IngridBergman appeared in ten films in her native Sweden before the age of tw...Ingrid Bergman appeared in ten films in her native Sweden before the age of twenty-five and while that work tends to be overshadowed by her time in Hollywood it showcases the actor summoning an impressive depth of emotion to deliver astute...more
In the late 1940s the incandescent Hollywood star IngridBergman (CASABLANCA) ...In the late 1940s the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman (CASABLANCA) found herself so moved by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini (ROME OPEN CITY) that she sent the director a letter introducing herself and offering...more
Includes the Thick-Walled Room I Will Buy You Black River and The Inheritance.Includes the Thick-Walled Room I Will Buy You Black River and The Inheritance.more
In the final phase of his career Italian master Roberto Rossellini embarked on...In the final phase of his career Italian master Roberto Rossellini embarked on a dramatic daunting project: A series of politically minded televisions films about knowledge and history made in an effort to teach where the contemporary media was...more
There s never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1...There s never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s when all of cinema s steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard Cassavetes and Marker were dissolving the boundaries between fiction and...more
In the late 1940s and early 1950s film critics international festival goers an...In the late 1940s and early 1950s film critics international festival goers and other studious viewers were swept up by the tide of Italian neorealism. Meanwhile mainstream Italian audiences were indulging in a different kind of cinema experience:...more
Often called the Godard of the East Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of...Often called the Godard of the East Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades. Following his rise to prominence at...more
Two films are included. Wooden Crosses: In France s answer to All Quiet on the...Two films are included. Wooden Crosses: In France s answer to All Quiet on the Western Front a World War I regiment trudges from patriotism to disillusionment.more
ECLIPSESERIES 28: THE WARPED WORLD OF KOREYOSHI KURAHARA features the films I...ECLIPSE SERIES 28: THE WARPED WORLD OF KOREYOSHI KURAHARA features the films INDIMIDATION (1960) THE WARPED ONES (1960) I HATE BUT LOVE (1962) BLACK SUN (1964) and THIRST FOR LOVE (1967).more
Whether headlining films in Sweden Italy or Hollywood IngridBergman always pi...Whether headlining films in Sweden Italy or Hollywood Ingrid Bergman always pierced the screen with a singular soulfulness. With this new documentary made on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Bergman s birth director Stig Bjorkman...more
The primitive style pulp-inspired writing and heavy-handed dialogue make these...The primitive style pulp-inspired writing and heavy-handed dialogue make these three quintessential Fuller flicks! I Shot Jesse James (John Ireland. 1949/81 min.) and the Baron of Arizona (Vincent Price. 1950/97 min.) make two very effective...more
A prominent graduate of Moscow s State Institute for Cinematography in 1963 So...A prominent graduate of Moscow s State Institute for Cinematography in 1963 Soviet film visionary Larisa Shepitko spent the proceeding decades crafting stark intimate portraits of complex characters. This entry in the Criterion Collection s Eclipse...more
This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts over the co...This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts over the course of two films a Swedish farming family s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max Von Sydow...more
There has never been another movie like Boyhood from director Richard Linklate...There has never been another movie like Boyhood from director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused). An event film of the utmost modesty it was shot over the course of twelve years in the director s native Texas and charts the physical and...more