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Keyword View: french new wave

DVD Review PURPLE NOON (BLU-RAY)

Alain Delon's beautiful and cold Tom Ripley is one of film's all-time great villains, and this new edition of Purple Noon shows off the film's sensuous pleasures to great effect.

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - January 5, 2013, 3:37 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: french new wave, italy, ripley

PR Criterion Collection September Titles

This September, two of the greatest, as well as the most unorthodox, films about World War II will come to the Criterion Collection, in both Blu-ray and DVD editions. Terrence Malick's star-studded (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson), multiple-Oscar-nominated James Jones adaptation The Thin Red Line is a staggering accomplishment, a profoundly moving, existential trip to war's heart of darkness, set during the battle for Guadalcanal. And Nagisa Oshima's extraordinarily bold Japanese POW camp drama Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, starring David Bowie as a mysterious prisoner targeted by an obsessive camp commander, is one of the controversial director's most acclaimed and beloved films. Plus, two jazzy sixties hits—Godard's Breathless, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and Stanley Donen's Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant—come out in new Criterion Blu-ray editions.

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Posted by: News Editor - June 22, 2010, 5:48 pm - PR
Keywords: criterion, dvd, blu-ray

DVD Review PIERROT LE FOU

The strength of Criterion's previous release of Godard's pulp crime masterpiece makes the decision to upgrade to Blu-ray a tough one—until you see the image transfer, that is, and head to eBay to sell your old copy.

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Posted by: Joel Cunningham - October 5, 2009, 8:30 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: french new wave

DVD Review MADE IN U.S.A.

Heretofore ironically unavailable in the U.S. (due to rights issues with the Donald E. Westlake novel upon which weíre supposed to believe it is ìbasedî), Jean-Luc Godard's candy-colored genre meditation Made in U.S.A. comes to DVD from The Criterion Collection. Thank goodness for the supplements, practically essential to unpacking one of the most challenging and inscrutable films of the director's celebrated 1960s output.

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Posted by: Joel Cunningham - July 7, 2009, 8:15 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: jean-luc godard, anna karina, french new wave, walt disney

DVD Review LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

Debate the merits of the confounding film all you want, but there's no arguing the fact that this Blu-ray offers one of the most beautiful black-and-white transfers ever produced.

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Posted by: Joel Cunningham - July 5, 2009, 6:32 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: french new wave, existentialism