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My family rented Spy Game (2001) from Blockbuster and took it back to our shitty townhouse at 5636 Pensacola Crescent, Calgary. I watched the whole film while smelling a...

Kiju Yoshida was born in 1933 and, alongside fellow filmmakers Nagisa Oshima, Seijun Suzuki[mailto:https://www.criterion.com/explore/86-seijun-suzuki] and Masahiro Shinoda, was one of the key figures in Japan’s ’60s Nouvelle Vague, making films that, like their French counterparts,...

The first film in the trilogy, Eros + Massacre (1969), is presented in two cuts, theatrical (running nearly three hours) and director (an hour longer). Unlike most directors’ cuts...

Unlike the other two entries in the trilogy, Heroic Purgatory (1970) reads like science fiction, time traveling between eras of political agitation and history, and pushing the image ahead of ’70s dystopian tales like George...

In the final film of the trilogy—the last film Yoshida ever made—Coup d’Etat (1973), Yoshida reaches back in history to February 26, 1936, when some 1,400 middle-ranking military officers,...

Standing in the entrance of the room I sense a strong current of conviction. Rita McKeough's exhibition Veins is a carefully composed maquette of land, filled with sounds...