Martin Scorsese captures the exquisite agony and pleasure of passion that’s forced to remain theoretical.
This disc correctly insists that the film is an astonishing achievement that belongs in the canon of classic American cinema.
This is history that we should know, and the filmmakers approach Rumble as an introductory survey course.
Martin Scorsese crafts a versatile, multifaceted work that encourages serious reflection and contemplation.
Tsukamoto said that the driving influence of his breakout ’90s genre work was the concrete labyrinth of Tokyo.
A gorgeous and painterly late-period masterwork, the film gets a stellar 4K transfer and a surfeit of extras from Criterion.
“I pray but I’m lost, am I just praying to silence?”
A buoyant tribute, even if the pedigree of the project implies something more paradigm-shifting.
Martin Scorsese’s soberest, most vivaciously thrilling vision of how hollow (and short) the fast lives of mafios really are.
“Primavera” plumbs the expressionist fugue state into which the events of last season’s finale have sent the characters of the show sometimes literally tumbling.
Scorsese’s intoxicating, sardonic gangster film has, for better and worse, been one of the most influential films of the last three decades.
It speaks of the chaotic exhilaration of fostering discourse that might initiate real social engagement.
The book takes a subtle stylistic turn in its second half that might bear quasi-meta significance.
This one begins like a pleasantly hazy post-pubescent fever dream.
It’s a good thing the Best Director category didn’t go the way of Best Picture to accommodate more nominees, because this year’s campaign has only ever been a three-man race even in its most competitive stages.
There’s a great line in Jules and Jim about fictions that “revel in vice to preach virtue.”
Camouflage is a precisely modulated satire whose abrasive edges continually test our discomfort.
The most pleasant surprise of this awards season has been the widespread embrace of Her.
This set will hopefully foster a dialogue and encourage further interest in these rare films and their contemporary counterparts.
Sensation aims to glide over where hollow, platitudinous words themselves fail in The Wolf of Wall Street.