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DVD Review SUNSET BOULEVARD (Blu-ray) ![]() An indelible piece of pop culture. The greatest movie ever made about movies. Maybe even the greatest movie ever made, full stop. On a sweet new Blu-ray. Read More... DVD Review TABLOID ![]() Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Errol Morris and the Interratron on a juicy, sexy scandal from back in the day! Read More... DVD Review CUL-DE-SAC (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() Roman Polanski's triangle of menace and mayhem, with a killer new transfer. Read More... DVD Review 3 WOMEN (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() Robert Altman's ruminative, moody vision all souped up in Criterion Blu-ray. Read More... DVD Review BASEBALL'S GREATEST GAMES: 1986 WORLD SERIES GAME 6 ![]() The greatest night in all of human history. Read More... DVD Review HIGH AND LOW (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() Toshiro Mifune as a true master of the universe, in Akira Kurosawa's brutally taut crime story. On Blu-ray from our friends at Criterion, and it's never looked better. Read More... DVD Review THE GREAT DICTATOR (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() Criterion spruces up Chaplin's first talking picture, an extended, impassioned, heartfelt kick in the ass of Adolf Hitler. Read More... DVD Review THE COMPANY MEN ![]() Not even having won an Oscar can cushion the blow of the recession, apparently, according to John Wells' star-studded ensemble piece. Read More... DVD Review KISS ME DEADLY (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() How can you not love a movie that starts with a psycho, speechless Cloris Leachman, and ends with the prospect of nuclear armageddon? Read More... DVD Review SOMETHING WILD (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() A quarter century has done nothing to dim the many charms of arguably Jonathan Demme's best movie. Now looking more choice than ever, on Criterion Blu-ray. Read More... DVD Review THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() The landmark documentary about one of the human rights pioneers of the last century, in a thorough and completely absorbing Criterion package. Read More... DVD Review BROADCAST NEWS (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() James L. Brooks demonstrates why his nonpareil touch with romantic comedy outlasts any medium, especially one as ephemeral as network—network!—news broadcasts. Read More... DVD Review SHOCK CORRIDOR (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() Samuel Fuller has no use for understatement or subtlety, especially when he encamps to the insane asylum. Read More... DVD Review THE NAKED KISS (Criterion Blu-ray) ![]() Samuel Fuller's riotously overwrought, madly influential opus, in glorious Blu-ray. Read More... DVD Review 3 SILENT CLASSICS BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG (Underworld / The Last Command / Docks of New York) ![]() A Criterion box set of silent goodness. Read More... DVD Review THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN ![]() A triptych of coming-of-age stories from Iran. Read More... DVD Review THE ONLY SON / THERE WAS A FATHER (The Criterion Collection) ![]() Two early works from one of the masters, Yasujiro Ozu. Read More... DVD Review THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers ![]() Wear your presence on Richard Nixon's enemies list as a badge of honor. Read More... DVD Review STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. Ultimate 2-Disc Edition ![]() Two swell cuts of one of Buster Keaton's greatest. Read More... DVD Review UNION STATION ![]() Los Angeles noiry goodness at the train station downtown. Read More... DVD Review STAGECOACH (The Criterion Collection) ![]() One of the great ones, the first John Wayne/John Ford collaboration gets the top-of-the-line Criterion treatment. Read More... DVD Review THE TREE THAT REMEMBERS ![]() A documentary look at the continuing cross-continental psychological impact of political upheaval in Iran. Read More... DVD Review THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS ![]() Let us remember the forgotten victims of the war in Iraq: the livestock. Read More... DVD Review ROBERTO ROSSELLINI'S WAR TRILOGY (Rome Open City / Paisan / Germany Year Zero) ![]() Criterion's great big box of Neorealism. Read More... DVD Review LOUIS ARMSTRONG: GOOD EVENING, EV'RYBODY ![]() Louis Armstrong and some of his best pals celebrate his 70th birthday at the Newport Jazz Festival. We'll save you a piece of cake! Read More... No current bio information for this contributor |
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