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Let the Los Angeles Times ’ Susan King start the praise: “In the early 1980s, PBS presented a series, The Golden Age of Television, which offered eight renowned productions from the early age of TV along with commentary and interviews with those involved. This week, the Criterion Collection ...
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s been thirty years since average joe Brian Cohen was mistaken for the Messiah in Monty Python’s Life of Brian. For the UK’s Telegraph, writer Sanjeev Bhaskar looks back fondly at the production and outraged reception of this giddily blasphemous gospel tale, which ...
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New York artist Jason Polan (known to Criterion fans as the guy behind the “wacky animals” in our monthly newsletters) has been on a mission that’s, to put it mildly, ambitious. The goal of his ongoing drawing project, Every Person in New York, is right there in the title. When we asked ...
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In the eight films he’s made since 1991, Arnaud Desplechin has been developing a visionary world, a personal style that goes against the grain of standard cinematic practice today. He’s a master of ensemble mise-en-scène and a brilliant director of actors, and his interest tends to fan out ...
Drama
A Christmas Tale
Liv Ullmann is the belle of the ball this holiday season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Not only is the Swedish acting powerhouse’s staging of A Streetcar Named Desire (which was first mounted earlier this fall at the Sydney Theatre Company), starring Cate Blanchett, opening at BAM on ...
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Cate Blanchett
In a celebration that coincided with the opening of his new comedy Me and Orson Welles , director Richard Linklater joined cast members Zac Efron and Christian McKay, along with Orson Welles’s daughter, Chris Welles Feder, at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the location of the ...
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Orson Welles
Richard Linklater
Zac Efron
War of the Worlds
Kane Hodder
Critics everywhere are rediscovering Downhill Racer— starring a handsome young golden boy known as Robert Redford—and they’re shouting their praise from the mountaintops. “Four decades later, Downhill Racer seems better than ever, not merely the best film ever made about skiing (an encomium ...
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The Academy Award–winning Howards End, starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, is back in the spotlight, thanks to Criterion’s new Blu-ray disc. “Pure artistry defines this 1992 film from director James Ivory,” writes Amanda Mae Meyncke in a review for Film.com, “which is as beautiful and ...
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Emma Thompson
Anthony Hopkins
It’s well known that Alain Resnais’ beautiful New Wave puzzle Last Year at Marienbad was as fashion-forward as it was artistically progressive. But it surprised us to learn that this high-concept masterpiece was on the cutting edge in another respect. A 1962 Life magazine article recently ...
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Wes Anderson’s surprising latest endeavor, the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox, is out in theaters now and garnering terrific reviews. We thought we’d catch up with our friend and ask him some questions about this charming labor of love, which he answered while ...
Animation
Wes Anderson
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
For twenty years, the remains of television’s self-proclaimed golden age lay dormant in the vaults of the commercial networks. I remember traveling, as a young researcher for NBC, to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, where the old shows of the fifties were stored, and seeing canisters labeled ...
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From Austin to Australia, there’s a wealth of film retrospectives playing all over the globe this week, featuring Criterion titles on the big screen. So depending on where you are, you may want to check one out—or pick up some home-viewing tips.
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muckraker Roberto Saviano somewhere near the conclusion of his extraordinary 2006 “nonfiction novel” Gomorrah, a seethingly cogent and ...
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Interview magazine’s Darrell Hartman is just one of many critics heralding the release of Wings of Desire in Criterion Blu-ray and DVD special editions: “Rilke-inspired interior monologues; Henri Alekan’s gorgeous black-and-white cinematography; a glorious score, rich with cellos and ...
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Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi, who made the utterly bonkers 1977 kinda-horror film House, currently getting a first-time American theatrical run from Janus Films , is profiled by Paul Roquet in a new essay for Midnight Eye . One of the few pieces that’s been written on Obayashi in ...
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The Eye
Louis Malle’s shadowy Paris comes to our nation’s capital on November 12 and 19, when the HR-57 Center for the Preservation of Jazz & Blues in Washington, D.C., will host special live performances of Miles Davis’s evocative music for Malle’s moody 1957 noir, Elevator to the Gallows. The ...
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“If American independent cinema could be said to have a birthday, November 11 is as good a date to celebrate as any,” writes Elbert Ventura in a terrific new article in Slate . The occasion is the fortieth anniversary of the release of John Cassavetes’s Shadows, that most unassuming and ...
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Ever wonder how a gem like Downhill Racer, which Roger Ebert called “the greatest sports movie ever made,” could get lost in the Hollywood shuffle? In an interview for our release of the film (out next week), the star of and force behind it, Robert Redford, spoke frankly about the trials he ...
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Robert Redford
Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer, which arrives on Criterion special-edition DVD next week, is remembered today primarily for its winning star performance. Yet as evidenced by this November 1969 piece from the Sports Illustrated archives by author and sports columnist Dan Jenkins, when the ...
