Kazan's docu-noir explores many of the social and emotional themes that would later concern him within a more traditional procedural.
Scott Nye
Scott Nye
Scott Reviews Robert Altman’s Nashville [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Altman's landmark film gets a new release on a label befitting its status.
Scott Reviews Brian De Palma’s Sisters [Blu-ray Review]
The film that made De Palma is now available in gorgeous high definition.
Scott Reviews Douglas Sirk’s Sleep, My Love [Blu-Ray Review]
Even operating in a different genre, Sirk establishes themes of longing, passion, and the quiet fear of loneliness that would define his later work.
Scott Reviews Franklin J. Schaffner’s The War Lord [Blu-ray Review]
The rare war film about the ideal of peace, The War Lord suffers still from other, less laudable aspects of 1960s culture.
Scott Reviews Richard Fleischer’s Violent Saturday [Blu-ray Review]
As the major film studios have increasingly lost interest in their back catalogues, it has opened the doors for these independent houses to do some truly outstanding, important work, giving us an eclectic array of films...
Scott Reviews Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Wilder's excoriation of American media continues a Hollywood's contentious relationship with TV and journalism.
Scott Reviews Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
The 1971 Australian film proves a major rediscovery.
On the Hulu Channel: François Truffaut’s The Soft Skin
Truffaut's fourth film deals with modern romance, in all its inconvenience.
Scott Reviews Francesco Rosi’s Hands Over the City [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Rosi's seminal 1963 film tackles the corruption of city development with fierce urgency and intelligence.
Scott Reviews Federico Fellini’s Roma [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Fellini gives himself free reign to create, imagine, and remember.
Scott Reviews Samuel Fuller’s White Dog [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
The film once too dangerous to release at all is now available in high definition.
Scott Reviews Sidney Lumet’s Serpico [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Frank Serpico's conscience was clean, and now, so is this transfer.
Scott Reviews Masters of Cinema’s Lubitsch in Berlin Box Set [DVD Review]
Lubitsch's early silent films prove illuminating to his better-known works, and are incredibly entertaining in their own right.
Scott Reviews Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
The festival hit offers a sharply comedic look at our problematic relationship with technology.