Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
Monday, September 4, 2017
IN BETWEEN DAYS - FILMSTRUCK
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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2007. In Between Days sets itself up with a difficult premise. How do you captu...
Sunday, September 3, 2017
AMERICA AMERICA - FILMSTRUCK
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This review originally ran on DVDTalk.com in 2011. Elia Kazan had already had a long and distinguished--and oft controversial--career ...
Saturday, September 2, 2017
THE MARSEILLE TRILOGY: CESAR - #884
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Though only made a few years after its predecessors, César moves The Marseille Trilogy forward nearly twenty years. Marcel Pagnol take...
Monday, August 28, 2017
THE MARSEILLE TRILOGY: MARIUS/FANNY - #s 882-883
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The Marseille Trilogy comes with a lot of history. These early French talkies are adaptations of Marcel Pagnol’s stage plays, helmed in...
Saturday, August 26, 2017
KITTY/DAWN - TWO SHORTS ON FILMSTRUCK/CRITERION CHANNEL
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Two actresses who gained their initial fame in the 1990s have stepped behind the camera to make their own short films, each focusing on ...
Sunday, August 20, 2017
LA POISON - #891
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Sacha Guitry can sure make murderous fantasies feel playful and fun. Plowing similar territory as Preston Sturges’ Unfaithfully Your...
Saturday, August 19, 2017
MEANTIME - #890
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For those of us music fans who romanticize 1980s Britain, let Mike Leigh’s 1984 television movie Meantime be our wake-up call. Whether ...
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