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Dusty Somers reviews Blu-ray upgrades of two early films from Azazel Jacobs, NYFF 2020′s closing filmmaker

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Blu-ray and DVD Review Round-Up: Films by Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Jacques Tourneur & more!

On October 31, 2016 By Dusty Somers
Cat People (1942) The Criterion Collection We’ve been waiting for years for Warner Brothers to start licensing out some of their holdings in the Blu-ray era, and now that the purse strings have loosened — even if only a little — Criterion has given us some major releases, including The New World with [...]
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The Best Movies You’ve Never Heard Of (Special Halloween Edition): “The Walking Dead” (1936)

On October 31, 2016 By Doug Krentzlin
At this point in time, I suppose it’s virtually obligatory to point out that Michael Curtiz’s 1936 Warner Brothers horror picture The Walking Dead starring Boris Karloff has nothing whatsoever to do with the AMC television series about the zombie apocalypse that premiered in 2010 and recently began its seventh season. Rather, [...]
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3-D Film Archive’s Robert Furmanek Discusses ‘September Storm’ and ‘It Came from Outer Space’

On August 2, 2016 By Stuart Galbraith IV
When I suggested doing an interview with Robert Furmanek of the 3-D Film Archive in conjunction with their Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the restoration of September Storm (1960), little did either of us realize that such promotion was virtually unnecessary. Despite the picture’s obscurity, the campaign is proving an overwhelming success, and [...]
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Blu-ray and DVD Review: Films by Alain Resnais, Jia Zhangke, Ken Russell & more!

On July 20, 2016 By Dusty Somers
Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963) Criterion Collection The third feature film from Alain Resnais often feels like a continuation of the concerns of his previous two (1959’s Hiroshima mon amour and 1961’sLast Year at Marienbad), dealing with the oppressive and disorienting power of memory. Though the ambiguous elisions of Marienbad are legendary, Muriel is the more challenging (and [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-up: Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Kelly Reichardt, Buster Keaton & more!

On May 31, 2016 By Dusty Somers
Horse Money (Second Run) Mysterious Object at Noon (Second Run) British label Second Run has removed just about the only obstacle to achieving peak reverence among cinephiles by making the jump to Blu-ray. Art house stalwarts are the beneficiaries of its first two Blu-ray releases, with Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s debut feature and the latest [...]
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The Truthful Fakery of Kaneto Shindō: a Review of “The Naked Island”

On May 30, 2016 By John David Baldwin
It’s a bit odd that Kaneto Shindō’s The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima, a.k.a. The Island, 1960) has taken so long to receive the Criterion treatment on DVD and Blu-ray, for this Japanese movie has been praised all over the world since it first arrived on the international scene in the early [...]
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Blu-ray Review Round-Up: Films by Agnès Varda, Jacques Rivette, Guy Maddin & more!

On April 13, 2016 By Dusty Somers
Losing Ground Milestone Films  Milestone Films aims its expert curatorial eye on a landmark of African-American cinema with Losing Ground (1982), the second and final feature from Kathleen Collins, whose career was cut short by cancer in 1988. Collins’ first feature, The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980), included here among the copious extras, is often considered [...]
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3-D Blu-ray Review: “Gog” (1954)

On March 16, 2016 By Stuart Galbraith IV
I’m all agog for Gog! Film restorations come in all shapes and sizes. The restoration of Gog (1954), an obscure science fiction thriller shot in Natural Vision 3-D might not sound like much, but in its own way it’s as monumental as the restorations/reconstructions of such unimpeachable classics as Abel Gance’s Napoleon [...]
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Blu-ray and DVD Review Round-Up: Films by Jean Renoir, Věra Chytilová, Eric Rohmer & more!

On March 2, 2016 By Dusty Somers
The Southerner Kino Lorber Promise and peril are inextricably intertwined in The Southerner (1945), one of Jean Renoir’s films from his brief and unfairly maligned Hollywood period. Based on the George Sessions Perry novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand and featuring uncredited dialogue assistance from none other than William Faulkner, the film stars [...]
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The Mutual Films: Chaplin’s Historic “Golden Dozen”

On February 12, 2016 By Scott T. Rivers
A century ago this month, Charlie Chaplin signed a one-year contract with the Mutual Film Corporation for $670,000. In addition to becoming the highest-paid entertainer in the world, he produced 12 two-reel comedies that represent some of his finest work. The Mutual series captured the essence of Chaplin’s seriocomic brilliance while revealing [...]
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