The film somehow feels tight, open and leisurely, and cloaked in dread all at once.
Rivette’s street musical looks gorgeous on Cohen’s excellent Blu-ray.
Jacques Rivette’s Secret Defense feels in many ways like a culmination.
Rivette’s beguiling, minor-key manor mystery receives a solid Blu-ray release.
Cohen Media Group’s transfer perfectly captures the elegance of Caroline Champetier’s lensing.
This release of Rivette’s singular take on the story of Joan of Arc boasts an impeccable transfer of the new 4K restoration.
Cohen Media Group bestows a gorgeous transfer to this epic ode to the creative process.
James Baldwin’s writing abounds in what’s missing from director Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx.
The film is an allegory for women’s condition more generally, in times of war or peace.
The film dabbles in the French romantic-comedy tradition and simultaneously spoofs it, committing to neither.
Téchiné’s reputation for unruly, melodramatic narratives is set in stark relief by 1979s The Bronte Sisters
Though not among Jacques Rivette great films, Around a Small Mountain shares a lot of qualities with the director’s best work.
The bare-bones treatment doesn't make this representative selection from a major auteur's sober, elegiac vision of late 20th-century French life any less valuable.
This Balzac adaptation is a costume drama that bristles with measured passion.
Love on the Ground is the kind of French-farcical roundelay that Gallic cinema is frequently accused of producing en masse.
Secret défense feels in many ways like a culmination—Rivette’s ideologies and obsessions distilled to a perfect essence.
Ostensibly an adaptation of the oft-filmed Wuthering Heights, Hurlevent feels more like a schematic indication of Emily Brontë’s famed novel, though that should not be taken as a criticism.
The film vacillates between genuine insight and didactic mystique-of-the-artist bullshit.
The film is a chimera of poignant, tangled socio-politically charged ellipses with an atmosphere that affects a sense of musical healing.