The history of Children of Paradise, considered to be one of the (if not the) greatest French Films of all time, … More
Category: Criterion
#484 Week End (1967)
Week End is easily the most bizarre of Jean-Luc Godard’s films. A strange satire rife with paint-blood contrasted with striking … More
#351 Mon Oncle (1958)
Mon Oncle is Jaques Tati’s direct “satire against the mania for mechanization that threatens those easygoing old ways of life” … More
#242 In A Lonely Place (1950)
In a Lonely Place is easily one of Humphrey Bogart’s best roles, effortlessly performing a very personal role in the … More
#485 Le Samouraï (1967)
Le Samouraï is a gorgeous film that is almost definitively 1960s New Wave cinema. In the film, we follow Jef … More
#413 8½ (1963)
Fellini’s 8 ½ is a triumph of filmmaking, truth, and the examination of the human experience, frailties, anxieties, and relationships. Fellini … More
#468 Sedmikrásky (Daisies) (1966)
Věra Chytilová’s Sedmikrásky (Daisies) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian allegory that explores the need for a new postwar experience… but the story … More
#14 Nanook of the North (1922)
Robert J. Flaherty, the “father of the documentary,” created the first true documentary with his Nanook of the North – a film … More
#43 La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)
Considered in many circles to not only be the greatest Joan of Arc film ever made but one of the … More
#868 My Own Private Idaho (1991)
In My Own Private Idaho, a young Gus Van Sant explores existence and geographic identity through the lens of a … More
