JD Jon Danziger

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 26, 2012, 2:06 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: sunset boulevard, norma desmond, billy wilder, paramount

DVD Review TABLOID

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Errol Morris and the Interratron on a juicy, sexy scandal from back in the day!
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - December 7, 2011, 10:08 am - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, errol morris, interratron

DVD Review CUL-DE-SAC (Criterion Blu-ray)

Roman Polanski's triangle of menace and mayhem, with a killer new transfer.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - December 1, 2011, 8:50 am - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion, gangster, polanski

DVD Review 3 WOMEN (Criterion Blu-ray)

Robert Altman's ruminative, moody vision all souped up in Criterion Blu-ray.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 23, 2011, 12:35 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: altman, criterion

DVD Review BASEBALL'S GREATEST GAMES: 1986 WORLD SERIES GAME 6

The greatest night in all of human history.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 22, 2011, 3:15 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: mets, world series, 1986, red sox, buckner, mookie, awesomeness

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - August 11, 2011, 1:32 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: kurosawa, mifune, mcbain

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - July 6, 2011, 2:01 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: chaplin, hitler

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 28, 2011, 11:35 am - DVD Review
Keywords: business, drama, ensemble, boston

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?
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 23, 2011, 1:33 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: noir, criterion, spillane

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 16, 2011, 2:29 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: demme, 80s, east village, screwball, road movie

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 28, 2011, 12:17 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, criterion, milk, lgbt, gay rights

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 25, 2011, 11:41 am - DVD Review
Keywords: romantic comedy, brooks, hunter, journalism

DVD Review SHOCK CORRIDOR (Criterion Blu-ray)

Samuel Fuller has no use for understatement or subtlety, especially when he encamps to the insane asylum.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - March 25, 2011, 2:19 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: samuel fuller, pulitzer prize, insanity, asylums

DVD Review THE NAKED KISS (Criterion Blu-ray)

Samuel Fuller's riotously overwrought, madly influential opus, in glorious Blu-ray.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - March 15, 2011, 1:01 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: samuel fuller, criterion collection, bald hookers, angel foam

DVD Review 3 SILENT CLASSICS BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG (Underworld / The Last Command / Docks of New York)

A Criterion box set of silent goodness.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - October 20, 2010, 9:03 am - DVD Review
Keywords: silent, gangster, von sternberg

DVD Review THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN

A triptych of coming-of-age stories from Iran.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 30, 2010, 1:28 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: iran, triptych

DVD Review THE ONLY SON / THERE WAS A FATHER (The Criterion Collection)

Two early works from one of the masters, Yasujiro Ozu.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 8, 2010, 10:45 am - DVD Review
Keywords: ozu, japanese

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - September 2, 2010, 11:19 am - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, vietnam, nixon, ellsberg

DVD Review STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. Ultimate 2-Disc Edition

Two swell cuts of one of Buster Keaton's greatest.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - August 30, 2010, 7:57 am - DVD Review
Keywords: buster keaton, silent, comedy

DVD Review UNION STATION

Los Angeles noiry goodness at the train station downtown.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - August 11, 2010, 8:33 am - DVD Review
Keywords: noir, los angeles, william holden

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.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 21, 2010, 12:18 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: western, john wayne, john ford

DVD Review THE TREE THAT REMEMBERS

A documentary look at the continuing cross-continental psychological impact of political upheaval in Iran.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 15, 2010, 8:04 am - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, iran, revolution, canada

DVD Review THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS

Let us remember the forgotten victims of the war in Iraq: the livestock.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 5, 2010, 8:59 am - DVD Review
Keywords: war, black comedy, satire, iraq, spacey, clooney, bridges

DVD Review ROBERTO ROSSELLINI'S WAR TRILOGY (Rome Open City / Paisan / Germany Year Zero)

Criterion's great big box of Neorealism.
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - February 24, 2010, 8:57 am - DVD Review
Keywords: italian, foreign, rossellini, neorealism, criterion

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!
Release Date: ,

Read More...

Posted by: Jon Danziger - February 17, 2010, 8:35 am - DVD Review
Keywords: satchmo, jazz, concert, louis armstrong