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DVDs
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Matt Mazur
Clement’s near-perfect film and Wajda’s hugely influential title cannot salvage the validity of the collection as a whole.
By Bruce Dancis
This hard to find film has long had a notable reputation. Now all fans of solid acting and literate, topical screenplays can view it on DVD.
Wednesday, July 8 2009
By Thomas Britt
Long-delayed season 7 includes a fiery blend of political crises, family dramas and exhilarating action sequences.
By Ben Travers
Steve Martin’s 2nd stab at resurrecting a classic features broader humor and international star power -- but is it funny?
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Terrence Butcher
This vibrant documentary casts light upon the duality of socio-sexual identity and identity politics.
By Sarah Hentges
Two rich documentaries that reveal the diversity of lesbian filmmakers as well as their common themes and experiences.
Monday, July 6 2009
By Emma Simmonds
Leigh takes on ordinary and infuses blinding colour, broad comedy, crude monikers and flamboyant performances.
By Stuart Henderson
This was the moment that the Beatles broke up. It's tough to watch footage from that night as anything other than the beginning of the long denouement to an epic story.
Friday, June 26 2009
By Terrence Butcher
Dominick Dunne’s own story has all the requisite tragic-romantic elements of any personality he’s written about.
By Emma Simmonds
An erudite, somewhat autobiographical, handsome and twisted examination of female infidelity.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By Christel Loar
Kaylan's recollection of the wild night when he and his band met Donovan, The Beatles, Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix is an amazing portrait filled with fabulous performances and plenty of humor.
By Dan Heaton
While the filmmaker supports Frazier's viewpoint, he also depicts a frightening, unhealthy side of his personality.
Wednesday, June 24 2009
By Shaun Huston
Regardless of how you access it, you will see an entertaining, thoughtful, and politically committed articulation of what Gaylor dubs the “copyLEFT”.
By Dan Heaton
The vintage BBC material should jump off the screen and inspire us, but the footage just sits there.
Tuesday, June 23 2009
By Jesse Hassenger
These friendly '90s touchstones rely on rather cheerful (and consistently hilarious) goofing around with a throwaway charm.
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Friday, June 26 2009
By Luke Z. Fenchel
Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and reconciliation, this film fails to address the structures of power, and arguably perpetuates the very atrocities that it sets out to condemn.
Tuesday, June 16 2009
By Christian John Wikane
The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Friday, June 5 2009
By Michael Barrett
Again in the Eastwood oeuvre, a man who thinks he's in control, and especially around women, finds out he's not quite.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By Thomas Britt
In recent history, the myriad commercial and social reactions to so-called Blaxploitation films made feasible the rise of a robust, intelligent, and independent black cinema in the US.
(more Pop Past)
Friday, June 19 2009
By Matt Mazur
Bergman’s need to honor, discover and examine his intrinsic connection to women is quite simple: all men are influenced by women.
(more Suffragette City)
Thursday, June 18 2009
By Kit MacFarlane
With attempted justifications of military torture on our minds, Retro Remote heads back to the '50s TV Western to find a surprisingly tough moral stance on the U.S. military's destruction of human dignity and dehumanisation of 'enemy combatants'.
(more Retro Remote)
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