Videophiled Classic: ‘The Wind Will Carry Us’ at 15
We didn’t know it at the time but The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) was the end of a distinctive mode of cinematic engagement for Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami. He had won the Palm d’or at Cannes in 1997 for A...
View ArticleVideophiled Classic: Otar Iosseliani’s ‘Favorites of the Moon’
Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with...
View ArticleVideophiled Best of 2014 on Blu-ray and DVD
The death of Blu-ray and DVD has apparently been prematurely called. Streaming and cable VOD still dominates home viewing but Redbox and other kiosk-based disc vendors have kept disc rentals alive (if...
View ArticleVideophiled: Liliana Cavani’s ‘The Skin’
The Skin (aka La Pelle, Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), directed by Liliana Cavani in 1981 from the novel by Curzio Malaparte, is ostensibly a war drama, set during the American liberation of Sicily from the...
View ArticleBlu-ray: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘A Married Woman’
A Married Woman (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), subtitled “Fragments of a film shot in 1964,” is Jean-Luc Godard’s modern portrait of love and sex in the media-saturated sixties with Macha Méril in a role that...
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Sudden Fear’
Cohen Film Collection Joan Crawford took charge of her career as she aged out of the ingénue roles that propelled her to stardom, developing stories and pursuing properties that offered strong...
View ArticleBlu-ray: James Whale’s ‘The Old Dark House’
James Whale followed up his iconic horror classic Frankenstein (1931) with the strange, sly, and sardonic The Old Dark House (1932), part haunted house terror and part spoof executed with baroque...
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