DVD review: ‘Letters From an Unknown Woman’ Watching Jourdan play a romantic obsession in this heartbreaking melodrama, you realize there is nobody like him or his compatriots in today’s Hollywood. Jourdan plays a famous concert pianist in early 20th century Vienna who catches a glimpse of a pretty adolescent girl (Joan Fontaine) living in his building. German director Max Ophuls had a poetic …
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 21 Sulley, the main monster, is the warm heart of Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.,” which although a bit indulgent of its star power at times, is funny and sweet enough to delight kids and inventive enough to satisfy adults
Movies opening this week, Dec. 21 Enter a cinematic sphere where a young couple search for each other through mystical worlds. Citadel Tommy and his pregnant wife’s joy shrivels into despair when she’s savagely attacked by a gang of hooded kids.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 11 Kino Classics Remastered” (1972), “Beloved” (2011), “The Bourne Legacy” (2012), “Collision Earth” (2011), “Darken” (2012), “Doomsday Book” (2012), “Dreams of a Life” (2011), “Following” (1999), “Gangsters, Guns and Zombies” (2012), “Hemo” (2010), “Kill ‘Em All” (2012), “Mansome” (2012), “Miami Connection” (1987), “Mr. Bricks” (2011), “Night Claws” (2012), “Osombie …
DVD review: 3 Jean Harlow films Jean Harlow, one of the most adorable women ever to walk the Earth, died at the incalculably unjust age of 26 in 1937, after leaving an impression of her warmth, fun and loveliness that will last long past the day that any of us will be in a position to feel sorry for her. Among the most important of these is “Red Dust,” which, by some incredible oversight, was …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 7 Never Sorry Alison Klayman’s portrait of China’s most famous and fractious contemporary artist sketches the spectrum of his art and political activism, and the troubles and global sympathy they have brought him
What movies to see this week, Dec. 7 Lincoln An amazing film from Steven Spielberg featuring one of the year’s best performances, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, working every possible angle to pass the 13th Amendment in the waning days of the Civil War. Holy Motors The latest unclassifiable film from the eccentric French director Leos Carax follows a man as he drives around in a …
New movies opening Dec. 9 Any Day Now The Central Park Five The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Hyde Park on Hudson The Matchmaker
Movies opening Friday, Dec. 7 Generation P This screen adaptation of a Russian novel traces the advent of advertising as the Soviet era crumbles in the 1990s
It’s not every Hollywood guy who gets on the phone, obliged to promote his new work, who tells you right off the bat that he’s hung over.