The Documentaries of Louis Malle

"...Criterion Eclipse Series 2, $79.95..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Review by Taylor Holland

The Spirit of the Beehive

"They felt the film was ... simply unendurable. That no one would go see it."

"...Criterion, $39.95 "Illogical obscurantism," "unbearably slow from reel 3 on,"..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Pandora's Box

Louise Brooks. Berlin. The Twenties.

"...Criterion, $39.95 Kirsten Dunst's knowing smirk in Marie Antoinette (and..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Screens Review by Audra Schroeder

On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

Operating with limited resources, Steev Hise interviews mothers, activists, scholars, and writers to paint the portrait of a city in a state of severe crisis

"...that we should all take notice. Also out NowPlaytime (Criterion, $39.95): Jacques Tati's amazing masterpiece about confusion in the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Review by Toddy Burton

Italian, Criterion-style

Three new Criterion titles demonstrate how far fascism's castor-oil cocktail will travel down the throat of its native filmmakers before it comes back up twice as Azzurri.

"...singular sense of the tragic and absurd. Three new Criterion titles demonstrate how far fascism's castor-oil cocktail will travel..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Harlan County, USA

"...Criterion, $39.95..."

June 23, 2006 Screens Review by Toddy Burton

The Bad Sleep Well

Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing

"...Criterion, $29.95 Akira Kurosawa's hallowed samurai epics camouflage the Japanese..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gift guide

"...Criterion, $79.95 It's a trilogy that could never have conformed..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

DVDs

Jacques Tati's signature film captures the essence of summer in 87 seaside minutes photographed so gorgeously they could only end with a postmark in the upper-right-hand corner

"...Criterion, $29.95 Jacques Tati's signature film captures the essence of..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

DVDs

This 1951 film about a middle-class Japanese family trying to arrange a marriage for their 'aging' 28-year-old daughter is considered one of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's most characteristic

"...Criterion, $39.95 This 1951 film about a middle-class Japanese family..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Tout Va Bien

Jane Fonda is a fixture in the American imagination – and as it turns out, the French imagination, too

"...Criterion, $29.95 Ingenue. Sex kitten. Oscar winner – twice. Exercise..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2

You have to wonder about some of these people

"...The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Criterion): When you get Wes Anderson and Criterion together, the..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Written on the Wind

A Douglas Sirk tour de force, 'Written on the Wind' explores the director's typical fascination with interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail- hat production oozing with Technicolor angst

"...Criterion, $29.95 A Douglas Sirk tour de force, Written on..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...MCriterion Collection, $39.95..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

DVDs

Gift guide

"...Eyes Without a Face Criterion, $29.95..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

John Cassavetes: Five Films

Always popular in Europe and film school, Cassavetes was largely underappreciated in his lifetime and criticized for being boring, terse, and difficult, but these films are fresher than ever

"...John Cassavetes: Five FilmsCriterion, $124.95..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Screens Review by Taylor Holland

Page Two

Here in filmtown, 'Slacker' is on DVD (finally) and 'Louisiana Boys' is on 'SXSW Presents.' Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.

"...no subsequent releases of Slacker on video or DVD. Criterion Collection has just rectified this with a new DVD..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

This week: Burnt Orange, Blood Shots, and 'Slacker'; plus, Travis the Dancin' Fool

"...Richard Linklater will be signing copies of the new Criterion Collection release of "the only film that matters" (to..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Scenes From a Marriage

After Bergman's marriage-is-hell miniseries premiered in the Seventies, appointments for family counseling in Sweden increased, and the divorce rate swelled in Denmark

"...Scenes From a MarriageCriterion, $49.95..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

Jubilee

Jubilee was a critical and commercial failure. Wells Dunbar explains why that's a dirty, rotten shame.

"...The Criterion Collection, $39.95..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa and longtime lead Toshiro Mifune together interpreted Macbeth to legendary effect.

"...Throne of BloodCriterion Collection, $39.95 So it's come to this: dueling translations...."

July 4, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...we need to go somewhere, one and only one criterion determines whether the car-driving members go in one van..."

June 6, 2003 Column

New on DVD

Sam Peckinpah attracted controversy as reliably as a dog attracts fleas. Upon their release, each of his films would stimulate new debate about the uses of onscreen violence and his manhandling of women, as was the case with 1971's Straw Dogs.

"...Straw DogsCriterion Collection, $39.95..."

April 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

New to DVD

You can turn your back on a drug, but never turn your back on Criterion Collection DVD #175, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an "eerie trumpet call over a lost battlefield."

"...Fear and Loathing in Las VegasThe Criterion Collection, $39.95 It was sometime around the third straight..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sid & Nancy

This film rendering of the sordid junkie degradation and deaths of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious and girlfriend Nancy Spungen bleeds through with a tad too much MTV, but few music biopics can top Gary Oldman in Sid & Nancy.

"...In the audio commentary of Criterion's now out-of-print issue of Sid & Nancy (eBay, $50;..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Screens Review

TV Eye

Film actors take flight for the small screen.

"...features for the 10pm broadcast. Movies, Movies, Movies The Criterion Collection, a festival of world-class cinema, continues through August..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Men With Guns

Plus swords, arrows, and armies, packing heat on dvd

"...Criterion Collection ($29.95)..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Men With Guns

Plus swords, arrows, and armies, packing heat on dvd

"...Criterion Collection ($39.95)..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

David (and Jesus) vs. Goliath

The city alleges that Time Warner Cable is offering illegal discounts to snuff out competition.

"...city seems to rely most heavily on the second criterion, which mandates that a market must be served by..."

Feb. 15, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols

ABCD

"...feature tends to fade into the woodwork. Name a criterion -- acting, characterization, dialogue, creative use of cinematic language..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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