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No Home Video: On Women-Directed Films
Boutique labels--including Criterion--speak up about why there aren't more female-directed films on home media.
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Love Streams: The Energy of “A Hard Days Night”
From the very first strum of the very first frame, the screen explodes. Not in the literal sense; there aren’t balls of fire or cinders filling up the frame, but there might as well be. No, instead, it’s a horde of fans, Beatlemaniacs, in hot pursuit of John, ...
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Criterion Goes Pop
Criterion claims to collect "important contemporary and classic films." To fully do that, it's high time they accepted pop cinema.
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The Second Criterion: “Three Outlaw Samurai”
When we think about narratives woven around samurai, those noble, ornately armored dragoons from Japan's feudal days of yore, we tend to think of them in terms of thematic frameworks. Honor, loyalty, devotion, and servitude; these are just a few of the primary...
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The Cunnilingus Conundrum: Why The Allure of ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ Is Its Biggest Detraction
The controversy surrounding Blue Is The Warmest Color only distracts from its strengths, both onscreen and off.
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Top 10 Must-Own Criterion Collection Releases You’ve Never Heard Of
If there's one thing I like more than my very own life, it's The Criterion Collection. With a Barnes & Noble half-off Criterion sale looming (the rumor is it'll be arriving near the start of November), and nearly 700 films to its name, it's tough to curate...
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The Second Criterion: ‘Days of Heaven’
In any Terrence Malick film, themes are essential to understanding his film. While his later work are overt about their ideas -- The Tree of Life presents the entire thesis of the film in voiceover -- Days of Heaven is the film I’ve always found his most diffi...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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The Second Criterion: ‘Black Narcissus’
While ideas of culture and religion are important to Black Narcissus, the more I watch the film, the more I see these ideas as a means for the film to explore the tension between discipline and desire. The cultural conflict between the West and the East, the c...
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The Second Criterion: ‘In the Mood for Love’
It’s difficult to write about In the Mood for Love in terms of theme because much of the film is concerned with ephemeral, almost inexpressible feelings. Still, the characters’ quest for understanding and the relationship that forms out of that creates an inte...
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