Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Car Wash originally ran as a home video review. 1976’s Car Wash is a cinematic outlier, noteworthy for spawning a ubiquitous disco hit and hosting early film appearances...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Too Late for Tears originally ran as a home video review. Byron Haskin’s Too Late for Tears is a recently restored noir that packs more surprises than just...
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...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Turin Horse originally ran as a theatrical review. “In Turin on 3rd January, 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Underworld U.S.A. originally ran as part of our TCM Classic Film Festival 2021 coverage. Samuel Fuller’s Underworld U.S.A. really stresses the world part of the title, building from its opening...
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...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Being There originally ran as part of our Ebertfest 2017 coverage. Finally, my last screening of the festival was another film that looks a little bit...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of White God originally ran as a theatrical review. Have you ever found yourself musing, “You know, I liked that Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Little Annie Rooney originally ran as a home video review. Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Adua and Her Friends originally ran as a home video review. Antonio Pietrangeli’s Adua and Her Friends (out now on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber’s Raro Video imprint) is...
