Category: Criterion Tuesday

Stray Dog

Stray Dog is an early but genuine masterwork from the director and one of the most complete demonstrations of his craft using rain, heat, sweat, the camera, fourth wall breaks and some of the best actors in history to deliver a fantastic...

Resurrection

Resurrection is one of the newest additions to the criterion collection, added as a criterion premiere to increase viewership, and is a perfect example of a director sculpting his own art, a genuine love letter to cinema and a wonder to...

Point Blank

Point Blank is an ordinary crime thriller that was successful in America but heralded as an outright masterpiece in France, a divide that would only converge to an overall positive opinion as time passed that underscored how ahead of its...

Gilda (1946)

Gilda, is a film that succeeds far more on presence and craft than on narrative ambition, a classic 40s noir vibe that earns its Criterion through its ability to frame Rita Hayworth perhaps better than any other film ever has...

Testament (1983)

Testament is one of the most realistic and quietly devastating post–World War II nuclear war stories, not because of what it shows, but because of how stubbornly it refuses to look away from the ordinary human cost of c...

Viridiana (1961)

Viridiana brings this contradiction to the forefront defining its viewing experience: a film banned at home and celebrated abroad, built by a director who spent his career split between protest and exile, and its exactly this tension that...

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