Tag: Foreign Film Disc Review
Criterion Collection: Imitation of Life (1934) | Blu-ray Review
One need only look at the marketing strategy for 1934’s Imitation of Life to see how woefully inept Hollywood was (and in many ways,...
Criterion Collection: Adoption (1975) | Blu-ray Review
Women face a complex and compounded pressure of perfection when it comes not just to initial reception of their artistic achievements, but also their...
Criterion Collection: Taste of Cherry | Blu-ray Review
It’s impossible to talk about Iranian cinema without mention of Abbas Kiarostami, the most prominent figure amongst a formidable coterie of names which rose...
Criterion Collection: Bruce Lee – His Greatest Hits | Blu-ray Review
Bruce Lee is and forever will be the world’s greatest martial arts film star, perhaps only rivalled in iconicity by Jackie Chan. Both martial...
Love is a Battlefield in Visconti’s Swan Song, L’innocente (1976) | Blu-ray Review
Premiering out of competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival just two months after he died from a stroke, Luchino Visconti’s final masterpiece, The...
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema – Volume IV | Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber presents its fourth volume of forgotten or obscured film noir remnants with a trio of three titles from noted directors. With this...
It Takes a Village: Filho & Dornelles Smash Art-House into Grindhouse Bacurau (2019) | Blu-ray Review
Bacurau, the third feature from Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-directed by Juliano Dornelles (who served as production designer on Filho’s Neighboring Sounds in 2012 and...
Life After Wartime: Balagov Crafts Exemplary Portrait of Post-WWII Role of Women with “Beanpole” (2019) | Blu-ray Review
Winning the Best Director Prize out of Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (where it also took home the FIPRESCI Prize),...
All the Better to Eat with Dutra & Rojas’ Good Manners | DVD Review
Premiering in competition at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival, Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas’ superb second collaboration Good Manners was purchased by Distrib Films...
Desplechin gets Ish with “Ismael’s Ghosts” | DVD Review
A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry (a...
Thinking Triple XXX in Ozon’s Double Lover (2017) | Blu-ray Review
Though it will perhaps be best remembered as a sordid little slice of Eurotrash, there’s a lot of fun to be had with Francois...
Tuesday Blus: Caught Dead in Red Rings of Fear
Fans of Massimo Dallamano’s seminal and seedy 1972 giallo What Have You Done to Solange? will likely be attracted to the newly available transfer...
Aquarius | Blu-ray Review
The political controversy which took place following the premiere of Kleber Mendonca Filho’s superb sophomore film had a rather unfortunate hobbling effect on its...
The Unholy Four (1970) | Blu-ray Review
If you prefer your spaghetti westerns with extra cheese (or sleaze, maybe), then director E.B. Clucher’s 1970 directorial debut The Unholy Four might be...
The Handmaiden | DVD Review
Although it may have gone home empty handed following its premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook’s latest sumptuous melodrama,...
Cosmos | Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber announced US distribution rights to Polish auteur Andrzej Zulwaski’s Cosmos shortly before news broke of the filmmaker’s death following a struggle with...
Rabid / Dead Ringers | Blu-ray Review
Shout Factory rejuvenates two titles from David Cronenberg’s prolific vault, his 1977 horror film Rabid, which featured adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her...
Men & Chicken | Blu-ray Review
With his first directorial effort in a decade, Danish scribe Thomas Anders Jensen scores an automatic cult following with Men & Chicken, a bizarre...
Criterion Collection: McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Blu-ray Review
Glancing over the cinematic output from any particular year in the 1970s confirms the era to stand as a fossilized epoch from America’s mainstream...
Criterion Collection: Boyhood | Blu-ray Review
Director Richard Linklater managed in cinematic first in 2014 when he unveiled his long gestating project Boyhood, which filmed over the course of twelve...
Criterion Collection: Breaker Morant |Blu-ray Review
Following the mid-70s wave of critically acclaimed Australian cinema, thanks to names like Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Gillian Armstrong, director Bruce Beresford would...
The Editor | Blu-ray Review
Directors Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy, two of the five partners from the Canadian film production company Astron-6, have reunited from their 2011 effort...
Criterion Collection: Fellini Satyricon | Blu-ray Review
Considered amongst the few surviving ancient novels as one of the best depictions of the wild debauchery that seized early Roman society, Petronius’s episodically...
Criterion Collection: L’avventura | Blu-ray Review
In the decades of cinema that have transpired since Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’avventura, one cannot overlook its seminal status not only within the...
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...
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...
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...