Written Reviews

Charles Chaplin: The Kid

February 16, 2016

The Kid d. Charles Chaplin (1921) The Criterion Collection Spine: #799 Blu-ray Release Date: February 16, 2016 Screen captures below are taken from The Criterion Collection Blu-ray disc. In the first five years of Chaplin’s career he worked for four studios, moving from one lucrative contract to another more lucrative contract almost yearly. We covered Flicker Alley’s excellent

Don DeLillo: Sine Cosine Tangent

February 15, 2016

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Don DeLillo’s “Sine Cosine Tangent.” Read the full post and join the conversation.

Aleksandar Tišma: The Book of Blam

February 10, 2016

Trevor reviews Aleksandar Tišma’s The Book of Blam, translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Michael Henry Heim, and just out this week from NYRB Classics. Read the full post.

Jan Troell: The Emigrants / The New Land

February 9, 2016

After years and years of being relatively unavailable, Jan Troell’s two-film epic about a Swedish family’s painful journey, starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, is finally available for home video in the United States. Trevor reviews the new Criterion Collection edition of The Emigrants and The New Land. Read the full post.

Alejandro González Iñárritu: The Revenant

February 8, 2016

Lee takes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film, the Oscar-nominated The Revenant. Read the full post.

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