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The DVD Report #89
There are lots of new and recent DVDs to catch up with this week. Sony/Columbia is one of the stingier companies when it comes to releasing classic films so it’s a cause for celebration when they come up with something for us like The Films of Michael Powell even if the collection contains only two
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The DVD Report #88
It’s time to look back at the best DVD releases of 2008, which I cite as follows: Murnau, Borzage and Fox How the West Was Won (Blu-ray) Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration (Blu-ray) Fanny The Third Man (Blu-ray) Quo Vadis Becket (Blu-ray) The Lubitsch Musicals Persepolis (Blu-ray) The big news of
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The DVD Report #87
Every year, DVD distributors make a dent in the long list of films not available on commercial DVD in the U.S., but it’s a slow process. This year they finally gave us Fanny and early next year they’ll give us Rachel, Rachel. We should be grateful for those, but there is so much more out
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Film Preview: Gomorrah (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C-; C+ Review: I can’t imagine anyone wanting to stop and read this poster. Too much text often turns moviegoers off. Even if it is just critics’ praise. Plus, other than people wondering why there’s
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The DVD Report #86
Ho, Ho, Ho! It’s that time of year again. If it’s worth saying, it’s worth repeating. From November of 2007, here once again are a few of my favorite Christmas films. Though not a Christmas film in the strictest sense, so much of George Cukor’s sublime 1933 version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women takes
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The DVD Report #85
The Fox in Fox’s massive new DVD box set, Murnau, Borzage and Fox, is not the studio but William Fox, the titular head of Fox Studios who was fast becoming the most powerful mogul in the business in the late 1920s. In 1926, Fox had already put into motion plans to catch up with industry
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Film Preview: Ciao (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Alternating bars, color and film image, is such an original notion that I’m surprised no one has come up with it before… Trailer Rating: C+ Review: There are kernels of intriguing story elements
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Film Preview: Good (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Another fairly bland poster. Viggo Mortensen isn’t the box office draw he needs to be in order to pull of this poster. His homely image will certainly not pull in his small legion
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The DVD Report #84
Already the second highest grossing film of all time, Christopher Nolan’s new Batman film, The Dark Knight, is a meditation on the dichotomy of good and evil. Even before the untimely death of co-star Heath Ledger, this was the year’s most eagerly anticipated film. Ledger’s death gave it free but sad publicity and the knowledge
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Review: The Wrestler (2008)
The Wrestler Rating Director Darren Aronofsky Screenplay Robert D. Siegel Length 109 min. Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review The world of professional wrestling has long been accused of faking events to capture the audience’s attention. The Wrestler is
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Review: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire Rating Director Danny Boyle Screenplay Simon Beaufoy (Novel “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup) Length 120 min. Starring Dev Patel, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanay Hemant Chheda, Freida Pinto, Rubiana Ali, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Madhur Mittal, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Saurabh Shakula, Raj Zutshi MPAA Rating R for some violence,
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Film Preview: Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: From a blocking perspective, the poster is fairly strong. Sandwiching the White House between he journalist and the investigator is a potent image and the positioning/look of the faces is evocative. However, overlaying
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Film Preview: Che (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: It’s a little too simplistic and a little too obvious. There are probably many more compelling choices of framing and situation, but this is all they could come up with apparently. Trailer Rating:
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Film Preview: $9.99 (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Taking “images” from the film is seldom a good idea, but the choice of foreground images is quite clever considering the import of it to the plot according to the trailer. Trailer Rating:
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Film Preview: The Black Balloon (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: The mustard yellow background is a little less vibrant than the other yellows being used this year, but still not very original and the smattering of film images around the outside edge with
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