You may not like what the camel’s face does on the DVD interactive menu, but this docu-realist film remains incredibly transfixing.
The film’s grungy mix of old-school and new-school aesthetic modes is ripe with poetic textures.
Since complaining about Oscar’s short-sightedness and asking for them to change their ways is as futile as asking for a recount in Ohio, let’s get this show on the road.
With its focus on faith, the generous and captivating In Your Hands sets itself apart from other Dogma films.
Few films pay this close and considerate attention to the physical and emotional heartache of growing old and every frame of Schultze Gets the Blues is alive with this generosity.
Kore-eda Hirokazu’s wonderful new film is a meditation on the solace, comfort, and rapture of familial togetherness.
If shadow delineation ever needed to look bad, it’s on this DVD.
Siegrid Alnoy’s She’s One of Us asks us to take a woman’s ennui at face value. Literally.
The self-consciousness of Nicolas Winding Refn’s direction complements the compulsiveness of Turturro’s character, but there’s really nothing to Fear X.
Jeffrey Lyons may be quoted on the front cover, but a real critic (ahem) is quoted on the back.
While this DVD edition does justice to the film’s sinister color scheme, the cast and crew commentary leaves much to be desired.
The film is chock-full of randy boozing and comic non sequitors more mystifying than amusing.
“Outrageous and zany,” says Jeffrey Lyons. Words to die by.
A film only Earl Dittman could love, Catwoman is a purrrrrfect cure for insomnia.
One of the best Hollywood pop films of 2004, Cellular gets a handsome audio/video treatment on this New Line Platinum Series DVD.
A disappointment in more ways than one, it’s easy to forget just how beautifully Roger Deakins shot The Village.
There’s something about the film’s godly lead character that reeks of arrogance.
Unlike Faulkner’s Light in August, the film’s structure is less intricately maze-like and the stakes never feel too high.
Though it skimps on historical details, Andrés Wood’s wonderful Machuca is nonetheless alive with contemporary resonance.
True to the spirit of the film, the hearty supplemental materials arranged on this DVD set range from the dope to the simply flatulent.