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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; The Criterion Collection</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/the-criterion-collection/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Deborah Kerr, Michael Powell Photos: BLACK NARCISSUS Behind the Scenes</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/deborah-kerr-michael-powell-black-narcissus-behind-the-scenes-photos/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/deborah-kerr-michael-powell-black-narcissus-behind-the-scenes-photos/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:43:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27374</guid> <description><![CDATA[Deborah Kerr, pony, Michael Powell on the Black Narcissus set The Criterion Collection has posted a series of images providing a glimpse behind the scenes of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 classic Black Narcissus. Set in the Himalayas, this adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel was filmed entirely in Britain, chiefly at Pinewood Studios. Make sure to check it out here. In the beautifully nuanced [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/deborah-kerr-michael-powell-black-narcissus-behind-the-scenes-photos/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE FALLEN IDOL Review Pt.2 &#8211; Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-fallen-idol-ralph-richardson-michele-morgan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-fallen-idol-ralph-richardson-michele-morgan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16310</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ralph Richardson in Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol THE FALLEN IDOL Review: Part I Things are cleared up before the end, after a number of plot contrivances &#8212; not the least of which is the mediocre depiction of a police investigation. Compounding matters, The Fallen Idol offers subpar acting (Bobby Henrey and Michèle Morgan phone in their performances), stereotyped characters (e.g., the cops and a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-fallen-idol-ralph-richardson-michele-morgan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE 400 BLOWS Review Pt.2 &#8211; Jean-Pierre Léaud</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-400-blows-review-jean-pierre-leaud/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-400-blows-review-jean-pierre-leaud/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:30:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26677</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE 400 BLOWS Review: Part I I should add that without Jean-Pierre Léaud The 400 Blows would not have been what it is. The young actor gives one of the four or five greatest child performances in film history. Given that François Truffaut reportedly allowed Léaud to improvise his answers in the psychologist scene, I believe the filmmaker was fully aware that his film's success [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-400-blows-review-jean-pierre-leaud/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>STRAW DOGS Review Pt.4 &#8211; Sam Peckinpah &quot;More Barbaric Version of Alfred Hitchcock&quot;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/straw-dogs-review-sam-peckinpah-alfred-hitchcock/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/straw-dogs-review-sam-peckinpah-alfred-hitchcock/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:34:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26667</guid> <description><![CDATA[STRAW DOGS Review: Part III In his defense, Clover is not the only critic who has butchered their interpretation of the film. The infamous Pauline Kael loved Straw Dogs, but mislabeled it &#34;fascist,&#34; as if a band of local loonies are the equivalent of a nationwide junta, while many of her female acolytes condemned both the film and the director for &#34;misogyny.&#34; Even the powerful [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/straw-dogs-review-sam-peckinpah-alfred-hitchcock/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>STRAW DOGS Review Pt.3 &#8211; Dustin Hoffman, Susan George</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/straw-dogs-dvd/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/straw-dogs-dvd/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:33:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17012</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs STRAW DOGS Review: Part II The ending is famed, and justly so. In the car, Henry says, "I don't know my way home" David smiles and says, "That's okay, I don't either." If only the rest of the film had the subtlety and enigmatic poesy of that ending, Straw Dogs would truly be the masterpiece its acolytes proclaim. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/straw-dogs-dvd/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AMARCORD Review Pt.2 &#8211; Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/amarcord-review-ii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/amarcord-review-ii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16600</guid> <description><![CDATA[Federico Fellini's Amarcord AMARCORD Review: Part I That most of the characters in the film, save one or two, either love or are indifferent to the Fascists is not a latter-day bourgeois forgiveness of their crimes, but a reflection of reality as it was in the 1930s. True, after the Fascists plunged Italy into the ruinous Second World War, they became reviled, but in the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/amarcord-review-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BREATHLESS Review Pt.2 &#8211; Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/breathless-review-jean-paul-belmondo-jean-seberg/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/breathless-review-jean-paul-belmondo-jean-seberg/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:24:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26648</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless BREATHLESS Review Part I Raoul Coutard's black-and-white cinematography and composition is also rather forgettable, looking haphazard, poorly framed, and poorly lit. Again, deliberation and the excuse of &#34;realism&#34; does not make up for the murky end result. Also, unlike true film noir, Coutard makes no great use of the power of black-and-white imagery, be it the grays, or the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/breathless-review-jean-paul-belmondo-jean-seberg/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>UMBERTO D. Review Pt. 2: Human Indifference to Suffering</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/de-sica-umberto-d-review-human-indifference-to-suffering/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/de-sica-umberto-d-review-human-indifference-to-suffering/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:26:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26643</guid> <description><![CDATA[Flike, Carlo Battisti in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. UMBERTO D. Review Part I Still, Vittorio De Sica's film is most of all about human indifference to suffering: The sons of a dying man laugh at his bedside in the hospital; the pound workers blithely take the dogs to their deaths; Umberto's old co-workers look askance at him &#8212; as if he's diseased &#8212; when [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/de-sica-umberto-d-review-human-indifference-to-suffering/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SENSO Review: Alida Valli, Farley Granger d: Luchino Visconti</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/senso-alida-valli-farley-granger-luchino-visconti/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/senso-alida-valli-farley-granger-luchino-visconti/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:55:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26641</guid> <description><![CDATA[SENSO (1954) Direction: Luchino Visconti Cast: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Nina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Christian Marquand, Sergio Fantoni Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Luchino Visconti; from Camillo Boito's novella Highly Recommended Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Senso Critical consensus regards Luchino Visconti's Senso as a radical departure, a sign of the director's shift in focus from the gritty world of downtrodden proles (such as in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/senso-alida-valli-farley-granger-luchino-visconti/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>FANNY AND ALEXANDER Review Pt.3 &#8211; The Criterion Collection DVD</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fanny-and-alexander-criterion-collection-dvd/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fanny-and-alexander-criterion-collection-dvd/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:15:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26214</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ewa Fröling in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander FANNY AND ALEXANDER Review Pt. 2 The television version of Fanny and Alexander comes on two discs, each with two of the four episodes (although the series is in five 'Acts'), but only with English subtitles. The second of these discs also offers a good forty-minute documentary called A Bergman Tapestry, featuring interviews with Fanny and Alexander [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fanny-and-alexander-criterion-collection-dvd/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>FANNY AND ALEXANDER Review Pt. 2: Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fanny-and-alexander-review-ii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fanny-and-alexander-review-ii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:13:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17803</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander FANNY AND ALEXANDER Review: Part I The Fanny and Alexander plot is basically as follows: The three sons of the widowed Helena (Gunn Wållgren) are involved in local businesses and in the theater. They are Gustav Adolf, Carl, and Oscar, who is Fanny and Alexander's father, and much older than his beautiful wife, Emilie. Then [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fanny-and-alexander-review-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DRUNKEN ANGEL Review Part II &#8211; Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25532</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto in Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel Akira Kurosawa's DRUNKEN ANGEL Review Part I As for the DVD package? Unfortunately this is one of the very lesser releases by The Criterion Collection. First, the video transfer, in a 1.37:1 aspect ratio, is from a really poor source &#8211; Drunken Angel looks like a mediocre ten-year-old VHS tape, laden with lines, scratches, ghosts, blobs, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE END OF SUMMER Review II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-end-of-summer-dvd-review/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-end-of-summer-dvd-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:28:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24836</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; THE END OF SUMMER Review: Part I The narrative in The End of Summer is simple: the widowed but impish patriarch Manbei (Ganjiro Nakamura) of the Kohayagawa clan, which runs a small but failing Osaka-based sake company, has taken to seeing an old mistress, Tsune Sasaki (Chieko Naniwa), in Kyoto. Sasaki claims her venal daughter Yuriko (Reiko Dan) was sired by him. The ‘daughter’ [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-end-of-summer-dvd-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HUMAN CONDITION Review II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/the-human-condition-dvd-review/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/the-human-condition-dvd-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:25:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17472</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE HUMAN CONDITION Review: Part I The Human Condition is often referred to short-handily as an anti-war or anti-military film. That's a fair characterization as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. What Kobayashi's film does is deflate any and all of the ideologies bequeathed to us by the modern world, showing them up as pernicious myths. Kaji's belief that labor can [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/the-human-condition-dvd-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HUMAN CONDITION d: Masaki Kobayashi</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-human-condition-masaki-kobayashi/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-human-condition-masaki-kobayashi/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17469</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Human Condition Trilogy No Greater Love (1959), The Road to Eternity (1959), A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Direction: Masaki Kobayashi Screenplay: Zenzo Matsuyama and Masaki Kobayashi; from Jumpei Gomikawa's novel Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama &#160; Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition &#160; Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition, based on Jumpei Gomikawa's novel, is probably as well known for its scope and scale [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-human-condition-masaki-kobayashi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MADE IN U.S.A / 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER Review: Anna Karina d: Jean-Luc Godard</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/made-in-usa-jean-luc-godard-anna-karina/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/made-in-usa-jean-luc-godard-anna-karina/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:24:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15172</guid> <description><![CDATA[Made in U.S.A. (1966) Direction: Jean-Luc Godard Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard; from Donald E. Westlake's novel Cast: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso &#160; 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle / 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) Direction and screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Marina Vlady, Joseph Gehrard, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/made-in-usa-jean-luc-godard-anna-karina/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BAD SLEEP WELL Review II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:50:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16606</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE BAD SLEEP WELL Review: Part I The saddest thing is that the corruption detailed in The Bad Sleep Well feels so minor league today that it seems almost childish when compared to Enron, Worldcom, and the many others in the years since. In a sense, Iwabuchi isn't even the top criminal in the film. That title would belong to the corporation's little-seen president, Arimura [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS Review Part II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-testament-of-orpheus-review-ii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-testament-of-orpheus-review-ii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:43:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16381</guid> <description><![CDATA[Edouard Dhermitte, Jean Cocteau in The Testament of Orpheus Oh my, how poets suffer! It seems that the Orpheus characters, Death (Maria Casarès &#8212; who did not age well; she actually resembles Vampira from Plan 9 from Outer Space) and Heurtebise (François Périer), resent being conjured by the magic of a poet, and want to try Cocteau for his sins. Of course, his sin is [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-testament-of-orpheus-review-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Andrzej Wajda Three War Films DVD Set: A GENERATION, KANAL, ASHES AND DIAMONDS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/andrzej-wajda-three-war-films-dvd-set/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/andrzej-wajda-three-war-films-dvd-set/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:32:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/andrzej-wajda-three-war-films-dvd-set/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Later this month, the Criterion Collection is releasing the box set &#34;Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films,&#34; with three of the Polish director's most acclaimed films: Pokolenie / A Generation (1955), Kanal (1957), and Popiól i diament / Ashes and Diamonds (1958), which stars the &#34;Polish James Dean,&#34; Zbigniew Cybulski. (Like Dean, the offbeat Cybulski had an unexpected, bloody death. At age 40, the by then [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/andrzej-wajda-three-war-films-dvd-set/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
