Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, Cosmopolis plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome.
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
When the world is running down, you make the best of what’s still around.
It hews to a traditional three-act structure, analogous in many ways to a piece of fiction filmmaking, and that’s probably not coincidental.
A slam-bang Brit noir makes its way onto Blu-ray looking fresher than ever but with nothing in the way of extras.
Double your pleasure, double your evil with this two-disc combo pack loaded with garlic bunches of extras.
Full of sound and fury, signifying precious little.
Giulio Questi’s surrealistic anti-western gets a fine Blu-ray upgrade from Blue Underground.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the intimate and often unkind nature of these revelations, the film’s veracity hasn’t gone unimpugned.
Fall in love with Paramount’s splendid Blu-ray transfer of Barbarella, even though it’s lamentably light on extras.
And Everything Is Going Fine is a moving tribute to its subject’s life on stage and off.
Wertmüller imbues her films with the popular (and populist) traditions of commedia all’italiana, a style of humor that traces back to medieval puppet theater.
It’s a skeletal Blu-ray package, lacking any extras whatsoever, and boasting a middling, muddy 1080p transfer.
Like a proper Shakespearean tragedy, the first part of The Rape of the Vampire ends with the bulk of its dramatis personae recently deceased. Wither, then, the sequel?
Best taken as either a subpar example of parboiled erotica or one lazily sketched character study.
Credit hometown boy Nichols with getting the look and feel of rural Arkansas right.
Cosmopolis alternates between mannered repression and cold frenzy.
Kiarostami transplants his customary techniques to the soil of Japanese culture with unquestionable success.
Reygadas’s new film is a textbook example of how to tell a basic story in the most complicated, off-putting manner conceivable.
Self-critique or self-indulgence, Holy Motors isn’t afraid to attempt everything under the sun.