This UHD disc, sourced from a recent 4K remaster, is a massive upgrade over its predecessor.
Severin’s release captures Greenaway’s black comedy in all its sumptuous beauty.
Each of these moments illustrates a slightly different shade of the films’ fluid realization of a complex visual, thematic, and emotional spectrum.
You’re not going to find a grander spectacle in theaters right now, and the truth is, you haven’t found too many in the last 15 years.
An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line’s stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson’s exhilarating and exhausting epic.
Cameron’s dialogue was wrong. With Titanic, he clearly discovered that it is a woman’s vagina that is a deep ocean of many secrets.
James Cameron’s film is as perverse as it is completely guileless.
The film is chock-full of randy boozing and comic non sequitors more mystifying than amusing.
Mathieu Kassovitz and Matthew Libatique talk very generally about the film on the limp commentary track included here.
The only thing worse than a bad lowbrow comedy is a bad middlebrow Britcom.
Remember: the definitive, extended DVD edition of the film is a few months away.
Throughout, Peter Jackson’s majestic longshots and extreme close-ups will make you swoon.
Penélope Cruz not only chews the scenery, she pisses on it and begins chewing on it again.
Start as soon as possible or you’ll still be watching the extras here by the time The Return of the King hits theaters.
If you’re reading this, you know that the definitive, extended DVD edition of the film is still a few months away.
The film’s greatest strength is how Peter Jackson brings to life the haunting conflict between Gollum and Smeagol.
Eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema’s directorial giants.