Jacques Rivette’s Secret Defense feels in many ways like a culmination.
Twisting the Knife collects four taut late-period exercises in ambiguity from the great Claude Chabrol.
This period drama manages the difficult task of speaking to our current moment without being didactic or preachy.
The quality and scope of this set makes it one of the most impressive home-video releases of all time.
This release of Rivette’s singular take on the story of Joan of Arc boasts an impeccable transfer of the new 4K restoration.
Maurice Pialat’s controversial Palme D’Or winner receives a beautiful Blu-ray from Cohen Media Group.
The film misrepresents the difficulties of women with no semi-marketable talents at freeing themselves from their own domestic grind.
Maurice Pialat was, by all accounts, a difficult man.
It is in fact difficult to make a film whose basis is conceptual without the results coming off as simplistic or overly designed.
Once again, Criterion earns the reputation of releasing “film schools in a box.”
Secret défense feels in many ways like a culmination—Rivette’s ideologies and obsessions distilled to a perfect essence.
With no extras, this DVD edition of Intimate Strangers is strictly for fans of Patrice Leconte.
Because it acknowledges that touching is just as sexy as not touching, the film should serve as a model for role-players everywhere.