Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Reinhardt and Dieterle’s 1935 film is the true embodiment of the term “movie magic.” Shakespeare’s prose...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of In a Year with 13 Moons originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. The sensitive and beautiful sadness of Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been more affecting...
Title: Stars at Noon Year: 2022 Director: Claire Denis Cast: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez Synopsis: An unlikely romance between a drifting American journalist (Qualley) and an elusive English businessman (Alwyn) strikes up amid rising political tensions...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Funeral Parade of Roses originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. There’s a fine line with avant-garde/experimental cinema, especially from the sixties and seventies; orthodoxies inspired by...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Performance originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Performance isn’t a great movie, but an entertaining one that personifies two polarizing sides of London’s underground. You have the...
Title: Tomboy Year: 2011 Director: Céline Sciamma Cast: Zoé Héran, Malon Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani Synopsis:After moving to a new town for the summer, Laure, an androgynous ten-year-old Laure (Héran), is mistaken for a boy by the local kids....
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Other Side of the Wind originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. It all seemed so strange; the long, sought after, thought-to-be-lost Orson Welles film The Other...
Based on a true story……kind of… For episode 41 of The Trailer Project we go into The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the horror film from genre master Tobe Hooper, one of the iconic American films of the 1970s. Enjoy! The...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Buck and the Preacher originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Poitier expertly blends political allegory into the myth of the American West by tapping into our...
Title: Chocolat Year: 1988 Director: Claire Denis Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Cécile Ducasse, Mireille Perrier, Giula Boschi, François Cluzet Synopsis: A young woman in France (Ducasse & Perrier) caught between her past and present reflects on her days in colonial...