Fassbinder's third feature film is a moody, acerbic and strangely luminous reworking of noir archetypes.
David Blakeslee
David Blakeslee
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Kazui Nihonmatsu’s The X From Outer Space
Every bit as cheesy and adorable as any old-school kaiju fan could ask for.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher
My second review of films from the new Early Fassbinder Eclipse release.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The American Soldier
Beginning my coverage of the Early Fassbinder Eclipse box.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Akira Kurosawa’s The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
Kurosawa's first samurai saga is perhaps the least known of all his films, but also among the most accessible and entertaining.
David and Joshua Review Satyajit Ray’s The Big City [Blu-ray Review]
Criterion's long-awaited addition of more from Satyajit Ray has arrived.
David Reviews Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Life of Oharu [Blu-ray Review]
Mizoguchi's international award-winner is an essential companion piece for admirers of Ugetsu and Sansho The Bailiff.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Hiroshi Shimizu’s Japanese Girls at the Harbor
This modest and overlooked silent film from 1933 exposed significant cultural rifts that would reverberate through Japan for the next several decades.
David Reviews Pip Chodorov’s Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
A swift-moving introduction to avant-garde film from the perspective of someone raised from childhood in that scene.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Women of the Night
Mizoguchi's penultimate film of the 1940s captures postwar Japan at a fragile tipping point, setting the stage for his triumphs of the 1950s such as The Life of Oharu - coming soon to the Criterion Collection.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Don Juan
Lessons in love from the greatest balcony climber of them all.
David Reviews Chris Smith’s The Pool [DVD Review]
This award-winning independent American film shot in India in 2006 finally has a well-deserved home video release.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System
This newest addition to the Eclipse line is a perfect demonstration of the unique purpose it serves in giving well-deserved attention to important but lesser known films by one of Japan's greatest directors.
David Reviews Pierre Étaix’s LE GRAND AMOUR [Theatrical Review]
Though it's already too late to catch this film on the big screen in Portland, we're less than a week away from its availability on home video.