Essential Fellini is one of the most elegantly designed and supplement-packed sets that Criterion has ever released.
The full four-part, 220-minute cut of the film receives a stunning transfer and a small but illuminating assortment of extras.
The film is humanistic exploration of Italy’s “southern problem” and a thorough indictment of nationalist and imperialist agendas.
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film is an inquiry into the modernist concern of what art is and how it affects life.
The piercing supplements manage to contextualize an essential film without smothering it with over-explanation.
It remains at once the most bracingly concrete and amorously diffuse of Antonioni’s films.
Three films from the Taviani brothers receive a commendable Blu-ray debut on this three-disc set from Cohen Media Group.
Quench your thirst for metonymic mastery by viewing the entirety of Antonioni’s modernist trilogy in stunning 1080p high-definition.
The final film in Antonioni’s modernist trilogy comes to Blu-ray with a sparkling transfer.
The film remains at once the most bracingly concrete and amorously diffuse work of Antonioni’s structuralist period.
The film clearly paved the way for everything from Ah-nold on the lam in The Running Man to the parody-parade Series 7: The Contenders.
The film is a distillation of Antonioni’s preferred themes and imagery: alienation, anxiety, modern life, and industrialized landscapes.
Exquisitely rendered ennui. Criterion’s Blu-ray edition of Red Desert will take you there.
Even though it reaches for the mythical, the surprisingly drab-looking Bab’Aziz can’t help but feel earthbound.
Theo Angelopoulos’s compositions modulate from lyrical to brutal.
Pensive, tender, unforgettable.
It is an anthological example of attentive students surpassing their teacher.
A terrible transfer of an essential film.
Great sound. Excellent image. Crucial commentary. A must-have.
Blowup daringly suggests that an image without politics isn’t an image at all.