Hud is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the ways forward.
Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls has been accorded the robust and exacting Criterion treatment that it deserves.
Wellman’s stark, elemental western is a quintessential display of the director’s direct but punchy style.
Clouds of Sils Maria is pat and self-conscious, though it’s certainly a remarkably acted formal object.
Romeo Is Bleeding projects an aura of obsessive self-consciousness that occasionally suggests the superior film that eluded its creators.
This Blu-ray continues Criterion’s marvelous minting and contextualization of beloved Columbia classics.
It’s dispiriting to come across a Criterion package that’s merely pro forma, but this is still the best version of Fantastic Planet on the market.
Maurice Pialat’s controversial Palme D’Or winner receives a beautiful Blu-ray from Cohen Media Group.
Criterion continues their efforts to release classical Hollywood gems from Columbia Pictures in high definition.
This brilliantly ironic melodrama is a pivotal work in the creation of film noir.
Criterion delivers a robust package for Wenders’s trilogy, a breakthrough moment in the New German Cinema.
Art cinema was changed and, in some sense, defined by Antonioni’s spatially oriented filmmaking.
This terrific neo-noir has been outfitted with a beautiful transfer and no extras to speak of, which is a shame.
The Coen brothers’ sardonic revisionism of Hollywood’s golden era is, ironically, their most earnest feature.
Blood Bath, both a disposable vampire tale and an indispensible chapter of film history, arrives in a stellar, limited-edition Blu-ray set.
One of Godard’s most arresting and personal early visions served as a pivotal act of brokering his own legend.
Mann’s classic thriller has never looked better on home video, and Shout!’s extensive extras make this the version of the film to own.
Venom is more notable for its troubled production history and bizarro premise than for being compelling.
With this classic Hollywood thriller, Altman proved that career rehabilitation can spring from stylishly biting the hand that feeds you.
The title of the film could apply to nearly all of Ray’s other films, as it provides a poetic encapsulation of his governing theme.
Another wholly solid effort, Criterion checks off nearly every box for supplements, with a commentary, interviews, and appreciations.