Criterion Collection | Cinema Lowdown

By Chaz Lipp Terence Davies’ autobiographical 1992 The Long Day Closes is an odd film that requires patience and repeated viewings to apprecia...

By Chaz Lipp Director Georges Franju may not regard his 1960 Eyes Without a Face as a horror film, but it seems pointless to deny that there is no mor...

By Chaz Lipp Before checking out Life is Sweet, Mike Leigh’s 1990 breakthrough film, Secrets & Lies was the only of his films I’d seen. That 1...

By Chaz Lipp Have you ever really liked a movie, but found yourself at a loss to explain exactly why? That’s the job of a film critic, something I�...

By Chaz Lipp I honestly don’t think I’ve seen such single-minded devotion to the pedaled mode of transportation name-checked in the title of The K...

By Chaz Lipp What should be done with the elderly when they become a drain on the younger members of a family? One apparent answer, a longtime part of...

By Chaz Lipp An exploration of embracing your inner rebel, Something Wild stands as director Jonathan Demme’s very best film. That’s saying ...

By Sherry Lipp Once upon a time, or more specifically in the mid-1930s, Alfred Hitchcock was still an up-and-coming director rather than the universal...