The Classics Shelf: The Top Ten Non-American Films of the 1950s
In the latest edition of The Classics Shelf, Bil Antoniou spotlights world cinema by picking the best non-American films of the 1950s.
Federico Fellini
Bardo Review: Chronicle of a Handful of Films
Birdman and The Revenant director Alejandro González Iñárritu looks back at his career in a state of meditative limbo in Bardo.
The Hand of God Review: An Eye for Beauty
Paolo Sorrentino offers his most personal film to date.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Alain Delon
The 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
The Criterion Shelf: Marriage Stories
Criterion 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.
The Criterion Shelf: Criterion Channel Essentials
If 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.
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.
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.
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: Best Foreign Language Film Winners
Overwhelmed by options on the Criterion Channel? Bil Antoniou is your guide to the site's collections and wants to tell you where to start first.
Home Entertainment: Don’t Look Now & Satyricon on Criterion
An in-depth look at two films released by Criterion this month: Nicolas Roeg's essential Don't Look Now and Fellini's surreal Satyricon.
