Keyword View: kurosawa  It took longer than we wanted, but Kurosawa's influential, twisty masterpiece is finally available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. It's also certainly no surprise that this 62-year-old film has never looked or sounded better. Read More...
Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - December 29, 2012, 6:24 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: thriller, truth, justice
 Chris Marker's 28-minute 1962 film La Jetée is the centerpiece of this Blu-Ray doublebill from Criterion, which also features his full-length 1983 film Sans Soleil. What makes this such an interesting release is the way these two very different films so perfectly intertwine - made over a period of decades - into a complex expression of time, memory and remembering. Read More...
Posted by: Rich Rosell - March 10, 2012, 10:00 am - DVD Review
Keywords: time travel, terry gilliam, memory, vertigo, time
 Toshiro Mifune as a true master of the universe, in Akira Kurosawa's brutally taut crime story. On Blu-ray from our friends at Criterion, and it's never looked better. Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - August 11, 2011, 1:32 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: kurosawa, mifune, mcbain
 Jean-Pierre Melville empties his chamber and pours everything he knows into this honey of a noir. Looking extra swanky now, on Blu-ray. Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 10, 2011, 8:49 am - DVD Review
Keywords: melville, noir, criterion
 ...ushers in a new generation of urban transcendental cinema. An evolving, empathetic, African-American police detective, unconsciously channels his intuition to transcend his shortcomings and unravel the enigmatic murder of a transformed prostitute... MVD Visual Read More...
Posted by: News Editor - April 15, 2011, 10:22 am - PR
Keywords: mystery
The greatest film of all time. If you disagree, it's because there's something wrong with you. On Blu-ray. (The movie, not you.) Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - October 22, 2010, 12:58 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: samurai, kurosawa
 The master in his apprentice years. Watch and learn. Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 27, 2010, 10:30 am - DVD Review
Keywords: kurosawa, criterion, eclipse, samurai
 One of the great ones, the first John Wayne/John Ford collaboration gets the top-of-the-line Criterion treatment. Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 21, 2010, 12:18 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: western, john wayne, john ford
 Two of Akira Kurasowa's masterworks, masterfully presented in high definition. Read More...
Posted by: Joel Cunningham - April 3, 2010, 1:03 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: kurasowa, japanese, samurai, mifune
 Max Ophuls' magnificent final film, finally, finally on DVD. Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - March 26, 2010, 7:17 am - DVD Review
Keywords: ophuls, criterion, lola montes, sarris, ustinov
 Criterion's great big box of Neorealism. Read More...
Posted by: Jon Danziger - February 24, 2010, 8:57 am - DVD Review
Keywords: italian, foreign, rossellini, neorealism, criterion
 Yet another of the master's amazing films sees the light of day on Blu-ray via The Criterion Collection. Keep 'em coming, Criterion! Read More...
Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - August 16, 2009, 4:37 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: warlord, peasant thief, samurai
 Of the great directors of filmís first century, Bergman is perhaps the least fashionable. Interest comes and goes, but he never seems to inspire the widespread passion of a Hitchcock, or a Fellini or Kurosawa. Read More...
Posted by: Ross Johnson - October 4, 2009, 2:05 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: ingmar bergman, marie nyrerˆd, peter cowie, documentary,
 Woody Allen's comedic redubbing of a couple of Japanese crime films is still full of laughs, but what's really funny is how similar this "new" DVD is to the one released in 2003. So funny I forgot to laugh. Read More...
Posted by: Joel Cunningham - July 5, 2009, 7:30 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: woody allen, mst3k, spartan dog
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