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Obviously, just about everyone knows the story of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet—two young star-crossed lovers from warring families in Verona, Italy. This is something everyone had to read in high school for English literature, as well as countless movie...
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island is one of the best films from 2021 that you most likely missed, thanks to the pandemic. However, it’s now available from the Criterion Collection (on Blu-ray and DVD) and it’s well worth the pick up—especially...
Honestly, I guess I’d never really thought about it. I mean, I’m not that big a Broadway guy. But I have to admit it took me a few minutes to get over the realization, brought on by my first viewing...
Perhaps the most enjoyable thing about watching old genre movies is seeing all the different variations that the filmmakers can come up with. When a genre is popular, every possible story iteration is entertained until there is eventually no gas...
Having now seen Girlfriends, available on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection, it’s hard to imagine that Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach weren’t fans of Claudia Weill’s spirited and miraculous debut film when they wrote Frances Ha. Both concern a friendship...
What’s most shocking about watching H.K. Breslauer’s The City Without Jews (out now on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley) as seen today, on the other side of the murder of six million European Jews, is how much of the film plays–quite...
As a television series, Tales from the Darkside never gained the more prestigious reputation of The Twilight Zone or even The Outer Limits. But for 90 syndicated episodes in the 1980s, often aired in the middle of the night, it...
Phil Goldstone’s The Sin of Nora Moran – recently released on Blu-ray in a beautiful 4K restoration – is a melodrama in every sense of the word. The film contains ridiculous plot twists, absurd coincidence, and sky-high emotionality. Some might...
Nikkatsu is Japan’s oldest movie studio. Founded in 1912, its mid-twentieth century golden age produced works from Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura. But the most notorious chapter in its legacy came after that, in the 1970s and 80s, when the...
Byron Haskin’s 1953 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds is a movie perfectly suited to the kind of extensive, high definition restoration we’ve come to expect from the Criterion Collection. Time and familiarity have made...
