Tag: The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray Review: In AN ACTOR’S REVENGE, a Female Impersonator Walks Home Alone At Night
Made right in the middle of the most fertile period in the career of director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad), An Actor’s Revenge joins the Criterion Collection this week as spine #912. It’s a drab tale of melodrama and revenge set in 19th-century Edo, as an onnagata (a male actor playing exclusively female…
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Blu-ray Review: THE BREAKFAST CLUB, a Criterion Collection Triumph
If STRANGER THINGS 3 doesn’t have a BREAKFAST CLUB episode, I’m out.
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Blu-ray Review: Landmark Lesbian Drama DESERT HEARTS Looks Tremendous and Feels Almost as Good
Donna Deitch’s 1985 film sees two women falling in love against a breathtaking Nevada landscape.
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Blu-ray Review: Musical Man-Eating Mermaids in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s THE LURE
Polish horror-musical repatriates The Little Mermaid by way of feminist carnage.
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Blu-ray Review: Kelly Reichardt’s CERTAIN WOMEN Joins the Criterion Collection
This rewarding trio of stories bring out the best in four great actresses.
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Blu-ray Review: Mike Leigh’s MEANTIME, A Well-Timed Criterion Release
The 1984 TV-movie is better than half the prestige TV in your Netflix queue.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Cannot Illuminate the Multitudes Within Tarkovsky’s STALKER
This will be my third time seeing the film, and I am heartily glad to find it on the Criterion Collection this month after a few teases in that direction in the past — few films I’ve ever seen have seemed more specifically connected to Criterion’s overall mission — but I don’t find myself any…
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Blu-ray Review: JEANNE DIELMAN, Criterion’s Three-Hour Slog To Pure Cinematic Perfection
Chantal Akerman’s feminist masterpiece observes an unknowable heroine in vivid detail.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s TAMPOPO Will Make You Hungry
Word of advice: don’t take your first trip to Japan and then come home and watch Tampopo. You might flip out.
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Now on Blu-ray: Kirsten Johnson’s CAMERAPERSON Is One Of Criterion’s Strongest Discs
One of 2016’s best films, director Kirsten Johnson’s documentary CAMERAPERSON joins the Criterion Collection in a beautiful, timely release.