Blood and trauma make an irresistible mix in The Asphalt Jungle, which receives a stellar Blu-ray presentation from Criterion.
Simon Stadler’s attunement to shot distance and angle implicitly addresses issues of power and control.
For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one.
Hansen-Løve discusses her films’ autobiographical components, Jonas Mekas’s influence on her work, and more.
It believes that the avenue to proving humanity is through banalizing gestures of quotidian significance.
The documentary teeters on reaching a higher plane of meaning simply through the efficiency of its information.
J’Accuse visualizes long-term memory loss as mankind’s ultimate, and seemingly endless, tragedy.
The film is methodically configured to snuff out an even marginal indulgence of its characters’ emotions.
The film is as much a cinematic probe, and a challenge to mythologizing past eras, as it is an ancestral history lesson.
The entirety of the film seems increasingly constructed around ill-begotten attempts at dark humor.
A deliberately offbeat characterization of mental illness, the film is ultimately a failed act of empathy.
The filmmaker discusses his latest work and how he now views the reception of his films during the 1990s.
The film receives a stellar HD debut on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.
It’s a film of such multitudinous interests that its unfolding replicates the ecstasy of newfound romance.
Writer-director Anna Muylaert writes themes into excellent, controlled first acts that turn capricious by the third.
Berlanga’s maintenance of an underlying comedic edge gives The Executioner a thoroughly discomfiting quality.
The chosen clips are scorching reminders of Lumet’s diverse but thematically focused catalogue.
The Marx Brothers debut on Blu-ray with a quintet of high-quality HD transfers from Universal and a wealth of new supplements.
The filmmaker discusses her teaching duties at Bard and how empathy factors into her filmmaking.
Kamikaze ‘89 refuses to direct its nose-diving satire at any one target in particular, which makes it equal parts exhilarating and exhausting.