Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
Few restorations prove as revitalizing and essential as Kino’s new 4K Blu-ray for Wiene’s classic silent.
This exceptional restoration introduces this touchstone of African-American film to a new generation who will find its lessons enduringly relevant.
Milestone Films has gone to great lengths to restore and contextualize Portrait of Jason on this superb Blu-ray.
It’s a miracle that this underappreciated horror fantasy has received any attention at all. Horror fans should be appropriately grateful.
One of the few jazz films, or music films in general, to not simply explain its subject, but illustrate his mien.
Demons 2 trades in its predecessor’s penchant for wall-to-wall gore in favor of surreal shocks and quasi-Cronenbergian craziness.
Some extras would be nice, particularly considering the legends who had their hands in this vibrantly cynical rock horror film.
Viva Maria deserves rescuing as more than simply a curiosity within Louis Malle’s diverse oeuvre.
Any doubts about Tati’s status as a titan of modernist filmmaking will be obliterated by this treatment of the director’s six feature films.
Disney has given Maleficent a red-carpet audio-visual treatment.
This fascinating, ironic, dry telling of the legendary Burke and Hare story receives one of Shout! Factory’s very best transfers.
Kino presents Jonathan Demme’s dark, irreverent romantic comedy with an admirable A/V transfer, but skimps completely on the extras.
The set includes several top-notch films, an overall excellent A/V presentation, and a bevy of bonus materials.
The film remains one of cinema’s great, persuasive testaments to the flimsiness of the precarious tightrope walk that is our lives.
This is still a sturdy and attractive packaging of a profound and ever-relevantly self-reflexive Welles masterpiece.
Fellini’s unsparing odyssey of corrosive wealth and anxious commonality is given a reliably peerless A/V transfer from Criterion.
Russell’s bracing film gets a solid, if unspectacular, transfer (and little in the way of extras) from Kino Lorber.
It improves on the original with inventive, gracefully repulsive special effects and an agreeable post-Watergate anti-authoritarian message.
Kino’s stunning 1080p transfer should more than satisfy Jonathan Demme completists.
MPI drops this perversely engrossing film onto DVD with a reasonably strong transfer, but precious little in the way of extras.