Tag: Foreign Film DVD Review
Amnesia | DVD Review
Earning a paltry five thousand at the US box office following its limited late July 2017 theatrical release courtesy of Film Movement, Barbet Schroeder’s...
Just a Sigh | DVD Review
It’s been a long road for the slight but nevertheless worthwhile Just a Sigh from Jerome Bonnell, the French director’s English language debut which...
Creepy | DVD Review
Documentary label Icarus Films moves into the distribution of narrative features, first up with the unveiling of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy, which premiered as a...
11 Minutes | DVD Review
Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski, now 77 years of age, continues a prolific resurgence, having ended a sixteen year absence between 1991’s Ferdyduke and 2008’s...
Sky | DVD Review
Reuniting once more with actress Diane Kruger for her third outing as director, Sky, Fabienne Berthaud unveiled her French-German co-production in competition at the...
Gorilla Bathes at Noon Review | DVD Review
A conversation about Serbian cinema wouldn’t be complete without at least a passing reference to trailblazer Dusan Makavejev, at the forefront of the Yugoslav...
My Golden Days | DVD Review
Arnaud Desplechin’s eighth feature film, My Golden Days, a loose follow-up on characters from his 1996 filmMy Sex Life…Or How I Got Into an Argument...
Aferim! | DVD Review
Romanian auteur Radu Jude enters the ring as one of his country’s most accomplished new voices with third feature, Aferim! Its title an Ottoman...
Tricked | DVD Review
As the world awaits the release of his first actual feature in a decade, the sensational Cannes premiered Elle, audiences can ponder Paul Verhoeven's...
Medousa | DVD Review
Mondo Macabro continues to expand its catalogue of underground international genre offerings with the little known 1998 Greek title, Medousa, an indie horror re-telling...
Marie’s Story | DVD Review
French director Jean-Pierre Ameris continues with his steady output of unpredictable and often innovative work, though his 2014 title Marie’s Story did little to...
Stations of the Cross | DVD Review
Originally premiering at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay and a Jury Prize, Dietrich Bruggemann’s Stations of the Cross is...
British Film Noir Collection | DVD Review
In a novel effort to stress that film noir wasn’t a film movement specifically an output solely produced for American audiences, Kino Lorber releases...
Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California | DVD Review
In the wake of the wild success of Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the idiosyncratic French filmmaker was lured by Hollywood move to southern California to produce...
Human Capital | DVD Review
Receiving its North American premiere last spring at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, where it snagged a Best Actress award for Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Paolo...
If You Don’t, I Will | DVD Review
For her fifth feature, If You Don’t, I Will, director Sophie Fillieres reunites with star Emmanuelle Devos to document the wistful disintegration of a...
The Dark Valley | DVD Review
Arriving on DVD without having experienced a US theatrical release, The Dark Valley toured several smaller film festivals after premiering a year ago at...
Salvo | DVD Review
Receiving a US release in August 2014, Salvo arrives with an equally subdued DVD release this month. An experimentally inclined gangster piece, any brooding...
The Strange Little Cat | DVD Review
Ramon Zürcher’s student project turned festival darling debut is an odd, wholly original work that bears little resemblance to anything of recent memory. Essentially...
Honey | DVD Review
Snagging a special mention after a premiere in Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival (where it received a commendation from the...
App | DVD Review
Receiving a healthy domestic release in native Netherlands and released stateside by RAM Releasing last May, with limited festival play before it (it did...
1,000 Times Goodnight | DVD Review
Released for a two week autumn window stateside via the Film Movement folks, winner of three awards, including Best Film at the Amanda Awards...
The House at the End of Time | DVD Review
Winning Best Director and Best Film at the 2014 ScreamFest Film Festival, Alejandro Hidalgo’s directorial debut The House at the End of Time will...
Venus in Fur | DVD Review
While it went home empty handed after competing in Cannes, and was released in dozens of territories before Sundance Selects dropped the title onto...
The Five Obstructions | DVD Review
Now over a decade since its 2003 release, Kino Lorber is releasing the Lars Von Trier and Jorgen Leth experiment/documentary The Five Obstructions in...
Camille Claudel, 1915 | DVD Review
Many are perhaps familiar with Isabelle Adjani’s much hailed Oscar nominated performance as the turn of the century French sculptress Camille Claudel in the...
Vanishing Waves | DVD Review
The travails of the neuron-transfer scientist get swirled into a surreal kaleidoscope of Eros and sci-fi in Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte’s sophomore feature, Vanishing...
The Giants | DVD Review
Painter/actor/director Bouli Lanners’ third feature, The Giants, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, finally gets an understated bow on DVD. Described as...
In Another Country | DVD Review
After a cool reception followed its 2012 premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s In Another Country toured...
Hemel | DVD Review
Playing sort of like the female version of Steve McQueen’s Shame comes Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak’s film debut, Hemel, a provocative and, more significantly,...
