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Anselm
Wim Wenders makes 3-D movies like no others ... this investigation of the life and work of the controversial artist Anselm Kiefer…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Bwana Devil
Some titles get remembered as Firsts: The Great Train Robbery, The Jazz Singer, Becky Sharp, This Is Cinerama, The Robe and this…
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The Chase
This subtly surreal noir thriller from the mystery pen of Cornell Woolrich is so 'dreamlike,' it barely makes sense! Penniless drifter Robert…
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Criterion comes through with the spectacular special edition hinted at by Alex Cox back in 2022... Sam Peckinpah's final western sees the…
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Reptilicus
"I'm Reptilicus!" "No, I'm Reptilicus!" That inspirational scene is not to be found in either version of this monster-on-the-loose epic -- but…
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American Gigolo
Paul Schrader, Richard Gere and the studio way of packaging movies hit the jackpot with this tale of an ultra-glamorous professional ladies'…
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When Worlds Collide
Paramount gives us a stand-alone release of its newest remaster of George Pal's visionary, ambitious and amusingly dated Sci-fi epic followup to…
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XIX
Kino's 19th 'Dark Side of Cinema' mega-series -- now 57 individual films and counting -- presents three more solid noir entertainments from…
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
This chiller would have given Franz Kafka nightmares! The most sophisticated & influential Sci-fi film of the 1950s uses few special effects…
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir's tale of a mysterious disappearance in 1900 is even more disturbing than his The Last Wave: the 'New Australian' movement…
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Act of Violence
Fred Zinnemann's dark thriller gives us Robert Ryan as a gun-toting killer, with Van Heflin's respected family man his intended victim. But…
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Strangers Kiss
Independent filmmakers attract attention by using a Kubrick semi-classic as a movie-within-a-movie! Blaine Novak's tale of love on a movie set mirrors…
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The Man I Love
Ida Lupino shows 'em how a real movie star takes possession of the screen in Raoul Walsh's excellent romantic drama set among…
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Victims of Sin
Mexican showbiz from the wrong side of the tracks: it's big, it's vulgar, it's overcooked: but it's highly effective cinema with sensational…
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The Soldier’s Tale
Originally made for Public Television, R.O. Blechman's adaptation of Stravinsky's theater piece combines a score of animation techniques within the illustrator's eccentric,…
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Bandits of Orgosolo
This in-the-wilds thriller about Sardinian shepherds that become outlaws is an almost perfect movie experience, and truer to Italian neorealist theory than…
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Ennio
Morricone fans and students of music will discover a real treat in Giuseppe Tornatore's exhaustive, comprehensive epic documentary of All Things Ennio.…
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2001: A Space Odyssey
No, it's not a new disc ... CineSavant updates an older review to take in Warner's 2018 4K edition -- mainly to…
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Blue Velvet
David Lynch's dark vision of vice and cruelty beneath a quiet rural town solidified his rep as The Most Out-There big-studio director.…
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Man’s Castle
Old-school Hollywood romance is back in force. This pre-Code dazzler by Frank Borzage is one of the best, emotionally valid despite its…
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Chinatown
This masterpiece qualifies as a 'period neo-noir' despite being produced before the noir craze found traction. The murder of a city commissioner…
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Obsession
The most accessible of the pictures director Edward Dmytryk made during his brief political exile in England is this tight 'perfect crime'…
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City of Hope
A previously scarce John Sayles films surfaces in a beautiful widescreen edition. Cynicism and frustration pits a town against itself, in a…
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The Nun’s Story
It's the kind of movie we get dragged to see ... which then becomes a respected favorite. Robert Anderson, Fred Zinnemann and…
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Fear and Desire
Stanley Kubrick's early work can tell us a lot about the artist, as might a collection of Da Vinci or Renoir sketch…
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You’re a Big Boy Now
Come back to the middle 1960s, when America's hottest film student Francis Ford Coppola started on his path to directorial glory by…