in his...

The NW Film Center is showing The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp this weekend, a rare treat that Portland-based folks will want to che...

Any mystery of why the Kordas picked a particular twelve-year-old Indian boy to star in their 1937 Rudyard Kipling adaptation Elephant Boy ...