The Criterion Shelf: The Documentaries of Louis Malle
Ranking the documentaries of pioneering French filmmaker Louis Malle.
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The Criterion Shelf: Early Douglas Sirk
Bil Antoniou takes a look at four films made by the celebrated auteur before his reign of fifties melodramas.
Cannes Palme d’Or Winners: Ranking the 21 Best of the Fest
With the 73rd Cannes Film Festival postponed due to COVID-19, our team celebrates the legacy and influence of the world's most prestigious festival.
Columbia Classics’ New 4K Ultra HD Collection Includes Films by Kubrick, Lean, & Capra
Six Acclaimed Films from Columbia Pictures’ library make their 4K Ultra HD Debut this June.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Catherine Deneuve
Her 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.
Hollywood Review: Ryan Murphy’s Revisionist History Dazzles
Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series is an insider's buffet of film geek references, historical revisionism, and cheesy idealism.
The Criterion Shelf: Four Times Three
Superstition 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.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth was the very picture of fantasy, beautiful, sexually confident and charming; as with most fantasy images on screen, the image was just that.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Burt Lancaster
A 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.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Wendy Hiller
Wendy 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.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Anna Karina
born 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.
Seberg Review: Kristen Stewart Will Leave You Breathless
Kristen Stewart shines in a middling biopic about actress Jean Seberg.
comPOSERS Episode 26: King Kong (1933)
This week, we go back to a time before even Alex was around to watch movies in order to review Max Steiner's groundbreaking score to 1933's King Kong.
