The Criterion Shelf: German Expressionism
Criterion's collection highlighting the genre of German Expressionism is such a gift for those of us who have always read about the filmmaking style, but never actually investigated it.
Fritz Lang
Home Entertainment Review: Man Hunt
At first glance Man Hunt is just another 1940's political noir thriller, but it is actually a call to arms aimed at famous director Fritz Lang’s adopted country well before they entered the most infamous war of the modern age.
Godar(t): The Works of Jean-Luc Godard at TIFF
The TIFF Bell Lightbox kicks off the first of a nearly year long, two part look at the works of famed filmmaker and writer Jean-Luc Godard this Thursday, one of the most passionate and fascinating figures in cinema history.
The New Old: The Good, the Badlands, & the Ugly
This week in archival DVD land, we take a look at new Blu-Rays for the Canadian classic sex comedy Porky's, Criterion treatments for Terrence Malick's Badlands and Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear, and a Steven Seagal TV show that was re-edited into a movie with the hopes no one would notice.
