In The Realm of the Senses is one of those early films where the genre of pornography was still in its global … More
Category: Criterion
#189 The Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis) (1945)
The history of Children of Paradise, considered to be one of the (if not the) greatest French Films of all time, … More
#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