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Behind the veil with “The Others” – The Criterion Collection

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Nicole Kidman stars as Grace Stewart, a devout Roman Catholic mother, who lives with her two young...

Orson Welles makes it personal in Kafka’s classic “The Trial”

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K. a young bureaucrat, arrested for an unnamed crime. He appears in...

Criterion goes 3-for-3 with Terry Gilliam’s marvelous, magical ‘Time Bandits’

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS A history buff of the first order, 11-year-old Kevin (Craig Warnock, third from the left) joins the...

Yippie-yi-oh – Saddle up for Criterion’s “The Ranown Westerns: Five Films by Budd Boetticher”

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS The leathered Randolph Scott was in his late 50s when he starred in Budd Boetticher’s “The Tall T.”...

Subtle, moving fantasy “Wings of Desire” on Criterion 4K

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Swiss actor Bruno Ganz plays the invisible angel Damiel, who comforts a critically injured...

Criterion’s 4K remaster of Terry Gilliam’s brilliant ‘Fisher King’ is phenomenal

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Robin Williams received a Best Actor Oscar nomination as Parry, a homeless man who recruits fallen...

Criterion gives Terry Gilliam’s marvelous ‘Baron Munchausen’ it’s overdue due

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Acclaimed for his performances on the British stage in “Romeo and Juliet,” “Richard II,” and...

Top 10: 4K UHDs of 2022

TRUE 4K MASTERING / HDR FRAME SHOTS THE LIST of movies is the very best in 4K viewing from disc or streaming. The criteria required the...

Oscar-winning sound drives transition story: “Sound of Metal” – Criterion Collection

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Oscar-nominated Riz Ahmed plays Ruben Stone, a punk-metal drummer, and his girlfriend Lou played by...

Remastered in 4K UHD, Criterion’s “Double Indemnity” is one of the year’s top titles

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Barbara Stanwyck stars as the cunning Mrs. Phyllis Dietrichson and Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff,...

In bed with the reds – “Pickup on South Street” – The Criterion Collection”

BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Pickpocket artist Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) eyes his next mark, Candy (Jean Peters), and steals her...

Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” arrives with a striking 4K restoration

BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “Rebecca” is the only Alfred Hitchcock film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The original camera...