Godard’s debut feature feels immortal on Criterion’s 4K UHD Blu-ray release.
This disc’s 4K transfer abounds in extraordinary image detail and texture, which is befitting of the film’s exacting and meticulous maker.
Kino’s Blu-ray releases help chart the crystallization of Jean-Pierre Melville’s distinctly rigorous style.
Criterion has colorfully refurbished Melville’s nearly abstract masterpiece of cool loneliness.
Jerusalem is a city of beige and tan, a vast barren sprawl that is, despite the brutal heat and muted colors, quite beautiful.
Keeping quiet about the Criterion’s must-own Blu-ray release of Melville’s film would be tantamount to committing a cinephilic war crime.
This re-release luxuriates in the film’s fresh-as-ever cinematic pleasures while offering illuminating contexts through which to appreciate it anew.
Cohen Media Group continue their winning streak with the digital home-video debut of Jean-Pierre Melville’s little seen but influential 1959 tribute to American film noir.
As far as swan songs go, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Un Flic is a fascinatingly garbled tune.
The global economic maelstrom found a way to creep its way into the 47th edition of the festival—but only for a moment.
Every year, a lovely spa town awakens from its long sleep to welcome hundreds of mostly young, backpack-toting film enthusiasts.
See Melville charge a trip to the confessional booth with as much tension as an underworld confrontation.
A seminal work in the advancement of the crime film.
Paradox and free thinking are on beautiful display in the film.
A substantial Blu-ray package befitting the legendary status of Godard’s debut feature.
Johnnie To’s trademark standoffs are the best thing about Vengeance.
Breathless feels very rooted in a specific time and place within the career of its creator.
At least Melville was smart enough to focus on showing the “army of shadows” sweat while they waited for the other shoe to drop.
Le Deuxième Souffle may be second-tier Melville, but in terms of noir, that still makes it virtually second to none.
Le Doulos roots itself in traditional noir themes of providence, of loyalty and betrayal, of male codes of honor.