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...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Le Magnifique originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. While Francois Merlin’s escapist fantasy is presented as if this were entirely a comic spy movie – the...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Tin Drum originally ran as a home video review. Because the first Volker Schlöndorff film I ever saw was 2000’s The Legend of Rita, he maintains...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Every Man for Himself originally ran as a home video review. 1980’s Every Man for Himself marked Jean-Luc Godard’s return, after ten years of more video, documentary and...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Sabotage originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Early Hitchcock films are a great deal of fun to watch, not only did he cut his teeth in...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Breathless originally ran as part of our reader-voted Top 100 Movies list. Jean-Luc Godard’s most famous film, Breathless follows the brief love affair between a man on the...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Halloween originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. In many ways, Halloween is something of an odd duck in Carpenter’s filmography. While it’s easily his most renowned and well...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as part of Aaron’s A Series of Crimes series. Jean-Luc Godard, like his French New Wave contemporaries, was fascinated by Hollywood...