The Criterion Collection
Dec 3, 2018 — True Stories, David Byrne’s 1986 paean to American eccentricity and ordinariness, called to me from the shelves of a video store in Austin, Texas. Subtitled “A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil, Texas,” True Stories is not “true”...
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Nov 29, 2018 — The largest retrospective in the U.S. yet is on through mid-December.
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Nov 9, 2018 — This week has seen appreciations of such disparate figures as Ida Lupino, André Bazin, and F. J. Ossang.
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Oct 18, 2018 — An autumnal round of reviews, excerpts, interviews, and news.
In Theaters
Sep 27, 2018 — Family tensions come to a boil in Hollywood master Anthony Mann’s searing blend of western and melodrama The Furies, playing at the Belcourt Theatre this week.
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Sep 14, 2018 — Agnès Varda returns to Interview, David Lynch talks about his art, and more.
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Sep 4, 2018 — A series at Anthology Film Archives and an archived special feature make for fine companions.
Essays
Jul 2, 2018 — Josef von Sternberg may have been one of cinema’s original micromanagers, but his films are testaments to longstanding collaborations with brilliant artists and technicians.
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Jun 11, 2018 — New on the shelves this season are volumes on David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, and Ernst Lubitsch.
Jun 11, 2018 — Building on a rich lineage of gothic fairy tales and noirish melodramas, this lavishly stylized curio has an ominous beauty all its own.