Drama · Historical & Epic · Reviews
Plumbing the Depths: Renoir and Kurosawa Do Gorky
Criterion’s double-feature DVD features two minor works by two major auteurs
Category: Drama
Sideways: Sideways to Hell, Maybe!
Alexander Payne’s new indie is headed in the wrong direction
Mike Leigh’s 20th Century Snaps: Vera Drake and Naked
Two sides of the same desperate coin
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Doing What Moves Them at the Moment: Five of Cassavetes’ Best on DVD
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
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
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner: Native Canadians and a Glimpse in the Mirror
This breakthrough film fascinates on many levels
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