Hands Over the City (Criterion Collection) Release:Hands Over the City (Criterion Collection) Christine Kittrell

Christine Kittrell

with the critic in Gramophone writing: 'The Chiaroscuros' account of the remaining three Op 76 quartets can't come soon enough

Bartók's solo sonata

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Hands Over the City (Criterion Collection) Release:Hands Over the City (Criterion Collection) Christine KittrellRod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying