February 13th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Coming in Mayto the Criterion Collection: Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat, one of the steamiest erotic thrillers ever made; The Delta, Ira Sachs’s strikingly raw debut feature about race, class, and sexuality; Fresh Kill, a disturbingly prescient ecofeminist parable directed by Shu Lea Cheang; Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s moving tale of one family’s generations of trauma […]
December 1st, 2024 by Aaron Neuwirth
Like Godzilla, the other Criterion Collection film recently released on 4K UHD, Seven Samurai also turns 70 this year. It’s been treated to a full-on 4K restoration that was toured worldwide in theaters. Often regarded as the “Best Japanese Film of All Time” and one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history, […]
November 11th, 2016 by Aaron Neuwirth
Looking at the documentary Mifune: The Last Samurai, I am reminded of Gimme Danger, the Jim Jarmusch documentary about Iggy & The Stooges, which I didn’t get around to reviewing. That film and this one, which details the life legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, have little to offer outside of an engaging, cinematic version of Wikipedia […]
