Everlasting Moments: Criterion Collection
July 1, 2010
Everlasting Moments (2008) is veteran Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell’s 14th feature film. He is the auteur of such critically acclaimed films as The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). His latest effort is a moving love letter to the art of photography....
Red Desert: Criterion Collection
June 10, 2010
The term auteur was invented to describe a filmmaker like Michelangelo Antonioni who pretty much defined existential angst with the films he made in the 1960s, most notably the ones starring his then cinematic muse, Monica Vitti. With Red Desert (1964),...
I Know You Know
June 8, 2010
I Know You Know is the first film directed by Justin Kerrigan since his breakthrough movie Human Traffic in 1999. Considering that Human Traffic was such a huge hit in the UK, and was critically acclaimed, it’s perhaps surprising that it took Kerrigan...
The Girl on the Train
May 18, 2010
Andre Techine is among some of the best post-French New Wave filmmakers and is known for his elegantly-shot films that explore the complexities of human emotions. Arguably, he’s best known for My Favorite Season (1993) and particularly Wild Reeds (1994),...
Walkabout: Criterion Collection
May 11, 2010
Based on James Vance Marshall’s 1959 novel The Children, Walkabout (1971) marked cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s feature film debut as a director. Originally, producer Si Litvinoff wanted Roeg to direct an adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork...
The Fugitive Kind: Criterion Collection
May 3, 2010
Adapted from the play Orpheus Descending by the author himself, Tennessee Williams’ The Fugitive Kind (1960) is a gritty southern potboiler directed by Sidney Lumet in his customary realistic style. At the center of the film lies a torrid love triangle...
Ride with the Devil: Criterion Collection
April 27, 2010
Ang Lee is a filmmaker not afraid to take chances. He brought a historical epic steeped in spectacular martial arts to the mainstream and Oscar glory with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Less successfully, he tried to merge his soulful aesthetic...
The Missing Person
April 23, 2010
With an Academy Award nomination for his scene-stealing role in Revolutionary Road (2008), Michael Shannon’s career was given a considerable boost. For years, he’s plugged away in small roles in big films like Pearl Harbor (2001) and more substantial...
Crazy Heart
April 19, 2010
In 2010, Jeff Bridges finally received an Academy Award for acting after several previous nominations over the years and a long, illustrious career chock full of diverse roles in films as varied as the murder mystery Cutter’s Way (1981), big-budget...
Summer Hours: Criterion Collection
April 16, 2010
French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has created a fascinating body of work that finds him alternating between character-driven films like Late August, Early September (1998) and Clean (2004), and stylish action thrillers like demonlover (2002) and Boarding...
