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Showing posts with label Eclipse Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eclipse Series. Show all posts
Monday, 16 February 2015

THE ASCENT and WINGS - Reviewed By Greg Klymkiw - Susan Sontag called Larisa Shepitko's harrowing anti-war film THE ASCENT "the most affecting film about the horror of war I know." Shepitko focused on suffering, slaughter and senseless strife and did so in a stunning allegorical portrait of Christ and Judas during the German occupation of Belarus. The movie was miraculously rendered under Communist oppression in the Soviet Union. With WINGS, Shepitko delivered a powerful, romantic look at Russia's fighting women of the Second World War in a post-war world. Shepitko's eye, like a mad pit bull's jaws, always clenched furiously on its quarry and never, ever let it go.

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This is a perfect time to take another look at two films about war by the late Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko (a protege of Dovzhenko a...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Jean Grémillon Box joins Greg Klymkiw's 10 Best Blu-Ray and DVD Releases of 2012 - There will be one new posting everyday until we hit the magic number. Today's Klymkiw Blu-Ray/DVD Accolade for 2012 is the Criterion Collection's (Eclipse Series 34) DVD box-set of "Jean Grémillon During The Occupation"

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The Best Blu-Ray and DVD Releases of 2012 as decreed by Greg Klymkiw This was a stellar year for Blu-Ray and DVD collectors that it'...
Monday, 26 November 2012

Le ciel est à vous - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Klymkiw's CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA FOR 2012 #4 - From the Criterion Collection Eclipse Series, an exquisite 3-movie DVD Box Set: "Jean Grémillon During The Occupation"

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Jean Grémillon is a revelation. Anyone who cares about moving pictures (and loves the medium as much, if not more than life itself) will w...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Lumière d’été - Review By Greg Klymkiw - This glorious melodrama, dappled with rich globs of perversely dark comedy and emotional beats to inspire veritable torrential downpours from one's tear ducts, is yet another classic from director Jean Grémillon during the Nazi Occupation of France.

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Lumière d’été (1943) dir. Jean Grémillon ***** Starring: Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Bernard, Georg...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

REMORQUES - Reviewed By Greg Klymkiw - This glorious melodrama appears in a new release from Criterion's Eclipse Series that focuses on director Jean Grémillon and the truly exquisite work he generated in Occupied France during WWII.

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Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Marchons! Marchons! Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons! - La Marseillaise Remorques ...