Despite occasional hiccups in the source elements, these HD transfers look incredibly good.
The film represents all of cinema’s possibilities in 106 minutes.
Review: Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital on Zeitgeist and Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Maddin’s obsession with obscure Canadian folklore is evident right from the get-go.
Foolish Wives lives anew on Flicker Alley’s essential Blu-ray release.
Arrow’s bost set is a tantalizing sampler of Empire Pictures’s endearingly scrappy offerings.
The set shines a light on the studio’s rapid commercial ascendency at the end of the ’60s.
Almost 70 years after its initial release, The Night of the Hunter still resonates.
Pier Paolo Pasolini perpetually rebelled against moral hegemony, commiserating with outcasts and creating and dying as one.
The disc’s extras provide ample insight into a crucial period of artistic growth for Jenkins.
Millennium Mambo is in many ways a thematic foil to Hou’s Flowers of Shanghai.
Twilight gets a stunning 4K transfer and a slew of fascinating interviews.
Criterion gives Gilliam’s dark children’s tale a jolly good UHD upgrade.
Like many a classic noir, Caliber 9 gets a lot of mileage out of its location shooting.
Review: John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate on KL Studio Classics 4K UHD Blu-ray
Frankenheimer offers a précis on what sets the political thriller apart from other suspense films.
Red Sun fascinatingly, if elusively, captures the spirit of a particularly fraught place and time.
Review: Marleen Gorris’s Feminist Cri de Coeur A Question of Silence on Cult Epics Blu-ray
Gorris’s striking, provocative debut has lost none of its righteous, subversive force.
Thelma & Louise is a legitimately unique rethinking of genre structure.
The film is a still-relevant portrait of America’s schizophrenic relationship with gun violence.
Review: ‘Danza Macabra Volume One: The Italian Gothic Collection’ on Severin Films Blu-ray
Severin cherry-picks four enjoyably atmospheric films in the Italian gothic mode.
This set attests to the raw power and sociopolitical specificity of McQueen’s anthology series.
Like Petite Maman itself, Criterion’s Blu-ray is deceptively simple but packed with riches.