Blu-ray Review: Secret Sunshine
If I were going to make a list of a list of films that portray grief in a palpable manner, Secret Sunshine would be near the top of the list. Recently widowed, Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) and her son Jun (Seon Jung-yeop) move to the small town of Milyang to start a new life. Her mantra […]
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 […]