Criterion’s excellent Blu-ray transfer will allow this classic of American political critique to remain a topic of debate for years to come.
The Cut lives up to its title, creating two sets of strong, sometimes dueling reactions.
The book takes a subtle stylistic turn in its second half that might bear quasi-meta significance.
Kazan’s furious look at barely dormant post-war anti-Semitism gets a classy Blu-ray release.
Criterion’s presentation of a strange classic is very much a contender.
Wild River rages on Blu-ray, thanks to Fox’s magnificent audio-visual treatment of Kazan’s long-overlooked political melodrama.
One country’s classics are another’s unknowns.
The latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne left me speechless.
This box set is a great reminder of why the screen couple has long endured as one of the most attractive romantic duos to ever come out of Hollywood.
The film is a revealing work about the American dream because it envisions it as a painful and seemingly never-ending process.
The film breathes with the intimacy of slow and purposefully written correspondence between two friends and confidants.
The Mexican Revolution wasn’t one rebellion, but several.
Wild River is the most successful example of how Elia Kazan liked to contrast actors.
Le Corbeau may be far from trite, but it is just as far from profound.
Throughout these films, Kazan casts assertive supporting players as foils to his ambivalent leads.
The filmmakers were clearly grooming Warren Beatty as a fresh new Method-acting Boy Wonder, and his performance is a genuine oddity.
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty fight the good fight.
The film’s points about the hypocrisy of populism are a little too dead-on.
Strong performances and a fiery aggressive tone keep things moving, but the film is dated and not particularly deep.
Elia “Sledgehammer” Kazan’s wildly uneven East of Eden inaugurated the 50-year-old James Dean cult.