One of John Ford’s most haunting and poetic films receives a beautiful transfer.
The Archers’ last great collaborative work gets a stunning and long-overdue high-definition upgrade from the Criterion Collection.
Ford’s bitter Civil War film gets an improved home-video presentation and an excellent new commentary track.
One of John Ford’s greatest films gets a superlative Ultra HD release that’s only slightly marred by a few restoration shortcuts.
The disc offers a beautiful transfer of a neglected film.
Ford’s masterful political drama pulses with modern reverberations.
Five Came Back has a dizzying power that testifies to film’s advantages over prose as a medium.
This is about as glorious as Technicolor can get on the small screen.
A key film in Ford’s oeuvre, and despite an unrestored transfer, it belongs in the library of all of his fans.
As far as matters of its own history goes, Los Angeles has a reputation for having one eye set to the rear-view mirror.
The film’s formal construction and ideological constitution stands at the nexus of tradition and progression.
With the notable exception of Hilary Swank’s upright and uptight Mary Bee Cuddy, the film never lets its female characters speak for themselves.
Ford’s bitter revisionist western is a must-see for fans of the director, as well as those who mistake him for a soft sentimentalist.
Signs of the push-pull of commerce and art that have always been present within TCMFF were more apparent this year.
The film eschews clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations.
Ford’s hugely fascinating and troublesome debut in color gets a serviceable but unremarkable A/V transfer from Twilight Time.
Brode structures the book into two parts, one dealing with politics, the other religion.
The film tackles the perpetually diminishing rights of the proletariat, and whether human dignity itself is its own reward.
The film is one of the purest distillations of a charismatic personality’s diverse artistic nature.
Greven’s analysis is fluid and detailed, while excavating exhilarating thematic linkages between all filmmakers.