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Sustained Outrage: Steven Soderbergh’s Che and the Virtue of Uprising

March 6, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

The soulful revolutionary and violent guerilla poses difficult questions for today’s opposition movement.

Filed Under: Culture, Movies Tagged With: Che, Che Guevera, Criterion Collection, Joey Armstrong, Steven Soderbergh

Whose Dream Is It?: David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD

November 6, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Criterion Collection, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Joey Armstrong

“This Film Changed My Life.” Pina: A Film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders

June 16, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

An unexpected, life changing work of Dance Documentary

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Criterion Collection, Dance, Josiah Armstrong, Pina, Wim Wenders

Sex, Sadness and Oddities: Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb

May 31, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

His subject matter may be nasty as hell, but his work is meticulous and grotesque.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Criterion Collection, Crumb, Documentaries, Josiah Armstrong

“In the Shadow of Death.” Martin Rosen’s Watership Down

May 14, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

A powerful animated film about the mystery and power of death.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Criterion Collection, Josiah Armstrong, Martin Rosen, Richard Adams

A Desire to Appear on Canvas: Blue Is The Warmest Color and the cinema of queer discovery

April 25, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

An honest, if not great, film about queer sexual discovery.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Blue is the Warmest Color, Criterion Collection, Film, Josiah Armstrong, Queer Film

Spiritual Isolation in Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence

April 10, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Another installment in Josiah Armstrong’s Criterion Collection series.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Criterion Collection, Ingmar Bergman, Josiah Armstrong, The Silence

Art for whom? Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

March 31, 2025 by thestakemag 2 Comments

von Trier’s cinema of extremes kicks off a new series on the Criterion Collection by Josiah Armstrong

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Criterion Collection, Josiah Armstrong, Lars Von Trier, Willem Defoe

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