Hud is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the ways forward.
Altman’s sprawling tragicomic testament to fate and infidelity gets an impressive 4K upgrade from Criterion.
Criterion offers a correspondingly bold and beautiful transfer of one of the most astonishingly fragile and intuitive of all American movies.
Criterion showcases Linklater’s longitudinal masterwork with a gorgeous HD transfer and an entire second Blu-ray’s worth of supplements.
De Palma’s technique reaches a new volatility here.
Kamikaze ‘89 refuses to direct its nose-diving satire at any one target in particular, which makes it equal parts exhilarating and exhausting.
Daughter of Dracula gets an attractive HD transfer and some essential context from Kino’s Redemption Films line.
A significant amount of bonus material featured on the previous DVD release gets ported over to Criterion’s set.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls still seduces like barbed wire in a red dress.
Olive kicks off its Signature line in style with an essential update of one of their early Blu-rays.
The 4K-mastered set of Kieślowski’s metaphysically oriented miniseries is Criterion’s release of the year.
Cat People is a sex tragedy in horror-film drag, and Criterion has restored it to its full, brutally beautiful glory.
Criterion’s Blu-ray should prove to be a landmark release for progressing home-video distribution/filmmaker collaborations.
The film is a towering early example of Mizoguchi’s directorial and dramatic prowess.
This generous presentation of yet another “alternate reality” for a film already lacking solid bearings makes it impossible to ignore.
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock gets a reasonably good-looking, if barebones, Blu-ray release from Olive Films.
This Criterion transfer of Reed’s crackerjack war-time genre-bender is serviceable rather than extraordinary.
It receives a robust transfer and only a few cursory extras, though that shouldn’t keep one from adding this disarmingly sensual film to their libraries.
The political resonance of Frank Sinatra’s sleepwalking through these two films is unsubtly reactionary.
Disney’s exceptional, gorgeous update of Rudyard Kipling’s adventure classic is one of the studio’s best films in a generation.
A key film in Ford’s oeuvre, and despite an unrestored transfer, it belongs in the library of all of his fans.