THE DVD SHELF: "Can't Help Lovin'" Show Boat on Film
In last week's column, we started our discussion of the 1936 film ” Show Boat” [Warner Archive], which incorporates many elements of the original 1927 Ziegfeld production.
In last week's column, we started our discussion of the 1936 film ” Show Boat” [Warner Archive], which incorporates many elements of the original 1927 Ziegfeld production.
This film has not been totally impossible to view over the years — it even turns up occasionally on cable — but it has long been obscured.
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” the acclaimed documentary film that captures the vivid onstage and offstage life of the Tony Award-winning theatre icon, is released June 24 on DVD and on Netflix.
Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Larry Kramer AIDS drama The Normal Heart, which premiered May 25 on HBO starring Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer and Jim Parsons, will be released Aug. 26 on Blu-Ray and DVD.
This month we watch the British documentary “Theatreland,” Billy Wilder’s “Ace in the Hole,” Harold Lloyd’s “The Freshman” and David O. Russell’s “American Hustle.”
High atop my list of favorite Hitchcocks is “Foreign Correspondent” [Criterion]. This was Hitchcock in his transitional period, just after he made his Hollywood debut in 1940 with “Rebecca.” (Both were nominated for that year’s Best Picture Oscar, with “Rebecca” taking the prize.)
The success of Mike Todd’s star-stocked 1956 film extravaganza “Around the World in 80 Days” led to a stream of oversized epics filled with more big-name stars than you can count on your fingers.
This month’s column screens Robert Altman’s 1975 classic “Nashville” and Woody Allen’s 2013 instant classic “Blue Jasmine.” *
The National Theatre will release a two-disc DVD to celebrate its 50th anniversary, comprising the National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage gala performance that was broadcast live on BBC2 Nov. 2, as well as the two-part BBC Arena documentary on the history of the Natinal Theatre
The live album and DVD of Barbra Streisand’s 2012 Back to Brooklyn concerts are released in a deluxe set Nov.