Tagged with Lino Brocka

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, June 2018

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, June 2018


…huh! Seems we missed out on our Criterion piece last May! How ’bout that. (Hey, don’t look at me. I just assemble the doc. And also write my blurbs. Such is life.) Good news is, the June slate rocked, as it usually does, and we managed to get the piece on Paste Magazine just under the wire; … Continue reading

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, May 2017

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, May 2017


Hey! It’s May(‘s Criterion round-up for Paste Magazine)! An Ozu movie written around fart jokes is an Ozu movie well in my wheelhouse, but I did not write about Good Morning; instead I wrote about Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelle, Chantal Akerman’s landmark arthouse film, a three hour opus about a single mom as she … Continue reading