Category: 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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Toys 2K16: Report
I turned 40 this year. I mention that only because it’s worth noting that either directly or indirectly, my age drove my toy purchases up – not, I think, in a vain attempt to recapture my youth, but more because as of this year ID(officially)GAF. I make a good keep. I bought a place to live. I…
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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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