Culture Warrior: 3D Stops Being a Gimmick in Herzog’s Cinematic Caves
I am not a fan of 3D. Even in the most technologically adept cases where the 3D landscape has layers… Read More
April 26, 2011
Documentary
New Trailer Teaches You ‘How To Live Forever’
Just from the trailer itself, I’ve learned that living forever involves smoking, running, drinking beer, lifting your hands up to… Read More
April 11, 2011
Criterion Files #468: Go Under the Sea with ‘Science is Fiction’
Welcome to Guest Author month at Criterion Files: a month devoted to important classic and contemporary bloggers. Each Wednesday for… Read More
April 6, 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
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
‘My Kidnapper’ Trailer: A Man Confronts The Man Who Held Him Hostage (After The Kidnapper Friends…
‘My Kidnapper’ Trailer: A Man Confronts The Man Who Held Him Hostage (After The Kidnapper Friends Him on Facebook)This whole… Read More
February 15, 2011
Talking Heads: Nominating a Documentary For Best Picture
Every week, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius log on to their favorite chat client of 1996 as THEFANFROMLONDON and DinoDNA007… Read More
February 4, 2011
Sundance Review: Life In a Day
Want to feel insignificant? Stop reading this review and take a second to contemplate 6.8 billion. It’s an extraordinarily vast,… Read More
January 27, 2011
‘The Greatest Film Ever Sold’ Might Get Sold To Sony Classics
Morgan Spurlock is headed back to Sundance, but the frosty air of Utah might seem a bit warmer if his… Read More
January 11, 2011