Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
A major film, and a troubling one, a key piece of the Romanian New Wave finally makes its way to home video.
The 1080p hi-def transfer of If…. varnishes the washed-out qualities of Miroslac Ondricek and Chris Menges’s imagery.
The film is sure to deliver a whopping sugar rush, as well as the inevitably sour letdown.
Cocteau’s superb take on the Orpheus myth ascends to glorious audio and visual resolution.
An occasionally strange B-action programmer gets an indifferent American DVD transfer.
This is three hours of poetic catharsis at 1080 progressively scanned lines of resolution.
Only completists (and, possibly, masochists) should bother to face off against Face to Face.
Hell’s Kitchen may be junk-food TV, but it’s also a fascinating spectator sport.
A haunting certified copy of one man’s disintegrating life—blinding in its fragmented treatment of artificial self-representation.
Win Win’s best qualities are of the kind that tend to go unnoticed.
This beautiful but somewhat overpraised film gets the gorgeous transfer it deserves. Just don’t hold your breath for too many extras.
Road to Nowhere is a tribute to the artifice and the rawness of cinema.
The film illuminates the transcendent grace inherent to one woman’s crippling dependence on born-again identities.
This three-year output of Buster Keaton Productions, exhibited and explained, makes for a Damfino time on the couch.
Criterion fulfills a long rumored release with the essential Blu-ray of one of the great devils of 1950s American cinema.
A violent spoof of social dead-ends blisters beautifully on Blu-ray.
I’ve watched The Big Lebowski more times than I’ll ever be able to count. This is the best it’s ever looked and sounded.
Spiritual violence, class warfare, and plenty of mysticism go into Alejandro Jodorowsky’s desert-set whatsit.
It’s no Seven Samurai, but The Magnificent Seven is worthy of the flag it waves.
An intensely intelligent look at American history and a blueprint for how to (un)make it, from one of our country’s finest directors.