The Horrors of Space: ‘The Uninvited’ and ‘La Notte’ Hit The Criterion Collection
Horror, as a cinematic genre, is continually thought about in terms of the monsters it creates. There’s Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, the creature from t...
Peter Labuza
From Alfred Hitchcock to John Ford, ‘Lost & Found’ Reveals Essential Silent Film Treasures
How do we view film history when moving along with it? History, as a scholarly discipline, can almost feel like quantum mechanics: systems and perceptions c...
[Review] After Tiller
Although documentaries often present real-life people working in risk-filled areas, the results can be quite banal. Half of reality television is filled with po...
Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Autumn Sonata’ Hits Criterion: A Hollywood Star Returns to the Homeland
It’s a common story: a highly acclaimed art house director behind countless celebrated works finally comes to the United States for their English-language d...
[TIFF Review] The Strange Little Cat
Running a brief 72 minutes, The Strange Little Cat joins the hour-long Viola as 2013's second feature that will require multiple viewings, but ones which will p...
[TIFF Review] Manakamana
First image: absolute darkness. We hear the sounds of mechanical contraptions and can see small flashes of light. We’re inside a huge structure, but what causes...
Early Fassbinder Hits Criterion: A Look at ‘Love Is Colder Than Death,’ ‘Beware of a Holy Whore’ & More
Rainer Werner Fassbinder — just saying his name feels towering in itself, so the German director’s astronomical oeuvre feels equally fitting. The frenetic aut...
The Influence of ‘L’Avventura’ on ‘Spring Breakers,’ ‘The Bling Ring,’ ‘To the Wonder,’ & ‘Upstream Color’
Any narrative of film history is, inevitably, peppered with simplifications -- a through line designed to connect the canonical works while ignoring complicat...
Rhythm and Word: Exploring the Films of Matías Piñeiro
“I like to profit from what happens unplanned. The idea of the world as being something beyond what is seen is what I’m looking to express.”
-Matías Piñeir...
‘The Life of Oharu’ Hits Criterion: In Praise of the Body
Since silent film first took shape and began to create a cinematic language (at least one for narrative cinema), film theorists have expounded on the beauty...
