Turns out, Hammer was still making entertaining and even innovative films in the 1970s.
A brief featurette is the disc’s main supplement, collecting a handful of new interviews with the three primary cast members and screenwriter Al Schwartz.
Just lay back. This is going to happen.
A moving ode to loneliness and regret, chockablock with sensualist and observational grace notes.
Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film’s purity of essence.
The film is a religious experience….with a side of potato soup.
As Mister Señor Love Daddy commands, “WAKE UP” to this absolutely essential home video.
Bergman’s most popular and studied film may not be his greatest achievement, but this Blu-ray confirms its cinematic grandeur.
Ignore the social esotericism: Last Holiday is a witty petit mort meant to distract from the arrival of le grand mort.
Tacky but completely in-season, the film is the type of studio claptrap you get when the country’s economy is in complete meltdown.
A lovely ode to women, sexuality, creativity, and New York City.
Not one of the best looking episodes in the series, looking drab and dusty brown, this Deluxe Edition fares as well as you’d expect.
Jason gets the proper sendoff.
This sequel is one elaborate in-joke about itself, and if you like the series you might have affection for what it’s trying to do.
Edited to induce seizures, Morning Light should appeal to fans of MTV and water sports.
A long overdue and welcomed release for this one-of-a-kind series, if slightly overpriced and lacking in extra features.
Those interested in seeing 18 bonus performances and a making-of documentary will have to spring for the much more expensive three-disc set.
For women it’s potentially empowering, but for men it inspires detached amusement and the whisper of an erection.
A featurette or liner notes elaborating on the subversive qualities of the film would have been nice.
Bergman Island isn’t a keeper, but it reveals that Bergman wasn’t, at least in real life, a merchant of doom and gloom.
A well-meaning dud, the film’s only defiance is testing its audience’s patience.