This August would have been Melvin Van Peebles’ 90th birthday, but prior to his passing last September, he permitted the Criterion Collection to bring in his early films that has made him...
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...
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...
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...
In the shortest of all months, Criterion will have one new release every week. Three new films and one re-release make this February's slate full of romance for Valentine's Day, including a...
When you pick movies nearly at random that are leaving the Criterion Channel, your life as a writer is never boring. When I began this column, one of my goals was to...
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...
It's finally time to run down my favorite films of 2021, but not for studio films (that's for Belfast). There were movies a-plenty coming in and out of the Criterion Channel, some...
