Criterion Confessions

Jacques Demy’s take on the big American musical, 1967’s The Young Girls of Rochefort , is pure joy. From the first frame to the last, it’...

In 2006, Joëlle Jones and I published a comic book called 12 Reasons Why I Love Her . As you can likely guess from the title, it was a r...

Just how much money would you throw away for Jeanne Moreau? Personally, they couldn’t print the stuff up fast enough to keep pace with my...

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

I spent yesterday watching a couple of Woody Allen movies. Though they were from different parts of his career and set in different time ...

Here is a mini review of Richard Lester's Beatles film written for the Oregonian to promote the film showing in Portland this holiday we...

You’re just going to have to indulge outright that there is going to be some self-promotion in this one. It’s bound to happen from time t...