Lost in Criterion

Finally an Italian neorealist film where the prostitute doesn't represent the state of the nation!

I think Rififi was the last French gangster film we watched that didn't completely bore me, so Grisbi is welcome!

We return to Jaques Becker and aren't as impressed.

An anti-"red pill" film a half century before we really started talking about toxic masculinity. Brilliant and cutting.

It's been far too long since we've seen a Seijun film and we're so happy to see anothier.

Kurosawa gets real about Japan's unreal view of history through his most history steeped historical fiction.

DeMille's religious epics are grand and beautiful and not necessarily good.

People are bad and good and it's complicated but the ending still sucks.

A more in depth peak behind the Swede's curtain than our last excursion.

The theatrical cut of Fanny and Alexander is objectively worse.

A coming of age story in which a boy maybe accidentally psychically sets his step aunt on fire.

Georges Franju makes such a great horror film that the French film establishment disowned it.

If nothing else Breillat's Fat Girl brought me to a new understanding of Cavani's The Night Porter, so thanks!

Maybe this was meant to be satire, but we've gone through the looking class now.

Altman's Secret Honor is brilliant, but makes us think too much about our current White House situation.