Popular culture is a funny thing. When something joins the cultural consciousness, one can never tell what impact it will have on the art in of itself. If a movie quotation, or...
The Criterion Channel has a certain reputation. With a few exceptions, most movies in their original collection can be described as classics (if you’re being a kind cinephile) or pretentious (if you...
Critiques of all types of narrative media are full of overused sayings and cliches. “There are seven kinds of stories.” “Style over substance.” “It was all a dream.” “All's well that ends...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
