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DVD of the week –‘4 by Agnes Varda’
4 by Agnes VardaAgnes Varda, a key director of the French Wave, never belonged to the group proper. By her own admission she had seen less than two dozen films before she embarked on her own first...
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The Leopard: Blu-ray of the Year (so far)
This is what Blu-ray was made for. I know that the special effect-laden sci-fi extravaganzas and action epics are what really drive home theater sales, with fans wanting to get theatrical presentation...
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Sweet Smell of Success – DVD/Blu-ray of the Week (Part 2)
“I love this dirty town.” The first and only time that Burt Lancaster’s J.J. Hunsecker drops the cynical twist from his clenched smile and allows genuine appreciation cross his face in Sweet Smell of...
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“Rope of Sand”– Burt Lancaster in North Africa
Desert noir Rope of Sand (Olive) Set in the unforgiving desert badlands and cutthroat diamond trade of North Africa, with a cast that could be the burned-out, ruthlessly mercenary evil twins of...
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Classic: ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ with missiles poised to launch
Robert Aldrich’s “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” (Olive) combines the “men on a mission against long odds” adventure with the conspiracy thriller that thrived in the seventies to create a...
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Blu-ray: A quartet of schemers and shadows in ‘Film Noir Collection: Volume 1′
“Film Noir Collection: Volume I” (Olive) presents four films previously available on DVD only: “Rope of Sand” (1949), “Dark City” (1950), “Union Station” (1950), and “Appointment with Danger” (1951)....
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‘The Flame and the Arrow’ on TCM
Burt Lancaster spent almost a decade performing as an acrobat in the circus, an experience that gave him not only an impressive physique but incredible muscular control, tools that he drew upon when...
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Videophiled Classic: James Stewart is ‘The Man From Laramie’ and Burt...
The Man From Laramie (Twilight Time, Blu-ray), Anthony Mann’s seventh and final collaboration with James Stewart and his first widescreen film, is a frontier “King Lear” by way of Mann’s favorite...
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Videophiled: Liliana Cavani’s ‘The Skin’
Cohen The Skin (aka La Pelle, Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), directed by Liliana Cavani in 1981 from the novel by Curzio Malaparte, is ostensibly a war drama, set during the American liberation of Sicily from...
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Blu-ray: Two takes on Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’
Criterion The Killers (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) is an ingenious double feature: Two crime classics inspired by the Ernest Hemingway short story. Criterion originally released a DVD double feature over...
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