John Travolta delivers his best performance as a movie sound technician who inadvertently records a murder in this beautifully directed conspiracy thriller.
Tag: The Criterion Collection
‘Three Colors’ – Kieslowski’s sublime trilogy on The Criterion Channel and HBO Max
The three colors are blue, white and red. They are the colors of the French flag, of course, and they are appropriated by director Krzysztof Kieslowski along with the themes of the motto they more or less represent: liberty, equality, fraternity. But the films Three Colors: Blue (1993), Three Colors: White (1993), and Three Colors: […]
‘Vampyr’ – Classic horror as tone poem on HBO Max and Criterion Channel
Vampyr (Denmark, 1932) is a horror movie as tone poem. An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, dialogue is sparse and large blocks of text (either intertitles or pages from a book of vampire lore) provide the exposition. And it’s eerily abstract film with vague motivations and ethereal imagery […]
‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
Filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche explores the lives of outsiders looking for their place in Blue is the Warmest Color (France, 2013) an intimate love story based on a graphic novel. Thanks to Academy rules for foreign films, it wasn’t eligible for an Oscar nomination due to the timing of its French theatrical release. But it took home […]