Tag: Foreign Film Blu Ray Review
Criterion Collection: Tokyo Story | Blu-ray Review
Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story from 1953, now available in a superbly packaged Blu-ray edition from Criterion, is a film that subtly captures the dynamics...
Russian Ark | Blu-ray Review
Believed by Alexander Sokurov to be the only location in the world to truly represent both the history and culture of humanity, the Hermitage...
Barbara | Blu-ray Review
German director Christian Petzold's long running collaborative relationship with his starring actress Nina Hoss has been fruitful to say the least. A '12 Berlin...
Tabu | DVD Review
Toying with narrative form seems to be director Miguel Gomes's forte. Our Beloved Month Of August turned the documentation of a musically inclined rural...
Criterion Collection: 3 Films By Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman | Blu-ray Review
While their scandalous love affair and subsequent marriage eclipsed the five collaborative films they made together, this month Criterion brings Roberto Rossellini’s Ingrid Bergman...
Criterion Collection: Autumn Sonata | Blu-ray Review
Two of the 20th Century’s best actresses team up – or square off, to be more precise – in Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata from...
Kon-Tiki | Blu-ray Review
An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, the old-school high-seas adventure epic that reintroduces the inspiring historical feat of Thor Heyerdahl from...
Criterion Collection: The Big City | Blu-ray Review
Criterion brings two of auteur Satyajit Ray’s early 60s works to the collection this month with Charulata (1964) and The Big City (1963), both...
Criterion Collection: Babette’s Feast | Blu-ray Review
Babette’s Feast won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987 and was the first Danish production to ever take the prestigious award....
Pieta | Blu-ray Review
Yes, that’s right, Kim Ki-duk’s latest film, Pieta, is thus named for the famed sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of...
Criterion Collection: Wild Strawberries | Blu-ray Review
Produced fifty-six years ago, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries remains a venerable warhorse in the hallowed halls of Arthouse. But unlike this reviewer, who shares...
Criterion Collection: Marketa Lazarova | Blu-ray Review
You’ll be hard pressed to make a more exciting discovery than Criterion’s digital transfer of Frantisek Vlacil’s 1967 Czech classic, Marketa Lazarova. Voted the...
Criterion Collection: Life is Sweet | Blu-ray Review
1990’s Life is Sweet is generally considered - when it’s considered at all - one of the lesser lights in writer/director Mike Leigh’s constellation...
Criterion Collection: Gate of Hell | Blu-ray review
Teinosuke Kinugasa’s glorious and vibrant masterpiece, Gate of Hell, excitingly receives a Criterion digital remastering this month, a certifiable occasion because this not only...
Rust and Bone | Blu-ray Review
Building upon Canadian author Craig Davidson's short story of the same title, Rust and Bone sees director Jacques Audiard in search of amourous authenticism...
Criterion Collection: Sansho the Bailiff | Blu-ray review
While less known than his equally revered contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, the filmography of Kenji Mizoguchi may arguably be the more successfully...
