Criterion Files

In 2011, Landon Palmer went through The Criterion Collection disc by disc. Here he looks at the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary classic.

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are with little argument probably the two most influential and “important” personalities from an era that was overflowing with some…

From 2011, this entry in our column digging into the Criterion Collection library explores Preston Sturges’ hilarious 1941 entry into the romantic comedy genre.

There was a period in the early to mid-1950s where the horror genre, in hindsight, was appearing to go through somewhat of a period of…

In 1950 Akira Kurosawa released what many consider to be his first true masterpiece, which started two decades full of multiple masterpieces, in the pioneering…

Though it isn’t typical of this column to focus an article’s actual material towards the relevance of the chosen title for the week ‘s relation…

If you’re like me, you want your visual comedy to make fun of everybody. A shotgun blast that sprays all involved in a certain undertaking…

Just as film noir isn’t one single definable thing, noir itself contains many offshoots and categories. And every Noirvember, it’s important to not only examine…

As discussed in last week’s entry in the canon of the Criterion Files with Carol Reed’s The Third Man for our themed month dubbed “Noirvember,”…