Down with Pleasure: The Lost Films of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
Arrow Films and Kino-Lorber offer hard-to-find works of Godard and Gorin.
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Through the Fog of TV Amnesia: Remembering The Briefly Lived ‘Coronet Blue’
Coronet Blue seems to be TV's earliest incarnation of the amnesiac hero, and moreover the amnesiac spy.
Something Borowczyk, Something Blue: A Cinema of Sex and Power
Walerian Borowczyk is a filmmaker of glimpses and ellipses. Long neglected and obscure, his films are now emerging on Blu-ray.
How About Some Noah Baumbach, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Altman and Akira Kurosawa for the Holidays?
If you ever wonder why certain elements get tossed into a movie, remember: beauty never needs to be justified. These and other thoughts on recent Blu-ray releases.
Mourning in America: Remembering ‘Twin Peaks’
Frustrating expectations was part of Twin Peaks modus operandi.
Domestic Infelicity: ‘Way Out’ Is Lost and Found on YouTube
Roald Dahl's short-lived anthology feels like a merging of Rod Serling's horror and sci-fi with Alfred Hitchcock's obsession with unhappy marriages.
UCLA Film & Television Archive to the Rescue
The Chase, Too Late for Tears, Woman on the Run and The Southerner are all examples of postwar indie cinema that had fallen through the cracks -- until now.
25 Nights With Some Movies That Caused a Temporary Ripple in the Buzz-o-sphere
From the importance (or not) of the comic book movies to films with avant-garde concepts, some beautiful, some unbearable.
The Bad and the Beautiful: B-Horrors Go Blu
Surrounded by faceless men, stone men, and brainless men, the mesmerizing B-movie horror Queen of Blood belongs in her own class.
Fighting the Battles of ‘Jericho’, the Show That Came Tumbling Down
Jericho wore the influence of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on its sleeve, but that didn't protect it.
On Denaturing Racial Elements in Two ’50s-era Films
Two fascinating bits of Americana, Black Gold and Face of Fire, are defined by racial themes, yet tackle the subject quite differently.