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Personal Shopper
Written and directed by the French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper is the story of a young woman in the midst of…
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The Friends of Marty Melville
Alfred Hitchcock – Opening Day
Marty Melville, an itinerant collector of arcane movie ephemera, wandered the wilderness of the internet lo these many years till one day…
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Avanti!
Need a break from violence, misery, and injustice? Or maybe just the network TV news? Billy Wilder's last great comic romance is…
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Big Business Girl
What does a working girl have to do to get ahead, when all she has in her favor is an incredible face,…
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The Lure
No jokes about fish and visitors please -- Agnieszka Smoczyńska's horror fantasy musical is indeed about delectable creatures from the deep, but…
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Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick's contribution to great cinema of the 1970s offers his vision of what an epic should be. Transported by images that…
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Titanic (1943)
In 1942, with the war going fairly well for Germany, Joseph Goebbels green-lit a lavish, technically complex account of the sinking of…
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Don’t Torture a Duckllng
Lucio Fulci’s most consistent trait might have been his instability. In fact it may have been the Italian director’s defining quality; lingering…
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Pity the poor exhibitors in 1953 that splurged on 3-D equipment, only to see the payroll soar and the profits fall. Nope,…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
GOOD GUYS FINISH FIRST: DON MANCINI’S DURABLY DERANGED KILLER DOLL RETURNS IN CULT OF CHUCKY
Let’s talk memorable movie killers for a second. Since Mrs. Bates first slashed her way through the shower curtain in Room 1…
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All the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations
What is this? Sex-oriented movies with believable psychodramatics, made by a committed artist with taste and talent? Joe Sarno's pictures still aren't…
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THE WONDERFUL WORLDS OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN, VOLUME ONE: 1955-1960
Since the early days of home video Ray Harryhausen’s films have been a lightning rod for companies eager to one-up the competition…
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
One of the best pictures to come out of Hollywood in the late 1960s, Sydney Pollack's screen version of Horace McCoy's hardboiled…
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Churchill
The scope of this slice of wartime history is so small, it's almost the movie equivalent of a one-man show. There are…
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Gun Fury 3-D
Rock Hudson and Donna Reed star in a kidnapping-vengeance-pursuit western filmed in large part in gorgeous Sedona, Arizona, in 3-D and (originally)…
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The Chase (UK)
A big welcome to UK disc purveyors Indicator, or Powerhouse, or how does Powerhouse Indicator sound? Savant's first review from the new…
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The Big Knife
What seemed too raw for 1955 still packs a punch, as Robert Aldrich takes a meat cleaver to the power politics of…
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The Piano Teacher
Her face merely a mask just waiting to crack along with her sanity, the tortured spinster at the center of The Piano…
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The Champion: A Story of America’s First Film Town
Proving again that there's always more to learn about film history, Marc J. Perez's documentary tells the story of a major American…
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Brigadoon
Balletic, stylized and rather aloof, MGM's biggest musical for 1954 still has what musical lovers crave -- good dancing, beautiful melodies and…
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The Flight of the Phoenix (Region B)
Forgotten amid Robert Aldrich's more critic-friendly movies is this superb suspense picture, an against-all-odds thriller that pits an old-school pilot against a…
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Erik the Conqueror
"And On The Eighth Day Bava Created Color." That's my sentiment with every new quality restoration of a Mario Bava picture. This…
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Hour of the Gun
It's the one Gunfight at the O.K. Corral saga that puts Western legend into proper perspective as to the nature of money,…
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Vampyr (1932)
Of all the legendary early horror films Carl Theodor Dreyer's vampire nightmare was once the most difficult to appreciate -- until Criterion's…
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OSS 117 Five Film Collection
He's fast on his feet, quick with a gun, and faster with the to-die-for beauties that only existed in the swinging '60s.…