Philippe Garrel’s The Plough is a minor addition to the iconic filmmaker’s oeuvre.
Criterion’s dazzlingly immersive presentation of La Piscine offers the next best thing to a vacation on the French Riviera.
Time hasn’t dimmed the ability of these three late-period masterworks by the Spanish surrealist to provoke and confound.
Garrel illustrates the absurdity behind the myth of the complementary couple without humor or wit.
It reveals itself as neither committed Nouvelle Vague subversion nor skillful homage, but rather a weak and uninspired imitation.
At Eternity’s Gate is both a fitting tribute to an artist who rebuffed conventional painting techniques, and a disappointingly self-indulgent exercise.
The film comes to Blu-ray with a gorgeous 1080p transfer and an informative commentary track.
Lover for a Day is yet another of Phillippe Garrel’s densely anecdotal studies of romantic fidelity.
From his home base in Paris, Brook discusses bringing back The Mahabharata to BAM in the form of Battlefield.
Philippe Garrel’s film uses its characters’ stodgy, formal language to betray their self-consciousness.
Criterion offers the film in an immaculate Blu-ray packaging that’s as impressive as any of the company’s releases in recent memory.
Viva Maria deserves rescuing as more than simply a curiosity within Louis Malle’s diverse oeuvre.
While Atiq Rahimi’s film may peel away the many layers of its female lead like an onion, the end result is still just an onion.
Lionsgate does right by the swan song of one of cinema’s least compromising, most iconoclastic mavericks.
Criterion’s release of Schlöndorff’s director’s cut is occasion enough to bang The Tin Drum loudly.
Luis Buñuel’s caustic comedy of middle-class mores is arguably the Spanish surrealist’s most accessible late-period masterwork.
Some of the films in competition attempted to remind the cushioned critics of reality.
The director’s cut of The Tin Drum doesn’t cast the story in a new light, though it does deepen a few of its subplots.
Under a Tuscan sun, Kiarostami disguises an era-defining masterpiece.
Part case history, past surrealist prank, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour gets a stunning new Blu-ray transfer.