I'm starting something new this month where I'll be previewing the upcoming releases by Criterion. It is always a treat to await the listings for the new releases to their collection. They...
This is the eighth edition of some of the best works I have seen on the Criterion Channel and by now, if you have read them, you must understandably be tired of...
If you have read long enough of my weekly praises of the Criterion Channel, then you may think everything this channel has is glorious and worth watching. I have news for you:...
La Chienne (1931)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGqlCK6rVek
Literally, "The Bitch," Jean Renoir's second sound film was a success partly because of a tragedy that occurred before its release. In the film, a painter falls for a prostitute...
From 1939 to 1972, Englishman Michael Powell and Hungarian émigré Emeric Pressburger collaborated on 24 feature films. Some of them would be duds, others would be classics forever part of the influencing...
Swing Time (1936)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ
Along with Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee, and The Barkleys of Broadway, it is among the most well-known films of Ginger Rodgers and Fred Astaire. Plus, it was directed by George Stevens,...
Georg Wilhelm Pabst became a massively influential figure in the short-lived Weimar Republic from 1918-1933. Starting out in the theater, Pabst joined the cinema trend when he was hired by pioneer Carl...
Last year, the audience picked Green Book as the favorite film in the festival, starting its roller-coaster run to the Best Picture Oscar that many wish to forget about. Fair enough, let's...
