Annie Hall (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1998 DVD , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
February 6, 2012
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1998 DVD , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended In an unusual but not surprising move, CBS/Paramount has opted to release a single (if feature-length) episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to Blu-ray. The reason is obvious: “Grave Danger” was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who’s also credited with the story, while the teleplay is credited to Naren Shankar, Anthony E
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are from the standard-definition DVD released in 2004, not from the Blu-Ray.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills not taken directly from the Blu-Ray. Luis Bu uel’s 1967 adaptation of the Joseph Kessel novel Belle de Jour may be tame by today’s standards in terms of what we actually see on screen, but the icy tale of sexual peccadilloes and alternative pleasures still has a psychological resonance, bolstered by the …
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and Aaron Beierle’s review of the DVD edition and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. What a fitting, masterful close to an illustrious, impassioned, and cheeky career is the late Ra l Ruiz’s last film, Mysteries of Lisbon ! The expatriate Chilean filmmaker, who left his homeland after the fascist Pinochet coup in 1973 and worked in Europe …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Hmmm, I wonder what could have prompted HBO Home Video to upgrade their 1995 TV movie The Tuskegee Airmen for a Blu-ray release? Looking at their slate for January, we see that it’s being accompanied by the new performance film Thurgood (starring Airmen ‘s Laurence Fishburne) and their acclaimed 1991 film The Josephine Baker Story ; some kind of pre-Black History Month …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are from the standard-definition DVD released in 2002, not from the Blu-Ray. It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic landed in cinemas.
Recommended A Blu-ray release of Stars and Stripes Forever (1952), a biopic of composer/band leader John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), is welcome if somewhat baffling. Though popular when it was new, it would seem an awfully hard sell in 2012 – perhaps distributor Fox is betting consumers will confuse it with Warner Home Video’s The Music Man (1962). Usually deep catalog titles like this are tied to …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: My first encounter with The Big Country was a couple of years ago. I wasn’t familiar with William Wyler’s 1958 film until George Clooney was talking about how he borrowed a scene from it for Leatherheads .