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Keyword View: cannes film festival PR This Must Be the Place on Blu-ray & DVD Mar 12  When legendary Goth rocker Cheyenne (Sean Penn), long-retired in Dublin with his firefighter wife, Jane (Frances McDormand), learns his estranged father is dying, the childlike recluse travels to New York to seek reconciliation -- only to arrive too late. Upon discovering his father's unfulfilled quest for revenge against an ex-Nazi war criminal taking refuge in America, Cheyenne embarks upon his own journey of reawakening in this engaging and unpredictable road adventure from internationally acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino. Read More... News Steven Spielberg Will Be Jury President at Cannes Film Festival Posted by: News Editor - March 1, 2013, 5:40 am - News DVD Review THE DUELLISTS (BLU-RAY)  I'm not sure how this, Ridley Scott's first film, never made it onto my radar, but what better way to watch it for the first time than via this potentially excellent new Blu-ray disc from Shout Factory. Read More... DVD Review THE TIN DRUM (BLU-RAY)  I'm excited to finally see this infamous, controversial film, and, given The Criterion Collection's involvement, this disc will make it well worth the wait. Read More... PR Tarantino XX: 8-Film Collection on Blu-ray Nov 20  Tarantino XX contains eight films chosen by Quentin Tarantino to illustrate the first 20 years of his career, featuring the films that helped define his early success, including Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds. To complete the stunning high definition 10-disc set also features two discs with five hours of all-new bonus material, highlighted by a critics' retrospective on Tarantino's groundbreaking catalog of films and '20 Years of Filmmaking' that contains interviews with critics, stars and other masters of cinema. Read More... DVD Review IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (BLU-RAY)  The great Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece was given the proper Criterion Collection treatment on DVD a few years ago, and is one of their banner releases. It now shows up on a Criterion Blu-ray disc, and I'd be shocked if it wasn't even more special than the first time. Read More...  Beginning on September 10, the movie reveals lives both ordinary and extraordinary - people falling in or out of love, facing heartache or basking in success, coping with illness or looking toward a bright future. We get to know each of these characters as though they were our own family, friends or colleagues, and then we see what fate holds in store for them on the following day, when nearly 3,000 innocent people would be killed. Read More... DVD Review ROSETTA (BLU-RAY)  It's great to see The Criterion Collection continue to release relatively obscure foreign films like this, regardless of their box office numbers. It would be a shock if this wasn't yet another one of their excellent Blu-ray efforts. Read More... PR The Pinochet Case on DVD Sep 4  An investigation of the Spanish charges against General Augusto Pinochet, forms an essential part of filmmaker Patricio Guzman's career-long exploration of Chilean history since Salvador Allende's 1973 election and the bloody coup that followed. Read More... PR The Lina Wertmuller Collection on DVD Jun 19  The Lina Wertmuller Collection: The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love & Anarchy (1973) and All Screwed Up (1974). Acclaimed as one of the leading filmmakers of the 1970s, Wertmueller demonstrates her equal skills at both rollicking comedy and rich drama with this trio of classics made during the height of her career. Read More... News Seven more films added to Cannes Film Festival lineup Posted by: News Editor - April 30, 2012, 11:16 am - News  A deadpan dark comedy incorporating influences ranging from Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaeki to Robert Bresson. It is October, the "purple month"; in Lima, when the grey city's somber tones give way to processions celebrating the Lord of Miracles. Sofia spends her days as a worshipper, but her nights still ache with loneliness. One day, her neighbor, Clemente, a small-time loan shark with a penchant for reckless hookers, grave solitude, money lending and nothing else, is left with a baby. While he searches for the child's prostitute mother, Sofia joyfully starts taking care of the infant in Clemente s house. Read More...  Two top prizes at this year's Cannes Film Festival. A haunting psychological thriller which Vanity Fair called an American masterpiece, the film has a stellar cast headed by Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (Best Supporting Actor, Revolutionary Road, and TV's Boardwalk Empire) and Jessica Chastain (The Help, Tree of Life). Also starring are Golden Globe winner Kathy Baker (1992, Best Actress in a TV Performance, Picket Fences), Katy Mixon (TV's Mike and Molly), Shea Whigham (TV's Boardwalk Empire), and, in her film debut, Tova Stewart. Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories) wrote and directed. Sony Picture Home Entertainment Read More... DVD Review IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN (Criterion Blu-ray)  This film, directed by the great Italian auteur, Michelangelo Antonioni, isn't as popular as his other classics. Now that it's on Blu-ray from Criterion, hopefully more cinema buffs will discover that this film deserves equal, if not more acclaim. Read More... DVD Review IF.... (Criterion Blu-ray)  Only a few years before Malcolm McDowell did a little film with Stanley Kubrick, he starred in this look at an anarchic society in Britain. Sure, we've seen movies set in boarding schools before, but this one is heralded as one of the best. Read More... DVD Review SECRET SUNSHINE (Criterion Blu-ray)  This drama promises to be yet another example of just how great Korean cinema is. Venerable director Lee Chang-dong is one of Korea's best filmmakers, and with actress Jeon Do-yeon leading the way, this has to be great. Read More... PR Police, Adjective on DVD Aug 30  Cristi (Dragos Bucur) is a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager who offers hashish to classmates. Not wanting to ruin the life of a young man he considers merely irresponsible, Cristi must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience, or face censure by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov, of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), for whom the word "conscience" has an entirely different meaning. Porumboiu approaches his story with the exacting patience of a master ironist, culminating in one of the most unexpected comedic payoffs in years—an extraordinary dissection of language that affirms his reputation as one of the most exciting new talents in European cinema. Read More... PR Oscar nominee Outside the Law (Hors-La-Loi) on Blu-ray & DVD Aug 2  Directed by Rachid Bouchareb and starring Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem and Sami Bouajila. The story takes place between 1945 and 1962 and focuses on the lives of three Algerian brothers in France, set to the backdrop of the Algerian independence movement and the Algerian War. It is a standalone follow-up to Bouchareb's 2006 film Days of Glory, which was set during World War II. Read More... |
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