Features
Friday, February 1 2013
The Best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2012
From classics to contemporary television, the typical titles and the surprising outsider choices, the year in home video was just as divisive, and delightful, as the rest of our meaningful media.
Thursday, February 23 2012
Charles Dickens 200: Great Expectations: Bright Hope and Dark Resignation
Where we are now, in 2012, is on a darker plain especially for the large "Underclass". Perhaps Dickens can light our way?
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Monday, October 13 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1
Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.
Reviews
Friday, May 11 2012
A Neophyte and a Cosmopolitan Get Together and Create Magic: 'David Lean Directs Noël Coward'
A beautiful chronicle of British life during the war, a perfect example of propaganda and a detailed examination of creative evolution, this boxset is sure to become a staple in film lovers' libraries.
Tuesday, August 3 2010
If You Believe That Bigger Is Better and Biggest Is Best, Then 'Doctor Zhivago' Is For You
Doctor Zhivago, almost pornographic in the way it pursues the beautiful image, stands on the other side of a vast chasm defining one era of film making from another.
Thursday, April 29 2010
Essential Art House: Brief Encounter
No matter how exciting their meetings are, there’s always the looming train ride back to nonexistence.
Thursday, March 19 2009
Hobson's Choice (Criterion Collection)
Director Lean toys with the audience’s expectations with regards to his well-established directorial style.
Thursday, April 24 2008
A Passage To India
This is a solid throwback to an era where the scope and poetry of the eloquent imagery were the only things that mattered.
Blogs
Wednesday, November 3 2010
In One Word - EPIC!: 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (Blu-ray)
From the solid work by everyone in front of the lens to the tireless efforts of the throngs behind, you can see the breadth of vision in every single frame.
