The little-seen True Confession alone would be worth the money, let alone backed up by so many other rare titles.
Though the DVD transfer is less than adequate, it’s good to have this Demy film back in circulation.
A Slightly Pregnant Man is a provocative, if minor, Jacques Demy film.
The film only longs for hard, distant men and comforting, unreflective women.
A poor Hitchcock film with one set piece perfect for anthologies.
Torn Curtain is not a total disaster.
Family Plot is a minor but worthwhile swan song for Hitchcock.
It’s a film haunted by death, with lengthy sequences played out in cemeteries, and small details show Hitchcock’s dark-humored view of the world.
Nanny McPhee is filled with British pros having a field day.
Every magic hour, light-drenched image in Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive is filled with mysterious dread.
Like so many of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, Lifeboat is a deeply Catholic work.
Lifeboat is a very underrated Hitchcock film that deserves serious reexamination.
The film seems to have been made so that writer-director Ben Younger can shoot all of his favorite sites in New York City.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema is basically a film about Terence Stamp’s crotch.
A must-see for fans of Terence Stamp and his magical British package. Others beware.
The unsurpassed beauty of Antonioni’s visual art lifts his two-penny story and hollow people into the exalted realm of the senses.
A fantastic package of an essential and rare Antonioni feature, surely one of the best DVDs of the year.
Sidney Lumet contributes a professional commentary, unexciting but competent, like many of his films.
Jane Fonda is having fun, but her character is only an echo of her great loser heroine in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Intellectuals from Roland Barthes to Kenneth Tynan have rhapsodized idiotically and sometimes touchingly about the Garbo phenomenon.