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Matt Hough Ugetsu Blu-ray Review [IMG] The natural runs headlong into the supernatural in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu, one of the most celebrated...

Matt Hough They Live by Night Blu-ray Review [IMG] Emphasizing its tragic romance rather than its bleak film noir facets, Nicholas Ray’s They...

[ATTACH] Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike...

[ATTACH] Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 to 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to...

[ATTACH] The expanses of the American Northwest take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three...

[ATTACH] Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study...

[ATTACH] A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries, David Lynch: The Art Life offers an absorbing portrait of...

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[ATTACH] Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood’s second crack at Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and...

[ATTACH] The inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British...

[ATTACH] A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime was the culmination of the...

[ATTACH] The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France’s best-known and most inventive...

[ATTACH] With the lacerating love story Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox reimagines the crash-and-burn affair between punk’s most notorious...

[ATTACH] Gloriously cinematic despite its tiny budget, Orson Welles’s Othello is a testament to the filmmaker’s stubborn willingness to pursue...

Matt Hough The Young Girls of Rochefort Blu-ray Review [IMG] The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacques Demy’s 1967 song-and-dance follow-up to his...

Matt Hough The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Blu-ray Review [IMG] Perhaps the first ever pop opera with through-sung dialogue amid a sprinkling of...

I just ordered the two-disc Criterion Blu ray edition of 'His Girl Friday' from Amazon.co.uk for what I thought was an amazing price of $28...

[ATTACH] Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after...

[ATTACH] In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor...

[ATTACH] Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied...

[ATTACH] In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive...

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As part of their on-going license agreement with Warner Bros., Criterion has given us George Steven's Woman of the Year, written by Ring Lardner,...

There's an article about the death of the midnight movie on Vanity Fair's website and they quote John Waters and add that PINK FLAMINGOS is...

Matt Hough Multiple Maniacs Blu-ray Review [IMG] Made during his “early, dirty” period when bad taste was always the goal and subversion the...

[ATTACH] Having refined his craft in the silent era, Kenji Mizoguchi was an elder statesman of Japanese cinema—fiercely revered by Akira...

[ATTACH] Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films...

[ATTACH] n the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His...