This year, three recent Best Picture nominees—Dune, Max Max: Fury Road, and Joker are back with a sequel or prequel—- Dune: Part 2, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and Joker: Folie a Deux.
While Dune is just a continuation of the...
October. The last third of the year. Already, the holiday season is underway. No surprise that Criterion is filling up the month with several new films with the exception of one re-edition,...
Director: Carol ReedWriter: Graham Green, Orson Welles, Alexander KordaStars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
Synopsis: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death...
Joaquin Phoenix’s stunning departure days before he was set to shoot his gay romance drama with Todd Haynes brings up a nasty history of sudden cancellations. While the details have not come...
As summer ends, we move into a new period of new releases by Criterion that go into anarchism, darkness, and transgressive behavior that not many films plunge into. Only one film is...
Director: Stephen SoucyWriters: Jon Hart, Stephen SoucyStars: John David Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, John Bright
Synopsis: Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing...
Upon the Criterion release of Black God, White Devil, I was introduced to the center of Brazil’s “Cinema Novo,” or new cinema, their new wave of filmmaking. Where past Brazilian films were...
The dog days of summer continue with a slew of new films being added to the list and one film getting a re-release. A female director victim to Soviet censorship has two...
