Nov 25, 2019
We’ve gone from a man-on-the-run crime drama made in 1979 Japan, to another only made in 1960 Italy and France. Claude Sautet’s Classe Tous Risques offers us a classic crime film full of desperate men, daring robberies, breathless car chases, the pathos of children living on the margins, and - because it’s a 1960...
Nov 18, 2019
Shohei Imamura’s study of a killer on the run and the family members and victims that he leaves in his wake is presented as a fact-based accounting of dates, names, and crimes. At least, that’s what it seems to be at first glance. Really the film sutures together a largely non-chronological sequence of flashbacks,...
Nov 11, 2019
One evening in 1954, Marylin Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Senator Joseph McCarthy gathered in Albert Einstein’s New York City hotel room to excitedly monologue at one another about subjects like fame, sex, motherhood, baseball, communism, and the precise shape of the universe. Or at least that’s what happens in...
Nov 4, 2019
To celebrate the Collection’s 1000th spine number, we’re reviewing the film that started the kaiju-craze of the 20th century: Ishiro Honda’s 1954 masterpiece Godzilla. Because we’re SOOO clever, we get into the film as a response to fears in the atomic age, but mostly we try to contend with the surprising fact...