Turns out, Hammer was still making entertaining and even innovative films in the 1970s.
An audio-visual tour de force, and perhaps the purest example of Stone’s greatest strengths as a director.
Such a visually evocative film probably deserved a better overall presentation, but the interactive menus are pretty cool.
Mondo Video should be commended for their handsome presentation of one of Zulawski’s most lush, explosively romantic films.
A still relevant call for communion among diverse African-American communities, and an elegy for an activist-artist.
In 1971, Jane Fonda’s Klute makes off with the Oscar, while The Stewardesses make off with the bank. Draw your own conclusions.
Tie-ins are the lifeblood of any successful comic franchise and essentially every major blockbuster film.
Practical poontang in every way.
Rossellini’s great history lessons blow the dust off textbooks.
Get more bang for your buck with this two-disc edition, which is fudge-packed with plenty of titillating bonus features.
Not much of a film, but Criterion makes it gleam.
George Wallace deserves a more substantial DVD treatment than this one.
Color me slightly underwhelmed.
A deserved dust-off for an aggressive form of stoner comedy long supplanted by Brand Apatow.
You can almost smell the powdered wigs in Rossellini’s study of a dandified abyss.
A masterpiece and a doodle make for an odd but worthy double bill for Powell enthusiasts.
Alternately dreamy and scratchy, Assayas’s meta-satire still beguiles.
A man approaches a uniformed doorman from the sidewalk, holds up a cigarette, and casually asks for a light.
There’s plenty here to keep the attention of both stoners and cinephiles alike.
A good-but-not-great movie gets a good-but-not-great DVD treatment. Rolling papers not included.
Corinne van Egeraat’s Cowboys In Kosovo is a film Jim Jarmusch might want to option.