Just To Be Clear: These Casting Announcements and Movie Projects Were April Fool’s Day Fakes
Have no fear, internet. April Fool’s Day is over, and (probably since it fell on a Sunday) the laundry list… Read More
April 3, 2012
Criterion
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 #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
Criterion Files #78: The Bank Dick
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are with little argument probably the two most influential and “important” personalities from an era… Read More
February 23, 2011
Criterion Files #367: The Haunted Strangler
There was a period in the early to mid-1950s where the horror genre, in hindsight, was appearing to go through… Read More
February 9, 2011
Criterion Files #221: Ikiru
In 1950 Akira Kurosawa released what many consider to be his first true masterpiece, which started two decades full of… Read More
January 12, 2011
Criterion Files #263: Fanny and Alexander (Theatrical Cut)
Though it isn’t typical of this column to focus an article’s actual material towards the relevance of the chosen title… Read More
December 22, 2010