Rivette’s street musical looks gorgeous on Cohen’s excellent Blu-ray.
Jacques Rivette’s Secret Defense feels in many ways like a culmination.
Rivette’s beguiling, minor-key manor mystery receives a solid Blu-ray release.
Cohen Media Group’s transfer perfectly captures the elegance of Caroline Champetier’s lensing.
Rivette’s masterpiece makes its long-overdue debut on Region 1 with an excellent A/V presentation and a bounty of superlative extras.
This release of Rivette’s singular take on the story of Joan of Arc boasts an impeccable transfer of the new 4K restoration.
In both films, death both threatens to throw a society into disarray and serves as a possible corrective for corruption.
Neither La Religieuse nor its main character is ultimately able to see a way out of alienated individualism.
Cohen Media Group bestows a gorgeous transfer to this epic ode to the creative process.
The films in this collection have been given satisfying transfers and some eye-opening supplements.
One of the best films of the French New Wave, so it’s a shame that Criterion’s Blu-ray offers a flawed A/V presentation and thin supplements.
Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
Criminally unavailable until now, Jacques Rivette’s gleefully distracted tour of Paris marks an early Blu-ray highlight for 2015.
The Nun is a timeless story about a girl who’s sent against her will to a convent as a tenuous, quick fix to her precarious place in life.
The film’s peregrinating first half-hour establishes the odd, nearly incestuous, and unspoken relationship between the two titular women.
Sleepwalk is a story of inter-textual synchronicity, of ideas and gestures bleeding from one medium to another.
We spoke with Perry about his film, then asked him to make a list of some of his most memorable moviegoing experiences.
Curling is a psychological study that refuses to go deeper than what the naked eye can detect.
References to films-as-dreams in film criticism have risen in inverse proportion to the actual dreamlike quality of the cinema, which is all but extinct.<
The film suggests a game played by a seasoned director to entertain himself between features.