Through the first five months, I’ve been on a tri-weekly dose of films from the Criterion Channel as it has reached three full years of business. Still finding new films to watch...
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...
The Tales Of Hoffman (1951)
The follow-up to The Red Shoes was going to be a tall order, but The Archers - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - took a shot at adapting...
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...
Miracle In Milan (1951)
After receiving major acclaim with Bicycle Thieves, director Vittorio De Sica followed up on the backend of the neorealist era with a fantasy-comedy about a group of poor people...
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...
