Reviews of new releases from Arrow Video, The Criterion Collection, Flicker Alley, Kino Lorber, Milestone Films, and more.
Released in 1989, New York Stories is an omnibus film, three shorts stitched together by a city. And though two of the directors’ oeuvres are inseparable from the city streets, tenements, and high rises that dot the New York skyline, it is … Continue reading NEW YORK STORIES
Buster Keaton was destined for the silver screen before moving pictures were even born. As the story goes, an 18-month-old (or was that six-month-old?) Keaton took a tumble down a flight of stairs and didn’t make a sound. “That’s some … Continue reading OUR HOSPITALITY
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe that’s not evident upon first glance—certainly not if you page through the standard history books—because critics, historians, and filmmakers, mostly male, like to focus … Continue reading Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection
Michael J. Cinema 