Rivette’s masterpiece makes its long-overdue debut on Region 1 with an excellent A/V presentation and a bounty of superlative extras.
Even Blaise Pascal would wager you have everything to lose by not picking up Criterion’s upgrade of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.”
There’s an ever-present sense of rage and despair burbling beneath the placid surface of Barbet Schroeder’s film.
Jean-Luc Godard’s conviction that action, and not idle thought, is the lifeblood of social progress is palpable.
This disturbing documentary portrait of power and delusion gets a satisfying Blu-ray upgrade.
Amnesia ultimately delivers rich insights about its main characters’ relationship to their backgrounds.
Eric Rohmer’s revolutions were quiet ones, couched in a perpetual remove and observation.
Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
The film’s peregrinating first half-hour establishes the odd, nearly incestuous, and unspoken relationship between the two titular women.
With Project Nim, James Marsh has created a documentary that feels more like a biopic—and one that avoids the genre’s usual pitfalls.
The film gets a perfectly calibrated Blu-ray release from the Criterion Collection.
This Balzac adaptation is a costume drama that bristles with measured passion.
Scarcely an exposé, Terror’s Advocate is more plainly a portrait of a man as a timeline.
Love on the Ground is the kind of French-farcical roundelay that Gallic cinema is frequently accused of producing en masse.
The film is ultimately hopeful in its belief that the human comedy, whatever its fallacies and failures, is always granted continuance.
Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece is a deceptively light-hearted confection that begins and ends (or, rather, begins again) at the entrance to a Parisian wonderland.
Criterion presents the films in their original 1.33:1 aspect ratios, though there is some controversy surrounding these transfers.
From now on, I’ll give pause to the fact that the gorilla at St. Paul’s Como Zoo used to flip off passersby before throwing shit at them.
To swipe a lame pun from a Tales from the Crypt comic, Koko is sure the gorilla of my dreams.
Jacques Rivette’s spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them.