Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Blu-ray Review: Refusing the Blood Money
watching the discourse industrial complex dissect every word and pause in jonathan glazer’s Oscar speech with my left eye while writing this review of ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED and the moral obligations of art and arts institutions with my right
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4K Review: TRAINSPOTTING Still Lusty After All These Years
Danny Boyle’s trendsetter re-joins the Criterion Collection in a superb 4K remaster.
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4K Review: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, Peter Bogdanovich’s American Elegy
The Criterion Collection continues to build out their appreciable stack of 4K UHD releases with a new 3-disc edition of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, featuring the 1971 film on both 4K and blu-ray platters, and an additional blu-ray for the lesser-loved 1990 sequel, Texasville.
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Blu-ray Review: DRYLONGSO joins the Criterion collection
Rescued from 1990s obscurity by a sharp new transfer, Cauleen Smith’s DIY feature is a treat to revisit. Read on!
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THELMA & LOUISE Blu-ray Review: Soaring Into the Criterion Collection
A gregarious polyglot as a filmmaker, Ridley Scott has tried a bit of everything. By the time Thelma & Louise hits screens in 1991, he has already made two of the most important science fiction films of all time, and has tried his hand at historical drama, fantasy, and neo-noir. (In the thirty years since,…
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Blu-ray Review: BERGMAN ISLAND, Mia Hansen-Løve Muses on Muses
I think I liked it even more the second time. My review of Criterion’s new blu-ray of BERGMAN ISLAND, on Screen Anarchy, is live!
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4K Review: Wong Kar Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Looks Sumptuous
The World of Wong Kar Wai steps into UHD and, surprise surprise, it looks fantastic. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: BOAT PEOPLE Shows What War Leaves In Its Wake
Ann Hui’s devastating 1982 portrait of postwar Vietnam and its refugees is despairingly relevant, even timely, in 2022. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: TIME, Spellbinding Work Of Lived, and Living, Memory
Director Garrett Bradley explodes her documentary to consider the breadth and weight of the years of an incarcerated family. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: With Bittersweet Timing, Criterion Unveils MELVIN VAN PEEBLES: ESSENTIAL FILMS
The five-disc set holds six feature films and abundant additional material to honour the late director, a voracious and pluralistic cinematic voice. Read more