Austere and affecting, Coming Apart reflects on varying acts of degradation and dissolution.
While the extras are sadly limited, the film’s own rewards are more than enough to compensate.
The Man Who Fell to Earth receives a serviceable 4K transfer and a bounty of bonus materials from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
One of the most accomplished American dramas of the 1990s arrives on Blu-ray sporting a suitably exceptional A/V transfer.
Nadine uses its criminal situation as metaphor for the trials and tribulations of every marriage.
As much as you might suffer watching Mailer’s films, you can always take comfort in the fact that he suffered more while making them.
Sony doesn’t do much to spruce up their original, excellent transfer of Sonnenfeld’s big, fun monster movie, but the product remains a worthy one.
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.
Paul Verhoeven’s fantastic commentary from the Criterion Collection DVD version is, sadly, not duplicated here.
The film succeeds only at suggesting the incompatibility of returning-home dramedy and surrealistic flights of fancy.
Daniel Adams’s adaptation of Joseph Lincoln’s novel Cap’n Eri could just as easily be called Two Brides for Three Salty Seadogs.
Even when you have no idea what’s going on in The Man Who Fell to Earth, you won’t want to look away.
Roeg’s is a singular, haunting sci-fi experience.
The film depicts, sans nuance or insight, the collapse of a tech firm during the dot-com era.
It’s a bumpy film, and though no one may see it, it’s impossible to imagine it playing as gracefully without Famke Janssen’s conviction to her role.
A nice gift for Lucy McGillicuddy completists, but everyone else can skip this box set and wait for Dance, Girl, Dance to air on TCM.
Let the critics eat cake.
Remarkably, Coppola doesn’t ask us to take Marie Antoinette as she thinks she was, but as she probably was.
A quick perusal of the film’s IMDb message board yields a thread topic entitled “Dear God Why.” My thoughts exactly.
A series of alternate takes/deleted scenes are of primary interest for the shades they add to the character of Laura.