Keyword View: eclipse series  Experimental and subversive, but more than that...funny. Robert Downey, Sr.'s output in the 60s and 70s makes for some of the best underground filmmaking of the era. Read More...
Posted by: Ross Johnson - June 25, 2012, 6:35 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion collection, eclipse series, subversive cinema
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Posted by: Ross Johnson - January 31, 2012, 1:23 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion, eclipse, documentary
 Even given some weaknesses, the four films of this collection are never less than competent and entertaining. In their own quiet ways, this neglected director may have to guide Britain through a tumultuous time into a more tolerant post-war world. Read More...
Posted by: Ross Johnson - February 11, 2011, 1:47 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: eclipse, jazz, othello, british, gay
 This appears to be the ultimate box set for fans of documentary filmmaking, as the best of this Canadian director are on display thanks to The Criterion Collection. Read More...
Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - April 13, 2011, 7:47 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: intimate studies, damaged children, warring spouses
 This September, two of the greatest, as well as the most unorthodox, films about World War II will come to the Criterion Collection, in both Blu-ray and DVD editions. Terrence Malick's star-studded (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson), multiple-Oscar-nominated James Jones adaptation The Thin Red Line is a staggering accomplishment, a profoundly moving, existential trip to war's heart of darkness, set during the battle for Guadalcanal. And Nagisa Oshima's extraordinarily bold Japanese POW camp drama Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, starring David Bowie as a mysterious prisoner targeted by an obsessive camp commander, is one of the controversial director's most acclaimed and beloved films. Plus, two jazzy sixties hits—Godard's Breathless, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and Stanley Donen's Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant—come out in new Criterion Blu-ray editions. The Criterion Collection Read More...
Posted by: News Editor - June 22, 2010, 5:48 pm - PR
Keywords: criterion, dvd, blu-ray
 Criterion does a fine enough job bringing world-class cinema to the masses, but their Eclipse Series continues to be a great way to discover those foreign filmmakers that might otherwise go unnoticed, Nagisa Oshima included. Read More...
Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - May 30, 2010, 6:20 am - DVD Review
Keywords: godard of the east, provocative, new wave
 While she's responsible for some of the best foreign films of our time, this collection of works from the 1970's exposes us to Chantal Akerman's hidden treasures. Read More...
Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - July 20, 2010, 8:24 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: daring, autobiographical, iconoclastic
 Of producer-director Gabriel Pascal's mission to bring Shaw to the screen, the results here are decidedly mixed. There's a great deal of fun to be had, though, and flashes of brilliance throughout. Read More...
Posted by: Ross Johnson - February 24, 2010, 7:08 am - DVD Review
Keywords: shaw, tehnicolor
 Stylish mid-1960s musings from Serb director Makavejev gets the Criterion treatment in this 3-disc set. Read More...
Posted by: Rich Rosell - October 12, 2009, 5:58 am - DVD Review
Keywords: foreign, dusan makavejev, working class
 Four biopics from Alexander Korda, headed by the one that not only won Charles Laughton a Best Actor Oscar, but that indelibly set the picture of King Henry VIII forever munching on a leg of mutton. Read More...
Posted by: Mark Zimmer - May 31, 2009, 9:09 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: historical, drama, biopic, kings, queens, don juan, tudors, artists, england, russia, korda, laughton
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