Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
Category: Drama
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Millions Like Us: Bereavement in British Cinema
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or Lars von Trier’s New Old Testament
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or How Not to Discover America
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation
“With my memories I have lit a fire.”
They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD
Of course, it’ll cost you
Disturbing Movies: or the Flip Side of the Real
Disturbing movies shouldn’t equivocate
Comedy · Drama · Music & Musicals
The Masked and Anonymous Carnival of Disappointment, Exploitation, and Profound Ironies
“We’re all trying to kill time, but time ends up killing us.”
I’m Not Scared: But You’ll Be
Plumbing the darkness o “sunny Italy” in the 1970s
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
All That Heaven Disallows: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul on DVD
Postwar German culture is skewered in this Fassbinder masterpiece, beautifully presented by Criterion.
Characters · Drama · Essays
Tunes of Mutiny, or Making the Job Bearable: On The Caine Mutiny
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner: Native Canadians and a Glimpse in the Mirror
This breakthrough film fascinates on many levels
Knocking on Modernity’s Door: Fellini’s I Vitelloni
Postwar despair, Italian style
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