Brian DePalma’s ‘Blow Out’ gets the Criterion treatment
From April 27, 2011 – The most important movie event of the past month happened in video stores rather than in theaters — Brian DePalma’s masterpiece “Blow Out” appeared on DVD in a two-disc Criterion...
View Article‘Side Effects’: the final Steven Soderbergh film?
Like Jean-Luc Godard in his 1960s peak years, Steven Soderbergh has appeared to be in a race over the past decade to see how many films he could make before the financiers catch up with him. Since the...
View Article‘Wicked, Wicked’: split-screen nightmare
It takes some doing to unearth an early 1970s major studio release that yours truly has never heard of — those were probably my peak moviegoing years, when I saw nearly everything (i.e. “The Legend of...
View ArticleDavid Margulies, R.I.P.
The website TheaterMania reported this morning that the veteran New York actor David Margulies has died at the age of 78. His face became familiar to moviegoers from a series of roles in popular...
View ArticleMovies as a New York City time machine
As you get older, it is fascinating to see how movies become mini-time capsules of the period during which they were shot. Since New York City has always been a favorite Hollywood location, the movies...
View ArticleCriterion keeps DVD extras alive
I like the convenience and the clutter-free nature of downloaded movies as much as the next guy, but I would hate to see DVDs vanish, taking all of those wonderful “extras” with them. Since the DVD was...
View Article‘De Palma’: the business of movies
If you missed the documentary “De Palma” during its brief theatrical life earlier this year, you can watch it now via streaming services such as Amazon Instant (the DVD release is set for Sept. 13)....
View ArticleCriterion celebrates a double ‘Valley’ launch
The upscale Criterion Collection DVD brand is best known for its beautifully packaged classic films, ranging from the work of European masters such as Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni to...
View ArticleJonathan Demme’s wild ride
With the announcement of Jonathan Demme’s death today, the movie industry lost one of its most talented and humane directors – a filmmaker who was almost impossible to categorize because of his...
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