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Criterion Collection Films Now on iTunes

For movie buffs, iTunes just received some of the best films that the Criterion Collection has to offer.  read more

Still Walking DVD Review

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamasaki Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi Studio/Runtime: Criterion/114 mins. In every sense of the word except one, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Still Walking is a classic. The film elegantly covers the one-day reunion of the Yokoyama family on the 15th anniversary of the death of the family’s oldest son. As is the tradition in this sort of picture, the reunion is bittersweet, with everyone attempting to play the affectionate roles they’re supposed to, while being unable to get past the anger and difficulties of the past. It’s a story...  read more

The Best Fake Criterion Covers

Last week, film site Cinematical showed us the tip of the iceberg of fan-inspired Criterion Collection covers. Back in 2003, Joblo.com user Briare Rabbit posted a simple illustration of To Kill a Mockingbird with this comment, “This is a wonderful hobby of mine, creating criterion cover art. With paint, I dont have anything higher- but you may. Here’s my latest, anyone else who makes em? It’s really fun!”...  read more

Ride With the Devil DVD Review

Director: Ang Lee Writers: James Schamus (screenplay), Daniel Woodrell (novel) Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes Starring: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright Studio: Criterion...  read more

Vivre Sa Vie DVD Review

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Writers: Marcel Sacotte, Godard Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot Studio: Criterion...  read more

Lars von Trier's Antichrist (Maybe) Gets Criterion Treatment

Chaos reigned the 2009 Cannes film festival screenings of Lars von Trier’s psychological thriller Antichrist, with audience responses ranging from applause to demands from angry trade journalists that von Trier justify having made the film. Featuring violence that the Huffington Post called “almost unbearably explicit,” Antichrist polarized audiences, causing even some von Trier apologists to cry foul....  read more

Lola Montès DVD Review

Release Date: Feb. 16 Director: Max Ophuls Writers: MaxOphuls, Cécil Saint-Laurent, Annette Wademant Cinematographers: Christian Matras Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov Studio/Run Time: Criterion, 115 mins. Way back in the early 2000s, the films of German-born, Paris-based director Max Ophuls languished out of print. While the French nouvelle vague and its insouciant modernity, guns, dames and jittery jump cuts remained much feted, discussed and repackaged, Ophuls and his fin de siècle Europe, aristocratic mores, women on the verge of nervous breakdowns and loooooong tracking shots fell out of sight. He might’ve remained in darkness were it not for the...  read more

The Last Days Of Disco

Near the end of this woefully ahistorical 1998 comedy about...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Science Is Fiction - The Films of Jean Painleve

One of the big clichés in pretty much any sort of media criticism is to say that a work is “unclassifiable”...  read more

The Exterminating Angel/Simon of the Desert

Decades before Lost or even The Twilight Zone...  read more