One of Lang’s most lauded American works gets what is easily its best A/V presentation to date.
Synapse takes what was already arguably the best single-title home-video release of 2018 and makes it exponentially more essential.
Kino offers a lush restoration of Lang’s film, an early and intricate deconstruction of the biases driving noir.
This restoration of Suspiria is revelatory and head-spinning.
Perhaps the weakest points of the biography are McGilligan’s basic treatment of the films proper.
The film flies high over its seemingly anonymous place in Lang’s 1940s phase.
The Library of Congress’s archival 35mm print is beautifully transferred by Kino’s high-definition authoring.
It’s the sudden entrance of a jealous beau, and a conveniently nearby pair of scissors, that finally jumpstarts the narrative engine.
A passable presentation of Fritz Lang’s slowly paced, overpraised noir will please historians and mirror aficionados.
This is an interesting set for Cary Grant completists.
With the release of Anchor Bay’s three-disc Suspiria Limited Edition, Argento fans could finally breath a sigh of relief.
Every single image is ravishingly beautiful, like watching Secret Beyond the Door in Technicolor.