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Tag Archives: Criterion Collection

by Josh Rosenblatt

The Observer Review: Our Secret Life in the Movies

Fri, Dec 5, 2014 |

Our Secret Life in the Movies offers dueling fragmentary bursts of short fiction that blur the lines between memoir, fiction and homage, and offer a peek inside...Read More

Hidden Vision

by Josh Rosenblatt

Mon, Oct 25, 2010

Place a copy of the new Criterion Collection edition of The Thin Red Line in your DVD player and a curious message will appear on your television screen: “Dir...Read More

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