Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
The most devastating of American pictures is a simple film masking great complexity.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man remains a legendary title in search of a film to match it.
One of Roger Corman’s leanest, meanest, most disturbing, and ambitious films receives primo Blu-ray treatment courtesy of Kino.
Scorsese’s intoxicating, sardonic gangster film has, for better and worse, been one of the most influential films of the last three decades.
Selma paradoxically presents nonviolent civil rights protest as something akin to a military campaign.
The greatest asset of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray is the best-to-date home-video presentation of Isabelle Adjani’s transfixing performance.
Keeping quiet about the Criterion’s must-own Blu-ray release of Melville’s film would be tantamount to committing a cinephilic war crime.
Warner’s gorgeous Blu-ray preserves Paul Thomas Anderson’s Pynchon adaptation as the director’s anti-Magnolia.
The red-headed stepchild of Sam Peckinpah’s career is accorded an uneven A/V clean-up by Kino Lorber.
The River is another essential Blu-ray release of a Technicolor classic from the Criterion Collection.
Easily the best home-video release to date of this sci-fi spectacle, with a near-perfect audio track and enough extras to satisfy any diehard.
These are utterly fascinating snapshots of Ozu’s early fetishization of American cinema as well as truly singular entries in his body of work.
The film is a great, beautifully acted American crime drama that chillingly refutes the heightened macho swagger that often dominates the genre.
The Criterion Collection has affectionately packaged Hollywood’s greatest comedy into a must-own Blu-ray.
Reed’s post-war thriller arrives on Blu-ray from Criterion looking appropriately atmospheric.
The film is overrated by its cult, but has its charms, which are well represented by this attractive and reverent package.
A harrowing tale of a mother-son haunting that manages to uncomfortably detonate several theoretically reassuring parental platitudes.
“God’ll get you for that, Walter.” And Walter had better watch out, because finally having the complete Maude on DVD proves God’s existence.
It’s good that we’re now able to see the film as originally intended, if only to recognize its thoroughly contemptible cultural sensibilities.
Criterion packages Errol Morris’s essential first two features with extras that attest to their reverberating influence.