The soulful revolutionary and violent guerilla poses difficult questions for today’s opposition movement.
Whose Dream Is It?: David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD
The Criterion Collection advertises itself as “a series of important contemporary and classic films.” That is an understatement. It’s more accurate to describe Criterion as a moveable museum, containing films from all over the world, preserved in gorgeous detail, unpacked with creator interviews and essays written by film scholars. The folks at Criterion have gathered a community […]
“This Film Changed My Life.” Pina: A Film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders
An unexpected, life changing work of Dance Documentary
Sex, Sadness and Oddities: Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb
His subject matter may be nasty as hell, but his work is meticulous and grotesque.
“In the Shadow of Death.” Martin Rosen’s Watership Down
A powerful animated film about the mystery and power of death.
A Desire to Appear on Canvas: Blue Is The Warmest Color and the cinema of queer discovery
An honest, if not great, film about queer sexual discovery.
Spiritual Isolation in Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence
Another installment in Josiah Armstrong’s Criterion Collection series.
Art for whom? Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
von Trier’s cinema of extremes kicks off a new series on the Criterion Collection by Josiah Armstrong