Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
Damsels in Distress is another classic in the making from one of America’s greatest comic filmmakers.
For good or ill, Black Magic Rites just might put a spell on you.
Carné’s subversive medieval fable de l’amour remains one of cinema’s great paeans to everlasting love.
Criterion’s pass at “Canonizing Raoul” makes me want to start lobbying for the inclusion of Bartel’s farce in 2022’s Sight & Sound poll.
Olive Films offers the long cut with the Scottish accents intact, and in 1080p, it looks, well, it looks really, really depressing.
Sono’s Love Exposure is the most exhilarating four-hour melodrama you’re ever likely to see.
Carné’s sweeping, yearning, and ravishing film warns that romantic entanglement is nothing but a bog in which we all eventually get stuck.
the film is no masterpiece, and established a framework for some of the hackiest filmmaking in horror history.
This is a necessary package for any fan of the franchise.
Pure style carries Beyond the Black Rainbow considerably further than many critics gave it credit for.
The Walking Dead remains a frustrating mixed bag of intense highs and melodramatic lows.
One could cross-categorize Cukor’s A Double Life any number of ways convincingly.
Whatever spurred Twilight Time to commit Steel Magnolias to a 3,000-disc run, the results look generally pretty good.
The film emerges as a more politically engaged companion piece to its showier compatriot, A Serbian Film.
As Steve’s grandmother would say: Be oblong and have your knees removed.
A brilliantly macabre examination of evil seamlessly infecting those passionless souls indifferent to the threat of violent political transition.
Umberto D. wants to break your heart. Criterion’s spit-polished Blu-ray upgrade makes that prospect all the more beguiling.
Behind the anonymous-sounding title is a quintessential Walsh noir-western, with a lead performance by Robert Mitchum that contains multitudes.
The film flies high over its seemingly anonymous place in Lang’s 1940s phase.
Turn it over how you will: A New Leaf looks better than ever in another one of Olive Films’s barebones Blu-ray packages.