The Merchant of Four Seasons (Blu-ray) (Criterion)
Often after watching a film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder I find myself both mentally and physically exhausted. His style is unrelenting; often harsh. His character’s emotions exist right on the surface; they hide little, almost appearing to exaggerate everything they do. And yet given the bleak worlds in which Fassbinder’s character’s exist, this is understandable. […]
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
A rather sweet, yet powerful love story, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a reworking of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 masterpiece, All That Heaven Allows. An unapologetic weepy, Sirk’s film concerns a forbidden romance between a rich widow and her younger gardener. Within a melodramatic structure, Sirk managed to reveal dome disturbing truths about how social […]