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Brian Susbielles

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Op-ed: And The Production Sunk On Some More

Last year, I did a piece on films that received a ton of notoriety with their lengthy production and overblown budgets which resulted in critical failure for most, but some received actual...

Hollywood’s Boy Wonder: Irving Thalberg

Upon his sudden death in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The world of art is poorer with the passing of Irving Thalberg. His high ideals, insight, and imagination went into the production...

Op-ed: The Censored Eleven – Cartoons Too Offensive To Show

Gone With The Wind. An episode of The Golden Girls. Any standup comedy in the 70s and 80s. With the radical social climate of today, people are looking at our history towards historical figures, symbols,...

Criterion Releases: September 2020

As we enter the Fall, Criterion's next set of new releases and re-releases are part of the continuing recognition of these visionaries in their achievements. One independent trailblazer has two films getting...

Criterion Coronavirus Cruising: The Dog Days of Summer

And, we have the second wave coming. We opened up early, the number of cases went up, skeptics are learning the hard way, and I'm being forced to suffocate some more with...

Criterion Channel Presents: The Australian New Wave

Two years ago, I wrote my historical piece on Australia's artistic breakthrough in the 1970s and early 80s. Along with its foundations, there was also a partial list of landmark films that...

The Films Of A Revolution Underway

In this time of turmoil and unrest, there seems to be a feeling of radical change demanded that could fundamentally alter basic principles on how they act and how they think when...

Real Crime, Fictitious Plot: Movies Influenced By Shocking Events

If you ever saw the subline, "Based On True Events," it means the movie's actions and characters may not totally be real, but something of the sort did go down. And sure...

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