Hawks’s thrilling, conflicted, and viscerally charged film gets a stellar assortment of extras from Viva Vision’s Imprint label.
For such an unusual and intriguing film, the Region 1 Blu-ray debut of Preminger’s Whirlpool is pretty inauspicious.
Notorious is a pivotal film in Alfred Hitchcock’s development as a master of romantic isolation.
The well-versed and distinctively empathetic audio commentaries render this Twilight Time release a must-own.
Twilight Time honors another key American noir with a beautiful transfer that’s complemented by an affectionate and informed commentary.
A gorgeous restoration of a formally adventurous and unjustly overlooked noir by an almost equally overlooked acting-filmmaking hyphenate.
The peril of prescription drug use is only one red herring that Scott Z. Burns throws out.
Passions run dangerously hot to the point of near-dementia in Notorious, arriving in a strong package from MGM’s vaults.
Design for Living is sexy in ways we’re still trying to, ahem, wrap ourselves around.
Sony’s new Hayworth-centric box set runs the gamut of the pin-up queen’s charms and is well worth a look if only to see the newly restored Gilda.
A thorough, focused study of the first major films of an artist who “wrote with a camera.”
Other movies may have done talk this well, but I’ve never seen one do it better.
There are more than a few middling films sandwiched between a couple of genuinely striking stories of postwar paranoia.
Josef von Sternberg’s film is a fascinating early cornerstone of both the director’s worldview and the gangster genre.
A nice set of examples of what not to do in adapting a legendary writer for the screen.
It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big Batman fan.
Superior to the 1995 Nicolas Cage remake, but only because of the wild-eyed Richard Widmark’s cackling jackal.
Otto Preminger accentuates not only the brutality but also the desperate emotional impact of his story’s bursts of sudden violence.
Preminger’s hardboiled noir is a great way to satisfy a Dana Andrews-Gene Tierney craving.
Intellectuals from Roland Barthes to Kenneth Tynan have rhapsodized idiotically and sometimes touchingly about the Garbo phenomenon.