Criterion Confessions

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

Thursday, September 26, 2019

BARBARA - CRITERION CHANNEL

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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2012. It's East Germany, 1980, and Dr. Barbara Wolff (Nina Hoss, A Most W...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

THE KNACK...AND HOW TO GET IT - CRITERION CHANNEL

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“ Here is London, giddy London 
 Is it home of the free  
Or what? ” If you asked someone at random to make a cartoon version of 1960...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND - #735

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Made immediately after The Shooting in 1966 [ review ], Monte Hellman’s second western, Ride in the Whirlwind , lacks the existential po...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

THE SHOOTING - #734

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Everything is mysterious about Monte Hellman’s 1966 western The Shooting . Gashade, played by everyman tough guy Warren Oates ( Bring M...
Friday, September 6, 2019

35 SHOTS OF RUM - CRITERION CHANNEL

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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2010. " We have everything here. Why go looking elsewhere? " The lat...
Monday, September 2, 2019

THE FLAVOR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE - #989

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I’ve often heard Yasujiro Ozu described as someone whose work you have to “get.” Which I kind of understand. His films often challenge wh...
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Sunday, September 1, 2019

DANCE, GIRL, DANCE - CRITERION CHANNEL

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Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 showbiz drama from director Dorothy Arzner set in the world of New York burlesque. Maureen O’Hara ( The Qui...
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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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