Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
TOM JONES - #910
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Released in 1973, the film adaptation of Henry Fielding ’s Tom Jones is a ribald comedy of social standing. A decidedly British tale, it...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
SEPARATE TABLES - FILMSTRUCK
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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2014: I wasn't actually familiar with the meaning of "separate tables...
Monday, February 19, 2018
AN ACTOR'S REVENGE - #912
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An Actor’s Revenge opens and closes in a theater, bookending its vengeance tale with performance and placing the audience in a comfortab...
Sunday, February 18, 2018
THE HERO - #911
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Eschewing popular conceptions of Bollywood movies, India’s greatest filmmaker Satyajit Ray takes us not just backstage, but totally away ...
Friday, February 16, 2018
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES - CRITERION CHANNEL
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This review originally written for the Portland Mercury : One of the more hotly debated films at the Portland International Film Festi...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
THE LAW - FILMSTRUCK
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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2010. Jules Dassin's 1959 French-Italian co-production The Law ( La Loi ) i...
Sunday, February 11, 2018
THE HARDER THEY FALL - CRITERION CHANNEL
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Setting things right, and watching the intended companion in a double-feature with John Huston’s The Misfits [review here , and a part II p...
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