One of the best and under-seen films of the year gets a surprisingly attentive DVD treatment. See it.
You officially no longer have an excuse not to own one of the greatest of all films.
There are a few moments in The Love We Make that point toward Albert Maysles’s gifts, as they acknowledge a tougher side to Pual McCartney’s life and profession.
A particularly kinky exploration of a closeted genius’s torment is given a characteristically sterling treatment by the Criterion Collection.
Cherkess makes the gloppy bowl of oats that is West Side Story look like Olivier by comparison.
At its simplest, the film is another illustration of the idea that people of most walks of life have essentially the same problems.
The Last Circus is an unhinged, kaleidoscopic display of a talented filmmaker’s fetishes and obsessions.
One of the best erotic dramas in years, Leap Year deserves more than this sparse DVD treatment.
It understands that reform must compliment, not contradict, the ingrained need of the world’s superpowers to make as much money as possible.
The box set of this undeniably disreputable horror franchise is 100 percent for the fans, and they should be pretty happy with this extras-laden smorgasbord.
It has a promising setting for a zombie movie, and the first few minutes lead one to assume that the film will be engagingly terse and tough.
A fine, sad little film receives an okay but undistinguished DVD treatment.
The Nine Muses might be some sort of masterpiece.
The great transfer should please fans of this well-meaning, mixed-up movie. But the extras suck.
Frederick Marx’s Journey from Zanskar has been made with unusual intelligence, common sense, and decency
The film is a clumsily edited hodgepodge that reduces a writer’s complicated and poignant findings to a series of self-help clichés.
Typical extras, yes, but this is a strong transfer of an unusually humane American comedy that’s well worth owning.
One Fall is a bafflingly lame assemblage of self-help platitudes.
This stunning yet frustratingly remote film gets the exemplary transfer it deserves.
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a self-reflexive quasi-sequel to When the Mountains Tremble.