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From June 10 to Aug. 15, the archive will screen a comprehensive compilation of the Italian cinema legend’s entire filmography, “which contains more masterpieces than I can count on one hand,” film critic Sean Burns writes.
Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and ideas and their response to the contemporary world – a civilization in crisis that they sought to d...
If there’s anyone remaining on your holiday shopping list, you should get your hands on Criterion’s stunning, lavishly packaged set of the “The Essential Fellini,” a collection of notable films by the Italian master, Federico Fellini. Released to coincide with his 100 th birthday earlier this year, this 15-disc set is a must-own, another example of a film class in a box much like the Criterion releases for Ingmar Bergman and Agnes Varda. As more and more entertainment shifts to streaming, Criterion seems to be embracing the collector’s market with more lavish, exhaustive sets. And t...