Truffaut’s late-career triumph remains a moving paean to obsessive love.
Featuring a searing performance from Anna Karina, the film much more than the scandal that made it famous in France.
Neither La Religieuse nor its main character is ultimately able to see a way out of alienated individualism.
Jean-Luc Godard’s conviction that action, and not idle thought, is the lifeblood of social progress is palpable.
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.
It finds its filmmaker lost between impulses to pay homage, play it safe, or offer something—anything—new.
This set of two essential films is light on meaningful supplements, but high on quality cinema.
The greatest asset of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray is the best-to-date home-video presentation of Isabelle Adjani’s transfixing performance.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Truffaut’s masterpiece arrives to remind us of love’s myriad self-delusions.
Téchiné’s reputation for unruly, melodramatic narratives is set in stark relief by 1979s The Bronte Sisters
The film marked the start of a new phase in Roberto Rossellini’s art.
You can almost smell the powdered wigs in Rossellini’s study of a dandified abyss.
Jacques Rivette’s Paris Belongs to Us is technically the inaugural feature of the French New Wave.
Key to the film’s pervasive sense of paranoia are its varied, though tonally similar settings.
A must-see film in a DVD package for die-hards and Truffaut completists.
It represents some of the first and most essential steps into a new age of filmmaking.