Criterion Confessions

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

Sunday, December 30, 2018

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - #952

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Orson Welles is the true prototype of a Wes Anderson character. A child prodigy, precocious and intelligent, obsessed with magic, a born ...
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Monday, December 24, 2018

FORTY GUNS - #954

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A rough and tumble western as only Samuel Fuller could make, 1957’s Forty Guns is the most macho feminist cowboy picture you’re likely t...
Monday, December 17, 2018

PANIQUE - #955

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A small Parisian neighborhood. A carnival. A dead body. A local outcast. A young hustler. A conflicted femme fatale. Nosy neighbors. Th...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

TRUE STORIES - #951

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Somewhere on the road between the early ’80s debut of MTV and the post sex, lies, and videotape Sundance revolution of early ’90s cinema...
Monday, December 10, 2018

SOME LIKE IT HOT - #950

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It’s funny how movies come to you sometimes. For years, the only thing I knew about Some Like It Hot was that it was mentioned on an epi...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018

EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES/CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 - CRITERION CHANNEL

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EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2008. Made in 1993, the Chinese comedy Eagle Shooting Her...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

THE FOUNTAIN - FILMSTRUCK

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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2007. Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain was barely a blip in theatres during...
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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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