The Complete Monterey Pop Festival: Criterion Collection
The three concerts that defined the 1960s were Monterey Pop, Woodstock and the Rolling Stones at Altamont. The first one kicked off the Summer of Love in 1967, the second one defined the Hippie movement and the last one ended the hopeful decade on a dark, bittersweet note. It was the Monterey International Pop Festival that arguably best encapsulated the rock ‘n’ roll music that came out of the era and took the world by storm. Famed documentarian D.A. Pennebaker had his cameras there, capturing breakout performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding with additional dynamic performances from the Who, Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas... Read DVD Review
The Breakfast Club: Criterion Collection
John Hughes’ movies were a cultural touchstone for an entire generation of young people in the 1980s. With Sixteen Candles (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), he had an uncanny ability to tap into how teenagers felt about things and related to each other that was entertaining and poignant. Of all his teen movies, The Breakfast Club (1985) has endured the longest... Read DVD Review
Personal Shopper: Criterion Collection
Since starring in the popular Twilight movies, Kristen Stewart has used the clout and financial freedom she got from them to work on smaller, more creatively rewarding projects like On the Road (2012) and Certain Women (2016) where she didn’t have the pressure to carry the entire film. In recent years, she’s collaborated frequently with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas on Clouds of Sils Maria (2014),... Read DVD Review
Le Samourai: Criterion Collection
Le Samourai (1967) begins with no dialogue for several minutes as director Jean-Pierre Melville expertly conveys everything we need to know visually. He shows professional hitman Jef Costello (Delon) getting ready for a job. It is the kind of introduction that is similar to the way Michael Mann begins his films, showing his protagonists hard at work, no dialogue is needed because it is obvious what... Read DVD Review
Certain Women: Criterion Collection
Kelly Reichardt is a highly regarded filmmaker known for her quietly understated, slice of life dramas like Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Meek’s Cutoff (2010). Her latest film is Certain Women (2016), an adaptation of three short stories by Maile Meloy, drawing from her 2009 book Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It to much acclaim. All set in Montana, the first story sees a lawyer (Dern) dealing with... Read DVD Review
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