Tag: László Szabó

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: Cold Water (1994) | Blu-ray Review

Occasionally, a rare cinematic kernel lost to the ages due to whatever obsequious copyright or distributor issues, manages to resurface despite the odds. We...

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...

Ismael’s Ghosts (Director’s Cut) | Review

Call Me, Ismael: Desplechin Presents Jumbled Portrait of the Artist as a Dulled Man Perhaps not since the quill of Charles Dickens, wherein iconic Ebenezer...

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