Highly Recommended The Movie: A lost Ernst Lubitsch spectacle, one of the last two filmsthat he made in Germany before going to Hollywood, has been found,restored,and released on a lovely Blu-ray disc. The film is Das Weib des Pharao or The Loves of Pharaoh as it’s knownin English, is a large, impressive film filled with thousands of extrasandsome very striking sets (including a Sphinx!), but it …
Slipknot will make their Blu-ray debut on July 31st with the North American release of {sic}nesses: Live At Download
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman ( Damsels in Distress ) is a magical filmmaker, and a challenging one, too, though in few of the ways that word might usually apply. He presents viewers (or at least, speaking for myself, a viewer like me) with the challenge of stories …
Eagle Rock have set a September 25 DVD and Blu-ray release date for Freddie Mercury’s The Great Pretender.
Still slow – perhaps post-holiday lag – for DVD and Blu-ray releases, but this week you can catch up with two of this year’s misfires, and a film that has had its reputation grow ever since it was dumped by its studio. Check out this week’s picks.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Chariots of Fire is a film I had seen parodied long before I actually saw it. The film’s ubiquitous title sequence of runners on a beach and its synthesizer-heavy score is known by many unfamiliar with the complete work. The Oscar-winning drama is quite good, too, and tells the story of two runners in 1920s Britain who deal with anti-Semitism and religious conviction …
Cavalcanti’s Brit-Noir classic They Made Me A Fugitive (1947) comes to Blu-ray from Kino Classics, in restoration by the BFI National Film Archive, with funding provided by The Film FoundationStreet date: July 24thNew York, NY (PRWEB) July 05, 2012 Kino Classics is proud to announce the Blu-ray release of They Made Me A Fugitive (1947), from director Alberto Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well?), a …
Forget the old days of headlocks and armbars dominating the action in the professional wrestling ring.
Here are two new clips from Academy Award Winner Steven Spielberg’s iconic summer classic Jaws . Jaws arrives on Blu-ray for the first time ever…
When Universal Studios announced that they would have 13 Special Edition Blu-rays for their 100th Anniversary I became all giddy. When I learned the likes of To Kill a Mocking Bird and Out of Africa were slated to get the royal 100th Anniversary treatment I completely understood those films.