Criterion Channel Premieres Wong Kar Wai’s Series Blossoms Shanghai this November
Starting November 24, the Criterion Channel will debut Blossoms Shanghai, the highly anticipated series from visionary director Wong Kar Wai.
Wong Kar Wai
Black Hole Films Episode 187 – In the Mood For Love
Joel McCarthy joins Jeremy for In The Mood For Love!
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.
News Shelf: 3/1/14
To wrap up the week, we talk about some places in Toronto where you can get together to watch the Oscars tomorrow, we look ahead to next week's Canadian Screen Awards, we look at two TIFF Bell Lightbox series about books and food on film, and talk a little bit about how TIFF's Paul Verhoeven retrospective is just starting to get really good.
The Grandmaster Review
It's hard to review the North American, Weinstein approved cut of Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster since the half hour or so that's been cut from the film leave it feeling disjointed, but it's still a great kung fu, historical romance from one of the world's finest filmmakers.
The New Old: Love & Darkness
This week's archival home entertainment column takes a look at some real heavy hitters with Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire, the campy Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and director's cuts of both Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and the Al Pacino ham-fest The Devil's Advocate.
