Restoration and Revisionism

In their joint commentary track on the Masters of Cinema DVD/Blu-Ray release of the newly restored Metropolis, David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum express some concern that this new version will cause the disappearance of all previous versions. Why should this be a problem? After all, the “restored” Metropolis is the closest we’ll ever get to […]

Blasts from the past

Abbas Kiarostami’s The Koker Trilogy (1987-94):
Criterion Blu-ray review

Marcel Pagnol’s The Baker’s Wife (1938):
Criterion Blu-ray review

Organized crime, political corruption and bourgeois complicity: four Italian Mafia movies

The “good German” in war movies

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