The Criterion Contraption
 It's amateur hour all over the Web—and, as always, we're loving it. Here, a seemingly reasonable young man decides to watch and write about every film in the cinephile's go-to arbiter of significance: the Criterion Collection. This series of "important" films includes such diverse fare as "Seven Samurai," "Rushmore," "Robocop," "The Third Man" and "Nanook of the North." In considering such a cinematic stew, our intrepid reviewer employs not the sleek, authoritative prose of the professional critic, but rather the ingenuous language of pure response. "'Grand Illusion' isn't the kind of movie I usually go nuts about," he writes, "but I did enjoy it..." Of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal": "I think...this is a movie that you kind of had to see when it came out to get the full effect." Not exactly Pauline Kael, but like any earnest labor of love, a pleasure to share in.
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