THE MUSIC ROOM: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

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THE MUSIC ROOM: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray is widely regarded as being among the world’s greatest directors. Unfortunately, the majority of his creative output is not...

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12 ANGRY MEN: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

When I reviewed Criterion's two-disc release of "Ran," I mentioned the film class I took in high school. Sidney Lumet's "12 Angry Men" (1957) was one of...

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THE RULES OF THE GAME: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

Is "The Rules of the Game" the "most complex social criticism ever enacted on the screen"? That's what film scholar Alexander Sesonske says in this DVD's...

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RUSHMORE: CRITERION COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)

While Bottle Rocket had effective moments of brilliance that signaled the cinema to come, Wes Anderson made his first enduring stylistic stamp with...

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DAZED AND CONFUSED: CRITERION COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)

Dazed and Confused found me at the wrong time. A friend had suggested a double feature of The Big Lebowski and Dazed and Confused, but I wasn't really in...

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ISLAND OF LOST SOULS: CRITERION COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)

During the 2011 Fantasia Film Festival, I got into a conversation with Film Threat writer Jeremy Knox about the filmmaker Richard Stanley. Stanley was in...

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KURONEKO: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

Kaneto Shindo is a Japanese director whose works I wasn't familiar with until now. After viewing "Kuroneko," I can see why he's often held in the same...

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SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM: CRITERION COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)

Pier Paolo Pasolini's final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, is a legendary piece of cinema, mainly due to its shocking, depraved imagery and subject...

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NAKED: CRITERION COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)

I'm not going to pretend that I'm some old school fan of Naked since its original release almost twenty years ago; the honest truth is that this one got by...

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THE GREAT DICTATOR: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

Writing about "The Great Dictator" in the booklet accompanying this two-disc release, professor Michael Wood says this about Charlie Chaplin playing the...

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