The film again proves that Lanthimos is a skilled director of blunt strangeness and surreality.
François Ozon’s film is a classically humanist illustration of a percolating controversy.
The quality and scope of this set makes it one of the most impressive home-video releases of all time.
The trilogy is accorded a series of breathtakingly, resonantly gorgeous transfers by Criterion.
Now this 15-hour-plus epic runs at 25fps, as per the original German TV broadcast.
Fassbinder blends kitchen-sink realism with the expressionism that would cement his legend.
A central work of the New German Cinema movement finally finds its weary way onto Blu-ray courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
Throughout, Rainer Werner Fassbinder delights in the little moments that embolden routine with a spark of possibility.
Patrick Doyle’s wondrously bombastic score sounds as if Franz Waxman were scoring a slasher movie.
Criterion delivers a robust package for Wenders’s trilogy, a breakthrough moment in the New German Cinema.
A must-buy for the beautiful aural/visual rendering of one of Fassbinder’s gentlest, most direct films.
Review: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant on Criterion Blu-ray
A gorgeous Fassbinder debauch that would prove to be a key work in his evolution as a purveyor of boldly symbolic class-conscious tragedies.
This methodically balmy version of the dramatic poem often lurches about at a remote, enigmatic distance.
These works evidence a filmmaker with an appropriationist’s eye who nevertheless has larger sociological concerns on his mind.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are modern cinema’s poets laureate of working-class marginalization and spiritual crises.
The play is a heady Brechtian mashup that surprisingly charms rather than ironically alienates.
Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven differs from and follows recent strands of the cinema of politics, for better and worse.
You’ve got to give Lionsgate credit for putting a spotlight on Godard’s later, grumpier works.
Is it a dream that two of cinema’s holiest of grails arrive on Region 1 DVD on the same day? If so, don’t wake me up.
To his credit, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s highly problematic directorial intentions don’t emerge from the literal nowhere.