The film is an exquisite stage-setter for Ray’s career that has never looked better on home video.
Olive kicks off its Signature line in style with an essential update of one of their early Blu-rays.
The title of the film could apply to nearly all of Ray’s other films, as it provides a poetic encapsulation of his governing theme.
Wenders’s psychologically complex, beautifully stylized international breakthrough arrives in a richly outfitted Blu-ray package.
Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar is a film that’s many things to many people, from camp spectacular to revisionist genre epic, and nearly every reading seems viable.
The film has been glossed with plenty of contextual extras, including a late-period nugget or two for the completists out there.
Ray’s subversive, still-radical film finally makes its North American home video debut with an impressive transfer from Olive Films.
Creating this fantasy Sight & Sound ballot felt as much like excavation as photography.
List-making is an exercise in futility, but as futile exercises go, it’s one of the best.
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
The film fairly oozes with the tempestuous emotions that point back to Nicholas Ray.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
The body of Ray’s best work reveals a laudable consistency of viewpoint, thematic cohesion, and aesthetic distinctiveness.
The film is an extreme test of one’s patience, a sluggish modernist power point presentation on the glorious influence of Jesus’s greatest hits.
The mirrors are watching you in Bigger Than Life, one of the most effective horror movies of the ’50s.
Any film connoisseur worth their salt knows that the purveyors of this genre aimed low but shot high.
The poetic longing for connection in Ray’s film will always feel timeless.
Bitter Victory is far more than the sum of its images, though one can certainly understand the desire to gape.
To neutralize scorpion venom, all you have to do is surgically remove a camel’s bladder to harvest the ammonia in its urine.
Nicholas Ray’s remarkable film represents the purest of existentialist primers.