Never has the green felt on poker tables suggested such a world unto itself.
Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory gets a superlative 4K transfer and an enlightening commentary track from Kino Lorber.
The image presentation on this Kino Blu-ray is absolutely stunning.
In a perfect world, Fleischer’s rowdy super-production would be in regular 70mm rotation at our few surviving repertory movie houses.
The film is Wilder’s definitive expression of his master theme of vice as the most reliable and trustworthy gauge of reality.
Twilight Time unleashes The Fury onto Blu-ray with a moderately successful upgrade in A/V quality and a paucity of extras.
This non-classic has plenty of boilerplate pulp-Guignol appeal.
For better and worse, Paths of Glory is Exhibit A in defense of Stanley Kubrick against those who think he lacks human feeling.
The Fury is the most crucial movie of all De Palma’s movies.
This is at once De Palma’s most slapdash and most autobiographical picture.
This is a a morality play that only sees in black and white.
The film casts Kirk Douglas as a selfish artist who gets his comeuppance, but it’s a theme that smacks of bullshit.
Not surprisingly, Ace in the Hole was received poorly by the media at the time of its release.