For the month of love, another batch of movies is being added to the Collection. All five films are new to the C and touch independent tones and commercial viability, with only...
In part two of my listed greats from the Criterion Collection, some have come from the new releases from The Film Foundation (The Masque Of The Red Death, Bad Day At Black Rock)...
If any genre of film is an acquired taste, it is the musical. Musicals have a lot of specific expectations that can rub the general audience the wrong way. If you are...
These last few months have cleared my schedule to go on a binge in watching movie after movie after movie after movie where I already have watched more than 400 movies right...
So, this month on Criterion Crunch Time, we have talked a lot about the trappings of genre and how great directors weave in and out of them. Well, we are not quite...
New year, new collection. As we start the new year, the state of current cinema hangs in the balance of the post-COVID world, while historic cinema stays the same. Accessible and physically...
As per usual in this column, this week the Criterion Channel has afforded yet another opportunity to catch up with a director who is highly thought of but we may have missed...
So, sometimes, when you pick a movie on the Criterion Channel basically at random, there is some risk involved. But risk isn’t bad. I’m not referencing the risk of a movie you...
