The Piano Teacher  Blu-ray Criterion 2001 / 1:85 / Street Date September 26, 2017 Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot Cinematography: Christian Berger Film Editor: Monika Willi, Nadine Muse Produced by Veit Heiduschka Music: Martin Achenbach Directed by Michael Haneke   Her serene face a fragile mask just waiting to crack along with her…

Proving again that there’s always more to learn about film history, Marc J. Perez’s documentary tells the story of a major American film capital before Hollywood. Milestone surrounds it with a couple of hours of early silent films made in the cinema Mecca of . . . Fort Lee, New Jersey. The Champion: A Story…

Balletic, stylized and rather aloof, MGM’s biggest musical for 1954 still has what musical lovers crave — good dancing, beautiful melodies and unabashed romantic sentiments. Savant has a bad tendency to fixate on the inconsistencies of its fantasy concept — in which God places an ideal Scottish village outside the limits of Time itself. Brigadoon…