Lena Dunham wrote, directed, and stars in Tiny Furniture, now on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD, and, as Garrett Conti puts it in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Read more »
When it comes to depicting actual people’s jobs, the truism goes, Hollywood gets everything wrong with stunning regularity. The rare exception is Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder Read more »
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s only work of science fiction, World on a Wire (1973) is surely one of the most obscure items among the forty-odd titles that constitute his filmography. Read more »
Wes Anderson’s deep-sea adventure The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou resurfaces this week on a handful of big screens. Read more »
“Francesco Rosi’s The Moment of Truth is an astonishing film, arguably the greatest bullfighting film ever made,” writes Svet Atanasov in a review at Blu-ray.com. “It is wild, it is brutal, it is beautiful and at times even erotic.” Read more »
Comedy evolves. We long ago bid adieu to the physical acrobatics of Buster Keaton, the wisecracks of Bob Hope, the witty repartee of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. The now-reigning comedy of embarrassment, seen in the films of Judd Apatow and the . . . Read more »
For nearly three decades, Hideo Gosha (1929–1992) made some of the most explosive, artful, and original films in Japanese cinema. Along the way, he also became one of his country’s most established and acclaimed filmmakers. But his reputation . . . Read more »
Wes Anderson, as a young man growing up in Texas, had a dream of becoming a filmmaker. He came up with a few ideas for movies when applying to film school that eventually evolved into his first three feature films. Read more »
Recent Comments
“No need to go crazy "god", just buy the Blu, it´contains all the film on 1 disc...But to be honest i don´t like Blu...It´s just that my chick thinks it looks better. But it don´t...”
Pete Doh on World on a Wire: The Hall of Mirrors,
9 minutes ago.
“Goddamn you Criterion, just received this film, why in the hell is it divided on 2 discs? Crappy edition, you suck! Next time i will fuckin download somewhere instead of buying your horrible editions . . .”
God on World on a Wire: The Hall of Mirrors,
15 minutes ago.
“Blu, Please.”
MA on Night on Earth: New York—Jim Jarmusch, Poet,
about 2 hours ago.
“Just watched this yesterday. Blown away again. Very worth multiple viewings.”
Michelle on Anatomy of a Murder: Atomization of a Murder,
about 2 hours ago.
“THE TREE OF LIFE is more like "The Film of the Decade". Years from now, after many of the current nominations are forgotten THE TREE OF LIFE will still be talked about and debated. Some films have . . .”
Hunter Hale on Criterion’s Best Picture Oscar Nominees,
about 3 hours ago.