Mann’s somber western receives an excellent home video release from Arrow Video.
The preeminent collaboration between Anthony Mann and John Alton finally gets an HD release that fully showcases its stunning visuals.
In the vein of other daring ’50s-era noirs and melodramas, the film is a lyrical work eaten up with psychosexual sickness.
Mann goes northward and skewers the myth of western pioneering in The Far Country.
Kit Parker Films’s set is as no frills as the nine films contained within it.
As far as matters of its own history goes, Los Angeles has a reputation for having one eye set to the rear-view mirror.
Mann’s last great film carries with it an unshakeable aura of finality in its world-weary temperament.
The 4K transfer makes the film look better than ever.
It’s hard not to get a little nostalgic while trying to determine one’s favorite films of all time.
There are more than a few middling films sandwiched between a couple of genuinely striking stories of postwar paranoia.
The two are polar opposites in a lot of ways.
Mann loved the west like he loved Greek tragedy or Shakespeare, as an arena for moral and visceral conflict, so intense as to become mythical.
All in all, this is one of the essential DVD releases of the year.
The HBO series may have orgies on its side, but Mann’s underappreciated epic goes deeper and darker into the fall of Rome.
The film has always been unfairly overshadowed by its more popular predecessor, El Cid.
Tough, lean and spare, The Fall of the Roman Empire was an epic swords and sandals picture coming fast on the heels of Ben-Hur and Cleopatra.
A deluxe DVD package to match the grandeur of Mann’s admirable epic.
To say that El Cid is the most intelligent of the elephantine epics of the early ’60s is to damn it with faint praise.
With this fourth volume in the Film Noir Classics series, you must take the good with the bad.
Look to He Ran All the Way and Tension as examples of how John Berry was trying to push a melo-noir style.