The 1964 Golden Bear winner was a breakthrough for Turkish cinema.
Scott Nye
Scott Nye
On the Hulu Channel: Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid
The rediscovered masterpiece of Korean psycho-melodrama is part of the World Cinema Foundation's partnership with Criterion.
Scott Reviews Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Rivette's long-unavailable film comes to Blu-ray for the first time.
Scott Reviews Douglas Sirk’s The Tarnished Angels [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Sirk's 1957 masterpiece, as astonishing as ever, makes its high-def debut.
Scott Reviews D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Nearing its 100th year, Griffith's landmark film remains an upsetting, complicated piece of cinema.
Scott Reviews Joshua Logan’s Bus Stop [Blu-ray Review]
Marilyn Monroe's big play for dramatic legitimacy is a wild, genre-busting, melodramatic pleasure.
Scott Reviews Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace [Theatrical Review]
The porn-star biopic is a lie, as cinema as much as fact.
Scott Reviews Sebastián Cordero’s Europa Report [Theatrical Review]
The new found footage film doesn't sacrifice its scientific setting to get great thrills.
Scott Reviews Maggie Carey’s The To Do List [Theatrical Review]
The test of whether one can spend a feature film mocking their teenage years.
Scott Reviews Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review)
Shindo's spooky-scary ghost-cat film looks gorgeous, though very different from its Criterion incarnation.
Scott Reviews Kaneto Shindo’s The Naked Island [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
A film of exceptional beauty, rhythm, and soul.
Scott Reviews Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing [Theatrical Review]
This might be the best documentary, and one of the best films, of the year.
Scott Reviews F.W. Murnau’s Tabu: A Story of the South Seas [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
The joy and sorrow of Murnau's final film continues to resonate in MoC's spectacular new Blu-ray.
Scott Reviews The Complete (Existing) Films of Sadao Yamanaka [Masters of Cinema DVD Review]
A beautiful introduction to a versatile filmmaker's too-short career.
On the Hulu Channel: Roberto Rossellini’s The Machine That Kills Bad People
Rossellini's rare foray into comedy is as sharp and imaginative as his more dramatic affairs.