Magnificent Obsession Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/magnificent-obsession/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:00:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Magnificent Obsession Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/magnificent-obsession/ 32 32 Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Koker Trilogy’ & Jane Campion’s ‘An Angel At My Table’ Highlight Criterion’s August Releases https://staging2.theplaylist.net/abbas-kiarostamis-jane-campion-criterion-20190517/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/abbas-kiarostamis-jane-campion-criterion-20190517/#respond Fri, 17 May 2019 18:52:56 +0000 https://theplaylist.net/?p=399018 Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Koker Trilogy’ & Jane Campion’s ‘An Angel At My Table’ Highlight Criterion’s August Releases

It’s that time again, film fans. Another month goes by and we’re back telling you what’s coming in August from the Criterion Collection. And like every month, our wallets weep. August sees the release of the critically-acclaimed “Koker Trilogy” from Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. His three films are joined by great movies from Jane Campion, Yasujiro Ozu, Lucille Carra, and Douglas Sirk.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/abbas-kiarostamis-jane-campion-criterion-20190517/feed/ 0 Sirk, Rosellini & ‘El Norte’ Come To Criterion In January https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sirk-rosellini-el-norte-come-to-20081030/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sirk-rosellini-el-norte-come-to-20081030/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:36:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9649 It is that time once again, when as high-brow cinephiles we can put down our brandy sifters, button up our smoking jackets, and rejoice that Criterion is bestowing us with even more classic films come January. Criterion announced their January releases recently and they include the PBS funded white-guilt inducing film “El Norte,” the fromage covered “Magnificent Obsession,” Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of France’s most destructive monarch, “The Taking of Power by Louis XIV” and Rossellini’s history lesson in a box-set “Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini’s History Films-Renaissance and Enlightenment.”

El Norte
This 1983 film, other than being a staple of every university South American cinema class, was one of the first truly independent films to be nominated for Best Picture.

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