Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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Blu-ray Review: Into THE INLAND SEA With Donald Richie
Criterion devours its own tail with a movie based on a book based on a trip by a critic who has provided a lot of Criterion commentaries.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T, A Fitting Memorial To Agnes Varda
The director’s 1977 semi-musical ode to the power and pleasures of womanhood is perfectly supported by worthwhile features on the new Blu-ray.
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Blu-ray Review: MY BRILLIANT CAREER Is On Disc While The Criterion Channel Looms
Judy Davis is a boundary-breaking heroine in 1901 Australia in Gillian Armstrong’s debut feature.
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Blu-ray Review: In LA VERITÉ, Brigitte Bardot and Henri-Georges Clouzot Take Aim At Institutional Misogyny
Henri-Georges Clouzot claimed that his 1960 film, La Verité, was created with the intent of exploring how it is impossible to judge a person, once full knowledge of that person’s story was in place. Viewed in 2019, where it has recently joined the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray at spine #960, constrains the focus even more. This…
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Blu-ray Review: Euzhan Palcy’s A DRY WHITE SEASON Is Stunningly Timely
One of Criterion’s final 2018 releases is also one of the label’s best.
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Blu-ray Review: Peer Into Cinema’s Great Missing Link With Criterion’s THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
It’s a season of Welles with THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND on Netflix and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS joining the Criterion Collection.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE Whiffs On New Features, But You’re Going To Buy It Anyway
If you’ve ever owned this film on disc before, you probably have some of this material. But you love this film, so shush.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s ANDREI RUBLEV Is A Stacked Disc
“Live between divine forgiveness and your own torment.” I had a fantastic time going through Criterion’s new blu-ray of Tarkovsky’s ANDREI RUBLEV, which somehow manages to be both dreary and enlightening at the same time.
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Blu-ray Review: An All-Time Great Party Scene Graces Criterion’s COLD WATER Blu-ray
“The plot isn’t much and neither are the characterizations, and it’s not until the second act that the film really kicks into gear, by abandoning plot and characterization altogether and jacking straight into adolescent phantasmagoria.”
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Blu-ray Review: King Hu Makes Sword-Sharp Wuxia in DRAGON INN
Made in 1967, Hu’s wuxia thriller hits the Criterion Collection this week at spine #937. The film has been restored in 4K. Colour in the outdoor scenes is stunning: the scorched electric blues of the sky against the mountains, or the loamy greens of forest streams, pop our quartet of martial heroes out of the…