Hud is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the ways forward.
How about Cabin in the Cotten, Dangerous, Juarez, The Corn is Green, and A Stolen Life for volume four?
Teshigahara lets Gaudí’s works speak for themselves, and what strange music they make.
The film is told with rigorous control, with unobtrusive camerawork and naturalistic, unpretentious sound design.
Change, or the struggle to make change fit into the established system, is Lee’s most familiar chord. He struck it loudest in The Ice Storm.
Keep your eyes off the sparrow and on the road ahead.
The Ice Storm tries its best to identity itself with the dark heart of the early ’70s.
Like Criterion’s magnificent Paul Robeson box set from early last year, it reintroduces us to a performer whose gift was ahead of its time.
Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets a meaty DVD package fit for a cannibal.
Teen horniness is not a crime but Southland Tales is.
Wright’s Atonement insipidly rewards those who blush whenever they think about a lady’s jewels.
A great Otto Preminger film and a solid DVD presentation overall.
This is a spotty but interesting early Al Pacino vehicle that rewards another look.
I have no trouble embracing the studio’s biggest bitch of them all.
Horror fans should definitely take a walk down Mulberry Street and choose carefully among the rest.
This is an unfortunately slim DVD package for the best Oscar top-dog since Million Dollar Baby.
Despite some satisfyingly gut-busting moments, the film retains a very British stiff upper lip.
Language is only one factor in the film’s negotiation of East and West.
Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro’s master class on epic filmmaking does David Lean better than David Lean.
An alternately grim and amusing parable, but give me Cassavettes instead.
“I much prefer Daffy Duck to Donald Duck.” Finally a pensée I can get behind.