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DVD Review WIZARD OF OZ (BLU-RAY)  The Wizard of Oz comes to Blu-ray with an HD transfer so good, and supplements so voluminous, you'll never have to buy it again. Probably.
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Even as some grumble that Criterion should focus on bringing lost classics to DVD, it's tough to argue that the underappreciated Monsoon Wedding hasn't benefitted from the company's topflight treatment.
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Read More... DVD Review I LOVE YOU, MAN (BLU-RAY)  No. I won't do it. I refuse to refer to this movie as a "bromance." Read More... DVD Review THE EDGE OF LOVE (BLU-RAY)  The Edge of Love: Or, The Edge of Sleep. Read More... DVD Review GRAN TORINO (BLU-RAY)  If Gran Torino is Clint Eastwood's last film as an actor, he picked a good performance to go out on. So good that he overshadows the fact that the movie can be accurately summarized as "Dirty Harry meets an Afterschool Special About Racism, and Also, Gangs Are Bad." Read More... DVD Review GARRISON KEILLOR: THE MAN ON THE RADIO IN THE RED SHOES  Garrison Keillor has created an entire town with his words, over 30 years of weekly radio monologues shaping the lives of the residents of Lake Wobegone, Minn. Garrison Keillor: The Man On the Radio in the Red Shoes looks for the man behind the stories. Not surprisingly, it just finds more stories.
Read More... DVD Review MADE IN U.S.A.  Heretofore ironically unavailable in the U.S. (due to rights issues with the Donald E. Westlake novel upon which we’re supposed to believe it is “based”), Jean-Luc Godard's candy-colored genre meditation Made in U.S.A. comes to DVD from The Criterion Collection. Thank goodness for the supplements, practically essential to unpacking one of the most challenging and inscrutable films of the director's celebrated 1960s output. Read More... DVD Review PEANUTS 1960's COLLECTION  The umpteenth repackaging of the popular Peanuts TV specials includes a few that are new to DVD and a great documentary on composer Vince Guaraldi. Read More... DVD Review WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?  Woody Allen's comedic redubbing of a couple of Japanese crime films is still full of laughs, but what's really funny is how similar this "new" DVD is to the one released in 2003. So funny I forgot to laugh. Read More... DVD Review LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (BLU-RAY)  Debate the merits of the confounding film all you want, but there's no arguing the fact that this Blu-ray offers one of the most beautiful black-and-white transfers ever produced.
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