Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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Blu-ray Review: Time, Memory, and Parents Confound in Victor Erice’s EL SUR
“Voiceover narration from Estrella as an adult — a woman piecing together things she half-understood as a child — gives the film the aura of a Michael Ondaatje novel. Estrella’s father Agustin, played with careworn rebelliousness by Italian actor Omero Antonutti, is almost a wizard character, all dowsing rods and divining pendulums. His behaviour, even…
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Blu-ray Review: A double dose of Cristian Mungiu’s New Romanian Cinema comes to the Criterion Collection
Beautifully photographed in austere but nimble long takes that pierce the daily goings-on of the monastery, Beyond the Hills is something of a revelation to me. It locates its story in a community of women by focusing on the fraught relationship between its lead pair: Voichita, who has fled the implied sexual exploitation and abuse of her…
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Blu-ray Review: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, Scorsese’s Finest, a Transcendent Piece of Mannered Savagery
The film has remained my favourite of Scorsese’s work since its debut a quarter-century ago, a transcendent piece of mannered savagery whose wars of unspoken words land as brutally as the bullets of Goodfellas and the fists of Raging Bull. Read more: http://screenanarchy.com/2018/03/blu-ray-review-the-age-of-innocence-scorseses-finest.html
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Blu-ray Review: In AN ACTOR’S REVENGE, a Female Impersonator Walks Home Alone At Night
Made right in the middle of the most fertile period in the career of director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad), An Actor’s Revenge joins the Criterion Collection this week as spine #912. It’s a drab tale of melodrama and revenge set in 19th-century Edo, as an onnagata (a male actor playing exclusively female…
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Blu-ray Review: THE BREAKFAST CLUB, a Criterion Collection Triumph
If STRANGER THINGS 3 doesn’t have a BREAKFAST CLUB episode, I’m out.
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Blu-ray Review: Landmark Lesbian Drama DESERT HEARTS Looks Tremendous and Feels Almost as Good
Donna Deitch’s 1985 film sees two women falling in love against a breathtaking Nevada landscape.
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Blu-ray Review: Musical Man-Eating Mermaids in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s THE LURE
Polish horror-musical repatriates The Little Mermaid by way of feminist carnage.
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Blu-ray Review: Kelly Reichardt’s CERTAIN WOMEN Joins the Criterion Collection
This rewarding trio of stories bring out the best in four great actresses.
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Blu-ray Review: Mike Leigh’s MEANTIME, A Well-Timed Criterion Release
The 1984 TV-movie is better than half the prestige TV in your Netflix queue.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Cannot Illuminate the Multitudes Within Tarkovsky’s STALKER
This will be my third time seeing the film, and I am heartily glad to find it on the Criterion Collection this month after a few teases in that direction in the past — few films I’ve ever seen have seemed more specifically connected to Criterion’s overall mission — but I don’t find myself any…