Recommended I feel the need- the need for- 3D? Well, color me surprised. I had heard a couple years ago that Top Gun was going to be re-released in converted 3D, and I immediately thought that would be an extremely pointless endeavor
Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. When I first watched The Hour sometime back, I actually thought it was a one-off. It seemed fairly self-contained and complete as a miniseries.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare to find a film as sincere and assured in its emotional intent as Ann Hui’s celebrated A Simple Life
Recommended Throughout his career—and increasingly since 1999’s Magnolia —director Paul Thomas Anderson’s films have been hard to pin down. 2007’s striking There Will Be Blood (reviewed on Blu-Ray and DVD ) depicted a self-absorbed man and his pursuit of petroleum and profit
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen grabs used here are from the standard-definition 2007 release , not the Blu-ray edition under review. To call Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 debut feature, Ivan’s Childhood , a “transitional” film implies something more compromised and less accomplished than it actually is.
Highly Recommended The Movie: “To a handful of unforgettable motion picture triumphs, Elia Kazan now adds an event of the first magnitude… the powerful, smoldering story of the New South… of the wild river that captured the attention of the entire world…
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional images and from stills provided by StudioCanal , not the Blu-ray edition under review. The great Mexican filmmaker Luis Bunuel, who had worked in the U.S., Spain, and France as well as in his homeland since the silent era, experienced the last of his multiple transformations/rebirths in France in the ’60s …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Music Box Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. The latest feature from writer/director Ira Sachs ( Forty Shades of Blue , Married Life ), Keep the Lights On is the portrait of a relationship between two men — documentary filmmaker Erik (Thure Lindhardt) and lawyer Paul (Zachary …
DVD Talk Collector Series The directing (and producing) career of Blake Edwards ran hot and cold, boy howdy. To his credit, he was frequently attracted to controversial and difficult-to-adapt projects; at one point he was attached to the first Planet of the Apes movie, for instance. But he also had a soft spot for classical slapstick, especially the kind of pantomime done to perfection by Laurel …