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The King in his infancy.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 16, 2009, 9:35 am - DVD Review
Keywords: elvis presley, tupelo, memphis, rock, documentary, mississippi
I'll take curmudgeonly late-middle-age New York comedians for $800, please, Alex.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 9, 2009, 8:07 am - DVD Review
Keywords: comedy, new york, woody allen, larry david
An epic telling of the life and times of one of Italy's most notorious politicians.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 6, 2009, 9:46 am - DVD Review
Keywords: mafia, italian, foreign, cosa nostra, politics
Costa-Gavras' epic tale of political intrigue and violence gets the Criterion treatment.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - October 22, 2009, 12:45 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion, thriller, costa-gavras
Gentle reader, you have no idea how much I look forward to learning how to be a woman.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - October 15, 2009, 11:08 am - DVD Review
Keywords: compilation, industrials, safety films
Up close and personal with one of the great temptresses in the history of the big screen.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 21, 2009, 8:15 am - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, marlene dietrich, schell, diva
Noel Coward gets tarted up with fart jokes. I know, right?
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 15, 2009, 11:29 am - DVD Review
Keywords: comedy, noel coward, biel
A fistful of Japanese crime pictures, in a super groovy pink and black case, from Criterion. Rock on.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 7, 2009, 7:56 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion, eclipse, noir, crime, foreign
More from our decade of reviews brings up Jon Danziger, who has been anothe valued contributor to digitallyOBSESSED.com. He has completed almost 900 reviews starting in 2002 and continuing to the present day. Here he takes a look at some Edwardian misdoing in the British television mystery, Dandelion Dead, released August 27, 2002 from HBO. The review was published on dOc August 25, 2002.
Posted by: dOc Editor - August 24, 2009, 10:41 pm - dOc Vault
French cinematic royalty has a go at America. Hilarity ensues.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - August 17, 2009, 8:45 am - DVD Review
Keywords: french, western, deneuve, mastroianni
More early-career Polanski creepiness, from our friends at Criterion.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 29, 2009, 8:07 am - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion, polanski, thriller, deneuve
You and the night and the music—the Beales and the Maysles get the narrative treatment.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 27, 2009, 11:29 am - DVD Review
Keywords: drama, lange, barrymore, maysles
Bernie Madoff: Bad for the Jews? A consideration.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 22, 2009, 9:33 am - DVD Review
Keywords: wall street, madoff, ponzi scheme, crash, documentary
Jean-Luc Godard is smarter than the rest of us, but happily, he wants to share his toys.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 20, 2009, 8:38 am - DVD Review
Keywords: godard, new wave, nouvelle vague, french, criterion
Al Reinert and the Criterion Collection try to convince us that the moon landing wasn't faked on a soundstage in the Arizona desert.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 13, 2009, 11:41 am - DVD Review
Keywords: space, nasa, documentary, criterion
Criterion goes whole hog for this landmark two-hander.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 10, 2009, 7:30 am - DVD Review
Keywords: drama, criterion, conversation, electric blankets
From "Sex in the City" catchphrase to New York Times bestseller to a theater near you to DVD. A consideration.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 30, 2009, 11:00 am - DVD Review
Keywords: romantic comedy, date night, chick flick
A profound exploration of the human condition? Or simply a movie designed to make you feel stupid?
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 25, 2009, 12:24 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: french, resnais, foreign
"I've been to Atlantic City a hundred times, I've never seen Death walking on the beach."—Steve Guttenberg in Diner
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 22, 2009, 7:12 am - DVD Review
Keywords: ingmar bergman, max von sydow, foreign, swedish, death, existentialism
H-A-Ahr, H-A-Ahr, H-A-Ahr, with a Vee!
V-A-Ahr, V-A-Ahr, V-A-Ahr, with a Dee!
Harvard. Harvard. Rah. Rah.
Harvard men are really tough,
They know how to knit and stuff.
Knit one, purl two, Harvard, yoo-hoo!
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 3, 2009, 8:58 am - DVD Review
Keywords: football, documentary, harvard, yale, ivy league
Miss O'Connor, Mr. Huston. Mr. Huston, Miss O'Connor. Now you zany kids go make a movie that's batcrap crazy.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 13, 2009, 6:57 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: john huston, flannery o'connor, criterion, southern gothic, macabre
Kino keeps bringing the Yakuza bon bons, and like a moth to the flame is your faithful reviewer drawn to these DVDs.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 2, 2009, 8:05 am - DVD Review
Keywords: yakuza, gangster, foreign, japanese, crime, kino
A dozen dead Yakuza and a Pepsi truck up in flames even before the credits roll. I am so in.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 26, 2009, 4:33 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: seijun suzuki, gangster, japanese, yakuza
Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 21, 2009, 1:43 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: pre-code cagney wellman tcm loretta young
Oh, Ricky, you're so fine.
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Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 3, 2009, 12:00 pm - DVD Review
