Column Archive: DVD Watch
Ballast November 13, 2009
A little-seen but highly praised debut film from new director Lance Hammer
In a Dream October 23, 2009
A fascinating portrait of an artist and adulterer
This feature-length documentary explores Bourgeois' heady and challenging body of work
Go, go, Godard!
Sherlock Holmes June 26, 2009
As London's preternatural sleuth, John Barrymore broods through the producers' emphasis on his matinee-idol "Great Profile" even as his alcoholism continued tightening his sharp features
The Charles Dickens Masterworks Collection June 19, 2009
Muck and maggots and food slopping down chins, or: The World According to the Original Chuck D
'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'; 'The Hit' June 12, 2009
It's all about the snitches in two new Criterion releases
A Grin Without a Cat May 15, 2009
The title of Chris Marker's radical magnum opus is a reference to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, which like revolution is seen only in parts, not the whole.
DVD Watch May 8, 2009
Joyless v. Joyful: The case against Pulling and for Gavin & Stacey
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts May 1, 2009
It's appropriate – hell, it's necessary – that a documentary about Philip Glass provide sound as crisp and clear as the sharpest images onscreen, and this one does, with aural textures you can almost feel against your skin
What Makes Sammy Run? February 27, 2009
Read the book ... and leave this DVD to the television archives where it belongs
The Exterminating Angel February 20, 2009
Rules of the Game (1939) played ball and jacks compared to Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel
Magnificent Obsession February 6, 2009
This is the film that heralded Sirk's astonishing end-career run of gloriously over-the-top women's pictures
Funny Face: Centennial Collection January 9, 2009
Hepburn and Astaire say, 'Bonjours, Paris!' in the still-spry Funny Face
Europa December 12, 2008
Before 1995 came along and caught him in a deeply formalized act of pretension, Lars von Trier was already something of an ass
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold November 21, 2008
"I've got the last good lay in an aging whore!" said Martin Ritts of his famously troubled star, Richard Burton
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell November 14, 2008
A moving and vital document of an extraordinary but little-known artist
Le Doulos & Le Deuxième Souffle November 7, 2008
Cowboy gangster Jean-Pierre Melville almost always chose to die and almost always violently
The Last Laugh: Deluxe Restored Edition September 26, 2008
Best known for his vampires, devils, and death-dealers, F.W. Murnau traffics here in the evils of capitalism and human cruelty
Brand Upon the Brain! September 5, 2008
Another ambitious, audacious entry in the canon of Canadian auteur Guy Maddin
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