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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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July 4, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Mike LeighExploring the films of the great Mike Leigh in The Criterion Channel’s director spotlight.
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June 28, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Four TrilogiesThe Criterion Channel has put together small collections of films by noted filmmakers past and present, choosing three each to represent the essence of their work.
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June 21, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Criterion Channel EssentialsIf you’re looking for key works in the realm of arthouse cinema, Bil Antoniou and ThatShelf.com writers Pat Mullen, Rachel West, Colin Biggs and Barbara Goslawski have looked through the Channel’s Permanent Gallery and put together list and reasons for why you should start with these.
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June 7, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Jean RenoirRanking the films of French master Jean Renoir.
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May 30, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Cannes ’68This week’s edition of The Criterion Shelf ranks the films in Criterion Channel’s collection of films from Cannes 1968, which was cancelled mid-run.
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May 23, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: The Documentaries of Louis MalleRanking the documentaries of pioneering French filmmaker Louis Malle.
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May 16, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Early Douglas SirkBil Antoniou takes a look at four films made by the celebrated auteur before his reign of fifties melodramas.
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May 9, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Catherine DeneuveHer immense career still goes strong as she has not lost the desire to take chances with artistically adventurous directors, and keeping up with her filmography is no easy task (I’ve been trying for years) but the Criterion Channel’s collection, despite not including her one Oscar-nominated performance, covers her most notable work and is the best summation yet of a classic star.
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May 2, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Women FilmmakersThe week’s edition of The Criterion Shelf surveys the Criterion Channel’s collection of films by women directors.
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April 14, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Four Times ThreeSuperstition tells us that bad things come in threes, but so do some good things, like when the Criterion Channel wants to highlight the essential works necessary to get to know a filmmaker by posting a collection of three films.
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April 5, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Rita HayworthRita Hayworth was the very picture of fantasy, beautiful, sexually confident and charming; as with most fantasy images on screen, the image was just that.
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March 28, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Burt LancasterA tall, broud-shouldered lug with a swindler’s smile, equal parts intellectual and corporeal, Burt Lancaster was a legend by the time of his death in 1994, and Bil Antoniou ranks fifteen of his films featured on the Criterion Channel.
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March 21, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Film Plays ItselfCriterion Channel has assembled seventeen films that deal with films within films, here they are in my preferential order.
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March 14, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Wendy HillerWendy Hiller would have laughed to see anyone summing up her twenty-one film career. She always considered it something of an adjunct to her work on stage.
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February 29, 2020
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Anna Karinaborn in Denmark and always in possession of a haunted Nordic beauty and that delicate accent when she worked in French, she brought a lack of specificity to his investigations of post-war Paris and its soulless commercialism with her roles in films Alphaville (her most iconic) and Made In USA; but in films like the Rivette film in this collection, she also displayed enormous depths of warmth and sensitivity, while showing off a canny intelligence in movies like Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette.
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