Tag: U.S. Indie Film Blu Ray Review
Criterion Collection: Eraserhead | Blu-ray Review
There was a time, not very long ago, when obtaining a decent copy of David Lynch’s first masterpiece, Eraserhead, was problematic. Selected in 2004...
Phantom of the Paradise | Blu-ray Review
Just in time for its 40th year anniversary, Shout Factory has amassed a glorious Blu-ray remastering of Brian De Palma’s 1974 classic, Phantom of...
Fading Gigolo | Blu-ray Review
After making a substantial profit at the box office during its Spring 2014 release (via Millennium Ent.), the mild media fury surrounding the continuing...
Proxy | Blu-ray Review
After receiving a sturdy critical response at it's world premiere at the '13 edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival, followed by an unceremonious...
Wild at Heart | Blu-ray Review
Midway through David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winning, bizarro road-tripping love story, Lula tells her lover Sailor, ‘This whole world is wild at heart and...
August: Osage County | Blu-ray Review
Since the hubbub of Oscar season has finally died away and we can look past the strategy of campaigns, August: Osage County arrives on...
Mysterious Skin | Blu-ray Review
It’s been a decade since Gregg Araki’s arresting coming-of-age examination of the ramifications of child molestation debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 2004...
Criterion Collection: George Washington | Blu-ray Review
As director David Gordon Green returns to the mind frame of independent cinema with a duo of films like Prince Avalanche and (especially) the...
Criterion Collection: Fantastic Mr. Fox | Blu-ray Review
No one was surprised when it was announced in the wake of The Darjeeling Limited that Wes Anderson’s next endeavor would be wholly animated...
Museum Hours | Blu-ray Review
Museums are odd places. People gawk, taking in the history and culture on offer, ruminating in silence. People talk, or, more often than not,...
Criterion Collection: Nashville | Blu-ray Review
Robert Altman’s Nashville resurfaces for the home video market in a nicely packaged DVD/Blu-ray combo set from Criterion. A Best Picture nominee from 1975,...
Night Tide | Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber makes an exciting restoration this month with the 1961 directorial debut of genre favorite Curtis Harrington, Night Tide, which starred a nubile...
What Maisie Knew | Blu-ray Review
In this contemporary rendering from the executive producers of The Kids Are All Right, the brilliantly written characters of Henry James are relocated to...
Stoker | Blu-ray Review
Receiving a rather chilly, subdued reaction after its premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Park Chan-wook’s English language debut, Stoker arrives on Blu-ray...
In the Family | Blu-ray Review
Not long after an initially unheralded premiere in 2011, the Independent Spirit Award nominated debut from Patrick Wang, In the Family, suddenly started getting...
Criterion Collection: Badlands | Blu-ray Review
1973’s Badlands marked the first feature film from writer/director Terrence Malick and it squarely put him on the path to his current cinematic sainthood....
I Am Not A Hipster | Blu-ray Review
Following up his award winning short, Short Term 12, writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton returned to Sundance the following year with another personal reflection, this...
