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The Red Chapel | DVD Review
"The Red Chapel is a cold, creepy and at times astonishing documentary that manages to survive its own eccentricities."
Criterion Collection: Harakiri [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
"Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963, Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri is an elegantly told, parabolic tale of hypocrisy, class struggle and revenge. In fact, the film will likely remind today’s viewers of the work of Quentin Tarantino, as Harakiri is filled with nail biting tension, sudden, shocking violence and a richly layered narrative that slowly, at times painfully, peels down to its bare, heartbreaking substrate."
Terri (Blu-ray) | DVD Review
"2011 Sundance entry Terri is a low-key American indie all about the struggles of an obese high schooler (Jacob Wysocki) in the thoroughly funky outskirts of Pasadena. The film has the cloy, ironic ponderous that inflicts so many smaller productions these days - the smug superiority of the tightly budgeted – yet manages to retain winning measures of intrigue and charm."
DVD Review: The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
"While Western film critics celebrated Sergei Eisenstein’s revolutionary editing techniques and subjective storytelling, Moscow’s cinema goers generally preferred lighter fare – American comedies in particular – and this 1924 production was an attempt to apply the styles of Keaton and Chaplin to distinctly Russian settings."
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom | DVD Review
"While Western film critics celebrated Sergei Eisenstein’s revolutionary editing techniques and subjective storytelling, Moscow’s cinema goers generally preferred lighter fare – American comedies in particular – and this 1924 production was an attempt to apply the styles of Keaton and Chaplin to distinctly Russian settings."
