This atmospheric marrying of fact and fiction still resonates with its themes of political corruption and abuse of power.
This stylish and visually intelligent thriller has been preserved beautifully by Kino Lorber.
Reed’s post-war thriller arrives on Blu-ray from Criterion looking appropriately atmospheric.
Barebones, yes, but a sturdy home-video transfer of Ophüls’s savage, fascinating, and previously obscure film is major.
Review: Eclipse Series 36: Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures on Criterion DVD
Gainsborough Pictures took the melodrama to heights yet untouched with a series of audacious, preposterous tales of treachery and deceit
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
Twilight Time’s Blu-ray of this endearing CinemaScope demo reel does right by its Technicolor film grain and stereophonic sound.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
The body of Ray’s best work reveals a laudable consistency of viewpoint, thematic cohesion, and aesthetic distinctiveness.
Reassembled and augmented to the nth degree, these discs are nirvana for Friends of Judy.
The mirrors are watching you in Bigger Than Life, one of the most effective horror movies of the ’50s.
With his beefy head and saturnine manner, Mason was most himself on screen when he was spewing disgust.
A masterpiece and a doodle make for an odd but worthy double bill for Powell enthusiasts.
There’s no George Kaplan, but there’s still spiffy, hypnotic pleasure in this apex of the Master’s perpetual-motion mode.
The picture is hugely pleased with itself, but it’s too funny and expertly calibrated to mind in the least.
A shamefully bare-bones DVD for a shamefully neglected film.
Mandingo is excessive, yet its excesses invariably reveal the caustic truths of social critique.
The HBO series may have orgies on its side, but Mann’s underappreciated epic goes deeper and darker into the fall of Rome.
The film has always been unfairly overshadowed by its more popular predecessor, El Cid.
Tough, lean and spare, The Fall of the Roman Empire was an epic swords and sandals picture coming fast on the heels of Ben-Hur and Cleopatra.