Desperate Living is Waters’s most furious political statement.
Like Old Joy, the film’s calculated understatement is at once instrumental to its bliss and damnation.
Your bones will feel osteoporotic by the time you’re done consuming the extras on this hearty DVD package, but fans of the film will no doubt welcome the process.
The too-much-information age is a strange thing indeed.
The Booby Hatch makes me glad I didn’t take John Russo’s Making Movies too much too heart.
An overdue historical document that offers a much more fascinating glimpse into Richard M. Nixon than the generic Hollywood adaptation.
If A Jihad for Love demonstrates the mountainous struggle Muslim homosexuals face daily, the bonus footage on the DVD reiterates that they’re far from alone in having much work still to do.
I believe the children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way.
The less explicit of Oshima’s art-house scandals, Empire of Passion is a provocative, Eros-and-Thanatos assault in its own right.
The film is only likely to frighten those with rubber mask phobias.
Saddam Hussein might not deserve better, but viewers surely do.
An interesting opening for what could be a unique spin on an old sci-fi trope.
The films collected in Science Is Fiction are never more than mildly educational, but never less than visually hypnotic.
Overproduced and guaranteed to disappoint all but those who have never bought a Hellraiser DVD to date, the Lament Configuration Box Set will likely only tear your wallet apart.
A white-knuckled introduction to the concept of action-movie existentialism, The Wages of Fear makes for a pummeling black-and-white Blu-ray.
A limited but revealing look at Peter Bogdanovich’s remembrances of cinematic things past.
Cult director Monte Hellman lets the motors do the talking in Two-Lane Blacktop.
Honigmann’s mastery of craft is abundantly clear in the fixed and methodical camerawork.
HBO delivers the nine-disc set in a smart, well-designed package that opens like a book rather than the usual foldout design.
Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country’s ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain.
There’s no doubt that Doubt has been given a highly exalted DVD treatment.