The ghostliness of the museum in Vienna derives from an identity crisis, where digitization threatens to eradicate the gallery space.
Director Brett Morgen distinguishes the biographical documentary by viewing himself as more of a curator than a film director.
The book affords boastful insights that require serious consideration.
The Criterion Collection has affectionately packaged Hollywood’s greatest comedy into a must-own Blu-ray.
For all of the potential, historically specific revelations regarding nation and religion, the film elects to become bathetic hokum.
It’s good that we’re now able to see the film as originally intended, if only to recognize its thoroughly contemptible cultural sensibilities.
Tsai spoke with us about making Rebels of the Neon God and his participation in the film’s recent HD restoration.
Tsai’s debut makes one yearn for an alternative reality where it, not Pulp Fiction, became the beacon of ’90s independent filmmaking.
Bergman’s film disguises meaning amid a sea of red, which searingly oozes throughout Criterion’s delicately rendered 2K transfer.
It’s ultimately unable to reconcile complex dynamics any further than with a glimpse toward their fundamentally destructive effects.
It evolves into an intimate reverie on family and aesthetics, attuned to the reflexive and ethical dimensions of ethnographic discovery.
Criterion’s impressive new Blu-ray puts Morris’s polymorphous aims hauntingly on display.
The thinly sketched characters are numerous and inconsequential, with Lone Scherfig giving sparse attention to humanizing or deepening them.
Eytan Fox opts for a thoroughly hollow rumination on pop-culture mechanics as they pertain to young, aspiring professionals.
Stéphane Lafleur denies Nicole the angsty treatments given similar characters in The Graduate and Frances Ha.
Charles Poekel displays an assured directorial hand and a modest, appealing, even droll sensibility throughout.
Criterion chalks off another underseen film by a high-profile director from their checklist with this suitable Blu-ray release of The Soft Skin.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer emphatically suggests that all of humankind’s troubles begin and end with the body.
Brett Morgen distinguishes the biographical documentary by viewing himself as more of a curator than a film director.
Bitter Lake is a profound testament to harnessing newly formulated ambitions beyond merely proffering archival footage employed in new contexts.