Welles’s feverish, politically uneasy noir remains an outstanding achievement
Criterion’s release is exactly what their Eclipse line should be doing and should be at the top of every cinephile’s wish list this holiday season.
Reed speaks about Prodigal Sons and its complexities, cinematic, familial, and otherwise.
The world wasn’t exactly desperate for yet another film noir DVD box set, but here we are, with an inspired seven-film retrospective.
Like fellow French film essayists Chris Marker and Agnès Varda, Luc Moullet is extremely playful.
François Truffaut wrote that Welles made two kinds of films, those with guns and those with snow.
An already near-essential DVD release of an essential noir, updated for the high-def age.
The film examines a modern post-war environment where people’s lives are treated as nothing more than a means to financial success.
If the human voice shatters the etherealness of certain moments, then so too does language itself.
Welles’s underrated third effort gets no love in this DVD version, but it’s still a virtuosic, fascinating work.
Orson Welles’s The Stranger is the comeuppance that Hollywood felt he deserved for being such an arrogant genius.
David Chase is the king of the double-reversal.
A fine set of iffy adventure films from a limited but amiable star.
Have fun with this hot-blooded Victorian soap opera.
File that “movie that might’ve been” right alongside a Welles version of Heart of Darkness starring Boris Karloff as Kurtz.
It’s some of the seldom-seen UFOs in Brian De Palma’s career that can dramatically alter one’s perception of his work.
Durgnat’s core strength was his refusal to be seduced by intellectual fashion.
Depp strikes me as the sort of actor who always swings for the fences, even when a bunt would suffice.
Slant‘s film editor ranks his favorite films from the silent era to the present.
The 24 shorts chosen for this Kino set span the gamut of movements and styles.