This exceptional restoration introduces this touchstone of African-American film to a new generation who will find its lessons enduringly relevant.
One of the few jazz films, or music films in general, to not simply explain its subject, but illustrate his mien.
Sono’s frantic depiction of angry, confused youth is one of his strongest, most poetic works.
The conclusion of Sion Sono’s Hate trilogy gets a reliably barebones but sturdy home-video release from Olive Films.
Raro’s excellent A/V transfer resuscitates a forgotten gem of 1980s cinema, an interpretive horror film from an unpredictable filmmaker.
One of the only great punk films to be purely celebratory of the music’s escapism and inspiration to young misfits.
By far the most uncompromising and gory of the many adaptations of the play, and its viciousness is perfectly preserved by Criterion.
Similar films use widescreen to highlight a terrifying existential void, but these cramped frames produce the nutty energy of cabin fever.
Working in the most white elephantine of genres, Abel Ferrara has produced one of its few termitic entries.
Unfortunately, Rosewater rarely builds off the scenes between Gael García Bernal and Kim Bodnia.
Abel Ferrara’s wholly unconventional biopic manages to stick in the brain like few I’ve seen so far.
Phoenix perpetuates one of the best contemporary director-actor collaborations.
Even the title speaks to Roy Andersson’s paradoxical blend of the ornate and dryly blunt.
Sony’s Blu-ray may be light on extras, but the charms of Jarmusch’s funny, sexy, and elegiac vampire movie speak for themselves.
Cassavetes’s greatest film receives a loving transfer and meaty extras in one of Criterion’s essential releases of the year.
The depths of Bresson’s ostensibly simple formalism and stark moralism only make themselves apparent after multiple viewings of his films.
One of the most intoxicating, evocative sci-fi films of recent times, and this Blu-ray ably preserves its pristine video and audio.
Even when songs simply play over disconnected footage of the Beatles having fun, the strength of their songcraft is stirring.
It stands as a crucial flashpoint for the Beatles’s cultural takeover and a pervasive influence on contemporary musicals and music videos.
This manic, loving parody of toy bricks and the pop culture associated with them receives a fittingly overstuffed disc from Warner Home Video.