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National Criterion Collection

Can one choose a path to glory?

“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

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

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

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

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

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"

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"

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, 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, Orson Welles’ 1975 film, constantly asks the question, “it’s pretty, but is it art?” The experimental &ldquo...
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