Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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Blu-ray Review: Ramin Bahrani’s CHOP SHOP Remains Revelatory, Fifteen Years Later
The visual technique alone is worth the price of this Criterion blu-ray, and should be studied by filmmakers and cinephiles. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: MANDABI, Follow the Money (Order) in Criterion’s Release
Following BLACK GIRL, a new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s sophomore feature arrives this week. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: An Entirely Archival Criterion Release of David Cronenberg’s CRASH Can’t Help But Feel Very 2020
Advice to Torontonians: don’t watch Crash in a pandemic in December. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: Jim Jarmusch Brings GHOST DOG To The Criterion Collection
The Way of the Samurai is an absolute surplus of special features, apparently. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: CLAUDINE, Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones Anchor a Social Classic
Director John Berry’s 1974 film might improve Criterion’s scorecard on canonizing films about Black lives. Read more
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Blu-Ray Review: Claire Denis’ BEAU TRAVAIL Is A Last, Best Dance
The new 4K restoration is touring cinemas and digital platforms now, but you want this in your collection. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Paints a PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Have we changed how we see, or has what we see changed? Every few years I see a film that was captured digitally, and I’m thrown back to the early days of the format, when the proto-Christopher Nolans of the world would tell any interviewer they could get their hands on that electronic media could…
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Blu-ray Review: Wes Anderson’s GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Is His Latest In The Criterion Collection
Why mess with tradition? And the disc is as masterfully directed as the film itself. Now posted on Screen Anarchy.
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Blu-ray Review: UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD Marks The End Of A Movie Decade
A 1991 film about 1999 feels exactly right in 2019, as we round out a decade in which film changed — and died — and will live — forever.
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Blu-ray review: MATEWAN Sticks Up For The Little Guy
John Sayles’ retelling of the Matewan Massacre is a vivid look at the perils, and necessity, of organizing.