The Criterion Collection
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Nov 28, 2014 — It Happened One Night is part of a long tradition of American comedies on the move.
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Oct 23, 2014 — The author recalls meeting the filmmaker in a Swedish hotel in the ’70s.
Oct 21, 2014 — There were plenty of advantages to living in Paris in the early 1970s, especially if one was a movie buff with time on one’s hands. The Parisian film world is relatively small, and simply being on the fringes of it...
Essays
Jun 16, 2014 — Georges Franju evokes the surreal silent serials of Louis Feuillade while constructing his own personal cinematic paradise.
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Jun 12, 2014 — The filmmaker’s latest offering at the film festival reaffirms the author’s faith in him.
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May 14, 2014 — The author recalls his meetings and correspondence with the uncompromisingly independent British director.
May 5, 2014 — The celebrated divot points manfully toward the crest of the next hill, and the next, and the next, and to the horizon after that. Always forward! Into the sunset! Kirk Douglas is on the move: a wagon train of grimace,...
Apr 22, 2014 — Carl Theodor Dreyer’s spare and modern visual style perfectly complements this comic and soulful domestic comeuppance story.
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Mar 2, 2014 — The author shares his memories of the French filmmaker, who died on Saturday.
Nov 11, 2013 — A boldly silent film in the talkie era, Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece has a grace that has never been equaled.