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COMMANDO... A HAUNTING: THE 2012 SEASON... BADLANDS (BLU-RAY)... THE LONELIEST PLANET... SANSHO THE BAILIFF (BLU-RAY)... The Exorcist in the 21st Century on DVD & Digital May 7... Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Third Season on DVD J... Dark Skies on Blu-ray & DVD May 28... Bea Arthur nude painting sells for $1.9 million ... Star Trek: Enterprise wants to return on Netflix, Needs... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (BLU-RAY)... PURPLE NOON (BLU-RAY)... WEEKEND (BLU-RAY)... JUAN OF THE DEAD... THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE AND OTHER TALES OF VICE AND REDEMPTI... LIZ & DICK... CHINA BEACH: THE COMPLETE SERIES... PAUL SIMON: LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY... The Problem with the #Olympics: It's Us.... The Newsroom: Cable News Media Played for Laughs and Cr... TROUBLED TEENS... THE BLOB (BLU-RAY)... SCHOOLGIRL HITCHHIKERS (BLU-RAY)... MINISTRY OF FEAR (BLU-RAY)... UNDEFEATED (BLU-RAY)... DOWNTON ABBEY SEASONS ONE & TWO LIMITED EDITION... FLORENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE... NAZI COLLABORATORS... KATT WILLIAMS: KATTPACALYPSE... BARACK OBAMA: FROM HIS CHILDHOOD TO THE PRESIDENCY... STORAGE WARS: VOLUME THREE... Take Part in a Film Restoration... THE 39 STEPS (BLU-RAY)... DARK SHADOWS: THE BEST OF BARNABAS... STORAGE WARS: SEASON ONE... SUNSET BOULEVARD... SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM... TABLOID... CUL-DE-SAC... 3 WOMEN... YOJIMBO/SANJURO... SUMMER HOURS (L'heure d'ÈtÈ)... WIZARD OF OZ... WINGS OF DESIRE... HORTON HEARS A WHO!... REVANCHE... LAST DAYS OF DISCO... NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS... STARGATE SG-1: CHILDREN OF THE GODS... STARGATE ATLANTIS: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON... THE STEPFATHER... THE HILLS RUN RED... MANAGEMENT... NIGHT OF DEATH... GNAW... Freddy Got Fingered... Secure The Second Season of The Border on DVD August 25... THE WALTONS: THE COMPLETE 9TH SEASON... Dance Me Outside kicks onto DVD May 6, 2008... Film-Fest 4: Sundance 2000 & Hawaii... Saving Private Ryan... |
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (BLU-RAY)  This beautifully restored British comedy has a great deal to say about aging and war without ever losing its light touch.    Read More...  Watching Terrence Malick's early-career classic with a young Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen never gets old, as there's always some tiny nuance to discover. Now, thanks to The Criterion Collection, the film sports a brand new 4K digital transfer, which is all the excuse I need to explore the film yet again.   Read More...  Sure, it's stiffly acted and features some of the oldest teenagers ever seen on film, but as a trend-bucking representative sample of 1950s American-made "giant monster" flicks this is a genre classic. Plus, Criterion's Blu-Ray treatment is wonderfully done. Highly recommended. Read More...  I've never experienced director Godfrey Reggio's game-changing, unique trilogy, but there's no better excuse to finally see them than this great new Blu-ray box set from The Criterion Collection.  Read More...  Christopher Nolan's low-budget 16mm debut thriller receives the Blu-Ray treatment from Criterion.
Read More...  Without question this is one of my top five favorite films of all time from one of my favorite directors, and Criterion's treatment - now on Blu-Ray - is equally epic.
Read More...  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... THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (BLU-RAY)  One of Hitchcock's early thrillers and Peter Lorre's first English-language picture, this is sure to be another excellent effort by The Criterion Collection. I certainly can't wait to see what they've done with the video restoration. Read More...  Even if you're not a gearhead (and I most certainly am not) there's an undeniable sense of self-discovery and purpose in Two-Lane Blacktop, a stripped down, revved up love story about men, cars, women, life.
Read More...  Alain Delon's beautiful and cold Tom Ripley is one of film's all-time great villains, and this new edition of Purple Noon shows off the film's sensuous pleasures to great effect. Read More...  Weekend wisely avoids most of the traps of its genre, and is brought to life by great performances and a disarmingly naturalistic tone. Read More...  It took longer than we wanted, but Kurosawa's influential, twisty masterpiece is finally available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. It's also certainly no surprise that this 62-year-old film has never looked or sounded better. Read More...  Perhaps not the ideal film for expectant mothers to watch, Rosemary's Baby remains a masterful bit of horror that still has the ability to disturb and terrify. And it's even better on Blu-Ray.
Read More... 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... CHILDREN OF PARADISE (BLU-RAY) (Les Enfants du paradis)  Long considered one of the great films of all time, Marcel Carné's epic drama now gets its finest treatment, courtesy of Criterion. And it is wonderful.
Read More...  The brand new Who-approved 5.1 surround mix is the selling point here, because it transforms and rejuvenates the overall experience into something wonderfully larger than life. No doubt the way it was intended.
Read More...  Harold and Maude wears its distinctly offbeat look at life, love and death proudly, and this one has not lost a step in the 41 years since its release.
Read More...  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...  Alfred Hitchcock was already a successful director when he adapted John Buchan's mystery thriller The Thirty-Nine Step, but this picture is where we see many of the staples of his later career come to fruition and gel in a way that few directors before or since have managed to accomplish. Criterion does this seminal movie proud in a loaded special edition that features a lovely and clean high-definition transfer of very difficult source material.
Read More... THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (BLU-RAY)  It doesn't matter to me one bit that this Criterion Blu-Ray of Wes Anderson's colorfully brilliant The Royal Tenenbaums has the same extras as their 2002 SD release because the new director-approved transfer is quite simply: stunning.
Read More...  As a cumulative tale this is exciting and dramatic, but as three separate films only two manage to hold up all that well. Read More... DAVID LEAN DIRECTS NOEL COWARD (BLU-RAY) Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit, In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed  Criterion's Blu-Ray boxset of four David Lean/Noel Coward films from the 1940s is a winner on all fronts. The films are a varied lot in terms of storylines - ranging from war's brutalities to family drama to playful ghosts to extramarital affairs, but each are awash in Coward's raw wordplay and Lean's visual talents.
Read More...  I haven't seen this wonderful film since its first home video release, and I can't wait to relive that experience all over again. Steven Soderbergh has come a long way since, but this is still regarded as one of his best works.  Read More... UP ALL NIGHT WITH ROBERT DOWNEY SR. (ECLIPSE SERIES 33)  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...  Danny Boyle's taut 'bad decisions' thriller Shallow Grave gets the Criterion treatment, and above all that means a very nice looking new transfer that really showcases the work of director of photography Brian Tufano better than ever.
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