Hud is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the ways forward.
You don’t really need to buy the complete DVD set of Flight of the Conchords as long as YouTube’s still working.
The Long Good Friday is both a classic British gangster film and a potent political commentary about Western urbanization.
A thorough, focused study of the first major films of an artist who “wrote with a camera.”
Pialat’s piercing first feature introduces the Gallic master’s mix of laceration and delicacy.
This disc is an apt celebration of the film’s sensational vision of unrequited love and colorful saturation of classic Greek mythology.
To be, or not to be. Kenneth Branagh’s seminal Hamlet is as conflicted and vital as life itself.
The Duel gets a beautifully rendered DVD image but a terribly lacking disc devoid of extras.
Sweetgrass lives and breathes the cowboy existence.
The film is an incredible statement of friendship, and one of the most inspired depictions of the creative process.
Zwigoff completists can finally sigh with relief, fans of old-time string bands can leap for joy, and abecedarians can learn that U is for Uterus.
This release does little to make a new case for James and the Giant Peach as a rediscovered lost gem of the new animation golden age.
A cult classic in the making, Audiard’s A Prophet receives a much better shake on DVD than its main character does in prison.
These films offer a blueprint to the evolution of Kurosawa as an artist and the continuity of his style, windswept landscapes and all.
A standard-bearer for the 1980s slasher era, it creeps onto Blu-ray with all its brainless, sanguine pleasures lovingly restored in commendable clarity.
The Art of the Steal concisely critiques the modern “rules” of the art game.
This is a sturdy introduction to Guitry’s uniquely cinematic proscenium.
Fans of Stallone’s war-is-kickass-hell fable may get something from this extended cut. Everyone else can safely ignore it.
As much about see-food as seafood, The Secret of the Grain is as close to a contemporary fable as we have.
Any film that has a line as hilariously warped as “Jesus, that thing’s hairy” deserves some recognition.
The film only scratches the surface of a man immersed in social and moral guilt during one of the most turbulent times in American history.