Here’s a two-part look at the restoration process behind the 3/23 Blu-ray and DVD release of John Huston’s The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
Also available in Blu-ray and DVD as a commemorative box set with an “all-new hour long ‘making of’ feature with never-before-seen images and commentary,” an audio CD with the [...]
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New to Blu: In addition to the new releases, there are a handful of interesting titles hitting Blu-ray for the first time next week including Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in John Huston’s The African Queen, Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro plus Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 2.
Available today: [...]
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Here’s what’s new on the DVD front. As always, recommended movies are underlined.
(Available today: George Clooney in Up in the Air, multiple Oscar winner Precious, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story)
(Pre-order: Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Oscar winner Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Robert Downey Jr. [...]
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Here’s what’s new on the DVD front. As always, recommended movies are underlined.
(Available now: Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo, Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, Paul Giamatti in Cold Souls and Roland Emmerich’s 2012)
(Pre-order: Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Sandra Bullock [...]
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Here’s what’s new on the DVD front. As always, recommended movies are underlined.
(Available now [new and improved with 30% more Nazi zombies]: Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, Michael Sheen in The Damned United, Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel, Joel & Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man and more)
(Pre-order: George [...]
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Here’s what’s new on the DVD front. As always, recommended movies are underlined.
(Available Now: Coco Before Chanel, Hunger, Revanche, A Serious Man, Couples Retreat and The Time Traveler’s Wife)
(Coming Soon: Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo, Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. [...]
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I’m still experimenting with how best to keep up with DVD releases. This week I’m rolling them out on Tuesday (a full week in advance) with a repeat of the previous week’s column as a reminder of the titles officially available as of today and a link to DVDs on the immediate horizon.
(Coming Soon: Matt [...]
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New DVDs coming Tuesday, February 9
(Next Week: Hunger and Revanche on Criterion plus Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel and Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen.)
(recommended movies underlined. All ratings out of 5 stars)
A Serious Man (**** 1/2). Joel and Ethan Coen return to their roots (a Jewish family living in a [...]
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One of the bummers about the terrific Criterion Collection is that they don’t actually own the rights to any of the movies they release on DVD. That means at the whim of the original rights holders, Criterion can lose the ability to continue printing beloved DVD titles. It’s happened many times before, though I don’t [...]
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Sometime in the last month, my Netflix streaming queue outgrew my regular queue for the first time. If you’re a subscriber who likes indie and foreign films, you’ve probably noticed the burgeoning selection of titles available for streaming on your computer or TV. Last November Netflix inked a deal with IFC and they’ve recently added [...]
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