While Criterion’s edition is light on extras, the fine presentation of the 4K restoration is worth the price alone.
This legendary screwball comedy boasts a succinct emotional suggestiveness that’s sorely lacking in modern Hollywood productions.
The Marx Brothers debut on Blu-ray with a quintet of high-quality HD transfers from Universal and a wealth of new supplements.
The most devastating of American pictures is a simple film masking great complexity.
Signs of the push-pull of commerce and art that have always been present within TCMFF were more apparent this year.
The charms of its superstar leads and utopian approach to social problem-solving is hard to resist.
The sequel’s script, written by Paul and Brett Hogan, is a grab-bag of ideas, none original and most barely carried out.
McCarey’s sociopolitical hysterectomy finally hits home video in a Blu-ray that appears downright ashamed of its contents.
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
The most creative periods for the movies seem to occur about every 30 years, usually triggered by the advent of some new technology.
Ruggles of Red Gap is a schizo, slack-jawed, preemptive rejoinder to Frank Capra’s saintly sober “everyman.”
Once Nora Ephron ditches the whole social impetus of her remake, the movie settles in to a lovely rhythm.
Take Two #9: Love Affair (1939) & An Affair to Remember (1957), with Complaints About Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Superficial qualities aside, the movies are entirely the same, even line for line in many cases.
This DVD edition of McCarey’s 1937 masterpiece is another heroic act of restoration by the Criterion Collection.
When a great director goes wrong, they usually don’t go wrong in a small way.
An Affair to Remember and a movie to treasure.
An Affair to Remember deserves better than to be the receptor of Meg Ryan’s crocodile tears.
Remarkably, Stromboli doesn’t advocate the rejection of caution for passion.
Orson Welles reportedly said of the film, “It would make a stone cry,” and, indeed, the tears that come are more than earned.