Directed by Hal Ashby (Being There, Harold & Maude), 1975’s Shampoo is a multifaceted comical look at sex, politics, gender, and well, hair. Set on the day that Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election, Shampoo stars Warren Beatty as George Roundy, a...
Cold Water: Thrill to the Nihilistic Exploits of Doomed Teenage Lovers
Olivier Assayas’ 1994 Cold Water succeeds in not only being a brief portal into the doomed romance of two French teenagers deep in the throes of love, but also a deeply personal representation of a specific time in the director’s own adolescence. Originally conceived...
Kyle’s Criterion Corner: Fox and His Friends (1975)
With friends like this, who really needs enemies? Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1975 stunningly devastating Fox and His Friends is among the German auteurs strongest social and political film mixing a tragic tale that is provocatively progressive, darkly funny, and...
Kyle’s Criterion Corner: Every Man For Himself & Watership Down
Every Man For Himself 1980 (France) Director: Jean-Luc Godard Spine #744 Criterion Collection Blu-Ray, DVD, and Hulu-Plus Godard called Every Man For Himself his “second first film,” in that he was beginning a new chapter in his filmmaking career, setting up and...
Kyle’s Criterion Corner: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant & My Winnipeg
Ladies and gentlemen, we're proud to present the debut of a new film review column here at RVA Magazine. Kyle Shearin will be covering the latest releases from the Criterion Collection. Today we present reviews of two of their four Janaury 2015 releases. Ladies and...
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