A few thoughts on each of the early-career shorts by the eponymous director collected on the Criterion Collection’s brand-spanking-new Scorsese Shorts disc, ranked in order of personal preference:
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Double Double-Features
Would you like some programming advice for your home-viewing pleasure, and perhaps some thematic queries to consider along the way?
R.I.P. Christo
To commemorate the divine career of Christo, who died over the weekend, let’s revisit his documentary Walking on Water, available to watch at home right now.
‘M’
Fritz Lang’s M elevates the procedural genre by understanding that the particularities of the central case are not the main source of interest for such stories.
A Special Feature
Fellow Criterion Collectors should always check a disc’s special-features section to see if it includes another full-length feature from the director of the main attraction.
CC
Only in a era of enforced home-marathons would I ever celebrate a virtue of the non-theatrical experience: closed captioning.
Retrospective Revaluation
Guillermo del Toro: more of an aesthetician than a cinematician?
It’s the Working, the Working, Just the Working Life
Who’s America’s foremost cinematic chronicler of the contemporary working-class?
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The Links
Richard Linklater: the modern master of the formal, technical, and/or narrative conceit.
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