Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
THE 400 BLOWS (THE ADVENTURES OF ANTOINE DOINEL) - #5
›
I've been meaning to undertake this project for a while. It's to my great shame that I have, as of yet, not ventured beyond Th...
Friday, July 20, 2012
PYGMALION - #85
›
The most telling business in the 1938 film version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion comes about 2/3 of the way into the story, and it...
Sunday, July 15, 2012
LE HAVRE - #619
›
This review originally appeared in The Portland Mercury . Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is named for the French coasta...
Friday, July 13, 2012
SIDELINE: ANOTHER JOELLE JONES GODARD PIECE
›
Been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks. My friend Joëlle Jones did a commission for Contempt [ seen here ] that turned out so grea...
1 comment:
Sunday, July 8, 2012
DESIGN FOR LIVING (Blu-Ray) - #592
›
The first scene of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 romantic comedy Design for Living is so perfectly composed, it tells you everything you need t...
Thursday, July 5, 2012
GRAND ILLUSION - #1
›
This review of Grand Illusion , the first numerical Criterion DVD, was written in conjunction with the new 75th-Anniversary print of the...
Sunday, July 1, 2012
DAVID LEAN DIRECTS NOEL COWARD (Blu-Ray) - #603
›
One was an accomplished film editor looking to move up the cinema ladder, the other a successful playwright ready to embrace motion pic...
‹
›
Home
View web version
