Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
The film laid down a solid template for Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich’s strange relationship.
MGM’s A/V transfer of this blissfully silly cult teen comedy is most(ly) triumphant.
With Criterion’s Blu-ray release of Heaven’s Gate, late New Hollywood’s most famous hot mess gets a little bit hotter.
Sentai Filmworks has done an admirable job on their A/V transfer of Takahata’s deeply humanist anime.
Lawless is a compellingly nutty and uneven gangster film.
A paltry offering of bad-looking archival interviews is, sadly, all Echo Bridge shelled out for.
The year’s silliest and most stubbornly self-serious blockbuster,arrives on Blu-ray with a flawed A/V transfer.
Die Nibelungen ranks among the greatest and strangest of all silents.
Angry Boys reveals a talented comedian not so much pushing the boundaries of good taste as half-assedly mucking about at their perimeter.
Jean-Luc Godard’s still-revelatory film returns to North American home video as one of the best Blu-rays of the year.
Pasolini’s trilogy still provides a great way to both look smart and look at naked bodies.
Lisa and the Devil is easily the oddest duck in Bava’s filmography, sumptuously photographed and exceedingly surreal.
Certain historical movements have washed away at something of these films’ shared ideological heft.
The latest installment in Redemption and Kino’s rollout of Jean Rollin titles making their Blu-ray debut actually forms a kind of diptych.
Stone returns to the grit, grime, and blood of his glory days with this breakneck SoCal-set thriller.
The film has been glossed with plenty of contextual extras, including a late-period nugget or two for the completists out there.
The film is still one of the most glorious testaments to the frustrations and exhilarations of chasing an unvarnished truth.
Olive Films’s set compiles three of the director’s seldom seen late works.
Charlie Is My Darling is a thrilling portrait of the band as young musicians.
The Paradise Lost trilogy is a somewhat unsung masterpiece of contemporary American cinema.