Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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Blu-ray Review: STREETWISE and TINY, Criterion’s Latest Double Feature, Spans A Lifetime
Filmmakers Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell paint a picture of a street kid, and the adult she became. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, An Opium-Fogged Reverie
Mesmerizing, fascinating, and makes me want to get deeply into opium. My full review is up on Screen Anarchy: screenanarchy.com/2021/05/blu-ray-review-flowers-of-shanghai-an-opium-fogged-reverie.html
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Blu-ray Review: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Formative TOUKI BOUKI from Criterion
Sengelase filmmaking comes through with a one-two punch in back-to-back Blu-rays. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: Ramin Bahrani’s CHOP SHOP Remains Revelatory, Fifteen Years Later
The visual technique alone is worth the price of this Criterion blu-ray, and should be studied by filmmakers and cinephiles. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: MANDABI, Follow the Money (Order) in Criterion’s Release
Following BLACK GIRL, a new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s sophomore feature arrives this week. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: An Entirely Archival Criterion Release of David Cronenberg’s CRASH Can’t Help But Feel Very 2020
Advice to Torontonians: don’t watch Crash in a pandemic in December. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: Jim Jarmusch Brings GHOST DOG To The Criterion Collection
The Way of the Samurai is an absolute surplus of special features, apparently. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: CLAUDINE, Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones Anchor a Social Classic
Director John Berry’s 1974 film might improve Criterion’s scorecard on canonizing films about Black lives. Read more
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Blu-Ray Review: Claire Denis’ BEAU TRAVAIL Is A Last, Best Dance
The new 4K restoration is touring cinemas and digital platforms now, but you want this in your collection. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Paints a PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Have we changed how we see, or has what we see changed? Every few years I see a film that was captured digitally, and I’m thrown back to the early days of the format, when the proto-Christopher Nolans of the world would tell any interviewer they could get their hands on that electronic media could…