It may not be a neglected masterpiece, but this Blu-ray package certainly makes a case for it as a fascinating work by a visionary filmmaker.
Any film festival dedicated exclusively to the treasures, glories, and the occasional folly of the past is likely to be visited by ghosts.
The film was a first sortie for William Peter Blatty’s all-out attack on unbelief in the summer of 1990.
It lacks an ability to construct significant instances of character drama as symbolic of larger concerns pertaining to nationalist dilemmas.
The peril of prescription drug use is only one red herring that Scott Z. Burns throws out.
Epstein provides only a cursory understanding of Marvin as cultural icon.
Warner’s 1080p transfer of the film preserves the haunting, mythic quality of Vilmos Zsigmond’s work.
A staggering achievement of bloated artifice, dismantling the Arthur Legend one invigorating aesthetic swipe at a time.
For John Boorman, the motif of environmental spoliation was never the message but the metaphoric medium for his continuing vision of the human being.
A colorful portrait of an enduring marriage gets the star treatment on DVD.
Chris & Don achieves the kind of rare grace that earns its subtitle as a true love story.
Tiger’s Tail never feels like the work of director known for his subtle and poetic dramatizations of moral crisis.
This man-versus-nature story is also about man indulging his most uncivilized instincts.
A haunting masterpiece, as mysterious as the deep, dark woods.
Portraying tragedy without a meaningful point of view is a sticky situation for a movie to find itself in.
Though Point Blank is rife with existential malaise, it is also one of the most ferociously sexy crime movies ever made.