There’s no doubt that Doubt has been given a highly exalted DVD treatment.
Dreyer was committed to the idea of romantic and sexual love between two people as the living embodiment of God on earth.
Even when she was just phoning it in for her later movies, Ruth Gordon was phoning it in from Mars, or some kingdom of her own.
The buried themes in James Gray’s film slowly emerge from its accumulation of quotidian, seemingly small details.
During the last 20 minutes of Interlude, Sirk goes in for the kill.
Politically, sexually, and spiritually, Stamp is an icon of the most idealistic side of the ’60s.
I leapt at the chance to send a few questions, via e-mail, to Chantal Akerman on the film itself and on working with Delphine Seyrig.
Has any other actress made such an impact on screen by purveying nearly nothing but abrasive bad temper?
This special edition DVD will be the perfect holiday gift for your ABBA-lovin’ roommate…and a reason for you to invest in earplugs.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I want to have sex with the Murnau, Borzage and Fox DVD set.
Emblematic of this film’s success is the last scene, which follows the book exactly.
The restored Abraham Lincoln is impressive, and everyone should have a copy of Way Down East.
Van Heflin never became a big star because he was too honest an actor.
Doubt doesn’t work fully on screen as it did on stage, but it’s worth seeing for Meryl Streep’s grace notes.
In 13 films, Woody Allen celebrated and sometimes assailed Mia Farrow, and they both emerged victors, artistically, at least.
Milk denies and destroys the complexity of life as it is really lived.
Australia is corny, implausible, well intentioned, and even somewhat enjoyable in its own way, at least for a while.
The exuberant Carole Lombard became emblematic of the whole screwball comedy genre of the 1930s.
Notoriously, Colbert always wanted her left profile to be favored in two-shots, and this was a defining obsession.
So, a “proletariat trilogy” from the eighties by a Finnish director? It doesn’t sound too delightful, does it?