Surely the obligatory sequel to what has to be a top contender for the “worst ’70s blockbuster” crown must carry some weight as a camp classic.
An astonishing work of subtextual feminism which has to count as one of the seminal films of the 1970s.
The studio offers a surprisingly meaty collection of features on this DVD edition.
Two classics of early British horror have been thoughtfully doubled-up on a DVD release that should be on any fright fan’s shelf.
Alberto Cavalcanti’s contribution might be the finest single episode to appear in any horror anthology film.
Ealing Studios’s opulent adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s novella is a cult classic in search of an audience.
Boutique without being pretentious, queer without being sexual, and quirky without being particularly congenial.
It would be a lot easier to dismiss The Hanging Garden if its fetishized details weren’t so naked and boldly autobiographical.
As inviting as having a studly young Daniel Day-Lewis lick your neck.
My Beautiful Laundrette is every bit the landmark gay film it deserves to be.
What separates the film from its predecessors is its anarchic, cynical hysteria—its bizarre and dark-as-hell gallows humor.
Though the film is, by the writers’ admission, “a love letter to the ACLU,” it is also an absolute reading of the Bill of Rights.
Surprisingly mundane, given the central figure, the film puts the “lesson” in “civics lesson.”
Between this and Dreyer’s Master of the House, one could have a real ironic Mother’s Day film festival.
An apologia for all future Susan Smiths, Euripides’s filicidal classic Medea is a simple story.
The scenario makes the torment that only child Jaime goes through a much more universal and generic toil.
The tough but tender Beautiful Thing is one of the most honest and moving gay youth dramas in recent memory.
Takashi Miike’s film is as morose and disturbing as it is infused with a sense of the madcap.
The naturalistic sexuality of Vigo’s only feature film is even still ahead of its time.
L’Atalante stands as one of the most beautiful and rich celebrations of human connection in the history of cinema.