This past month, The Criterion Collection brought out a title they once had in print on LaserDisc back in the 1990s: Terry Gilliam's urban chivalric romance The Fisher King. Trevor reviews the film and the new edition. Read the full post.
Today you can pick up an upgrade of The Criterion Collection's double feature of films based on Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers," featuring Robert Siodmak's 1946 film noir and Don Siegel's 1964 crime drama (as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version). Trevor reviews the new edition. Read the full post.
Once again, I had the great pleasure of joining in a conversation at The CriterionCast, this time to discuss Otto Preminger's 1959 film, Anatomy of a Murder. Read the post and find a link to the podcast.
David and Trevor are back with The Eclipse Viewer 30: Early Fassbinder Part II. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
In 1970, riding the last oscillations of the Czech New Wave, director Jaromil Jireš created a phantasmagoric look at a young girls maturation, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, containing the energy and creativity of the Czech New Wave -- as well as a healthy dose of its metaphorical subterfuge. Today marks the film's release on a new Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD. Read the full post.
In 1959, Bernhard Wicki adapted Gregor Dorfmeister's anti-war novel, The Bridge, into a film of the same name that would help usher German cinema back to international attention and go on to influence many directors involved in the New German Cinema that flourished in the 1970s. Today, The Criterion Collection is releasing the film on Blu-ray and DVD. Trevor reviews the film and the Criterion Blu-ray edition. Read the full post.
David and Trevor are back with The Eclipse Viewer 29: Early Fassbinder Part I. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
For decades, the stage director André Gregory and actor Wallace Shawn have worked together, theorizing about life and the stage and their roles in each. Today, The Criterion Collection is releasing a box set that collects the three films they've collaborated to create, My Dinner with André, Vanya on 42nd Street, and A Master Builder. Trevor takes a look at the set. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews two political thrillers from Costa-Gavras, 1970's The Confession and 1972's State of Siege, which The Criterion Collection released on Blu-ray this week. Read the full post.
David and Trevor are back with The Eclipse Viewer 28: Silent Ozu -- Three Crime Dramas. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
