Kino offers a beautifully lurid transfer of a greatly underrated Jack Nicholson thriller.
This tale of a motorcycle odyssey gone wrong remains timeless for its diagnosing of the early stages of a social ennui that’s now fully bloomed.
This lackluster presentation of Corman’s alternately groovy and goofy LSD drama seems to take a cue from the hallucinogenic drug experience.
A solidly attractive transfer from Twilight Time of a key film in the American New Wave of the late 1960s and ’70s.
This stunning Criterion transfer of Five Easy Pieces has just extended the film’s already robust shelf life.
Kino impressively beautifies a cult western that’s somehow equally hindered and empowered by its self-conscious eccentricity.
They’re great films, period, and Criterion appropriately honors their elusive, pared, and despairingly and misleadingly plain-spoken brilliance.
The set includes several top-notch films, an overall excellent A/V presentation, and a bevy of bonus materials.
Theodore Melfi’s debut feature, St. Vincent, is a heartwarmer that never insults.
Burton puts more of a premium on sound and image to suggest character depths than the more prosaic Christopher Nolan does.
Addiction films are usually propaganda without a specific base.
The film has an engagingly profane, scruffy looseness that undermines the conventions of the narrative.
From L.A. to Vegas to Thailand, the stops on our list boast some very memorable hotels, which vary in their abilities to accommodate, relax, and terrify.
Room 237 is more companion piece than standalone work.
Let’s just say that Carmen Maura, Jennifer Jones, and Bill Cosby have more in common than you might have thought.
It’s a little disturbing that Brooks’s Oscar-winning comedy should get what amounts to a home-video brush-off.
Forgetting Chinatown will be exceedingly difficult with this stunning new Blu-ray release.
Payne’s films don’t have the distinct visual styles of those by Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson, but they’re quickly recognizable just the same.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011: Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
Roger Corman has had as much influence over modern Hollywood as Spielberg or Scorsese, and for good reason.
The film is a strange, well-intentioned mess that builds to an unusually effective ending.