Van Sant’s 1995 satirical black comedy receives a gorgeous video transfer from Criterion.
With Criterion’s glorious 4K restoration of Videodrome, the new flesh lives anew.
Barker’s bloody but tender creature feature gets a nifty A/V boost from Shout! Factory.
Kino’s exquisite 4K transfer is easily the best that Eastern Promises has looked on home video to date.
This Blu-ray makes a fine case for the film being a highpoint in the careers of David Cronenberg, Stephen King, and Christopher Walken.
Criterion outfits Cronenberg’s utterly one-of-kind erotic techno-fable with a mint transfer and a few pertinent archival extras.
Cronenberg’s first feature is a decidedly bloody valentine to libidinal liberation.
What distinguishes the film from much of its ilk is Albert Shin’s ongoing taste for peculiar and unsettling details.
Regarding national cinemas, each section skews heavily toward filmmakers from either Europe or the United States.
A major moment of transition between David Cronenberg’s exploitative body-horror movies and his probing psychological masterworks.
The agelessness of David Cronenberg’s films springs from an uncommon authorial focus.
The novel suggests a print fusion of the filmmaker’s early, grungy, bluntly metaphorical work with the subtler, formally refined, classical elder-statesman films of his most recent period.
For these family units, incest seems the natural endgame of a merit system based on pernicious nepotism and inveterate ass-kissing.
Why are they laughing?
Criterion honors Cronenberg’s exhilaratingly cynical film with a bold new transfer that hints at previously unseen new emotional dimensions.
The Captive plays like the overeager idiot brother to Egoyan’s superior The Sweet Hereafter.
There were Eisenbergs, Gyllenhaals, and doppelganger-centered film adaptations galore at Toronto.
It’s as much a parody of the new horror breed as it is of the 1950s monster flicks.
As far as high concepts go, it’s a great one.
The most recent Rollin films to make their Blu-ray debut mark a significant departure for the filmmaker.