Highly Recommended The Film: The Duellists ‘ path to realization is an easy and logical one to follow: after thumbing through public-domain material to adapt and landing on a Joseph Conrad short story, Ridley Scott — then an experienced commercial director — took around a million dollars to emulate the tone and visual style of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, but with his own, distinctive …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. William Wyler’s 1942 drama Mrs.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are certain trajectories that we expect rock ‘n’ roll stories to take. Of course, the most common are of young men dreaming big and going nowhere
Recommended Driving Miss Daisy Blu-ray Review Clickon an image to view a Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution DrivingMiss Daisy Read the entire review
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A few years after Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before his big breakout, A Nightmare on Elm Street , he made Deadly Blessing , which is more interesting as a precursor of what’s to come than an effective horror …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Trailer parks, all-night diners and strip clubs enclose the action in William Friedkin’s Killer Joe , a dark , disturbing comedy that pulls no punches with its blunt, shortsighted characters and brutal violence
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials provided by Arte Live Web and public-domain photos of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig , and Haussmann ‘s portrait of Bach; they are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. In the interest of being upfront before indulging in my superlative-laden recommendation of the new Blu-ray version of Bach’s …
Highly Recommended I must have first seen Dark Star in 1978 or ’79, four or five years its original theatrical release. Star Wars (1977), of course, had been a big hit, and probably distributor Jack H. Harris thought Dark Star could attract college-age kids starved for more space swashbuckling, or something.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. It starts off as postcards and lulls you, with its eye-popping, rich ‘n warm views of Old-World Italy and the Mediterranean, into a wide-open tourist mode — all the better to guide you to some …
Highly Recommended Odd Life of Timothy Green Blu-ray Revew Click onimage to view Blu-ray screenshot with1080p resolution Th… Read the entire review