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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.
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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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Book Review: BLOOD ON BLACK WAX Takes You Back To The Sights and Sounds Of Horror Soundtracks
A focus on album art and hard-to-find releases fatten out the analysis of the great genre soundtracks of our youth.
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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…