Criterion presents the films in their original 1.33:1 aspect ratios, though there is some controversy surrounding these transfers.
There’s something of an ill-fated air surrounding the films of the Russian directors Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko.
Though a good many of us might like to think otherwise, a critic is not a prognosticator.
The film’s sheer technical ineptitude seems almost intentional, bordering on avant-garde expressiveness.
Among its many identities, M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water is first and foremost a gaping psychic wound.
“Tsi-Nan-Fu!” Go forth and do the bidding I have coded in this review.
All appearances and hypnotic suggestions to the contrary, identity is Dr. Mabuse’s wager of choice.
Certainly, these films do appear to be bridging some form of cultural gap.
It’s tempting, one must admit, to mangle the title of Woody Allen’s latest trifle and let it stand as a review.
Suffice to say that Elem Klimov’s biopic of the mad monk Grigori Rasputin more than lives up to its title.
Mel Blanc gets lots of credit for his work with Looney Tunes, all of it deserved.
It’s not a terribly good film, but its discovery is worth celebrating.
A series of alternate takes/deleted scenes are of primary interest for the shades they add to the character of Laura.
It’s a pleasant enough piece of hackwork, anonymous in all the right ways so that it neither offends nor thrills.
V for Vendetta, unlike the Alan Moore comic from which it’s adapted, is scarily flat.
The crowd sequence that climaxes the film is a conceptual miracle in the way it uses rear-projection to simulate childlike flights of fancy.
Paramount presents the film in a wonderful 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer on the first of this set’s two discs.
In Deadwood, no one incident is isolated; it inevitably touches everyone and everything, reverberating throughout a community now readying itself for its first legal elections.
As Deadwood has acquired more and more of civilization’s trappings, Merrick has come increasingly to the fore.
What follows is a numbered, point-by-point subjective breakdown of The New World’s two versions.