The film’s gritty, mundane agonies come to feel like a series of moral tests with genuinely unpredictable outcomes.
In both films, death both threatens to throw a society into disarray and serves as a possible corrective for corruption.
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film is an inquiry into the modernist concern of what art is and how it affects life.
The piercing supplements manage to contextualize an essential film without smothering it with over-explanation.
It remains at once the most bracingly concrete and amorously diffuse of Antonioni’s films.
Art cinema was changed and, in some sense, defined by Antonioni’s spatially oriented filmmaking.
With Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick achieves the sense of stylistic ossification that many accused his last feature, To the Wonder, of embodying.
Quench your thirst for metonymic mastery by viewing the entirety of Antonioni’s modernist trilogy in stunning 1080p high-definition.
The film remains a fascinating, occasionally prophetic snapshot of a young filmmaker figuring out his political and aesthetic ideologies.
The final film in Antonioni’s modernist trilogy comes to Blu-ray with a sparkling transfer.
The film remains at once the most bracingly concrete and amorously diffuse work of Antonioni’s structuralist period.
In terms of demographics, Dario Argento is clearly intended as a text for both newcomers and knowledgeable fans alike.
List-making is an exercise in futility, but as futile exercises go, it’s one of the best.
Every year, a lovely spa town awakens from its long sleep to welcome hundreds of mostly young, backpack-toting film enthusiasts.
Jean Epstein is one of the great filmmakers cinephiles discover after deciding there are no more worlds left to conquer.
Traversing the frayed cinema of Antonioni can be a confounding and immersive experience.
The film is a distillation of Antonioni’s preferred themes and imagery: alienation, anxiety, modern life, and industrialized landscapes.
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life never stops moving forward.
In spite of some promising and fun nourish tropes, I Vinti is for Antonioni completists only.
In contemporary Shanghai, Jia has located a nexus of past and future and, predictably, he’s more interested in the rubble than the glamour.