Criterion Confessions

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

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! - #440

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Guy Maddin's distinctive, stylized riffs on antiquated film processes are an acquired taste that I was unable to fully acquire in my ea...

SIDELINE: MORE REVIEWS FOR 7/08

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Given that I write more reviews than what you see here, below is a list of non-Criterion films I covered in the past month that may be of in...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

RATCATCHER - #162

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There is a remarkable, intriguing moment in Lynne Ramsay's 1999 film Ratcatcher that I either forgot in the six years since I first sa...
Monday, July 21, 2008

GEORGE WASHINGTON - #152

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Ever since it was announced that David Gordon Green would be directing Pineapple Express , the next Judd Apatow-produced script by the Supe...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

MON ONCLE ANTOINE - #438

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Director Claude Jutra's 1971 period piece Mon Oncle Antoine is a cinematic pseudo-memoir that fits snuggly in the category with films l...
Monday, July 7, 2008

THE NAKED KISS - #18

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A fight breaks out in a posh apartment. Man versus woman. It's violent, and the man is on the defensive. As this is a film, the image cu...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS - #432

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Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic of the Japanese author Yukio Mishima, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters , is a thoughtful and inventive exam...
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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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