By Chaz Lipp Terence Davies’ autobiographical 1992 The Long Day Closes is an odd film that requires patience and repeated viewings to apprecia...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Eyes Without a Face – The Criterion Collection
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...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Life is Sweet – The Criterion Collection
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 Iâ€...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Naked Lunch – The Criterion Collection
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...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: The Kid with a Bike – The Criterion Collection
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...
Read MoreDVD Review: The Ballad of Narayama (1958) – The Criterion Collection
By Chaz Lipp An exploration of embracing your inner rebel, Something Wild stands as director Jonathan Demme’s very best film. That’s saying ...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Something Wild – The Criterion Collection
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...
Read MoreDVD Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) – The Criterion Collection
By Chaz Lipp Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Two–Lane Blacktop – The Criterion Collection on Blogcritics. The 1971 cult classic...
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