Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
With Delicatessen, Jeunet and Caro shoot for a Terry Gilliam-esque grotesque beauty and only hit grime.
Well, what did your parents tell you about talking to strangers?
Stryker’s allegiance holds novelty above awareness-raising, but maybe the former is meant to feed the latter.
The new edition of The Poseidon Adventure is as hefty as Shelly Winters.
Irwin Allen’s crowning achievement, and a shrine to all the bullshit behind Hollywood’s blockbuster franchises.
The battle that’s waged here is against conventional artistic expressions of political and sexual turmoil.
A piercing ego-autopsy disguised as vanilla ’80s comedy.
Family kills itself, director exploits it for dour ironies. More at 11.
When Eric Cartman grows older and goes to film school, his student films will resemble the early works of Michael Haneke.
Fans of the director’s austerity will not want to miss the last entry in his feel-bad trilogy. Others may just want to skip straight to the Prozac.
There’s always a sense that Haneke thinks he’s above his characters, his audience, and scrutiny.
God bless the Criterion Collection for bringing Viridiana to DVD, but damn the condition of the original negative.
Something of a historical-publicity experiment, the film should only be played with by those who appreciated Downfall.
I do! And this isn’t it. The interactive menus are pretty though.
Unconventional Holocaust film sees its image possibly stripped of its lucidity for video, but it’s an appealing presentation nonetheless.
The picture and sound quality on all of the films is clean and clear with the exception of A Perfect Couple.
Walk the line with The Intruder but take slow, deep breaths afterward.
It fluxes all right, from bad to the total pits.
Warm up that espresso machine, because it’s going to be a long night.
Make your way toward Pluto and don’t forget your bottle of Chanel No. 5!