Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as a home video review. I feel bad for all those other films that don’t get to be Band of Outsiders. Now,...
This week, we’re taking public transit. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re taking public transit, inadvertently kissing, midsummer night’s dreaming, Harry Dean Stanton Festing and vampire hunting. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this...
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...
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...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Ride the Pink Horse originally ran as a home video review. From the first moments, it’s clear that Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse will not quite be...
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...