DVD Reviews Archive for March, 2009
Wilmington on DVDs: Slumdog Millionaire, Danton, Il Generale Della Rovere and more …
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Slumdog Millionaire (Three-and-a-Half Stars) U.K./India; Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire is a dancing, crackling shockwave of a movie, an incandescent
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: A Secret, Dodes’ka-den, L’Innocente and more … plus, this week’s box set
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW A Secret (Un Secret) (Three-and-a-Half Stars) France; Claude Miller, 2007 (Strand Releasing) The young French film critic Francois Truffaut used to snipe at the obvious craftsmanship and overt
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Synecdoche, NY, Faust and more …plus, this week’s box set
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Synecdoche, New York (Three-and-a-Half Stars) U. S.; Charlie Kaufman, 2008 (Sony) Synecdoche (def.): A figure of speech where the whole is used for
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Pinocchio, Milk, Happy-Go-Lucky and more … plus, this week’s box set
PICK OF THE WEEK: CLASSICS Pinocchio (Two Discs) (Four Stars) U.S.; Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske 1940 (Walt Disney) When you wish upon a star…. A little wooden-boy puppet named Pinocchio
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Australia, Beatrix Potter, and more… plus, this week’s box set
PICKS OF THE WEEK: NEW Australia (Four Stars) (A) Australia/U.K.; Baz Luhrmann, 2008 (20th Century Fox) Over the top it may be, sport, but Baz (Moulin Rouge!) Luhrmann’s visually scrumptious, rousing epic of WW2-era Australia unbound, was one of my favorite movies of 2008.
Read the full article »Vanishing Point: BluRay
Charlotte Rampling has second billing on the ‘U.K. version’ of Vanishing Point, which runs 106 minutes (although her name does not appear on the end credit scroll). Without her, the American theatrical release runs 98 minutes. Both versions were included on the 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD, and are now featured on the much improved…
Read the full article »The French Connection
Would whoever kidnapped William Friedkin in the late Seventies and replaced him with an evil twin please let the poor man go? In addition to all of the awful movies he has made since then, Friedkin has now gone back and messed with his crowning achievement, the 1971 Oscar-winning cop thriller, The French Connection. 20th Century Fox…
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