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The critics are virtually blown away. Read more »
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Hideo Gosha’s classic sword-fighting film measures up to Kurosawa and is plenty of adventurous fun to boot, say the critics. Read more »
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Lena Dunham wrote, directed, and stars in Tiny Furniture, now on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD. indieWIRE calls it “precise, funny, and unsparing.” Read more »
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“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 »
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Sympathy for a monster? Time's Steven James Snyder writes, “As I became immersed in the new Criterion Collection release of Ishiro Honda’s original Godzilla this past weekend, I found myself moved to tears—mourning for a doomed dino.” Read more »
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UPDATE 08FEB2012: In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes that these films are “endlessly interested in individual experience and idiosyncrasy, fully alert to the tragicomedy of human complexity and contradiction.” Read more »
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“One of the great French films of the 1960s, Belle de jour is a masterful blend of fantasy and reality,” writes Matt Hough in a Home Theater Forum review of Luis Buñuel’s sensual and cerebral classic, now on Criterion DVD and Blu-ray. Read more »
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It’s the time of year when the list makers do their heavy lifting, looking back over the preceding twelve months and deciding what was best and brightest. We’re happy to report that some of our 2011 releases have been turning up in such rankings. . . . Read more »
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“Anyone under the illusion that movies have grown more sophisticated about sex as society has become (allegedly) more open should take a look at Design for Living,” writes Charles Taylor in the New York Times about the classic comedy, now available . . . Read more »
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“Viewers enchanted by The Thief of Bagdad will need little encouragement to sample more early film work by the remarkable actor Sabu,” writes Glenn Erickson for Turner Classic Movies. Read more »
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