Despite occasional hiccups in the source elements, these HD transfers look incredibly good.
Great sound. Excellent image. Crucial commentary. A must-have.
Zero Mostel’s brutally moving performance shows you what a real “clown who cried” performance is made of.
Strictly for anyone who was pissed off that the guy in Brisseau’s Secret Things never took his clothes off.
The extras on this DVD say more about the way audiences, critics, and authors relate to each other than the actual documentary.
As Ingrid Bergman’s music instructor might say to her in his early scene: “You look great but sound terrible.”
“It’s time to put on make-up. It’s time to dress up right.” Sing it to me, Dom baby, sing it!
Thank the success of Trembling Before G-d and Stone Reader for the release of The Way We Laughed on DVD.
A not-so-solid film gets a solid audio and video transfer and the red carpet treatment in the features department.
Boy, that preview for Beefcake sure shows up on a lot of these Strand discs.
This collector’s edition appears to be basically a replay of the earlier Superbit release.
Hotchi Motchi! The Critic gets a respectful and well-deserved DVD treatment.
With no supplemental materials specific to Gaudreault’s glorified sitcom, you may want to rent rather than buy.
No featurette overstays its welcome on this handsome Secondhand Lions DVD package.
Ridley Scott fans: Imagine for a second what Matchstick Men would have looked like if Robert Zemeckis had directed it.
Skip the film altogether and go straight to disc two. Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes says it better than James Cox did.
Gene Shalit, Renee Shapiro, and Wireless Magazine (I know that’s you Earl Dittman!) loved it, so it can’t be that bad. Right?
Regardless of whether he was playing a sinner or a saint, the deep throat of Christopher Lee made the battle between good and evil never sexier.
Good transfer but no supplemental materials. Strictly for die-hard fans of La Kudrow.
Rudolph’s most accessible film in years is anchored by incredible performances by Campbell Scott and Hope Davis.
If you’re a Harvey Pekar fan, do yourself a favor and buy this DVD.