Criterion’s release excellently preserves William Wyler’s psychologically probing masterwork.
Hawks’s western arrives in a handsome dual-format package from Criterion including the long-unavailable theatrical cut of the film.
Perhaps the weakest points of the book are in some of Meeuf’s prose, particularly when discussing masculinity.
Wild River rages on Blu-ray, thanks to Fox’s magnificent audio-visual treatment of Kazan’s long-overlooked political melodrama.
Wild River is the most successful example of how Elia Kazan liked to contrast actors.
Throughout these films, Kazan casts assertive supporting players as foils to his ambivalent leads.
Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one instead.”
Can a career with as much popular and critical theory attached to it as Alfred Hitchcock’s still be said to include underrated masterpieces?
Hitchcock’s sexiest cipher is put to the test in one of his most undervalued masterpieces.