Criterion Confessions

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

Sunday, October 30, 2016

THE EXECUTIONER - #840

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Consider it a black comedy “meet cute.” José Luis (Nino Manfredi, I Knew Her Well [ review ]) is an undertaker charged with transportin...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

McCABE & MRS. MILLER - #827

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There is a lot going on in McCabe & Mrs.Miller , Robert Atman’s 1971 western, and a lot to admire, but I think what comes to mind fi...
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Friday, October 21, 2016

PAN'S LABYRINTH - #838

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Back when the original fairy tales were being written, folks like the Brothers Grimm had a lot more faith in kids than we do now. Their...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

BOYHOOD - #839

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This review was originally written for the theatrical release of Boyhood and published on DVDTalk.com in 2014. When we left the s...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - #836

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Maybe I should start timing how long I procrastinate with a review when I’m writing about a movie I didn’t particularly care for. It’s b...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - #835

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There is a pargraph in Glenn Kenny’s essay in the booklet accompanying Criterion’s release of Valley of the Dolls where he posits that ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

SILENT OZU - THREE CRIME DRAMAS: DRAGNET GIRL - ECLIPSE SERIES 42

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The most straightforward, and yet most complex, entry in the Silent Ozu - Three Crime Dramas set from Criterion’s Eclipse imprint is 19...
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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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