Given its nearly episodic structure, formal choices, and similar thematic inquiries, Sworn Virgin suggests an unofficial remake of Vivre Sa Vie.
After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter’s life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.
Michael Levine provides a history without a real sense of individuated struggle or even singular personage.
Andrew Rossi pays sporadic lip service to recognizing cultural specificity before returning to his star-gazing ways.
Regarding national cinemas, each section skews heavily toward filmmakers from either Europe or the United States.
Arrow provides monthly evidence that there’s an entire sector of European cinematic production that’s gone long underappreciated.
The documentary lingers on silences and reveals its subjects only through moments of quotidian behavior.
It reduces its historical moment to a series of vignettes and voiceovers, all evincing curiously tone-deaf sentimentality.
The film is an endlessly complex, universal testament to the ills of valuing commerce over compassion.
One of Blank’s most mercurial works receives a spectacular restoration on Blu-ray.
The film quickly devolves into a contemptible, exploitative presentation of sociological matters.
The doc is an attempt to capture something of Akerman’s infectious spirit and thirst for worldly experience.
It became a key reference point for postmodern mash-up artists, but the film’s socio-political jungle is not all fun-and-grindhouse games.
Third time’s the charm for Shout! Factory, whose new Blu-ray box set marks the show’s most definitive home-video release yet.
Can Evrenol’s film mostly functions as a tour of familiar horror tropes for much of its running time.
The film looks and sounds great thanks to Arrow Video’s meticulous Blu-ray presentation.
The director spoke to us about his writing process, his fondness for Goodfellas, and more.
Asghar Farhadi’s 2006 film interrogates the tensions between tactility and vision in complex ways.
The film’s larger purpose, be it about the ardor of handmade crafts or artist Tom Sachs’s artistic ambitions, never emerges with any consistent focus.
The film becomes fairly bloodless by preferring to play character behaviors objectively and at a distance.