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.
Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
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.
Credit Overture-Credits
A nit to briefly pick, inspired by my Corona stroll down old movie lane:
JB Diaries: The Doctor’s In
The marathon’s name is Bond.
Terry & Timmy
We interrupt your previously-scheduled VHS programming to bring you this breaking news concerning…more artist comps?
“A Smudge on an Electronic Strip” — Part 1
Pair 2019’s Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project with 2020’s VHYes for a double feature about…VHS TV recordings?
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