Belle de jour: Criterion Collection
In 1967, master provocateur Luis Bunuel released one of his most celebrated films Belle de jour, an erotic tale of an unhappy bourgeois Paris housewife who works part-time at a posh brothel in order to act out her complex psychosexual fantasies. It was not an easy shoot for lead actress Catherine Deneuve who was put through the emotional and physical ringer by Bunuel. She was already a star thanks to the one-two punch of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) but her performance in Belle de jour is arguably her most important one as she forces us to look past her character’s beautiful, blank... Read DVD Review
Branded to Kill: Criterion Collection
Seijun Suzuki cut his teeth on pop musicals, comedies, action and war films. Over time, he became impatient with his status as a B-movie director while some of his peers were making A movies. Often stuck with substandard screenplays, the frustrated director decided to mess around with the style of his films, in particular Branded to Kill (1967) despite Nikkatsu studios warning him to tone it down.... Read DVD Review
Tokyo Drifter: Criterion Collection
Seijun Suzuki made his name in Japan with hard-boiled B-crime films during the 1950’s. By the 1960’s, he took traditional Yakuza stories and juxtaposed them with an extreme Andy Warhol-esque pop art look that gleefully pushed genre conventions. He started to break away from convention with Youth of the Beast (1963) and then fused the sensibilities of Sam Fuller with the aesthetics of Douglas Sirk... Read DVD Review
12 Angry Men: Criterion Collection
Adapted from the 1954 teleplay of the same name, 12 Angry Men (1957) marked the auspicious feature film debut of director Sidney Lumet who had cut his teeth on live television in New York City. He brought a gritty, edgy realism to this film, an approach that flew in the face of traditional, more polished Hollywood cinema. With the exception of Henry Fonda, Lumet eschewed movie star casting in favor... Read DVD Review
Deadly Intent
Deadly Intent (1989) is one of those forgettable thrillers you happen to catch on television late one night, enticed by the cast of interesting character actors, and then promptly fall asleep partway through because it is so predictable. It was directed by Nigel Dick, a British music video director who was responsible for the famous Band-Aid video for “Do They Know Its Christmas?” among many others.... Read DVD Review
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