Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
The film fully believes in the humanity and good will of its subjects, and doesn’t mind taking a biased point of view to prove their vision is just.
This set is a nice way to get reacquainted with the director’s distinctive atmosphere of bemused terror.
If you’re TV set and Blu-ray player can handle it, this 3D Blu-ray set of Step Up 3D corroborates the film’s innovative use of 3D.
Sony’s new Hayworth-centric box set runs the gamut of the pin-up queen’s charms and is well worth a look if only to see the newly restored Gilda.
The film is occasionally engaging in its free-wheeling determination to please its maker.
The Black Pirate returns as a crackerjack entertainment, a historical benchmark, and yet another shrine to movie love courtesy of Kino.
The Endless Summer exudes a blissful, mellow buzz that could easily be misconstrued as lazy or innocuous filmmaking.
Straight to Hell Returns is a screwy and unsound blast.
The film illustrates the futility of war not in the grand gestures, but in the minute details that gradually grow to mass devastation.
Criterion’s release is exactly what their Eclipse line should be doing and should be at the top of every cinephile’s wish list this holiday season.
The film works as a revealing story of redemption for a “super villain” that can’t help but be a great father.
The film is funny and thought-provoking where most documentaries present themselves as trustworthy and invariably factual.
The rouge of the Nazi flags is as prominent as the pink of Teresa Ann Savoy’s plush tush and the jaundice of various swinish johns’ bier guts.
Rent it and revel in the mash up of competing genres and themes so unique to the Hollywood landscape.
An okay presentation of an okay picture featuring a characteristically appealing Jeff Bridges performance.
The resulting auteurist splatter both fascinates from a thematic standpoint and frustrates from a narrative one.
It’s a western with a depth of character and conflict that resonates beyond genre and into layered examinations of historiography.
Its violence, its gore, and its torrential mayhem is hard to miss.
This near-complete restoration of Lang’s silent masterpiece is nothing if not the non-Criterion Blu-ray release of the year.
Fantasia and especially its eager-to-please stepchild Fantasia 2000 have never looked better.