News Flash! (Dateline: Chicago Il. January 10, 2017.) The Criterion Collection launches its 2017 campaign today with a raucous one-two punch that summons fond memories of Hollywood’s Golden Age while jabbing its finger into the chest of today’s corrupt media hacks. His Girl Friday, that epitome of classic screwball comedy, gets the deluxe treatment in a handsome dual-disc Blu-ray edition that also serves as a fancy showcase for its influential predecessor The Front Page. This winning effort by the whipsmart Criterion team spares no expense, as both flicks leap off the screen with a frenetic urgency that almost seems improper for relics of such venerable age.
But it’s not the longevity that sells this package, it’s the the relevance of how concisely the parallel stories, each with their own sharp accents of distinction, speak to today – how the brilliant cynicism of Ben Hecht’s snappy dialog simultaneously captures the...
But it’s not the longevity that sells this package, it’s the the relevance of how concisely the parallel stories, each with their own sharp accents of distinction, speak to today – how the brilliant cynicism of Ben Hecht’s snappy dialog simultaneously captures the...
- 1/10/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
No one will ever confuse the staid Wall Street Journal with the work of Andy Warhol, but the newspaper’s hedcuts — those iconic ink illustrations made entirely of dots — of Daniel Radcliffe evoke the nostalgia of the artist’s famous Marilyn Monroe painting. The daily collected six of artist Randy Glass’ “Harry Potters” from its archives, and sewn together, they capture not only Radcliffe’s evolution from cherub-faced innocence to furrowed determination, but their own sublime aesthetic. (The only thing that hasn’t changed are his glasses.) Each drawing finely embodies the tone of its respective film, and the seventh...
- 7/7/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Wall Street Journal has followed the career of actor Daniel Radcliffe since he skyrocketed to stardom at the age of 12 with the first installment of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (2001). Since then, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise has pulled in more than $2 billion at the box office and grown to fuel a $15 billion industry. Radcliffe is now 21 years old.
With the final film of the series set to premiere in London on...
With the final film of the series set to premiere in London on...
- 7/6/2011
- by Brian Aguilar
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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