by Sean Axmaker | Jun 28, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
La Chienne (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second sound film by Jean Renoir, is arguably his first masterpiece and it shows Renoir already using sound both subtly and creatively back in 1931. Adapted from a novel by Georges de La Fouchardière, it stars Michel Simon as...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 30, 2013 | Home Viewing
La Notte (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “trilogy of alienation” (it’s bracketed by L’Avventura, 1961, and L’Eclisse, 1962, both on Criterion DVD), stars Marcello Mastroianni as a celebrated...
