Ashby’s plangent fable receives a smashing 4K restoration and a fine brace of bonus materials from Criterion.
This Blu-ray continues Criterion’s marvelous minting and contextualization of beloved Columbia classics.
The comically rich visual tapestry of Edwards’s The Party still endures, despite Kino’s half-cooked 1080p transfer.
The randy I’m So Excited got us thinking of other films that take to the skies
We’ve gathered up 15 films with highly memorable phone calls, which run the gamut from disarming to terrifying.
I’m a compulsive. It’s no surprise that my list is full of movies about compulsion.
Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film’s purity of essence.
Its status as the film that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick’s reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted.
Throughout, Ashby’s bemused direction tempers every blunt edge.
Did no one else involved in the making have a few words to spare?
This was the season where Miss Piggy came frustratingly close to removing Rudolf Nureyev’s towel in the sauna.
These are the sorts of films New York Times critic A.O. Scott recently complained weren’t being made anymore.