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National Criterion Collection
Can one choose a path to glory?
Paths of Glory
January 27, 2012
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence...
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DVD Review: Grand Illusion
Criterion Collection
December 27, 2011
Jean Renoir’s 1937 black and white film, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), is often bandied about with Citizen Kane on the list of all...
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DVD Review: Harlan County, USA
documentary
December 13, 2011
Barbara Kopple is one of those filmmakers who can do just about any film well; so much so that when she misfires, as in her 1998 film on Woody...
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DVD Review: Gertrud
Criterion Collection
November 29, 2011
Apologists for bad art almost always speak of ‘intent’, and, in a similar vein, bad critics always try to justify their ‘liking...
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DVD Review: No Time For Sergeants
Criterion Collection
November 15, 2011
When most people think of the live television shows from the 1950s, that produced such shows as Playhouse 90, The U.S. Steel Hour, etc, almost...
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The Criterion Collection: Charles Chaplin's ‘The Great Dictator’ Blu-ray Review
Criterion Collection
June 22, 2011
In 1938 Charles Chaplin commenced work on what would become his most controversial film, The Great Dictator. Following 1936’s Modern Times,...
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"Eyes Without A Face"
Eyes Without A Face
June 4, 2011
Georges Franju's haunting 1960 filmEyes Without A Facemerges deep emotion and horror through the story of Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur),...
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"Band of Outsiders"
Band of Outsiders
June 3, 2011
Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 filmBand of Outsiders,described by Godard himself as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka," is an adaptation...
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"Fish Tank"
fish tank
May 28, 2011
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold's critically acclaimed 2009 film, allows the audience a glimpse into the life and world of Mia (Katie Jarvis), a teen...
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"F for Fake"
F for Fake
May 26, 2011
F for Fake, Orson Welles’ 1975 film, constantly asks the question, “it’s pretty, but is it art?” The experimental &ldquo...
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