DVD review: ‘Rashomon’ yes, it belongs in any serious movie collection, and its debut on Blu-ray – using a 4K restoration supervised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation in Tokyo and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation – is a cause for celebration.
Movies to see this weekend, Jan. 4 Tristana A restoration of Luis Buñuel’s 1970 masterpiece stars Catherine Deneuve as the title character, a young innocent corrupted by her guardian (Buñuel regular Fernando Rey), who seeks escape with her lover (Franco Nero). Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 4 Cosmopolis This latest from David Cronenberg, based on a novel by Don DeLillo, follows a 28-year-old billionaire through a dystopian urban landscape of his own creation, in this intermittently imaginative and yet ultimately disappointing film.
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New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 1 Feature: “Cosmopolis” (2012), “The Dynamiter” (2011), “Little Birds” (2011), “Looper” (released Monday) (2012), “Norman Wisdom Double Feature, Volume One: Trouble in Store and One Good Turn” (1953, ’54), “Overtime” (2011), “Putin’s Kiss” (released Monday) (2012), “Saltwater” (released Monday) (2012), “The Trouble With Bliss” (2012), “War of the Dead” (2011), “Will …
DVD review: ‘House M.D.: Season 8’ In 2008, across 66 countries, this series became the most watched TV show on Earth. Every culture, it seems, enjoyed seeing American doctor Gregory House, played by British actor Hugh Laurie, behave like a pompous ass, ridiculing his fellow doctors and nurses, sneering at his administrators and humbugging the experts because he always understood the …
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 28 Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife from an evil plantation lord (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the most consistently entertaining film of the year, full of dazzling dialogue, imaginative story turns and moments of high tension. Sulley, the …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 28 Arbitrage In writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s smooth, snooze-inducing anti-thriller – about a high-finance magnate whose cushy life is threatened – an exceedingly dapper Richard Gere appears in nice suits and handsome close-ups that serve no purpose other than to remind us how exceedingly dapper Richard Gere looks in nice suits and handsome close-ups. Killer Joe …
Movies opening Friday, Dec. 14 Any Day Now Entertainer Rudy (Alan Cumming) sees his drugged-out hooker neighbor abandon her Down syndrome son, Marco, so he rescues the teen. The Central Park Five This documentary depicts the tensions bubbling over in 1980s New York when a white female jogger becomes the victim of a horrid attack and rape in Central Park.