The works in this set range from the virtually archetypal to the resolutely revisionist.
Essential Fellini is one of the most elegantly designed and supplement-packed sets that Criterion has ever released.
Cronenberg’s first feature is a decidedly bloody valentine to libidinal liberation.
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock gets a reasonably good-looking, if barebones, Blu-ray release from Olive Films.
A tangle of violent, symbolic gestures that regards economic exploitation with fetishistic, impossibly overdetermined abandon.
One of the year’s essential Blu-ray box sets, boasting an excellent audiovisual presentation and loaded with exceptional extras.
The most recent Rollin films to make their Blu-ray debut mark a significant departure for the filmmaker.
Lisa and the Devil is easily the oddest duck in Bava’s filmography, sumptuously photographed and exceedingly surreal.
It’s still not much more than an Oulipian ode to the thicket of middle-aged sexuality, but on Blu-ray the thicket appears far more paean-worthy.
8½ works best as a self-deprecating comedy, a fact revealed most forcefully in the folly of film production on display.
The film is only likely to frighten those with rubber mask phobias.
It’s unlikely that Reeves could have made Witchfinder General without first learning from the mistakes of She-Beast.
The New Zealand landscape offers mesmeric counterpoint to any and all budgetary limitations.