Wayne’s 1976 swan song lands on Blu-ray with a stagecoach full of extras.
If the film is undoubtedly Sirk’s giddiest trash entertainment, it’s also the shallowest example of his less-heralded humanist acuity.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz introduced Margo Channing and her catty cohorts to the general public on October 13, 1950.
Paul Schrader blends lethargic self-referentiality with anemic political jabs in The Walker.
Fans of the film will want to opt for the Nordisk Region 2 disc, which boasts better image quality and actual extras.
Poor Artie got stuck with the lion’s (or mouse’s) share of clunkers.
The Brechtian formalism that stirred the more ambiguous Dogville’s philosophical inquisitions is put to uninspired use in Manderlay.
The film casts Kirk Douglas as a selfish artist who gets his comeuppance, but it’s a theme that smacks of bullshit.
This is a a morality play that only sees in black and white.
Some of Birth’s brighter sequences readily show off the beautiful textures of Harris Savides’s incredible cinematography, but the darker sequences aren’t very flattering.
Jonathan Glazer’s fatal mistake as a storyteller is never owning up to all that is merely hinted at in Nicole Kidman’s face.
Dogville is less anti-American than it is, quite simply, anti-oppression.