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Home Movies

Dapper Looks

By So Mayer
July 31, 2023
Close shave: Masc, a new program on Criterion Channel, offers a rebuttal to the transphobic charge that transition and gender nonconformity are 21st-century phenomena

Home Movies: Two by Duras

By José Teodoro
March 13, 2023
Mirror mirror: Marguerite Duras’s acclaimed classic India Song and her less well-known Baxter, Vera Baxter offer striking examples of her knack for colliding literary language with the audiovisual form

Uncharted Islands: PARACME

By Chris Shields
January 17, 2023
Homebound: our critic digs into a new and alternative streaming service for experimental and artist-made films that includes a healthy selection from the Canyon Cinema catalog

Straight, No Chaser: Bertrand Tavernier’s ’Round Midnight

By José Teodoro
June 13, 2022
My favorite things: Real-life jazzman Dexter Gordon’s spellbinding performance is at the heart of Tavernier’s Paris-set and music-rich drama

Home Movies: Duet for Cannibals

By Corina Copp
May 8, 2020
Susan Sontag, Sweden, 1969; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray

Crimes Against Humanity

By Ari Aster
May 8, 2020
Elem Klimov’s monolithic war film finally makes its way to DVD and Blu-Ray

Home Movies: Hyenas

By Devika Girish
May 8, 2020
Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1992; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray

Wish List: Clando

By Ray Privett
May 8, 2020
The only fiction feature from Jean-Marie Téno is richly evocative and tastefully spare in style

Home Movies: Dodsworth

By Michael Koresky
May 8, 2020
William Wyler, USA, 1936; The Criterion Collection, DVD & Blu-Ray

Home Movies: Sweet Bird of Youth

By Steven Mears
May 8, 2020
Richard Brooks, USA, 1962; Warner Archive, Blu-Ray