Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
THE PIANO - CRITERION CHANNEL
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This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2012. The Piano begins like no other film. A tentative voice begins speaking, sett...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
THE SWIMMER - CRITERION CHANNEL
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This review originally written for The Oregonian in 2014. Burt Lancaster may have been Old Hollywood, but he was right there with th...
Monday, January 13, 2020
HOLIDAY - #1009
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This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2006. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn made an excellent movie duo. Both had distinc...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD - #1007
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I couldn’t have picked a more fitting movie to watch at the close of 2019, nor could I have timed it better. It was an accident that U2 ...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
OLD JOY - #1008
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There’s an audience review of Old Joy on IMDB with the headline, “Surprisingly not boring!” While that partially puts my teeth on edge...
Sunday, December 8, 2019
THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE - #1006
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A salacious melodrama, The Story of Temple Drake is everything that made censors panic about Pre-Code Hollywood. Drinking, sex, murder, ...
Friday, December 6, 2019
SCARLET STREET - CRITERION CHANNEL
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This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2007 as part of a film noir boxed set. Fritz Lang practically invented showing the p...
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