Criterion has outfitted this macabre screwball comedy with a stunning transfer.
Howard Hawks’s screwball classic looks and sounds sharper than ever thanks to this magnificent release.
Arzner’s film is a healthily skeptical, if nowhere near jaundiced, take on the prospects of modern love in the era of Prohibition.
Criterion’s release stands tall as what one, specific genius of the medium was able to do with a fair-to-middling play.
Notorious is a pivotal film in Alfred Hitchcock’s development as a master of romantic isolation.
The set affirms the profound emotional power of these idiosyncratic collaborations.
Most film critics have a pretty good handle on what it is a director does, what a cinematographer does, what an editor does. Acting, however, remains a little bit mysterious.
This legendary screwball comedy boasts a succinct emotional suggestiveness that’s sorely lacking in modern Hollywood productions.
If Tracy Lord is going to learn how to stop sermonizing from the mount, dammit, she’s going to do so on her own terms.
This is a gorgeous, well-contextualized restoration of one of the greatest and most mercenary of all American comedies.
Hawks’s resonant, prescient, entertaining, enormously influential pre-war adventure receives the A/V refurbishing it richly deserves.
Beyond being asinine and unwittingly cryptic, the film is also a slice of unintentional sleaze.
We’ve gathered up 15 films with highly memorable phone calls, which run the gamut from disarming to terrifying.
The most creative periods for the movies seem to occur about every 30 years, usually triggered by the advent of some new technology.
These famous fights to the death should, together, sate even the bloodthirstiest film fans.
Paramount casually drops one of its best-looking Blu-rays, with a nice sideboard of extras.
Passions run dangerously hot to the point of near-dementia in Notorious, arriving in a strong package from MGM’s vaults.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
Take Two #9: Love Affair (1939) & An Affair to Remember (1957), with Complaints About Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Superficial qualities aside, the movies are entirely the same, even line for line in many cases.
Charade, one of the great entertainments of the 1960s, finds its way onto Blu-ray with a spectacular visual transfer.