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Bil Antoniou
Criterion Maestro
Bil Antoniou is a Toronto-based actor and playwright who co-hosts the podcast BGM: Bad Gay Movies/Bitchy Gay Men and his own personal memory project podcast My Criterions. The rest of the time, he's usually watching movies and blogging about them at MyOldAddiction.com.Articles by Bil Antoniou:
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January 23, 2021
The Criterion Shelf: Written By Harold PinterPinter directed nearly fifty productions for stage, theatre and screen.
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January 9, 2021
The Criterion Shelf: Cary Grant ComediesCriterion Channel’s collection of Cary Grant comedies proves the measure of true star power.
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December 12, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Claire Denis, Bill Forsyth, Nadav LapidThe Criterion Channel is currently screening three collections of three very different filmmakers.
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November 21, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: New Korean CinemaRanking the films that built the South Korean industry pre-Parasite.
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November 7, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Joan CrawfordCrawford showed up ready for stardom, as time passed the perfection of her face hardened but you could never do anything about those eyes.
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October 24, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: ’70s HorrorJust in time for Halloween, Bil Antoniou takes a look at 28 spooky classics.
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October 10, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Volker SchlöndorffBeginning with his feature debut Young Törless, Schlöndorff showed himself interested in examining the gray area of morality.
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September 26, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo’s projects push the limit of what people consider to be the usefulness of art.
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September 14, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Bad VacationsAs an antidote to our pandemic wanderlust, The Criterion Channel has put together a list of films meant to remind us that going somewhere isn’t always a good thing.
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August 29, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Alain DelonThe face of an angel with haunted, almost devilish eyes couldn’t be more suited to capturing the hearts and imaginations of viewers, and throughout his lengthy career Delon has played a series of charismatic bad boys that have made him a very potent, very eternal sex symbol
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August 16, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Powell and PressburgerIt’s not just marriages that are made in heaven, some film collaborations are as well, and the artform rarely benefited more from two artists collaborating than when Austrian émigré screenwriter Emeric Pressburger was paired up with English director Michael Powell.
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August 8, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: German ExpressionismCriterion’s collection highlighting the genre of German Expressionism is such a gift for those of us who have always read about the filmmaking style, but never actually investigated it.
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July 25, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Scores by Ryuichi SakamotoWhen interviewed, Ryuichi Sakamoto says that he’s “fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound”, working to create not just a melody but a mood and even a way of thinking with his compositions.
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July 18, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Marriage StoriesCriterion has put together a collection of marital tales, most of which aren’t going to inspire you to jump to propose any time soon: the ones who stay together are miserable (or, in one case, possibly a fantasy), those who part do so in a morass of bigamy, infidelity and acrimony.
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July 11, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Luis Garcia BerlangaNo surprise that a man who began his studies in philosophy before enrolling in the impressively named “Institute of Cinematographic Investigations and Experiences” would turn out to be a storyteller whose technical skill is matched by his intelligent and thoughtful irony. Even less shocking is that a man who volunteered to serve in World War II to save his Republican father from being executed would also have a critical opinion of his government.
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