Friday, March 29, 2024

Dave Giannini

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Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Eve’s Bayou’

Being a fan of movies is just truly strange. We bark all day about the best movies of the year, even to the point where we engage in absolutely pointless arguments on...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Rambling Rose’

Times sure have changed. This is something I think of often, mainly because I spend way too much time on social media. The immediate reaction to “problematic” movies (or whatever piece of...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘All That Heaven Allows’

Ok, let’s talk about a dirty word in cinema (and generally, art circles).  Melodrama. Be honest, what do you think of when you hear that word? Over the top, silly, ingenuine, not...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Matador’

Well, we all have our favorites. The Criterion Channel (and this column is no different). In terms of the actual Collection, directors like Akira Kurosawa, Agnes Varda, Francois Truffaut, and Federico Fellini...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Gas Food Lodging’

Sometimes, Hollywood’s history of, and practice of, continued misogyny really makes me wonder how different things could be on a film level with that removed. This is, of course, a complex issue...

Op-ed: The Challenging Women of Pablo Larraín

Pablo Larraín has made a career recently, especially in his last three feature films, delving deep into pain. Specifically, this pain focuses on his female protagonists. There is, of course, an easy...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘A Touch of Sin’

There is no more challenging genre of film for me as a viewer than the anthology film. As someone who is used to standard narratives (even if they are out of order...

Criterion Crunch Time: Go Fish

When we watch a new movie and see something we rarely see, it feels revolutionary. This could be about representation, sexuality, even nonlinear timelines. But when we watch an older film, it...

Dave Giannini

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