A very charitable reading might say that Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story is designed to be self-negating.
MPI drops this perversely engrossing film onto DVD with a reasonably strong transfer, but precious little in the way of extras.
By far the most uncompromising and gory of the many adaptations of the play, and its viciousness is perfectly preserved by Criterion.
After years of respectable filmmaking, it’s refreshing to witness a reinvigorated Roman Polanski willing to once again delve deep into seedy psychodrama.
Tragedy has never looked more ravishing than in Roman Polanski’s elegiac epic.
Fisher’s smart questions elicit both useful and humorous responses from Petzold throughout.
It’s at its most fascinating when Jackie Stewart authoritatively and pedagogically discusses the nuances of his trade.
Exhibition is a pained and probing study of a couple’s declining marriage.
So long as there are men in power who are still fuzzy on the definition of rape, Rosemary’s Baby will endure as a cautionary tale.
It’s generally agreed that films fall into one of three categories: The Good, The Bad, and the So-Bad-It’s-Good.
The Themersons have been compared to artists László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray.
Instead of understanding the femme fatale as a genre staple, Grossman wants to dispense of the characterization altogether.
So long as there are men in power who are still fuzzy on the definition of rape, Rosemary’s Baby will endure as a cautionary tale.
There are simply too many amazing films—thousands, really—that could occupy every slot on this list just as confidently as the ones that are here.
I’m a compulsive. It’s no surprise that my list is full of movies about compulsion.
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
These cinematic sisters leave a mark as strong as a thicker-than-water bond.
Forgetting Chinatown will be exceedingly difficult with this stunning new Blu-ray release.
Atlan’s black-and-white Mortem has been billed as a “metaphysical thriller” inspired by David Lynch and Ingmar Bergman.
It’s hard to discuss the Oscar chances of the cast without thinking of all four fuming co-leads as being yet more hamsters on the Academy’s wheel.