Tag: Foreign Film Blu Ray Review
Criterion Collection: The Naked Island | Blu-ray Review
In the US, Japanese auteur Kaneto Shindo is best remembered for a small handful of titles, a mere fraction of his prolific output as...
City of Women | Blu-ray Review
“It’s all about women!” read the tagline for George Cukor’s classic 1939 comedy The Women but could have just as well been reapplied to...
Killer Dames Box Set | Blu-ray Review
In the grand history of giallo cinema, one of the more minor figures who breezed in and out during the genre craze was Emilio...
The Club | Blu-ray Review
Pablo Larrain’s first post-Pinochet narrative, The Club, is a distinctly subversive dark comedy, a surprise feature following his profound trilogy (Tony Manero; Post Mortem;...
Remember | Blu-ray Review
Ever since his 2009 mainstream breakthrough Chloe (an English language rehash of a 2003 film from Anne Fontaine), Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan has been...
The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane | Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber brings the 1976 obscure genre gem The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane to Blu-ray for the first time, an oft...
Criterion Collection: Phoenix | Blu-ray Review
German auteur Christian Petzold makes his bow in the esteemed Criterion collection with his outstanding seventh feature, Phoenix, which is also his sixth...
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Blu-ray Review
The 1970s was a particularly difficult period for nonconformist auteur Samuel Fuller, a director known for timeless film noirs (Pickup on South Street; House...
Death Walks Twice – Two Films by Luciano Ercoli | Blu-ray Review
Arrow Video unleashes a superb box-set of two titles from neglected director/producer Luciano Ercoli, who made a handful of giallo and spaghetti westerns before...
Confession of a Child of the Century | Blu-Ray Review
In 2012, French director Sylvie Verheyde mounted an ambitious, English language adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s controversial 1836 autobiographical novel Confession of a Child...
The Hallow | Blu-ray Review
Preceding its premiere in the Midnight program at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was incredibly positive buzz surrounding Corin Hardy’s Ireland set horror film,...
Monster Dog | Blu-ray Review
For some, it may come as a surprise to learn Italian schlockmaster Claudio Fragasso had been making films, in varying degrees of English, years...
The Forbidden Room | Blu-ray Review
Canadian auteur Guy Maddin continues to be something of an acquired taste, at least judging from the domestic box office of his latest, The...
Hitch Hike | Blu-ray Review
Raro Video resurrects an exploitation goodie masquerading as another bit of cheap Eurosleaze, Hitch Hike (aka Autostop Rosso Sangue) a 1977 thriller from Italian...
Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 1 | Blu-ray Review
In celebration of Japan’s oldest film studio, Nikkatsu, Arrow Video assembles its first collection of titles reflecting the late 1950s inauguration of a star...
Criterion Collection: Paris Belongs to Us | Blu-ray Review
For the first time in the US, Jacques Rivette’s 1961 directorial debut, Paris Belongs to Us is available thanks to an accomplished new restoration...
2 Films by Agnes Varda Starring Jane Birkin | Blu-ray Review
One of the best double features you could treat yourself to this year would be a back-to-back viewing of two Agnes Varda films starring...
The Tribe | Blu-ray Review
One of the most pleasurable discoveries out of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival was Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s debut The Tribe, which won three...
Criterion Collection: The Emigrants/The New Land | Blu-ray Review
Following last summer’s restoration of Swedish auteur Jan Troell’s directorial debut Here is Your Life (1966), Criterion presents the director’s most notable accomplishment from...
Criterion Collection: I Knew Her Well | Blu-ray Review
Love is most definitely not a many splendored thing in the bedazzled artifice of Rome’s swinging 60s, at least as far as the good...
L’inhumaine | Blu-ray Review
Shohei Imamura's brutalist depiction of female resilience in his masterwork of 1963, The Insect Woman, echoes the beloved French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier's monumental silent avant-garde narrative L'inhumaine, which...
Criterion Collection: Death by Hanging | Blu-ray Review
Before he would come to be known as one of cinema’s most controversial provocateurs with his most infamous title, 1976’s In the Realm of...
Victoria | Blu-ray Review
Earning about as much praise as criticism (including tying for the Silver Berlin Bear in 2015) is actor/director Sebastian Schipper’s fourth feature, Victoria, the...
The New Girlfriend | Blu-ray Review
After premiering at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival in the Galas Program, via Cohen Media, the double 40th César Award nominated The New Girlfriend...
Fantômas | Blu-ray Review
Though we’re barely into a new calendar year, Kino Lorber has released one of the year's most notable Blu-ray restorations, a superb presentation of...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Blu-ray Review
Shakespeare’s portrait of the brooding, potentially psychotic Danish prince Hamlet is arguably the Bard’s most notable play, as well as a veritable support beam...
Criterion Collection: Bitter Rice | Blu-ray Review
Criterion digs Bitter Rice out of obscurity this month, a pulpy mix of social drama and dime store pathos from director and screenwriter Giuseppe...
Mysterious Island | Blu-ray Review
Fans of special effects icon Ray Harryhausen should rejoice at the remastering of 1961’s Mysterious Island, a sequel of sorts to Jules Verne’s more...
Wake Up And Kill | Blu-ray Release
The robbery spree of 'the machine gun soloist,' as the real life smash-and-grab jewelry thief Luciano Lutring was dubbed by the exploitative inflammatory Italian press of...
What Have You Done to Solange? | Blu-ray Review
Massimo Dallamano may be best known to some as the cinematographer of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars...
Two Men in Town | Blu-ray Review
Director Jose Giovanni was best known as a screenwriter for a number of important French auteurs throughout the 1960’s, having written items like Jacques...
Fatherland | Blu-ray Review
The 1980s were a quiet period for British auteur Ken Loach, at least as far as film features were concerned. Though he directed six...
The Quay Brothers: Collected Short Films | Blu-ray Review
Those prone to mental disturbances and nightmares, or possess a fear of dolls, dirt or general unpleasantries would do well to avoid the Brothers...
Criterion Collection: Jellyfish Eyes | Blu-ray Review
Criterion adds Jellyfish Eyes to its collection, the directorial debut of prolific Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Known for his multi-faceted platforms of painting, sculpture,...
The Kindergarten Teacher | Blu-ray Review
Released at the end of July in a limited theatrical run via Kino Lorber, a bit over a year after premiering out of...
Partisan | Blu-ray Review
After winning an award for Best Cinematography in the World Cinema competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Ariel Kleiman’s directorial debut Partisan was...
Criterion Collection: Ikiru | Blu-ray Review
In six decades of filmmaking and thirty plus titles in his filmography, it’s nearly impossible to determine the weighted importance concerning a number of...
The Mask (Eyes of Hell) | Blu-ray Review
After a restored print played for the first time at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Kino Lorber presents Julian Roffman’s 1961 vintage horror film...
Goodnight Mommy | Blu-ray Review
Distributor TWC-Radius managed a difficult feat with an inspired marketing campaign for the release of foreign arthouse horror film Goodnight Mommy, the excellent directorial...
Black Coal, Thin Ice | Blu-ray Review
Chinese director Diao Yinan delivered his international breakout with third feature Black Coal, Thin Ice. Amassing a number of accolades during its festival circuit...
Hidden Agenda | Blu-ray Review
Shortly before news broke of British auteur Ken Loach’s latest production (a surprise since his 2014 title Jimmy’s Hall was intended to be his...
The Marquise of O… | Blu-ray Review
Film Movement brings Eric Rohmer’s classic period film The Marquise of O... to Blu-ray, the first time the title is made available in the US (previously,...
Tenderness of the Wolves | Blu-ray Review
At long last, a worthy digital transfer has been granted the rather grim and horrific Tenderness of the Wolves, an obscure title from the...
Amour Fou | Blu-ray Review
It’s with great pleasure to see Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s fourth feature Amour Fou available on Blu-ray in the US, considering several of her...
Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats: Two Adaptations by Sergio Martino & Lucio Fulci | Blu-ray Review
Throughout the history of cinema there are countless adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's work, from D. W. Griffith's early take on The Sealed Room...
The Oblong Box | Blu-ray Review
Based very loosely on an 1844 short story from Edgar Allan Poe, Gordon Hessler’s 1969 version of The Oblong Box isn’t a very unique...
Criterion Collection: A Special Day | Blu-ray Review
A testament to the importance of restoration, the new digital transfer of Ettore Scola’s 1977 title A Special Day is a beauty to behold....
Immoral Tales | Blu-ray Review
Polish provocateur Walerian Borowczyk remains one of the great obscure artists who managed to successfully blur the lines between definitions of high art and...
Angel | Blu-ray Review
Twilight Time presents Irish auteur Neil Jordan’s 1982 directorial debut Angel (aka Danny Boy) on Blu-ray, an obscurely regarded gem from the great filmmaker....
The Duke of Burgundy | Blu-ray Review
After premiering at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Peter Strickland's third feature The Duke of Burgundy went on to a limited theatrical release...
