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Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) [UK Release] Blu-ray Review

Posted October 27th, 2009 by Brandon DuHamel

Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) [UK Release] Blu-ray Review

Alain Resnais’ enigmatic, genre-defining and defying film, Last Year at Marienbad, arrives on Blu-ray in a pleasing transfer from Optimum Releasing.

Le Mépris [UK Release] Blu-ray Review

Posted October 18th, 2009 by Brandon DuHamel

Le Mépris [UK Release] Blu-ray Review

The price of Hollywood, the price of being a god, the dissolution of love — it’s Godard’s most traditional narrative, but “traditional” doesn’t mean banal when it comes to Godard, the complex emotional and symbolic layers of Le Mépris and its leading actress Brigitte Bardot.