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Criterion Confessions: BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! - #440
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Wednesday, July 30, 2008. BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! 2006), newly released by Criterion. Whether Brand Upon the Brain! Is an exercise in pseudo-autobiography, its fractured editing style meant to reflect the fractured memory that is emerging from Maddin's subconscious. Broken into twelve chapters (plus one interlude) and featuring intertitles that appear in choppy fragments, Brand Upon the Brain! Brand Upon the Brain! If I had to choose, I'd choose...
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Criterion Confessions: THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY: DONKEY SKIN - #718
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Sunday, August 17, 2014. THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY: DONKEY SKIN - #718. Though all of his musicals had fairy tale elements to them, Jacques Demy waited until 1970 to embrace the genre in full, adapting Charles Perrault's Donkey Skin. For a big-screen, live-action version of a Disney cartoon. Catherine Deneuve once again stars, playing both the Queen and the Princess, a smart device given the film's darker plot developments. As Donkey Skin.
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Criterion Confessions: EARLY BERGMAN - ECLIPSE SERIES 1
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. EARLY BERGMAN - ECLIPSE SERIES 1. Everyone seems to have exclusive rights to hell. 8211; Valborg (Mimmi Nelson) in Ingmar Bergman's Thirst. Is the first set of movies in this series, and it brings together five pictures by legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman from before the career upswing that began with 1955's Smiles of a Summer Night. As the pinnacle of that kind of flattery. Having stood behind the ca...
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Criterion Confessions: THE FIRST FILMS OF SAMUEL FULLER - ECLIPSE SERIES 5
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Monday, December 31, 2007. THE FIRST FILMS OF SAMUEL FULLER - ECLIPSE SERIES 5. This past July at Comic-Con International. I happened to be at my publisher's table when a kid came up and asked me when a particular cartoonist would be signing. I told him the time and said, "You'll recognize him right away. He looks like he draws.". Or even his appearance in Pierrot. A member of the James gang who shot their leader in the back in order to get a ...
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Criterion Confessions: TOKYO STORY - #217
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Sunday, December 19, 2010. TOKYO STORY - #217. Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 movie Tokyo Story. Has always been a cinematic blind spot for me, despite it having a reputation for being perhaps the quintessential film in the Japanese director's canon. I would always hear others singing its praises, including quite often being told by people how they were moved emotionally by the family tale. This led me to expect Tokyo Story. Part Two of Tokyo Story.
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Criterion Confessions: SILENT NARUSE - ECLIPSE SERIES 26
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Friday, April 1, 2011. SILENT NARUSE - ECLIPSE SERIES 26. It's sad to read in the liner notes for the new Eclipse set, Silent Naruse. Thus, Mikio Naruse is a director that more of us probably know by name rather than by his work. He was an artist whose specialty was what was termed the "woman's picture." Like Douglas Sirk. The 1931 short Flunky, Work Hard. Element, with events growing bittersweet and ironic. Within the next year, Naruse's tech...
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Criterion Confessions: THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY: THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT - #717
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY: THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT - #717. Jacques Demy’s take on the big American musical, 1967’s The Young Girls of Rochefort. Is pure joy. From the first frame to the last, it’s packed with smiles and passion and a giddy sense of its own fun. Set in a seaside town on a carnival weekend, The Young Girls of Rochefort. Puts aside the operatic stylings of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Has a romanti...
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Criterion Confessions: LATE OZU - ECLIPSE SERIES 3
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Thursday, December 13, 2007. LATE OZU - ECLIPSE SERIES 3. Or a specific timeframe in the director's career (five of the first films Ingmar Bergman made were bundled as Series 1, Early Bergman. Series 3 falls in the latter category. Late Ozu. Or still awaiting a DVD release (his last movie, An Autumn Afternoon. Unlike the Early Bergman. Box, where the set showed a style in development, Late Ozu. Black-and-white; 145 minutes - 1956):. Similar th...
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Criterion Confessions: TRAVELS WITH HIROSHI SHIMIZU - ECLIPSE SERIES 15
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Friday, March 13, 2009. TRAVELS WITH HIROSHI SHIMIZU - ECLIPSE SERIES 15. In keeping with their mission statement, Criterion's Eclipse series. Last summer, they introduced a lot of us to the pleasures of Russian auteur Larisa Shepitko. And now four entries later, they unearth a quartet of early Japanese films by Hiroshi Shimizu. Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu - Eclipse Series 15. Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu. And Mr. Thank You. Might as well hav...
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Criterion Confessions: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Blu-ray) - #740
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A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. Tuesday, February 10, 2015. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Blu-ray) - #740. Casting back in my memory, I think I first heard of Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the same time I first heard of Douglas Sirk. Than it would Sirk, whom I sought out immediately, the two would remain inextricably linked. Largely because Fassbinder wanted it to be so. The German director’s 1972 film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Is very much its own thing. Would...
