Araya (Milestone)Release date: May 10Standard list price: $29.95Milestone Films releases many different kinds of movies, but if the distributor has a signature style, it’s the merger of documentary and fiction – depictions of real life colored, in one way or another, with the aesthetic control of fiction.I am Cuba, The Exiles, On the Bowery and In This … [Read more...]
The View From Home 19: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonShock Corridor and The Naked Kiss (Criterion)Release date: Jan. 18Standard list price: $21.99 eachIn all the documentaries and video interviews made about the work of the great director Samuel Fuller, the movie referenced more than any other is not even made by Fuller. It’s a scene from Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard’s manic farrago … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Delray film festival alive and kicking in fourth year
Jeff Daniels and Lou Taylor Pucci in The Answer Man.By Hap ErsteinMovie attendance traditionally does well in hard economic times, but that does not mean it is easy to put on a film festival during a recession. Nevertheless, with minimal staff and reduced corporate sponsorship, here comes the 4th annual Delray Beach Film Festival, opening today and continuing through Sunday, … [Read more...]