Blu-ray
Blu-Ray Review – One-Eyed Jacks
Marlon Brando’s first and only directorial effort, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) has been inducted into the Criterion Collection (Spine #844). Once lost to public domain, the film has been updated with restored visuals and audio, and comes with a handful of supplemental material to provide context…
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Blu-Ray Review – The Executioner
It is hard to review the work for a company like Criterion, without just handing out universal praise. Their movie releases tend to be so far past most of the industry the only real way you can fairly compare them is against themselves, and it is…
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Blu-Ray Review – Pan’s Labyrinth
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Guillermo del Toro’s Academy Award winning Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). To commemorate the occasion, the good folks over at the Criterion Collection have graciously bestowed upon us a beautiful blu ray edition of the film (Spine #838). This director-approved…
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Blu-Ray Review – Cat People (1942)
I avidly watch the physical media space with both curiosity and skepticism. Increasingly I find myself less and less drawn to discs when watching movies. The benefits such as better visual quality and additional special features just aren’t necessary most of the time (or appealing depending…
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Blu-ray Review – 3:10 to Yuma
At first glance, Delmer Daves’s 3:10 to Yuma (1957/Criterion spine #657) appears to be as straight as an arrow. If we’re examining it from merely a narrative standpoint, that may be true. A simple premise, a specific goal, with events that lead into each other…
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Blu-ray Review – The Kid with a Bike
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s The Kid with a Bike (2011/Criterion spine #646) tells the story of a young boy in search of himself. His upbringing is not what you would call “ideal.” The people he thought he could trust have turned on him, and as…
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Blu-ray Review – Ivan’s Childhood
Diving into the work of the famous Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky is something I’d always meant to get around to. His is one of the names bandied about by cineastes, he is often heralded as one of the “great” filmmakers, and he is an important…
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Blu-ray Review – Weekend
I have a love/hate relationship with Jean-Luc Godard. Some of his films are undeniable masterpieces; others I find almost unwatchable. Sometimes, it feels as though he is more concerned with the craft of filmmaking rather than telling an engaging story. He is a person of…
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