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Blu-ray Review: With Bittersweet Timing, Criterion Unveils MELVIN VAN PEEBLES: ESSENTIAL FILMS
The five-disc set holds six feature films and abundant additional material to honour the late director, a voracious and pluralistic cinematic voice. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: LOVE & BASKETBALL Still A Gem, 20 Years Later
They meet at age 11, when she moves into the neighbourhood and he — mistaking her, at first, for a boy — lets her join a pickup basketball game. When she shakes out her hair and proceeds to kick his ass on the court, Quincy (played as a young man by Glenndon Chapman and as…
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Blu-ray Review: STREETWISE and TINY, Criterion’s Latest Double Feature, Spans A Lifetime
Filmmakers Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell paint a picture of a street kid, and the adult she became. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, An Opium-Fogged Reverie
Mesmerizing, fascinating, and makes me want to get deeply into opium. My full review is up on Screen Anarchy: screenanarchy.com/2021/05/blu-ray-review-flowers-of-shanghai-an-opium-fogged-reverie.html
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Blu-ray Review: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Formative TOUKI BOUKI from Criterion
Sengelase filmmaking comes through with a one-two punch in back-to-back Blu-rays. Read more
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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