Rivette’s beguiling, minor-key manor mystery receives a solid Blu-ray release.
Truffaut’s late-career triumph remains a moving paean to obsessive love.
The films in this collection have been given satisfying transfers and some eye-opening supplements.
Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
It might be a misguided paean to cinematic love, but Criterion’s Blu-ray is positively magical, with a blistering array of divisive supplements.
The greatest asset of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray is the best-to-date home-video presentation of Isabelle Adjani’s transfixing performance.
François Truffaut posits theatricality as wartime solidarity and resistance in his late-career hit The Last Metro.
Criterion’s very handsome transfer does wonders for the film’s gentle, practically caressing lighting and deep reds and browns.
Love on the Ground is the kind of French-farcical roundelay that Gallic cinema is frequently accused of producing en masse.
Jacques Rivette’s Merry-Go-Round is explicitly about schisms and parallel realities.
Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord remains a stimulating document of a city in flux.
Ostensibly an adaptation of the oft-filmed Wuthering Heights, Hurlevent feels more like a schematic indication of Emily Brontë’s famed novel, though that should not be taken as a criticism.