Posts Tagged ‘Kent Jones’
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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Film Review – Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film lovers are a varied bunch with the medium being a subjective experience that allows for every opinion to have its own perspective. And while it’s hard to find a movie to objectively agree on, it’s probably equally as hard to objectively disagree that one…
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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 – 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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Blu-ray Review – La Promesse
A sparkling new Blu-ray edition of the moving Belgian film La Promesse (The Promise) is coming out as part of the Criterion Collection. As is often the case, just by virtue of being selected for the Criterion treatment, this is a movie worth attention. I…
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