Rivette’s beguiling, minor-key manor mystery receives a solid Blu-ray release.
The film has the feel of a mea culpa from Gainsbourg for having taken Birkin for granted.
Criterion’s dazzlingly immersive presentation of La Piscine offers the next best thing to a vacation on the French Riviera.
The quality and scope of this set makes it one of the most impressive home-video releases of all time.
Gainsbourg’s bittersweet ode to physical love comes to home video with a sterling 4K restoration and some excellent extras.
Cohen Media Group bestows a gorgeous transfer to this epic ode to the creative process.
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film is an inquiry into the modernist concern of what art is and how it affects life.
The piercing supplements manage to contextualize an essential film without smothering it with over-explanation.
Agnès Varda’s 1988 features are two of her most evocative, and provocative, films.
Each slips in and out of a representation and interpretation of events. The question is: Which is which?
It’s a heady trip best taken for the sensory provocation of its eye-popping set designs and soundtrack.
Birkin literally incorporated Serge Gainsbourg’s ghostly presence Saturday night at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles.
The film suggests a game played by a seasoned director to entertain himself between features.
Though not among Jacques Rivette great films, Around a Small Mountain shares a lot of qualities with the director’s best work.
Love on the Ground is the kind of French-farcical roundelay that Gallic cinema is frequently accused of producing en masse.
MOMI’s Jacques Rivette retrospective enters its sixth week with four screenings.
The film vacillates between genuine insight and didactic mystique-of-the-artist bullshit.
Great sound. Excellent image. Crucial commentary. A must-have.
Blowup daringly suggests that an image without politics isn’t an image at all.