The precision of the film’s images only exacerbates the alienation of its protagonist.
Comencini’s film is absorbing, frequently amusing, and exceedingly well directed.
The Three Colors trilogy looks more vibrant and mesmerizing than ever.
Even Blaise Pascal would wager you have everything to lose by not picking up Criterion’s upgrade of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.”
Corbucci’s nihilistic western receives a stellar home-video release.
It reveals itself as vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked-out payoff.
This beautiful refurbishing of Franju’s film allows the underrated whodunit to assume its rightful place on the cinephile’s mantle.
Happy End is an empathetic portrait of personal grief as it’s experienced in a desensitized first-world society.
Eric Rohmer’s revolutions were quiet ones, couched in a perpetual remove and observation.
While Raro’s commendable Blu-ray is leagues ahead of its competitors, even it fails to fully deliver the perfect image this movie so richly deserves.
The film is a searing sociological X-ray that lays bare the true cost of Italy’s early-’60s economic miracle.
Robbe-Grillet’s films are as intricate and enigmatic as you might expect from the man who scripted Last Year at Marienbad.
Dino Risi’s well-cast leads can’t quite sell his heavy-handed irony as truths about masculine character.
This Blu-ray gives Darius Khondji’s genius with all types of light a bit of a short shrift, but it’s not a severe enough knock to give this disc a pass.
It’s generally agreed that films fall into one of three categories: The Good, The Bad, and the So-Bad-It’s-Good.
It certainly looks like Joaquin Phoenix is about to be snubbed for his work in The Master.
There’s no empathy in Haneke’s carefully composed frames, ruthlessly prolonged takes, and generally detached stance.
Amour intends to dupe us, to feed on our own pain and suffering.
They’re also unassailable in their perfection, and could easily fall at the top of any all-time best list arrived at by consensus.
Spectatorship, being forced to watch from a remove while uncontrollable events transpire, is one of Amour’s subterranean themes.