Denis Villeneuve’s gets a 4K release that, with its crystal-clear images and boisterous soundtrack, makes the most of the UHD format.
Dune ends up feeling like an extended prologue for what one can only hope will be a sequel that will clarify its parables and paradoxes.
Its veneer of abstract dispassion gradually reveals a heartfelt alternate history that lives up to the genre’s notions of nobility.
One of Hou’s constant themes (one that recurs in the work of many of the notable Taiwanese directors) is alienation, not just of a personal, but of a national sort.
Thanks to a sumptuous new high-definition transfer from Kino, Happy Together is still bittersweet, but with a little more emphasis on the sweet.
The film’s shortcomings have less to do with John Woo’s direction and more to do with the Frankenstein hatchet job enacted against it.
There’s little sense here of a journey reaching culmination, experience left visibly in its wake.
Hou’s latest is a rumination on the symbiotic union between the past and present, the personal and the political.
It is an anthological example of attentive students surpassing their teacher.
Wong Kar-wai means to depress Mr. Chow, but he bums out his audience in the process.