Showing posts with label Criterion Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Criterion Collection. Show all posts

Friday, December 04, 2009

Side-slipping: A Review of Downhill Racer


"Available for the first time on DVD, The Criterion Collection has put together a stunning transfer with fantastic visuals. This is the kind of DVD you want in your collection if for no other reason than to demonstrate the beauty found in your new flat screen TV."

Click here to read my DVD review at PopMatters

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Death Every Afternoon: A DVD review of The Hit


"...despite its generic title and the professions of its central characters, The Hit bears little resemblance to the gangster film in the traditional sense. It’s closer in nature to Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s Performance, a film that opens as a full-on gritty gangster film but radically shifts gears to become a psychedelic head trip about questioning self-identity. The Hit is a less complex (and less frustrating) film but it follows a similar trajectory of using gangster film qualities to philosophize about the nature of death."

Click here to read my review at PopMatters