Dorothy Arzner’s ‘Working Girls’ Shows Depression Hard-Knocks from the Female Perspective
Dorothy Arzner's 1931 film 'Working Girls' shows "MEN may do the bossing -- but the girls make their own plans… Read More
June 3, 2021
Criterion Collection
Love Needs No Explanation in ‘History is Made at Night’
The restored Criterion edition of Frank Borzage's masterpiece romance shows the talent and intuition he had to reach the audience's… Read More
May 15, 2021
The Infinite Reinvention of Wong Kar Wai
With the release of The Criterion Collection's "World of Wong Kar Wai" set, we look at how Hong Kong's King… Read More
March 23, 2021
‘A Face In the Crowd’ and the Unfulfilled Prediction of a Better America
Two demagogues, one fictional and one real, diverged in the wood. Read More
April 22, 2019
10 Terrifying Non-Horror Films From The Criterion Collection
From 2012, we list ten scary entries from the Criterion library. Read More
October 31, 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 #103: ‘The Lady Eve’
From 2011, this entry in our column digging into the Criterion Collection library explores Preston Sturges' hilarious 1941 entry into… Read More
February 16, 2011