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
Criterion Files
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
Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Qatsi’ Trilogy and the Diminishing Returns of Pure Cinema
The Qatsi series is made up of several compelling contradictions. On the one hand, the first film, Koyaanisqatsi (1983), was… Read More
January 30, 2013
Television in The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection devotes itself to important classic and contemporary films. But cinema hardly exists in a vacuum. Moving image… Read More
December 20, 2012
Why ‘Heaven’s Gate’ Deserves the Second Chance That Criterion Didn’t Give It
From 2012, Landon Palmer reviews the Criterion release of Michael Cimino's notorious masterpiece. Read More
November 28, 2012
Junkfood Cinema: A Passionate Case For ‘Miami Connection’s Criterion Release
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; they don’t make buns like this down at the bakery…well they do, we just bought… Read More
September 29, 2012
Flash Sale: The Entire Criterion Collection Is Half-Off Until Tomorrow
Got some extra cash laying around? Thinking about starting holiday gift-buying early? Missing a crucial title? The Criterion Collection has… Read More
September 24, 2012