While I was looking up the stats for my article “One Shining Moment,” I noticed a list of major countries that have consistently submitted their choice for consideration, only to come up...
For Best International Feature, the powerhouses that come to mind are Italy (14 wins, 32 nods), France (12 wins, 40 nods), Japan (5 wins, 17 nods), Germany (3 wins, 20 nods), and...
For Valentine’s Day, or Singles Awareness Day for those who are alone (Hi, ladies), I wanted to take a look at films where love is short-lived for various reasons. There are many...
In January, the Criterion Channel released a series of TV films directed by Mike Leigh, better known for his works from the 1990s onward, including Naked, Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake, and...
We have eight movies for you in the shortest month of the year, including an arthouse trilogy getting re-released for 4K. Going in for the first time is another Shakespeare adaptation, but...
The year 2022 brought back several major directors after a few years away from the screen. Alejandro G. Inarritu and David O. Russell took seven years away only to come back with,...
When I began watching films on the Criterion Channel and started exploring all other films and directors, one name I saw pop up often was a director named Shirley Clarke. Female directors...
Vittorio De Sica. Mario Monicelli. Francesco Rosi. Federico Fellini. Michelangelo Antonioni. Luchino Visconti. These are the biggest names in directing from Italian cinema during a golden era from 1945 to the 1960s...
