Sunday, April 20, 2025

Brian Susbielles

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Featured: The Criterion Channel – Act II

Not long ago, I provided my first rundown of movies I watched and praised for courtesy of Criterion's streaming channel. By this point, you all know the hoopla and that this is...

Featured: Sex as Art In Mainstream Cinema

*Warning: Contains graphic content. We talk about sex scenes as steamy, cheesy, teasing, or ridiculous and just a throwaway sequence to showcase nudity. They have to be tastefully done or else it just...

Featured: That Lubitsch Touch

Two American painters and friends are on holiday where they meet the gorgeous Gilda. She asks them to sketch her face, finding both men attractive, seeking to play a game of "The Favourite"...

Featured: Criterion’s “B” films in “A” quality

B films are what they are: low cost, exploitive, the second film of double billing, and set with a genre and story ridiculous for the traditional art house. Even after the end...

Featured: The Passion, Wrath, And Word Of Carl Th. Dreyer

Among the purest directors of early-to-mid twentieth-century international cinema, Danish visionary Carl Theodor (Th. for short) Dreyer was among the first spiritualist storytellers before Ingmar Bergman arrived at the scene, telling stories...

Featured: What The Criterion Channel Has Introduced Me To

We mourned the death of FilmStruck and welcomed the birth of Criterion Channel, bringing back classic movies around the world for our entertainment. Like its predecessor, I watch one film a day,...

Featured: The Unepic Works Of David Lean

The Bridge Of The River Kwai. Lawrence Of Arabia. Doctor Zhivago. A Passage To India.  These are gorgeous epics by the great David Lean, who won two Oscars and nominated for another three...

Featured: Andrzej Wajda’s War Trilogy

A survivor of the Polish occupation by the Nazis, Wajda recreated stories of the Resistance against their occupiers as his entrance into global cinema. His three movies - A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes And Diamonds -...

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