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Dusty Somers’ new Blu-ray review round-up features releases from Criterion, Second Run, Kino and Cheng Cheng Films.

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Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ken Russell, Robert Altman and more!

On April 11, 2018 By Dusty Somers
Women in Love (1969) The Criterion Collection  Sex and death are an inextricable pair in Ken Russell’s film version of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, adapted by Larry Kramer. The imagery is striking but not subtle: Glenda Jackson reclining on a gravestone while discussing the merits of marriage, or two drowned lovers, entwined [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Straub-Huillet, F.W. Murnau, Juraj Herz and more!

On December 31, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Casa de Lava (1994) Grasshopper Film Pedro Costa’s second feature Casa de Lava is a reimagining of Jacques Tourneur’s atmospheric horror classic I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and Costa is a filmmaker more than equipped to pick up Tourneur’s visual mantle. One of the premier creators of sensual, alluring imagery in modern film, Costa has become a [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Lina Wertmüller, James Whale, Jean-Luc Godard & more!

On November 15, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Swept Away (1974) Seven Beauties (1975) Summer Night (1986) Ferdinando and Carolina (1999) Kino Lorber The great Lina Wertmüller gets a big home video boost from Kino with its latest wave of Blu-ray releases from the Italian director, the first woman to be nominated for a Best Directing Oscar. Kino put out Wertmüller’s successive 1970s [...]
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Blu-ray and DVD Review Round-Up: Films by Chantal Akerman, Kelly Reichardt, William Wellman & more!

On October 3, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Certain Women (2016) The Criterion Collection Kelly Reichardt has established herself as one of the greatest living American filmmakers with Certain Women, my favorite film of 2016, and perhaps her best in a career full of patient, revealing and intensely focused yet emotionally expansive films. It’s also her most gorgeous film yet, capturing [...]
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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis: An Appreciation in Three Films

On September 7, 2017 By Doug Krentzlin
    Jerry Lewis in Cracking Up If you had told me three weeks ago that I’d be devastated by Jerry Lewis’ death, I’d have asked you to give me a drag off that before you throw it away. Just a month ago, it was easy to write Jerry off. The cranky attitude, [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Robert Bresson, Karel Zeman, the Coen Brothers & more!

On August 16, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Barton Fink Kino Lorber Studio Classics The long-awaited Region A Blu-ray upgrade of Barton Fink has finally arrived, thanks to Kino’s Studio Classics line. (Among Coen Brothers features, that just leaves The Ladykillers Blu-less, and given that it’s their worst film by a healthy margin, it’s no travesty.) Perhaps the Coens’ first great [...]
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Good Morning

Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Yasujiro Ozu, Allan Dwan, Georges Franju & more!

On July 6, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Good Morning (ohayo, 1959) Criterion Collection How many films directed by your favorite arthouse auteur feature multiple pants-shitting jokes? Of all the remarkable qualities about Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning — a feature generally considered a minor-ish work, but one that gets better every time I see it — perhaps the most remarkable is [...]
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Daughters

Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Lino Brocka, Julie Dash, Leos Carax & more!

On May 5, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Two Films by Lino Brocka: Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and Insiang (1976) BFI  The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has given us no shortage of phenomenal restorations of previously neglected films, and that trend continues with these two works from Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka, who was incredibly prolific before his untimely death in a [...]
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1928: Buster Keaton in "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jess Franco, Ousmane Sembène & more!

On March 6, 2017 By Dusty Somers
Fox and His Friends (1975) Criterion Collection Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends, made midway through his short but incredibly prolific career, unfolds like a brutal car crash in slow motion. It’s almost immediately evident what is going to happen to the naïve carnival worker Fox (played by Fassbinder himself with a [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Shirley Clarke, Miklós Jancsó, Akira Kurosawa & more!

On December 24, 2016 By Dusty Somers
The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke (1929-1987) Milestone Films Milestone’s series of Shirley Clarke releases is one of the great passion projects of the home video era. That fact is vigorously reaffirmed by the fourth volume, which collects experimental shorts, documentaries, home movies and rare material not seen in decades, and [...]
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