Criterion Collection is art in every department,sometimes a beautifully designed cover made me buy it.Reading those backstories of the creating process is like watching a making-of documentary,very inspirational for those professionals and very interesting for amateurs like me.It is not easier than picking top 10 films in the collection,and this list only represents my very […]
Author: David Zou
My Top15 CC in 2011
My CC collection passed 300 this month which is THE most encouraging thing happened to me recently, I watched 63 of them this year and it is always tough to pick out the best ones.I was trying to pick them by guts and pulled it out finally.I just wrote about my TOP 20 films(CC&MOC excluded) […]
My Top20 Films in 2011(CC&MOC Excluded)
Year 2011 is a pretty special year for me,I moved to another city,changed my job,got married,and now I do not have to watch films alone,my wife is my companion,a very good companion I suppose. I watched 203 films this year,most of them are satisfying,and it is not too hard to pick out those really-good ones […]
Toru Takemitsu – Sound is also Part of Film Score
Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower has profoundly impressed me with its mysterious and captivating plot as well as its diversified special features. The 30-minute selected scene commentary on Toru Takemitsu’s scores was indisputably a marvel. As a big fan of Toru, I do feel it necessary to eulogize his musical accomplishments in the realm of movie. […]
Unescapable in Ealing Style
If you have seen both of the films below which starred the incomparable Alec Guinness,you know what the title means,two great endings Kind Hearts and Coronets(1949) The Lavender Hill Mob(1951) […]
Not Just A DVD Site – Explore Criterion.com
For any film buffs and dvd fans,Criterion Collection means the highest standard of dvd-making.Cinema itself is art ,restoring and presenting it is another kind of art form,CC is an art which those two things combined perfectly. This perfection also includes a cool website-criterion.com,I visit it so often(especially the […]