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

DVDs

What begins as a film following two junior high basketball phenoms with aspirations for the NBA becomes, over five years of filming, 'Hoop Dreams,' the classic depicting the collision of the American dream and the reality of life on the streets of Chicago

"...Criterion, $29.95 What begins as a film following two junior..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

DVDs

Even the 'Sickness of Eros' has unexpected side effects

"...Criterion, $39.95 Even "The Sickness of Eros" has unexpected side..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Donkey Skin

In 1694, three years prior to ‘Tales of Mother Goose,’ which set into print folkloric hand-me-downs ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Puss in Boots,’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’ Charles Perrault donned “Donkey Skin.” Three hundred years later, Jacques Demy adapted it.

"...Chocolate Factory. On mescaline.Also Out NowThe Phantom of Liberty (Criterion): Luis Buñuel's Belle du Jour and Tristana, Catherine Deneuve,..."

May 20, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

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

Divorce Italian Style

With loyalty to such cinematic emperors as Fellini, Pasolini, and Antonioni, the Criterion Collection's devotion to post-war Italian masterpieces is serious business. Seriously buffo, comico, spiritoso in the case of neo-realist Pietro Germi's 'Divorzio all'Italiana' (1962).

"...Criterion, $39.95 With loyalty to such cinematic emperors as Fellini,..."

May 6, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Kagemusha

All of the director's classic themes and techniques are here, but 'Kagemusha' also ushered in a new period in Kurosawa's style, one influenced by the countless hours, months, and years he spent painting imagined scenes from the movie as he waited dejectedly for funding to come in

"...Criterion, $39.95 Born out of the despair and depression that..."

April 8, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Delay of Game

Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory

"...KLRU and Austin City Limits, thus eliminating one potential criterion for judgment. It would be even more novel if..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Film News

Action: The state Senate and House incentive bills are in committee; a 'Scanner' delay; plus, Marc English, Joe Conway, and Sandra Bullock

"...followed up his cool do-it-yourself, punkish design for the Criterion Collection release of Linklater's Slacker with the Criterion version..."

April 1, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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

'Night and the City' and 'Thieves Highway'

The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin's being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949's swiftly compelling 'Thieves' Highway' is leavened somewhat by the fact that the 94-year-old director is still around to partake in the contemporary celebration of his dashing noir oeuvre

"...The Criterion Collection, $39.95Thieves' Highway..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Staying Alive

You don't even want to know

"...savored (but for the "digital" part, anyhow). The words "Criterion Collection" meant something then – there was no such..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

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

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...they'll give perverse pleasure enough while we wait for Criterion to really step in it...."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

DVDs

Gift guide

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

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDs

Gift guide

"...day of high school 1976 had gotten the deluxe Criterion treatment that Linklater's indie landmark Slacker received this summer...."

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

A butcher, a baker, a police officer, a newscaster, a phone-sex-operator mom, a dead-beat dad, and a cheat. Ray Carver and a confused audience. A Best Director nomination for Robert Altman.

"...Short Cuts Criterion, $39.95..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

The Battle of AlgiersAlso Out Now The Battle of Algiers

In the wake of this country's most recent exercise in colonialism, Criterion has released, on three DVDs, Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece, a film so rich in aesthetic and political relevance as to be almost uncanny

"...The Battle of AlgiersCriterion, $49.95..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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

Slacker

"...SlackerCriterion Collection, $39.95..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Me Talk Dirty One Day

Bryan Poyser and Jacob Vaughan come clean on their 'Dear Pillow'

"...might not be coming out as a deluxe edition Criterion DVD this month...."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by John Pierson

Page Two

The real truth about (Hurricane) Charley, and the charmed life of President Bush

"...of any concern to Bush, or served as a criterion by which he has been judged or rewarded. Bush..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

"...Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean RenoirCriterion, $79.95..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Tin Drum

"...The Tin Drum Criterion, $39.95..."

July 16, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

House Park Skateboarders Roll for Action

A downtown skate fest raises the call for a city skateboard park

"...around him. "Not one of these kids fits the criterion for obesity." And unlike organized sports such as football,..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Kurosawa's 'Stray Dog' and 'Ikiru'

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

July 2, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

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