This week’s roundup includes reviews of the Blu-ray releases of a trio of vintage films: French master Henri-Georges Clouzot’s anti-Nazi allegory, 1943’s “Le Corbeau,” from the Criterion Collection; 1940’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” from Warner Archive; and “The...
Author - Kevin Filipski
The latest Digital Week roundup leads off with the 4K release of Baz Luhrmann’s loopy “Elvis,” along with Blu-ray releases of Paul Newman’s memorable 1968 directorial debut, “Rachel Rachel,” and a violent Ukrainian war flick set during the 2014 Donbass conflict...
My latest Digital Week roundup includes two films now in theaters: “Breaking,” with John Boyega in a real-life tragedy about a desperate veteran who attempts to rob a bank; and French director Alain Resnais’ classic 1966 psychological study about Franco’s Spain, “La...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of a trio of vintage foreign films on Blu-ray, highlighted by the classic by French director Marcel Carné, 1938’s “Hôtel du Nord,” released this week by the Criterion Collection. Blu-ray Releases of the Week Hôtel du Nord...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films, including “Emily the Criminal,” which showcases a superb Aubrey Plaza, and “Le Temps perdu,” an Argentine documentary about the continuing pull of the masterly writing of French novelist Marcel Proust. In...
This week’s roundup features a trio of new films in theaters and/or streaming that are willfully odd: that strangeness works fairly well at times in “I Love My Dad” and “Medusa” but barely at all in “Resurrection,” despite the always excellent Rebecca Hall’s most...
On her current tour—which stopped at New York City’s Sony Hall July 26 and comes to Chicago August 2—Ann Wilson deftly balances the well-chosen covers that dominate her three solo albums, including her fine new “Fierce Bliss” CD, with classic cuts from Heart, the band...
This week’s Digital Week roundup features sex and violence in spades, with Alan Parker’s grisly 1987 thriller “Angel Heart” in 4K as well as Sonia Braga’s starmaking appearance in 1976’s “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands” and Emmanuelle Beart as a stripper in 2003’s...
This week’s roundup is highlighted by a trio of excellent new documentaries: “Marx Can Wait,” an intensely personal film by Italy’s Marco Bellocchio, one of our great living directors; “From Where They Stood,” a powerful evocation of the memory of victims of the...
This week’s roundup features the 4K release of the latest entertaining “Downton Abbey” saga, along with several new in-theater/streaming releases, including the excellent documentaries “Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel” and “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a...
