Turns out, Hammer was still making entertaining and even innovative films in the 1970s.
Tsai Ming-liang’s haunting, bleakly comic sophomore film receives a starkly beautiful transfer from Film Movement.
Gorgeous and goofy in equal measure, Dario Argento puts his inimitable stamp on this adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.
Terry Gilliam’s prescient and visionary 12 Monkeys gets a sterling UHD upgrade.
Bernard Rose’s bloody and hypnotic Candyman gets the definitive UHD Blu-ray treatment.
Paramount gives De Palma’s opulent crime epic a home-video presentation that’s worthy of its sumptuous sense of visual invention.
John McNaughton’s sun-soaked neo-noir gets a sensuous update from Arrow Video.
Criterion ushers one of Billy Wilder’s finest, darkest, and most influential films fully into the 21st century.
The often-overlooked middle film in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy is a taut, nasty thriller, and Kino gives it its due with a terrific A/V transfer.
Arie and Chuko Esiri’s feature debut is a poetic evocation of the struggles big and small faced by people escaping toward brighter tomorrows.
That’s one small step for Criterion, one giant leap to 4K.
Matt Reeves’s compelling back-to-basics take on DC Comics’s most iconic character gets an excellent 4K release.
Bertrand Tavernier’s ode to jazz music and late-night Parisian culture gets a melodious 4K restoration from the Criterion Collection.
Criterion has outfitted Mira Nair’s sophomore feature with an exquisite new transfer and a superb slate of extras.
Kino finally gives a milestone in film history its definitive release, rescuing it from what seemed like the eternal damnation of inconsistent video presentations.
De Sade is a flawed yet fascinating attempt to penetrate into the headspace of the Marquis de Sade.
One of John Ford’s greatest films gets a superlative Ultra HD release that’s only slightly marred by a few restoration shortcuts.
The Funeral is an at once wistful and whimsical depiction of the emotions unleashed by our private and public confrontations with death.
Universal brings Licorice Pizza to home video with a beautiful Blu-ray, though the lack of a UHD option for such a gorgeous film is frustrating.
This set is going to look awfully smart on the shelf next to Criterion’s forthcoming release of Pink Flamingos.
Joseph Losey’s late-career triumph gets a solid new 4K restoration, coupled with a handful of solid extras.