Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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Blu-ray Review: JEANNE DIELMAN, Criterion’s Three-Hour Slog To Pure Cinematic Perfection
Chantal Akerman’s feminist masterpiece observes an unknowable heroine in vivid detail.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s TAMPOPO Will Make You Hungry
Word of advice: don’t take your first trip to Japan and then come home and watch Tampopo. You might flip out.
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Now on Blu-ray: Kirsten Johnson’s CAMERAPERSON Is One Of Criterion’s Strongest Discs
One of 2016’s best films, director Kirsten Johnson’s documentary CAMERAPERSON joins the Criterion Collection in a beautiful, timely release.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Enshrines Ousmane Sembène’s BLACK GIRL
After years of having it on my watchlist, I caught up with Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé last year and enjoyed it a great deal, leaving me hungry for more. The Criterion Collection has conveniently sailed in to quench the thirst, with its January 24 release of Sembene’s first feature film, Black Girl, which joins…
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Blu-ray Review: Jump Straight Into Akira Kurosawa’s DREAMS
An anthology film of eight shorts, each purportedly inspired by one of Akira Kurosawa’s eponymous dreams, the film is visually unparalleled in his canon and oftentimes so surreal that it’s better experienced with consciousness-expanding substances. (Lest we forget, this is the one where Martin Scorsese makes a brief cameo as a fast-talking Vincent Van Gogh.)
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Blu-ray Review: Two Years Later, BOYHOOD Ends On Criterion
Almost as soon as Boyhood was released in June of 2014, Richard Linklater was promising audiences that a Criterion Collection release was forthcoming – which made fans of the collection all the more disappointed when an (admittedly decent) studio Blu-ray appeared instead. And although Patricia Arquette went on to win the Oscar for Best Supporting…
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Blu-ray Review: A TOUCH OF ZEN Comes to the Criterion Collection
Halfway through a year already crammed full of impressive releases (with no sign of slowing down… Dekalog for September!), The Criterion Collection has also taken advantage of the recent 4K remaster of King Hu’s seminal A Touch of Zen, adding it to their collection on Blu-ray as spine #825.
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Blu-ray Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is a Misty New Classic
The disc boasts cover art that makes the film look like either a mountaineering murder mystery or an Adrian Lyne sex thriller. It’s neither, though I’d certainly pay to see the B-side of this movie, same team and cast, which takes a crack at that. Instead, the majority of the film surrounds two women –…
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Blu-ray Review: I Can Think Of At Least One Thing Wrong With The Title Of Shindo Kaneto’s THE NAKED ISLAND
Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto’s 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo’s follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies from the Criterion label, so I was eager to check out this title – which…
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