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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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