The Criterion Collection
Sep 11, 2018 — There is a brief, nearly throwaway scene early in Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water (1994) that testifies to the transcultural power of rock and roll. In an apartment outside Paris in 1972, we see two teenage brothers wrestling over a portable...
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Sep 10, 2018 — Hopes were high in Venice this year, and for the most part, they seem to have been fulfilled.
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Sep 8, 2018 — The star of over a hundred movies wielded his laid-back charisma to conquer the box office throughout the 1970s.
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Aug 22, 2018 — Festivals from New York to London, from Busan to San Sebastián, are finalizing their lineups.
Aug 14, 2018 — Reimagining the story of a Mexican American folk hero, this revisionist western ushered in a new era in both Chicano and independent filmmaking.
Visual Analysis
Jul 31, 2018 — The award-winning director of The Rider explores the deep respect for nature and subjective human experience in Terrence Malick’s masterful vision of early seventeenth-century America.
Jul 30, 2018 — At a time when women were rarely seen behind the camera, Babette Mangolte created a bold, distinctive aesthetic with a mix of slow rhythms and hauntingly static compositions.
Jul 20, 2018 — American audiences weren’t ready for Barbara Loden’s Wanda when it premiered in 1970. A stark portrait of a working-class woman (played with raw conviction by Loden herself) who breaks free of a miserable marriage, only to find herself on the...
Jul 9, 2018 — His days as an on-screen heartthrob peaked in the 1950s and early ’60s, but John Waters made him a star all over again.
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Jul 8, 2018 — “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” takes the top prize.