This intoxicating film, a condemnation of delusions on both sides of the social spectrum, gets a necessary Blu-ray release.
The Whale examines a necessary perspective ripe for discussion.
Slant talked with Winding Refn about Drive’s inception, its potent juxtaposition of light and dark, and his own burgeoning artistic relationship with Ryan Gosling.
The 1080p hi-def transfer of If…. varnishes the washed-out qualities of Miroslac Ondricek and Chris Menges’s imagery.
The film links the audience and the subjects through a symbiotic relationship of understanding.
A haunting certified copy of one man’s disintegrating life—blinding in its fragmented treatment of artificial self-representation.
The writer-director often embodies the inquisitive and restless blue-collar spirit of an artist like Sam Fuller.
Penetrate the dream, and you’ll understand the nightmare.
The film illuminates the transcendent grace inherent to one woman’s crippling dependence on born-again identities.
Another day, another brooding, plotting, and bloody revenge film.
Criterion fulfills a long rumored release with the essential Blu-ray of one of the great devils of 1950s American cinema.
Faith and delusion are common bedfellows in the game of love.
It storms the Blu-ray aisles with just as much anger, brutality, and complexity as it did theatrically 45 years ago.
Today, what stands out most about the film are the strange narrative tangents that occasionally lighten the mood.
Bellflower instills a series of distrusting traumatic memories within a crumbling universe of mechanized poetry.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more exhausting cinematic archetype than the self-destructive rock star.
Bad reputations can follow films and their makers for years (even decades) after the initial theatrical release.
It connects two warring social perspectives, finding a common ground between them in the pressurized corners of the classic crime drama.
Despite falling deathly flat, The Devil’s Double remains a potent artifact of indulgence and madness crashing up against an unseen reality.
The feudal world is a crippling minefield of delusion and pride in Ray’s film.