Criterion Confessions

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

Saturday, November 23, 2019

NOW, VOYAGER - #1004

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What separates a drama from a melodrama? This is something I basically knew from context--what movies get painted with that brush, or w...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

STRANGER BY THE LAKE - CRITERION CHANNEL

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This review originally written in 2014 for The Oregonian .  At a remote French getaway, gay men cruise each other for anonymous sex, ...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

WHEN WE WERE KINGS - #998

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In Zaire, ca. 1974, two fighters arrived from America to participate in Rumble in the Jungle. Former champion Muhammad Ali was looking to...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

PERSEPOLIS - CRITERION CHANNEL

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I reviewed this movie twice for DVD Talk. Both pieces appear below. THEATRICAL RELEASE, DECEMBER 2007: The new animated film Persepol...
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Saturday, October 5, 2019

SELECTED SHORTS VIII - CRITERION CHANNEL

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Periodically I will gather together my takes on shorter films I’ve watched, looking at the variety of subjects and styles available; a sh...
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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...
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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.

In addition to writing here, Jamie has reviewed movies for DVDTalk.com and The Oregonian.

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