Month: February 2015

[Review] Old Fashioned

There is conservative and then there is conservative. Old Fashioned, released as a kind of counter-programing to another very creepy picture about contractual m...

‘A Day in the Country’ Hits Criterion: Jean Renoir’s Universe of Emotions

A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir's 1936 impressionist image of past frivolities drowning in time, is drenched in the myths of its production: a sudden rainstorm halted the production and had to be integrated in the story; Renoir could never return to it because of a "creative block"; the mid-sized length was conceived by its producer while having a creative breakthrough as he hid from the Nazis. And thus the film that developed, which is now out on Criterion Blu-ray, is its own miracle....