John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’: The Loneliest Studio Film of the 1960s
It’s difficult to imagine what it must have been like to see Seconds in 1966. The third entry in John Frankenheimer’s… Read More
August 14, 2013
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Comparing The Indie Movies of Summer 2013 to Criterion Favorites
There are many reasons to compare and contrast current films with historical ones. One is to attempt to explain why… Read More
August 8, 2013
Savoring ‘Babette’s Feast’ on Criterion as Cuisine for Your Eyes
I had a roommate in college who, every day like clockwork, ate dry toast for lunch while watching The Food… Read More
July 24, 2013
This Week’s Criterion Releases: ‘Safety Last!’ and ‘Marketa Lazarová’ Define Discovery
At the risk of generalization, The Criterion Collection is probably best known for packaging two types of films: celebrated canonical… Read More
June 22, 2013
The Spirit of ’68 in the Criterion Collection: ‘Medium Cool’ and 11 Other Films About Revolution
Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool is a film whose immediacy and docu-realism was all too fitting for an America that could,… Read More
May 30, 2013
Michael Bay Might Have Apologized for ‘Armageddon,’ But The Criterion Collection Never Will
This week, Michael Bay did something that I thought was only possible if you were named Joel Schumacher: he apologized… Read More
April 26, 2013
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie’s Movie Career Through the Criterion Collection
Last week, David Bowie released The Next Day, his first album of entirely original music in a decade. That the… Read More
March 13, 2013
7 Great Criterion Films Featuring the Stars of ‘Amour’
Michael Haneke’s much-lauded Amour, which won Best Foreign Language Film last night at the Oscars, has at its center two… Read More
February 25, 2013
Getting to Know Steven Soderbergh’s System Through The Criterion Collection
In contrast to other well-respected filmmakers whose revisited obsessions traverse and develop across a litany of discrete works, Steven Soderbergh… Read More
February 6, 2013