Tag: Foreign Film Blu Ray Review
Angst | Blu-ray Review
You’d be hard-pressed to find a film that can transcend the unpleasantness of Austrian filmmaker Gerald Kargl’s sole directorial feature, Angst. A title difficult...
In the Name of My Daughter | Blu-ray Review
French auteur Andre Techine's In the Name of My Daughter received a decent theatrical run nearly a year after it premiered out of competition...
The Connection | Blu-ray Review
Cedric Jimenez's The Connection is a handling of a scenario touched upon from an American perspective in William Friedkin's classic 1971 film The French...
Criterion Collection: Blind Chance | Blu-ray Review
Polish auteur Krzysztof Kieslowski’s fascination with allegorical intersections took full flight with his 1987 title Blind Chance, a three tiered narrative metaphor for Poland’s...
Burn, Witch, Burn | Blu-ray Review
The 1962 cult item Burn, Witch, Burn finally gets a Blu-ray transfer courtesy of Kino Lorber. Perhaps relegated to obscurity due to its unavailability...
Navajo Joe | Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber brings the infamous 1967 Spaghetti western Navajo Joe to Blu-ray, an overlooked gem of the genre that’s long been shadowed by its...
Play Motel | Blu-Ray Review
Purveyors of Eurotrash should delight in the resuscitation of the obscure 1979 eroto-giallo Play Motel, directed by Mario Gariazzo under the pseudonym Roy Garrett...
Criterion Collection: Two Days, One Night | Blu-ray Review:
Premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it went home empty handed from the Jane Campion headed jury, Belgian directing duo Jean-Pierre and...
Jauja | Blu-ray Review
Like each of Lisandro Alonso's cinematic offerings that came before - La Libertad, Los Muertos, Fantasma and Liverpool - the Un Certain Regard debuted, FIPRESCI Prize winning Jauja regards the solitary...
Face to Face |Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber brings the 1967 spaghetti Western Face to Face to Blu-ray this month, one of director Sergio Sollima’s most notable titles, previously released...
Stray Cat Rock Boxset | Blu-ray Review
Before Toshiya Fujita shot the icon making Lady Snowblood films and Yasuharu Hasebe lensed Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Son, each staring their ice cold action muse Meiko Kaji, they...
Love Unto Death/Life is a Bed of Roses | Blu-ray Review
Cohen Media Group presents a double feature of two mid-period films from French auteur Alain Resnais, both significant titles overlooked on a resume of...
3 Hearts | Blu-ray Review
Premiering at the 2014 Venice Film Festival with little fanfare, and received a limited theatrical release in March, 2015 in the US, Benoit Jacquot’s...
Cemetery Without Crosses | Blu-ray Review
Filmed during the height of the Euro Western craze of the late 60’s, Robert Hossein’s Cemetery Without Crosses is an obscure gem rejuvenated by...
Ned Kelly (1970) | Blu-ray Review
Long considered to be one of British auteur Tony Richardson’s greatest miscalculations is his 1970 film Ned Kelly, certainly the most notable but arguably...
Criterion Collection: Here is Your Life | Blu-ray Review
Criterion brings Jan Troell’s masterful debut feature Here is Your Life into their fold. It’s the Swedish auteur’s second film to join the collection,...
Criterion Collection: Hiroshima Mon Amour | Blu-ray Review
Criterion digitally restores its previous edition of Alain Resnais’ landmark directorial debut, Hiroshima Mon Amour, a jagged cornerstone of the French New Wave, which...
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe | Blu-ray Review
Film Movement continues with its Classic series and delivers their next title in a continuing line-up of new Blu-ray presentations, The Tall Blond Man...
Criterion Collection: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Blu-ray Review
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) is an obscure fantasia from the fading days of the Czech New Wave. One could argue that...
Hard to Be a God | Blu-ray Review
As far as the immersive powers of cinematic spectacle go, it’s doubtful any will come close to rivaling the achievements of Russian auteur Aleksei...
The Happiness of the Katakuris | Blu-ray Review
Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris begins with a woman probing a freshly delivered bowl of soup only to fish out a miniature angel/gargoyle/teletubby? whose...
Criterion Collection: The Bridge | Blu-ray Review
Criterion releases actor turned director Bernhard Wicki’s feature film debut The Bridge for the very first time on Region 1. Though he directed a...
The Story of Adèle H. | Blu-ray Review
You no doubt know of a crazy local or two that mills around your town in a daze, occasionally causing disturbances, but otherwise remains...
The Pillow Book | Blu-ray Review
Though typical of Peter Greenaway’s predilection for depictions of provocative desires laid out over sometimes subversive subtexts, his 1996 title The Pillow Book feels demure...
Island of Death | Blu-ray Review
Arrow Video cleans up the obscure video nasty Island of Death this month, a rare representative of Greek exploitation cinema. A shameless cash-in on...
Criterion Collection: The Confession|Blu-ray Review
Criterion adds two more early works of auteur Costa-Gavras to the collection, rounding out his early trilogy of political thrillers headlined by Yves Montand...
Criterion Collection: The Merchant of Four Seasons |Blu-ray Review
“We’re all pigs,” remarks a character late in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 classic The Merchant of Four Seasons, on observation one could apply to...
Criterion Collection: Limelight | Blu-ray Review
Though he would actually direct other features, including the ill received 1967 A Countess From Hong Kong, wherein Marlon Brando decided to be a...
Winter Sleep | Blu-ray Review
Despite director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s lauded history with Cannes, having twice received the festival’s second-place honor, the Grand Prix for 2002’s Distant and 2011’s...
Retaliation | Blu-ray Review
Prior to helming a trio of the Meiko Kaji starred Stray Cat Rock series, the fourth and final film in the Female Convict Scorpion...
Tip Top | Blu-Ray Review
After receiving a limited run only in New York City in mid-December of 2014, Serge Bozon’s bizarre new film Tip Top comes to Blu-ray...
Jamaica Inn | Blu-ray Review
Cohen Media Group beautifully restores Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 title Jamaica Inn. A title worthy of reconsideration, considered by many to be an inferior work...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne | Blu-ray Review
Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary horror classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886, just a decade before the birth...
Criterion Collection: Le Silence de la Mer | Blu-ray Review
Available for the first time in the US on Blu-ray and DVD is Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterful directorial debut, 1949’s Le Silence de la Mer...
Blind Woman’s Curse | Blu-ray Review
Equal parts yakuza revenge picture, sexualized exploitation romp, bakeneko (or ghost cat horror flick), and absurd comedy, Teruo Ishii’s bizarro Blind Woman’s Curse refuses...
Criterion Collection: The River | Blu-ray Review
Criterion repackages Jean Renoir’s 1951 classic The River for Blu-ray, one of the master filmmaker’s several titles in the collection (fans may recall that...
The Babadook | Blu-ray Review
Jennifer Kent’s disturbing directorial debut The Babadook arrives on Blu-ray this week, scoring some of the most critically acclaimed notices ever for a recent...
Massacre Gun | Blu-ray Review
Arrow Video restores a rare title from director Yasuharu Hasebe with his sophomore directorial effort, Massacre Gun. A late 60’s yakuza narrative, the film...
Stray Dogs | Blu-ray Review
Celebrated Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang announced that Stray Dogs, which took home the Grand Special Jury Prize from Venice after the film's world premiere back...
Day of Anger | Blu-ray Review
In the enduring, boundless shadow of Sergio Leone’s legacy, a deluge of neglected and forgotten Italian genre titles languish undeservedly, ready for rediscovery. Arrow...
Criterion Collection: Cries and Whispers | Blu-ray Review
Criterion repackages one of its earlier Ingmar Bergman inclusions this month, restoring his brilliant, enigmatic 1972 masterpiece Cries and Whispers for Blu-ray release. Financed...
Mark of the Devil | Blu-Ray Review
The vintage nastiness of the exploitative cult classic Mark of the Devil gets a pristine revamp from Arrow Video, a favored title from a...
The Imitation Game | Blu-ray Review
Shut out at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Graham Moore, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation...
Vice and Virtue | Blu-ray Review
Between his high profile marriages to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, director Roger Vadim engaged in a notable liaison with Catherine Deneuve, just prior...
The Liberator | Blu-ray Review
Selected as the Venezuelan submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2014 Academy Awards, Alberto Arvelo’s The Liberator, a biopic on Simon Bolivar,...
R100 | Blu-ray Review
Premiering in the Midnight Madness section of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, Hitoshi Matsumoto’s latest slice of insanity, R100, is his most perverse...
Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf | Blu-ray Review
It appears that Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s English language debut got a longer title for it’s DVD/Blu-ray Release, now known as Late Phases: Night of...
Criterion Collection: The Soft Skin | Blu-ray Review
This month, Criterion marches out a little know title from Francois Truffaut, 1964’s The Soft Skin. Technically his fifth feature, and following behind the...
Eat Drink Man Woman | Blu-ray Review
With twelve features to his name, two of those winning him Best Director Academy Awards (Brokeback Mountain; Life of Pi), Ang Lee has become...
The Bride Wore Black | Blu-Ray Review
Nearly two decades into a career that has since spanned nearly seven, Jeanne Moreau had already worked under the direction of Godard, Malle, Welles,...
