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Criterion Commentaries: “Being John Malkovich”
I remember when I had just turned 14, and on Bravo was this TV Spot for a movie called Being John Malkovich. I had never heard of it, and I had no idea what it was about. All I knew was that the cast...
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Criterion Commentaries: “On the Waterfront”
In On the Waterfront, The Criterion Collection’s recent release, the guilt is mounting for longshoreman Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) over his unwitting involvement in a murder. Time is also quickly...
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Criterion Commentaries: “In Which We Serve”
In Which We Serve, we’re told by uncredited narrator Leslie Howard, is “a story about a ship.” Eleven minutes into our story, that ship, H.M.S. Torrin, is bombed by a Nazi airplane and goes down....
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Criterion Commentaries: “Rushmore”
I knew two things on the night of March 12, 1999 when I went in to see Rushmore. It starred Bill Murray, and my friend was eager to see it. For quite some time thereafter, all I could clearly...
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Criterion Commentaries: “Babette’s Feast”
A full course of sinful delights in BABETTE’S FEAST In 2013, a writer for the New York times dismissed Pope Francis’s reveal of his favorite movie as a “cute” bit of trivia. The fact that the Pope had...
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Criterion Commentaries: “Harlan County U.S.A.”
“There is something that a good documentary does, which is no matter who the film-maker is and what their – what they bring to it, the most important thing they do is open you up into a window into...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Goldfinger”
The positively shocking teaser; the bold vocal performance by Shirley Bassey; the elaborate gadgets; “the most famous car in the world”, the Aston Martin DB5; the Bond Girl with the risque name; the...
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Criterion Commentaries: Videodrome
In a way, David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome was a first for me. Up to that point in my life, though I’d watched a lot of movies, I can’t remember one that had this much undercurrent and meaning...
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Movies To See Before You Die: “Hausu”
Roger Ebert was once asked to name a movie totally free of clichés. He named My Dinner With Andre, an entry in his “Great Movies” list. That’s a good question and a good answer, but maybe it was too...
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The One Film Every Millennial Must See from ‘The Criterion Collection’
Tom Courtenay as “grateful” Billy Fisher Billy Liar is perhaps the one film ever selected for inclusion in The Criterion Collection that every millennial ought to see at least once. Just run a quick...
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