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Dusty Somers reviews two new Blu-ray releases of films from prolific documentary filmmaker William Greaves.

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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Bob Fosse, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karel Kachyňa & more!

On September 28, 2019 By Dusty Somers
The Ear (Ucho, 1970) Second Run The personal is political in Karel Kachyňa’s claustrophobic satire, in which the authoritarianism of the Czech Communists is filtered through a long night’s journey into day inside the home of a senior party official. The domestic space isn’t a respite for Ludvik (Radoslav Brzobohatý) and his wife, [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Pavel Juráček and more!

On July 22, 2019 By Dusty Somers
First Name: Carmen (1982) Détective (1985) Hélas Pour Moi (1993) Kino Lorber The standard line about Jean-Luc Godard is that he’s never come close to replicating the string of masterpieces he made in his astonishingly productive 1960s output. The ’70s get the militantly political works that dare you to find a shred of [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Barbara Loden, Alex Cox, Jindřich Polák and more!

On May 14, 2019 By Dusty Somers
Highway Patrolman (1991) Kino Lorber Studio Classics  Exiled from Hollywood after not-a-biopic Walker, the iconoclastic Alex Cox took his talents to the Mexican film industry, making the third in a string of westerns, Highway Patrolman. Unlike Walker and Straight to Hell, it’s a fairly conventional film — at least by Cox’s standards. Bitter [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Jan Němec and more!

On March 13, 2019 By Dusty Somers
Far From Heaven (2002) Kino Lorber Studio Classics  As a 1950s Hollywood melodrama pastiche, Far From Heaven is unrivaled, from Mark Friedberg’s detail-perfect production design to Edward Lachman’s stunningly vibrant cinematography, full of otherworldly purples and greens. Todd Haynes’ riff on Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows is about as earnest a piece of hero worship as you’ll [...]
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Technicolor Popeye

On February 1, 2019 By Scott T. Rivers
By the time animation pioneers Max and Dave Fleischer lost their studio to Paramount Pictures in May 1941, the best Popeye entries were behind them. Paramount renamed the operation Famous Studios in 1942 (retaining most of the key Fleischer personnel) and forged ahead with its breadwinning cartoon star. However, Max and Dave’s [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Karel Zeman, Julien Duvivier, Hong Sangsoo and Robert Altman

On December 31, 2018 By Dusty Somers
Invention for Destruction (Vynález zkázy, 1958) Second Run  After their incredibly gorgeous Blu-ray release of The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, I was hopeful for more Karel Zeman goodness from Second Run, and the wait wasn’t long. Invention for Destruction (or The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, as it’s more commonly known in the US) [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Olivier Assayas & more!

On November 21, 2018 By Dusty Somers
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade: The Complete Films Kino Lorber Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement is woefully underrepresented on English-friendly home video. Likely the most recognizable figure, Glauber Rocha, doesn’t have a single film available on DVD in the US. (Mr. Bongo has put out some titles in the UK.) That makes Kino’s three-disc set [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Kelly Reichardt, Hong Sangsoo, Bill Gunn & more!

On August 27, 2018 By Dusty Somers
Wendy and Lucy (2008) Oscilloscope Laboratories There’s a scene in Kelly Reichardt’s first masterpiece, Wendy and Lucy, when Michelle Williams’ Wendy is apprehended by a self-righteous teenager working at a small-town Oregon grocery store. She’s trying to shoplift a few cans of barf diet for dogs, Lucy, who’s tied up outside. He [...]
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‘Yellow Submarine’ Turns 50

On July 18, 2018 By Scott T. Rivers
Premiering at the London Pavilion on July 17, 1968, director George Dunning’s Yellow Submarine represented a landmark achievement in the history of animated feature films. Though influenced by the “Summer of Love” psychedelia of 1967, Yellow Submarine encompassed a rich tapestry of animation styles. Like the Beatles’ music, it has a timeless [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Jacques Rivette, Derek Jarman, Frank Borzage & more!

On June 21, 2018 By Dusty Somers
La Belle Noiseuse Cohen Jacques Rivette’s engrossing La Belle Noiseuse, surely one of the swiftest four-hour films ever made, at once affirms the quasi-mystical draw of the creative process and punctures the mythos of the artist-muse relationship. Erstwhile painting great Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is enlivened by meeting Marianne (Emmanuelle Béart), the girlfriend [...]
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