Rent It It’s kind of criminal that we’re more than a half-decade into Blu-ray now, and I can still count on one hand how many Hammer films have found their way to high-def the world over. Severin Films is doing what they can to ease that sting, though
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Whenever I feel obliged to wrack my brains and recall some of the rare, precious bright spots of the 1980s (usually when confronted with the all-too-true conventional wisdom that that decade was culturally moribund and downright reactionary after the political questioning and artistic aspirations/freedoms of the ’70s), what comes immediately to mind is The …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “We always imagine happiness is somewhere other than where we are
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There are many cinematic points of reference that could be brought to bear on Billy Budd , the 1948 opera (adapted from Herman Melville’s novella) by composer Benjamin Britten, novelist/librettist E.M
Skip It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Considered solely as a career-launching vehicle, one can understand the appeal of Michael Cristofer’s 1998 made-for-HBO movie, Gia , a biopic recounting the tragic life and untimely death of Gia Carangi, America’s first “supermodel,” who died of AIDS in 1986, when …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, young and Byronesquely sexy like he was in Ma tresse ) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are very, very naughty boys. One would not put it so innocuously (the two are overgrown …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. From Ang Lee’s urbane but serious-minded portrait of the 1970s, The Ice Storm , to Richard Linklater’s openly comic and lovingly mocking take on the same, Dazed & Confused
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the previous DVD edition and not the Blu-Ray under review. I didn’t like Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear at first. As a big fan of J
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Zolt n Korda’s 1939 epic The Four Feathers is an entertaining anachronism.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Johan (Andreas Lust, Revanche ) runs, and that is the action that defines him completely; his other occupation, robbing banks, is only a subset, an offshoot of that raison d’ tre