Cohen Media Group’s transfer perfectly captures the elegance of Caroline Champetier’s lensing.
Twisting the Knife collects four taut late-period exercises in ambiguity from the great Claude Chabrol.
The studied ambiguity of the film doesn’t keep it from often achieving the suspense of an accomplished erotic thriller.
This disc’s treasure trove of extras attest to the dizzying flurry of ideas and emotions that fuel Assayas’s uncategorizable film.
Rivette’s masterpiece makes its long-overdue debut on Region 1 with an excellent A/V presentation and a bounty of superlative extras.
Time hasn’t dimmed the ability of these three late-period masterworks by the Spanish surrealist to provoke and confound.
The film is a trim farce with no blood flowing under its skin, as it’s all construction, setup, and payoff.
The films in this collection have been given satisfying transfers and some eye-opening supplements.
Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
Un Ange Passe works on a model of long, uninterrupted takes on the faces of its characters, subdued and wistful.
Criminally unavailable until now, Jacques Rivette’s gleefully distracted tour of Paris marks an early Blu-ray highlight for 2015.
Luis Buñuel’s caustic comedy of middle-class mores is arguably the Spanish surrealist’s most accessible late-period masterwork.
Film is a phantom, but a living one.
A jumpy, erudite cinephile, Olivier Assayas uses Maggie Cheung’s three days in Paris to take stock of cinema as the century comes to an end.
Alternately dreamy and scratchy, Assayas’s meta-satire still beguiles.
This Balzac adaptation is a costume drama that bristles with measured passion.
The boredom-laced interlude with a Russian doll is itself an all-too-apt metaphor for the film.
MOMI’s Jacques Rivette retrospective enters its sixth week with four screenings.
Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord remains a stimulating document of a city in flux.
The film is ultimately hopeful in its belief that the human comedy, whatever its fallacies and failures, is always granted continuance.