Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Brian Susbielles

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Highlights From The Criterion Channel, Part 1

Through the first five months, I’ve been on a tri-weekly dose of films from the Criterion Channel as it has reached three full years of business. Still finding new films to watch...

Criterion Collection: June 2022

The Tales Of Hoffman (1951) The follow-up to The Red Shoes was going to be a tall order, but The Archers - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - took a shot at adapting...

Sh!t Cannes’d: The Worst Receptions Ever Given In Festival History

Cannes is about glitz and glamor and cinéastes coming together from around the world. The Palme d’Or is the ultimate prize, but as much as it’s about celebrating new films, Cannes is...

Pasolini At 100: A Career Of Shock, Awe, And Murder

On March 5th of this year, Pier Paolo Pasolini would have been a centenarian. In the history of Italian cinema, Pasolini is in a whole category of his own with various works...

Mrs. Miniver: A Truly Patriotic War Picture

Prior to World War II, writer Jan Struther was hired to write a series of short stories for The Times in Britain that reflected stories of, "an ordinary sort of woman who...

In Memoriam: Monica Vitti

Monica Vitti, who died on February 2nd this year at the age of 90, is to Michelangelo Antonioni as Liv Ullman was to Ingmar Bergman in being the ultimate muse to interpret...

Movie Review: ‘Mothering Sunday’ is an Affair to Remember (and Mourn)

  Director: Eva Husson Writer: Alice Birch Stars: Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth Synopsis: A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to...

Vittorio Mussolini: Italian Cinema’s Unlikely Hero

In 1930, the Nazi Party established a film department in preparation to create their large propaganda for the people courtesy of Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. Early on, they were aware...

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