Tag: Foreign Film Blu Ray Review
Criterion Collection: An Autumn Afternoon | Blu-Ray Review
The Criterion Collection refurbishes its previous release of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1962 swan song, An Autumn Afternoon for a new digital restoration Blu-ray transfer. The...
Before I Go to Sleep | Blu-Ray Review
After flopping at the box office and landing an unnecessary entry on the shortlist for 2014’s Best Actress Razzies for Nicole Kidman, Before I...
La Belle Captive | Blu-Ray review
While 2014 saw the passing of (reluctant) New Wave icon Alain Resnais, there was an intense resurgence of interest in the directorial efforts of...
Criterion Collection: La Ciénaga | Blu-ray Review
Murky swimming pools, bored adolescents, oblivion drinking and signs of the apocalypse are just some of the issues plaguing two chaotic Argentinean families in...
Criterion Collection: My Winnipeg | Blu-ray Review
You certainly can and probably should go home again, at least according to the faux approximation of himself in the 2007 pseudo-documentary/experimental homage My...
Criterion Collection: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant | Blu-ray Review
Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in the summer of 1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant didn’t open to...
The Skin | Blu-ray Review
The past year has been a great one as concerns the availability and restoration of several titles from Italian auteur Liliana Cavani, a director...
Boy Meets Girl | Blu-ray Review
Perhaps we can thank the critical success of his 2012 masterwork, Holy Motors for the resurgence of interest in the early works of Leos...
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Blu-ray Review
Kino Classics refurbishes Robert Weine’s 1920 landmark title The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the film that marked the birth of German Expressionism as well...
Criterion Collection: The Complete Jacques Tati | Blu-ray Review
With only six feature films to his name, four of which featured his iconic onscreen alter ego, the cinema of Jacques Tati remains an...
Moebius | Blu-ray Review
Kim Ki-Duk’s latest cauldron of discomfort, Moebius, landed at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release in New York...
Criterion Collection: La Dolce Vita | Blu-ray Review
“The most miserable life is better, believe me, than an existence protected by a society where everything’s organized and planned for and perfect,” says...
Chinese Puzzle | Blu-Ray Review
Performing slightly better at the US box office than the 2005 film it follows in Cedric Klapisch’s trilogy, Chinese Puzzle still landed with a bit...
Witching & Bitching | Blu-ray Review
Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia returns with Witching and Bitching, a nod to his particular brand of zany, over-the-top genre comedy that marked...
Criterion Collection: The Vanishing | Blu-ray Review
Remastered just in time for Halloween, Criterion dusts off George Sluizer’s classic psychological thriller The Vanishing for a Blu-ray release. The Dutch-French co-production stands...
Nothing Bad Can Happen | Blu-Ray Review
After scooping up the New Auteur Award at AFI Fest 2013, Nothing Bad Can Happen continued to garner a decidedly divisive response upon a...
Nightcap | Blu-ray Review
Coming to Blu-ray for the first time from the Cohen Media Group, Claude Chabrol’s late career thriller, Nightcap (better known by its French title,...
Criterion Collection: Sundays and Cybèle | Blu-ray Review
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1963, Serge Bourguignon’s Sundays and Cybèle has finally been issued in an official North...
Criterion Collection: The Innocents | Blu-ray Review
Being that director Jack Clayton grew up with the misfortune of having no father figure, he grew up with a deep affinity for the...
Flesh+Blood | Blu-ray Review
A film easy to admire but equally hard to love, Paul Verhoeven’s 1985 film Flesh+Blood, his last title to make it to DVD about...
Borgman | Blu-ray Review
Ushered forth as the Netherlands’ submission for Best Foreign Language Film this year, Alex van Warmerdam’s hilarious Borgman may prove to be a bit...
Queen Margot | Blu-Ray Review
Arguably the most prolific title in director Patrice Chereau’s three decades of filmmaking, Cohen Media Group releases a beautiful remastering of Queen Margot for...
Criterion Collection: Y Tu Mamá También | Blu-ray Review
After a decade floating around the Hollywood back lots trading dignity for cash and technical experience on A Little Princess and Great Expectations, Alfonso...
We Won’t Grow Old Together | Blu-Ray Review
Even after nearly two decades of short films, documentaries and the success of his 1968 feature debut, L’enfance Nue, director Maurice Pialat’s celebrated sophomore...
Favorites Of The Moon | Blu-Ray Review
After a new print screened at the 2014 City of Lights City of Angels Festival earlier this spring, Cohen Media Group has released...
Criterion Collection: Insomnia | Blu-ray Review
Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s 1997 directorial debut, Insomnia is a prescient prototype of what would now be termed Nordic Noir in today’s global film market. At...
I Vinti | Blu-ray Review
Michelangelo Antonioni’s third feature, I Vinti, translating as The Vanquished, gets a Blu-ray upgrade from Raro Video, serving as a definite collector’s item for...
Criterion Collection: L’Eclisse | Blu-ray Review
After finally securing 1961’s La Notte as part of the Criterion line-up, we’re treated to a new restoration and Blu-ray transfer of Michelangelo Antonioni’s...
The Man Who Lies | Blu-ray Review
Redemption Films revives several more titles in its continuing resurgence of Alain Robbe-Grillet with his 1968 film, The Man Who Lies. Starring the director’s...
Gang War in Milan | Blu-ray Review
Remembered primarily for several giallo titles (and some more exploitative sub-genre cannibal thrillers), illustrious director Umberto Lenzi also helmed several Euro-crime police thrillers (polizieschi)....
Stranger By the Lake | Blu-Ray Review
Taking home the Queer Palm and the Un Certain Regard Directing Award after its 2013 Cannes premiere, (not to mention a Cesar for Pierre...
Death Occurred Last Night | Blu-ray Review
Raro Video continues remastering rare and obscure Italian titles with the long unavailable 1970 curio from Duccio Tessari, Death Occurred Last Night. A rare...
Criterion Collection: Il Sorpasso | Blu-ray Review
In the spirit of spring, Dino Rici’s tragicomedy Il Sorpasso from 1962 has been given a vibrant rebirth courtesy of Criterion. Rarely seen and...
Criterion Collection: Master of the House | Blu-ray Review
While he’ll always be best known for his 1928 silent masterpiece, The Passion of Joan Arc (or for his atmospheric 1932 horror film, Vampyr),...
Philomena | Blu-ray Review
Just when you thought that Stephen Frears’ latest film, Philomena, would be yet another questionable exercise from the once generally revered auteur, (judging from...
A Touch of Sin | Blu-ray Review
Upon premiering at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it was eventually awarded Best Screenplay, auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s latest masterpiece, A Touch of Sin...
L’Immortelle | Blu-ray Review
Kino’s Redemption label continues with the resurrection of New Wave provocateur Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1963 directorial debut, L'Immortelle, (this is the third title in the...
Criterion Collection: Persona | Blu-ray Review
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is now available in a sharp and stunning Blu-ray from Criterion. This 1966 production has attained a special place in critics’...
Criterion Collection: The Hidden Fortress | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 adventure The Hidden Fortress for a ravishing blu-ray update this month, following hot on the heels of a similar...
Criterion Collection: Breathless | Blu-ray Review
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless gave France’s nascent La nouvelle vague a solid international underpinning and it has remained a vibrant, stylish and entertaining influence on...
Criterion Collection: Blue is the Warmest Color | Blu-ray Review
Not quite a year after its memorable premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it would snatch the Palme d’Or from the Steven...
Criterion Collection: Foreign Correspondent | Blu-ray Review
Criterion adds another illustrious Alfred Hitchcock title to the collection this month with Foreign Correspondent, which followed hot on the heels of Rebecca in...
The Cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet | Blu-ray Review
Trans-Europ-Express (1967)
Redemption films resurrects two long unavailable titles from director Alain Robbe-Grillet, a member of the Nouvelle Vague best known as the screenwriter for...
Criterion Collection: The Long Day Closes | Blu-ray Review
The inimitable Terence Davies gets his first Criterion treatment this month with his 1992 title, The Long Day Closes, a superb memory poem drenched...
The Year of the Cannibals | Blu-ray Review
Raro Video resurrects an excitingly obscure title this month with Liliana Cavani’s 1967 film, The Year of the Cannibals, a counter culture art house...
Criterion Collection: La Vie De Boheme | Blu-ray Review
As an entry into Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki’s filmography, his 1992 film La Vie De Boheme, which is loosely based on Henri Murger’s Scenes...
Nostalghia | Blu-ray Review
Of his seven feature length films, it’s hard to pinpoint which serves as the best entry into the visual poetry of Andrei Tarkovsky, arguably...
Post Tenebras Lux | Blu-ray Review
Reportedly, Post Tenebras Lux was met with a hail of boos by critics and audience members alike upon its premiere at the 2012 Cannes...
Criterion Collection: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Blu-ray Review
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, as well as the Grand Jury and FIPRESCI Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival,...
General Della Rovere | Blu-ray Review
Back in 2009, the Criterion collection released Roberto Rossellini’s 1959 film General Della Rovere on DVD, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice...
