Josef von Sternberg’s strikingly idiosyncratic gangster film gets its long overdue home-video debut.
Hawks’s thrilling, conflicted, and viscerally charged film gets a stellar assortment of extras from Viva Vision’s Imprint label.
Griffith’s masterpiece, likely the most influential film ever made, has been given new life with a gold-standard digital cleanup.
The film’s optimistic integration of intellectual and physical impulses lends it a feeling of wholeness closer to Howard Hawks’s later, more serene films.
You’d have to go to Barbara Billingsley for another jive session this enjoyable.