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Episode 160 – Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett to discuss Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder. About the film: A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan...

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Scott Reviews Federico Fellini’s Fellini-Satyricon [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray...

By the late 1960s, Federico Fellini had more or less permanently transitioned from filmmaker to icon. The autobiographical 8½ basically ensured his films would be permanently inseparable from himself,...

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Episode 161 – Luchino Visconti’s Senso

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett to discuss Luchino Visconti’s Senso. About the film: This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars...

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Scott Reviews John Mackenzie’s The Long Good Friday [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]

Throughout the supplements on Arrow’s new (rather impressive) Blu-ray edition of this landmark gangster film, nearly everyone involved speaks of their collective desire to simply make the best film...

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Scott Reviews Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]

Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t quite follow this one. In his 1957 review of the film for Cahiers du cinema (reprinted in the booklet accompanying this release), Jean-Luc Godard wrote...

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Scott Reviews Christian Petzold’s Phoenix [Theatrical Review]

There it calls to her, a burning red beacon of life in the wasteland that was once Berlin. It’s a nightclub, but, as its name suggests, perhaps quite a lot more. Nelly (Nina Hoss) hopes her husband is...

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Scott Reviews Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s A Letter to Three Wives [Masters of...

Like so many great American films of the era, A Letter to Three Wives has a touch of trash at its core. Writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz crafts well-rounded characters, thoughtful explorations of...

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Episode 162 – Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett to discuss Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique. About the film: Krzysztof Kieślowski’s international...

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Scott Reviews Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray...

The success we’ve had in preserving and distributing art of the past has had a somewhat calcifying effect on the present. This is not to say good work is not being done now; in the province with which...

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Episode 163 – Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Ryan Gallagher to discuss Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive. About the film: Criterion is proud to present...

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Scott Reviews The Stray Cat Rock Collection [Arrow Video Blu-ray Review]

When dealing with exploitation cinema of the 1970s in the post-Tarantino era, there’s something of a heightened balance between “the thing” and “what the thing looks like.” The dichotomy was always...

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Episode 164 – The Importance of Being Earnest

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Sean Hutchinson to discuss Anthony Asquith’s The Importance of Being Earnest. About the film: Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in...

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Scott Reviews Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs [Theatrical Review]

David Fincher seemed an odd, but intriguing, choice to helm an Aaron Sorkin script in 2010. In 2015, Danny Boyle seemed like the studio just grabbed the first high-profile guy they found on the...

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Scott Reviews Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin [Theatrical Review]

Though it is, in execution, anything but conventional, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin has a beautifully classical premise – a young woman (Shu Qi), stolen as a child and trained in violence, is sent...

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Scott Reviews Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street [Masters of Cinema...

In so many of the discussions (recorded and written) that accompany Masters of Cinema’s new Blu-ray edition of Pickup on South Street, the critic finds some way to make apologies for the fact that not...

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Scott Reviews Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray...

I previously wrote about this film for our On the Hulu Channel series. Looking back on it, I was pretty pleased with how it turned out, and found that my perspective on the film hadn’t much changed....

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Episode 165 – Guillermo Del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Ryan Gallagher to discuss Guillermo Del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone. About the film: One of the most personal films by Guillermo del...

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Scott Reviews Terence Fisher’s The Man Who Could Cheat Death [Blu-ray Review]

Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) is not a bad guy, but he’s starting to do some bad things. Having found a medical solution that prevents him from aging (it has to do with “glands,” so fashionable...

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Scott Reviews King Hu’s Dragon Inn [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]

It comes as some considerable comfort that The Assassin is far from the only martial arts movie with an impossible-to-follow plot. Having relatively little experience with the genre (I saw...

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Scott Reviews The Shohei Imamura Masterpiece Collection [Masters of Cinema...

Here are CriterionCast, we receive many, many discs for review consideration. We try to roll out full reviews when we can, offering analyses of the films in the context of their time as well as their...

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