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2021 InSession Film Awards – Staff Picks

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, we feature our 9th annual InSession Film Awards! This year, we did something a little bit different. We asked all of staff writers to be...

List: Dave Giannini’s Top 10 Films of 2021

2021 is a year unlike any other, but also a year like every other year.  Yes, theaters reopened (kind of). Yes, cinema was saved by three young men in spider suits (kind...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Lore’

Of the many glories of watching movies on The Criterion Channel, one of the most satisfying is finding filmmakers' early works. The landscape of film being what it is, most promising artists...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘The Innocents’

Films can be a lesson on thematic flexibility. Many films may have the same theme, but completely different ways of arriving at said theme and expressing it. Parenthood, in general, and motherhood,...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’

The Criterion Channel has a mostly earned reputation for having a large collection focused mostly on “art house cinema.’ But as time passes, this definition likely changes. Let’s take Oscar-nominated films as...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Across 110th Street’

Genre is an interesting beast and we can come to it for different reasons. Blaxploitation can, of course, be problematic in its representation of Black culture, but is also particularly interesting, especially...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘In The Cut’

The genre of the sexual thriller has gotten a lot of play in online spaces, and almost never in a positive light. There is a push, specifically from younger audiences, to do...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Clockwatchers’

When you spend your time watching a lot of movies (like I’m sure you do), you learn to appreciate the unexpected, regardless of film quality. As I scour the films leaving the...

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