Comments on: Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life – Criterion Collection #507 [Blu-ray Review]

By: Keith Enright

Keith Enright — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:46:00 +0000

I remember seeing amazing clips of this movie years ago in Martin Scorcese’s Journey Through American Movies. Seeing the whole thing after all this time cemented my fascination. A truly great movie that I’ve watched three times now. And as amazing as James Mason is, Walther Matthau is the true revelation here. He was always great, but it is wonderful to see him here pre-caricature.

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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:34:31 +0000

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Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:58:34 +0000

[...] Read James McCormick’s review of the Bigger than Life Blu-ray for CriterionCast. Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking—and wildly entertaining. [...]

By: Jonathan Ramses

Jonathan Ramses — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:13:03 +0000

Fantastic movie and better still, a well thought out review detailing why this film deserves to be in the pantheon of Criterion films. Thank you, Mr. McCormick, for giving an amazing film the credit it's due.

By: Jonathan Ramses

Jonathan Ramses — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:13:03 +0000