Susan Hayward’s intense physical commitment to the reenactment of her character’s random ordeal is something to behold.
The film is a prime object of study for Susan Hayward scholars.
Sawdust and Tinsel is Bergman’s first film where the idea of humiliation, specifically sexual humiliation, becomes crucial to his conception.
This is a wild movie on a very large scale that’s bound to alienate a lot of people.
This is unrepresentative set of films starring one of the five major American screen actresses of all time.
James Gray dramatizes the demoralizing sort of physical and psychic helplessness that was one of Hitchcock’s lifelong themes.
A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl’s best-known film.
Rouben Mamoulian’s critical reputation as a filmmaker has always seesawed uncertainly.
A seamless story about memory and fantasy blurring together, Cría Cuervos is unquestionably Carlos Saura’s greatest film.
Ingmar Bergman dies in the morning. Michelangelo Antonioni dies at night. On the same day. In the middle of summer.
A self-styled intellectual, Lorre had a quick, morbid wit.
A fine disc of a strange film.
This is a solid disc that does justice to Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean Cocteau’s puzzler.
The Pirate lacks consistency, but it’s so off-beat and subterranean that it will always be of interest as a cult film.
A key influence on the French New Wave, Les Enfants Terribles is a film that is difficult to classify.
A disappointing set. If you want real camp, look to other volumes in the series.
After a 10-year absence from filmmaking, Frank Borzage returned for one final summation of his themes.
An unexpected and very valuable DVD.
A fine set of iffy adventure films from a limited but amiable star.
Sometimes extreme physical beauty grows more complex, more satisfying with age.