Goodfellas' and 'Casino' screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in ...
Alain Guiraudie's wonderfully twisted queer noir 'Misericordia' is about the chaos that comes with being the hottest person in a small town.
While the black-and-white classics of earlier eras look mild to some, this period boasts some of the darkest, more unnerving ...
Opinion
Jacobin on MSN1dOpinion
In Praise of French Poetic Realism
There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series on French poetic realism, a short-lived but intense film movement of the 1930s that is extraordinarily timely right now. A bleak and brooding yet ...
Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia dissects the tensions of desire, guilt and faith in a quiet, insular French village. The film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), who returns for his former employer’s ...
Stylish and experimental, Breathless heralded a new era of film-making when it was released 65 years ago. In 1964, its ...
Harry Potter went down in history as a landmark in literature and cinema, winning a legion of loyal fans to this day. But ...
One is instantly smitten by the mastery in all departments, after one viewing of Ray's classic which boasts filmmaking quality of the highest order, especially of cinematographer Subrata Mitra, also ...
Quartets Through a Time of Change: music by Ravel, Durey, Tailleferre and Milhaud Brother Tree Sound (First Hand Records) ...
But unlike the first movie, this bad-moms noir both diverts and drags ... one of them was a “brother fucker” — an example of how blithe the film was about its own perversity), “A Simple ...
Yet we still think there’s something special about analog photography. If you’re drawn to the idea of shooting on film, this guide will help you get started. Based on the feedback of our ...