Criterion
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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 a unique-for-its-time, one-of-a-kind event; but…
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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 artists have often moved between…
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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.
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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 them all. This is the…
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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 got you covered, as every…
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Econimic Inequality Through the Eyes of Depression-Era Hollywood Movies
The common, received wisdom about Hollywood during The Great Depression tends to go like this: Hollywood played an important role as a place for escape,…
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‘The Wages of Fear’ Continues to Redefine the Suspense Thriller
Welcome to Foreign Objects, a series of articles originally published in the early 2010s that spotlighted foreign films. In this entry, Rob Hunter hitches a…
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Kevin Smith’s ‘Spoilers’ Democratizes Movie Criticism
In 2010, after the release of the largely panned Cop Out, Kevin Smith tweeted a short but passionate polemic against movie critics (that most loathsome…
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Kevin Smith Turning Movie Website Comment Sections Into a Show
Back in the late 1990s, you only had two options for discussing movies. You could hang out with friends in the parking lot or late…