How Cameras Changed Everything in ‘Grey Gardens’
In 2011, Landon Palmer went through The Criterion Collection disc by disc. Here he looks at the Maysles brothers' 1975… Read More
March 4, 2011
Criterion Files
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 #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
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
Revel In the Splendor of the Fake Criterion Collection
If you’re like me, you want your visual comedy to make fun of everybody. A shotgun blast that sprays all… Read More
December 3, 2010
Criterion Files #481: ‘Made in U.S.A.’
Just as film noir isn’t one single definable thing, noir itself contains many offshoots and categories. And every Noirvember, it’s… Read More
November 18, 2010
Criterion Files #24: High and Low
As discussed in last week’s entry in the canon of the Criterion Files with Carol Reed’s The Third Man for… Read More
November 10, 2010