Ranging from seemingly lost silent masterpieces to documentaries from generations past, this year's Festival of Preservation is one of the series' most interesting to date.
Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Joshua Reviews Amman Abbasi’s Dayveon [Theatrical Review]
This debut feature is an emotionally engrossing look at loss and grief.
Scott Reviews Josef von Sternberg’s The Saga of Anatahan [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Von Sternberg's final film leaps out of obscurity and onto Blu-ray
Scott Nye
Joshua Reviews Neasa Ní Chianáin And David Rane’s School Life [Theatrical Review]
A boarding school is the setting for this warm, if ultimately formless, new documentary.
Joshua Reviews Shaul Schwarz And Christina Clusiau’s Trophy [Theatrical Review]
Trophy hunting is the focus of this new documentary, which offers up an unconventional look at the world of animal conservation and big game hunting.
Joshua Reviews Ramona Diaz’s Motherland [Theatrical Review]
This new documentary takes us into the world's busiest maternity ward for one of the year's most captivating documentary discoveries.
Joshua Reviews Peter Bratt’s Dolores [Theatrical Review]
Bratt's new film takes a look at the life and political career of one of the US' great activists.
Joshua Reviews Valerie Muller And Angelin Preljocaj’s Polina [Theatrical Review]
With a top tier supporting performance from Juliette Binoche, Polina is a narratively cliche yet quietly captivating character study.
Joshua Reviews Andrea Testa And Francisco Marquez’s The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis [Theatrical Review]
This new paranoia thriller is one of the year's most exciting directorial debuts, and a much needed change of pace this summer film season.
Joshua Reviews Jung Byung-Gil’s The Villainess [Theatrical Review]
At once narratively incoherent and form-pushing in its action direction, The Villainess is one of the year's most exciting and frustrating films.
Trevor Reviews Michael Curtiz’s The Breaking Point [Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Review]
Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point, an adaptation from one of Hemingway's lesser known novels, is a solid noir, thrilling and beautifully constructed. Criterion's new release will hopefully give the film the light it...
Trevor Berrett
David Reviews Sacha Guitry’s La Poison [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
Sacha Guitry and Michel Simon take a stab at incisive, scandalous comedy, and get off scot free.
David Blakeslee
Scott Reviews Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky [Theatrical Review]
Soderbergh's return to the big screen is a tossed-off entertainment machine.
Scott Reviews Ronald Neame’s Hopscotch [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
The greatest film ever made (or so it seems) comes to Blu-ray.
Joshua Reviews Jang Hoon’s A Taxi Driver [Theatrical Review]
This based-on-a-true-story political drama is one of 2017's great world cinema surprises.