Month: February 2015

[Review] Old Fashioned

There is conservative and then there is conservative. Old Fashioned, released as a kind of counter-programing to another very creepy picture about contractual m...

‘A Day in the Country’ Hits Criterion: Jean Renoir’s Universe of Emotions

A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir's 1936 impressionist image of past frivolities drowning in time, is drenched in the myths of its production: a sudden rainstorm halted the production and had to be integrated in the story; Renoir could never return to it because of a "creative block"; the mid-sized length was conceived by its producer while having a creative breakthrough as he hid from the Nazis. And thus the film that developed, which is now out on Criterion Blu-ray, is its own miracle....

[Berlin Review] Queen of Earth

Alex Ross Perry does not deal in likeable protagonists. The brother and sister from his 2011 breakthrough The Color Wheel and the titular hero of last year’s in...