Mississippi Mermaid (Blu-ray)
Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Francois Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid was poorly received when released in the United States in April of 1970. This second homage to Hitchcock that Truffaut produced (after The Bride Wore Black), deserves a second look by those who see it as a lesser entry in the filmmakers cannon. The unbelievably […]
Blu-ray Review: Léon Morin, Priest
Aiming for a wider audience in 1961, the often overlooked director Jean-Pierre Melville (Les enfants terribles, Le samourai) adapted Beatrix Beck’s autobiographical novel The Passionate Heart. Set in a French village during World War II, Léon Morin, Priest is about a young woman falling in love with a handsome, radical young priest who’s fully aware […]
Blu-ray Review: Breathless
(À bout de soufflé) Criterion | 1960 | 90 mins. | NR Fifty years after its premiere, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless remains relevant and seemingly in sync with contemporary cultural trends and mores. With his cool and sexy characters, who fired off a bevy of instantly recognizable film and literary references, Godard set fire to the […]