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DVDs
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.
By Sarah Hentges
There are some documentaries that really blow your mind. And then there are documentaries like America Betrayed.
Monday, June 22 2009
By Kate Williams
This film was lauded for its tough and uncompromising cerebral vision, its stark visual style, and the knowing defiance of its inherent seriousness.
By Andrew Winistorfer
This show is like a bad habit that just won't go away.
Friday, June 19 2009
By Adrien Begrand
Only Iron Maiden could pull a world tour like this off. The ecstatic reactions from India, to Australia, to Japan, to Central and South America, to Canada are all essentially the same the world over.
By Lara Killian
Delivered in a box as red as the fire hydrant colored leather getup Eddie Murphy paraded around in 25 years ago, the 25th anniversary edition of the classic stand-up tour “Delirious” has arrived.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By George Tiller
Resnais speaks of how this film is like a Rorschach test; what it means depends on who watches it.
By Christel Loar
This does a fantastic job honoring the late John Ritter and preserving his memory, while also remembering to be a great comedy.
Wednesday, June 17 2009
By J.M. Suarez
This show succeeds in creating characters that are nuanced and three-dimensional.
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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'.
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