Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
NIGHT ON EARTH - #401
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"Five Taxis. Five Cities. One Night." The original tagline for Night on Earth is about as succinct and accurate as any descript...
Monday, December 10, 2007
STRANGER THAN PARADISE - #400
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Though I hate when reviewers trot out the old cliché "people either love it or they hate it" in order to describe a film, I can...
Friday, December 7, 2007
BLAST FROM MY OWN PAST: QUARTET - THE MERCHANT IVORY COLLECTION
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From the now defunct "Can You Picture That?" column, March 16, 2004. The filmmaking team of Merchant Ivory—director James Ivory, p...
Thursday, December 6, 2007
49TH PARALLEL - #376
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In the early 1940s, everyone was expected to pitch in for the war effort, and that included film actors and behind-the-scenes personnel. No ...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
THE DOCUMENTARIES OF LOUIS MALLE - ECLIPSE SERIES 2
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The best storytellers are the ones with a keen eye for human nature. Writers and filmmakers who deal in fiction usually fashion their most...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
BICYCLE THIEVES - #374
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Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( Ladri di biciclette ) is one of those movies that I think more people have heard about than have n...
Monday, December 3, 2007
MALA NOCHE - #407
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Living in Portland, Oregon, everyone has a Gus Van Sant story. Mine is pretty mundane. I saw him once at a New Year's Day hangover part...
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