It may be without any new extras, but Warner’s 4K UHD release of Casablanca features a strong enough A/V presentation to make the set worthy of your double dip.
Notorious is a pivotal film in Alfred Hitchcock’s development as a master of romantic isolation.
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema may be exhaustive, but with all the indelible beauty it contains, it’s never exhausting.
This is, to date, the best-looking home-video release of Hitchcock’s most underrated film.
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.
Compassionate and structurally intriguing, Stig Björkman’s documentary is a stellar portrait of a great artist.
The film highlights the potent dichotomies that made the actress luminescent both on and off screen.
The charms of its superstar leads and utopian approach to social problem-solving is hard to resist.
The work produced by Rossellini and his muse would do nothing short of usher in what we now know as the modern cinematic age.
The film remains a fascinating sampler of Bergman’s most brilliant and troubled tendencies.
The film unfolds simultaneously as thorny narrative and profoundly personal documentary.
The peril of prescription drug use is only one red herring that Scott Z. Burns throws out.
Warner’s mega-classic arrives, on a sedan chair, with an alabaster high-definition transfer. Don’t drop it on your foot.
Passions run dangerously hot to the point of near-dementia in Notorious, arriving in a strong package from MGM’s vaults.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s Good Bye brings Rossellini’s ’50s to today’s Tehran.
The film has a peculiar magic to it, and because of its pace the richness of its sense of detail often goes unnoticed.
This handsomely packaged box set will please fans and cinema history buffs alike.
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As Ingrid Bergman’s music instructor might say to her in his early scene: “You look great but sound terrible.”