Rarely has the open wound of widespread devastation been transposed to celluloid with greater visceral impact.
Tragedy has never looked more ravishing than in Roman Polanski’s elegiac epic.
It blazes a trail onto Blu-ray with a stellar-looking 1080p transfer and a cornucopia of special features from Shout! Factory.
Women in Chains: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express and Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Robbe-Grillet’s films are as intricate and enigmatic as you might expect from the man who scripted Last Year at Marienbad.
Nagisa Oshima and screenwriter Tsutomu Tamura encourage empathy without requiring emotionalism.
Wheatley’s film gets a perfectly acceptable DVD transfer, as well as some insightful interview-based extras.
Dumped unceremoniously into a handful of theaters earlier this year, De Palma’s sexy and savage Passion gets a spectacular Blu-ray transfer from Entertainment One.
A better-than-average horror anthology from two of horror’s reigning masters, Body Bags benefits considerably from an HD upgrade that’s been fleshed out with some salient supplements by Shout! Factory.
The film gallops onto Blu-ray looking better than ever, but without so much as a single extra for outrider, from Image Entertainment.
One of the year’s essential Blu-ray box sets, boasting an excellent audiovisual presentation and loaded with exceptional extras.
Herzog succeeds in imprinting the material with his own unique sensibility.
Double-barreled exploitation fodder of the tawdriest vintage, the film gets the best Blu-ray transfer extant elements will allow.
Ascher’s film gets a sterling Blu-ray transfer and some illuminating extras from MPI Media Group.
The film’s sly humor and eye-popping production design are enough to recommend it to devotees of European horror cinema.
Criterion doesn’t slack on the extras with their Blu-ray upgrade of Linklater’s shaggy-dog ode to one mixed-up generation.
Cronenberg’s flawed but promising feature debut gets an almost immaculate Blu-ray transfer, as well as some solid supplements.
Swamp Thing lurches onto Blu-ray looking better than ever, complete with an impressive roster of extras.
Looking at the film today, it’s plain to see there’s still plenty of meat on those bones.
Buozyte’s Vanishing Waves is the perfect example of mindfuck cinema.
The Up series has been reissued by First Run Features in order to include the latest installment, 56 Up.