Econimic Inequality Through the Eyes of Depression-Era Hollywood Movies
The common, received wisdom about Hollywood during The Great Depression tends to go like this: Hollywood played an important role… Read More
July 26, 2012
Criterion Files
3 Reasons ‘Grand Illusion’ is the Greatest Anti-War Film Ever Made
In 2012, Landon Palmer began going through the Criterion Collection's library and writing about the films and why they belonged… Read More
June 20, 2012
‘The Wages of Fear’ Continues to Redefine the Suspense Thriller
Welcome to Foreign Objects, a series of articles originally published in the early 2010s that spotlighted foreign films. In this… Read More
June 8, 2012
‘Night and Fog’ Makes the Atrocities of the Past Devastatingly Present
Welcome to the Criterion Files, an early FSR column in which Landon Palmer went through the Criterion Collection catalog disc by disc.… Read More
September 29, 2011
Criterion Files #549: “The Last Picture Show” Takes the Butter Off Small Town American Popcorn
To this point in our subjection of the films of BBS Productions we’ve been privy to a handful of boundary-pushing… Read More
August 4, 2011
Criterion Files #409: Beauty and Sadness await in the “Days of Heaven”
Some films represent to many the indefinable expression of a dream. Often times it’s nightmarish, as that’s what we can… Read More
May 25, 2011
Criterion Files #36: Desperation Ignites Cautious Calamity in ‘The Wages of Fear’
“Think they pay you to drive? They pay you to be terrified.”It’s the line that inspires the title. Four men… Read More
May 11, 2011
Criterion Files #238: Godard Gets Musical with ‘A Woman is a Woman’
Welcome to the second installment of Guest Author month at Criterion Files: a month devoted to important classic and contemporary… Read More
April 13, 2011
Criterion Files #33: Lies Tell the Truth in ‘Nanook of the North’
The documentary feature has a considerably long history of a, most likely, mis-distinction in terms of what it actually is.… Read More
March 23, 2011