Samuel Fuller’s diamond-hard yet poignant crime classic receives a wonderful transfer and a somewhat warmed-over extras package.
A new audio commentary offers ample justification of the film’s enduring legacy.
Twilight Time’s release of Warlock will bring some much-deserved attention to Edward Dmytryk’s morally knotty western.
The well-versed and distinctively empathetic audio commentaries render this Twilight Time release a must-own.
Wellman’s stark, elemental western is a quintessential display of the director’s direct but punchy style.
Criterion’s sharp new Blu-ray of Jules Dassin’s Night and the City ensures the film’s life will extend until the home-video sunset.
Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street is an amazing example of what might be called noir jazz.
Ford’s bitter revisionist western is a must-see for fans of the director, as well as those who mistake him for a soft sentimentalist.
Fuller’s CinemaScope rectangular compositions retain their vitality, and the sub seems to sport a crisp new coat of paint.
It achieves true force only once it ventures past abstract homily and into visceral concreteness.
No Way Out borrows the template for socially conscious filmmaking from both Gentlemen’s Agreement and Crossfire.
The film is still an important footnote in the history of Hollywood’s portrayals of racism.
Superior to the 1995 Nicolas Cage remake, but only because of the wild-eyed Richard Widmark’s cackling jackal.
It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big Batman fan.
Fox’s video transfer here is practically up to the level of their “Fox Studio Classics” line.
The film is a balancing act between race-against-time melodrama and proto-naturalistic Kazan flourishes.
The film’s desolate vision of city life is enough to make any aspiring crook head straight for the ‘burbs.
Jules Dassin’s London is a malevolent urban nightmare, a tangled web of disorienting murkiness and dastardly double-crosses.