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Mar 23, 2020 · Cinema Scope and the News | Current | The Criterion Collection. By David Hudson. The Daily — Mar 23, 2020. Share. Lee Kang-sheng in Tsai Ming-liang’s Days (2020) We’re all winging it right now.
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The 1980s were defined by style and excess, and the era’s horror movies were no exception. Innovations in practical effects made the nightmares more vivid than ever, and thanks to the rise of home video, the call was now coming from inside the house. While established talents such as John Carpenter (Prince of Darkness), Tobe Hooper (The Funhouse), ...
Ari Aster’s Adventures in Moviegoing
With the indelibly disturbing nightmares Hereditary and Midsommar, Ari Aster has already established himself as one of twenty-first-century horror cinema’s most audacious auteurs. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Aster sits down to discuss the unforgettable films that have shaped his life and work. Many of his choices—including Julien Duvivier’s moody noir Panique, the twisted psychological shocker Lady in a Cage, and Lucrecia Martel’s unnerving mystery The Headless Woman—quiver w...
The sophomore feature from Tsai Ming-liang finds the acclaimed master of Taiwan’s Second New Wave demonstrating a confident new cinematic voice. Vive l’amour follows three characters unknowingly sharing a supposedly empty Taipei apartment. The beautiful realtor May Lin (Yang Kuei-mei) brings her lover Ah-jung (Chen Chao-jung) to a vacant unit she h...
Barbara Stanwyck saddles up with Samuel Fuller for this audacious pulp western that puts a boldly feminist spin on the genre. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: The feature-length documentary A Fuller Life,interviews with Fuller and critic Imogen Sara Smith, and more. Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworl...
Věra Chytilová’s subversive take on the 1980s teen horror movie is both a gonzo genre joyride and a blistering allegory for the psychic violence wrought by authoritarian oppression. Kathryn Bigelow’s seductive breakout feature mixes moody art-house style with pulp pleasures to breathe fresh life into the vampire film. The dark side of childhood ima...
In this installment of our Spotlight series, critic and author Grady Hendrix examines the potent blend of emotional anguish and body horror that David Cronenberg tapped into for one of his most terrifying classics.
The lauded French Canadian filmmaker behind the recent blockbuster sensation Dune, Denis Villeneuve started his career with a series of darkly funny, offbeat films laced with the intriguing science-fiction themes that would recur in much of his later work. Following a striking, technologically prescient contribution to the omnibus anthologyCosmos, ...
Damon Runyon’s classic short story gets a sparkling screen update courtesy of an all-star cast let by Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, and Tony Curtis. Discover the unexpected story behind one of the most beloved books ever written. The most acclaimed of the many film adaptations of Anthony Hope’s classic adventure novel is a superbly mounted tale of...
Fear comes in all forms in this selection of dread-inducing shorts. Featuring unsettling early works by masters of menace like David Lynch (The Alphabet) and Guillermo del Toro (Geometria) as well as innovative contemporary films that use horror to confront issues such as racism (Hair Wolf) and cultural genocide (The Black Case), these macabre mini...
Specializing in portraits of powerful and often controversial figures, Marina Zenovich (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired) began her career with these three idiosyncratic documentaries, which range from a candid look at the struggles of American independent filmmakers in the 1990s (Independent's Day) to a self-...
May 28, 2013 · Haskell Wexler’s Top 10 | Current | The Criterion Collection. For Haskell Wexler, the director of Medium Cool, and the Oscar-winning cinematographer of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory, writing about his ten favorite Criterion films became a trip down memory lane.
For your consideration: Tsai Ming-liang. I don't see Tsai's name popping up very often on these boards here, even though I would say he's probably my favorite director. Ever. He's less popular than his Taiwanese predecessors - Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang - that lay the groundwork for Taiwanese New Wave cinema. So I wanted to give a shout-out!
Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chen Chang, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency ...
Vive l’amour. Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • 1994 • Taiwan Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Yang Kuei-Mei, Chen Chao-jung. The sophomore feature from Tsai Ming-liang finds the acclaimed master of Taiwan's Second New Wave demonstrating a confident new cinematic voice.
