Polanski's Repulsion gets a Criterion Release...

Roman Polanski's follow up to Knife in the Water was this disturbing and provocative tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a vunerable, undersexed young beauty who is having a nervous breakdown in her London apartment when left alone by her vacationing sister. Repulsion is Polanski working near his peak and the film compares favorably to some of Hitchcock's later work.

The Criterion disc has audio commentary byt Deneuve and Polanski (leftover from a laserdisc version) as well as some other worthy extras most interestingly a 1964 documentary on the making of the film which shows Polanski in action.

Inglorious Bastards gets the Glorious Blu Ray treatment (whatever Blu Ray is?)

The great Euro-cult classic, Inglorious batards, soon to be seen in the re-made version with Brad Pitt get the Blu-Ray treatment in a new release today...Special Features include interviews with Quentin Tarrantino and Enzo Castellari and Film Commentary by Enzo...

For a Great Summer Euro-Superhero film Nothing Can Faze Modesty Blaise...

Great stuff from the UK! The live action version of the decades popular British Comic strip. The cast is the very picture of 60's euro-chic: Terrence Stamp, Dick Borgarde, and Monica Vitti as the heroine herself. Great hot weather stuff with a nice Italian white...

THE LADY NOIR AFFAIR / BY LADY DIOR / CHAPTER ONE / DIRECTED BY OLIVIER DAHAN FEAT. MARION COTILLARD

Marion Cotillard- Behind the scenes Lady Dior campaign

Last Year at Marienbad comes to DVD-Don't worry it is still pretty weird...

This film, an earlyl work of the French New Wave also doubles as an arty head game film. Director Alain Resnais’ haunting (and haunted?) Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been maddeningly enigmatic as a film experience for almost 50 years.

Written by the somewhat controversial novelist (and former scientist) Alain Robbe-Grillet, this eerie work somehow wraps the past with the present in telling its murky tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who met a year ago (or maybe not) at the very chateau they are now rambling around in (or maybe not).

This film has a mixed reputation (it is on the occassional worst films list) and its willful lack of real narrative and resolution can be frustrating to movie goers who tend to place some importance on plot and resolution. Still, in the right mood one can appreciate a film like this as one might enjoy a photo, poem or sculpture that does not have any immediate definition...

Criterion has some extras on this release including extensive interview with Resnais who tries to explain the film for you...