Godard’s debut feature feels immortal on Criterion’s 4K UHD Blu-ray release.
Criterion gives the film the monumental release it deserves, complementing a flawless transfer with head-spinning extras.
One of the titanic accomplishments of Japanese cinema receives a sparkling Blu-ray update from Criterion.
This re-release luxuriates in the film’s fresh-as-ever cinematic pleasures while offering illuminating contexts through which to appreciate it anew.
The film presents its tonal switch-ups and narrative swerves with a deadpan belligerence by turns stimulating, calculated, and poignant.
The film eschews clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations.
The film’s sidelong narrative glances suggest a privileged world brimming with barely concealed sexual jealousies.
At once familiar and enigmatic, Javier Rebollo’s The Dead Man and Being Happy feels like a connect-the-dots film with a few lines artfully blurred.
Creating this fantasy Sight & Sound ballot felt as much like excavation as photography.
There’s something about James Franco’s desire to escape the straitjacket of the biopic’s pat psychologizing.
Snow on tha Bluff makes little effort to hide Curtis Snow’s penchants for selfishness, indulgence, and cruelty.
Donoma does little to hide the recurring themes and character dynamics in its three stories.
It plays upon memories of other films that cast aging nonconformists as hip mentors to their doe-eyed queer charges.
The good life remains but a dream, but the lust for life is tireless, torturous, unabated.
Its unsettling air lies in Sono and co-writer Yoshiki Takahashi’s unwillingness to attach Murata’s mania to a recognizable source.
That Bogart finds so much humor in Charlie’s goofball debasement only adds to the film’s poignancy.
What is the famed “Lubitsch touch” if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?
Scorsese chronicles Jake LaMotta’s public bouts and private demons with bruising acuity.
A substantial Blu-ray package befitting the legendary status of Godard’s debut feature.
Waiting for Superman lacks the depth of detail to register as a way forward for public education reform.