Blu-ray Review: Cul-de-sac
Similar to his earlier film Knife in the Water, Roman Polanski’s Cul-de-sac is a subtle exploration of shifting power in a mismatched threesome. Polanski’s decision to set the film in a single, claustrophobic space, results in a revealing black comedy about class and gender struggle. Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac play George and Teresa, newlyweds […]
Criterion Announces August 2011 Releases
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS – Blu-ray One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo (Kapò), vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women […]