The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Jean Renoir
Ranking the films of French master Jean Renoir.
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The Criterion Shelf: Cannes ’68
This 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.
The Criterion Shelf: The Documentaries of Louis Malle
Ranking the documentaries of pioneering French filmmaker Louis Malle.
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.
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.
The Criterion Shelf: Women Filmmakers
The week's edition of The Criterion Shelf surveys the Criterion Channel's collection of films by women directors.
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: Film Plays Itself
Criterion Channel has assembled seventeen films that deal with films within films, here they are in my preferential order.
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.
