By John ThomasonMy Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (First Look)Standard list price: $18.99Release date: Sept. 14The Killer Inside Me (MPI)SLP: $13.99Release date: Sept. 28Two movies by major filmmakers exploring the minds of killers debuted on DVD recently, and the results are so divergent they might as well be filed under different categories in the … [Read more...]
The View From Home 11: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonGreenberg (Universal)Release date: July 13Standard list price: $18.49If I were Roger Greenberg – the literate, perpetually disgruntled protagonist in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg – I would definitely be hand-writing a letter to Universal right about now that would go something like this:Dear Universal Home Entertainment, Eager to discover more … [Read more...]
The View From Home 10: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonTerribly Happy (Oscilloscope Laboratories)Release date: July 13Standard list price: $26.99Following in the footsteps of Roger Vadim (…And God Created Woman), George Sluizier (The Vanishing) and Michael Haneke (Funny Games), Danish filmmaker Henrik Ruben Genz becomes the latest foreign-language director to remake his own movie in English … [Read more...]
The View From Home 9: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonClose-Up (Criterion)Release date: June 22Standard list price: $36.49This two-disc Criterion reissue of one of the greatest – if not the greatest – films of the 1990s replaces the out-of-print edition from Facets, and hopefully a new crop of young cinephiles will discover it. Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami wrote and directed the film after … [Read more...]
The View From Home 8: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonFor My Father (Film Movement)Release date: June 1Standard list price: $22.49I normally reserve the space for the largest review in this column to wonderful films that are worthy of your time, but occasionally a film so indefensible – so patently contemptible – will arrive on my doorstep that it prompts the need to vent for more than 150 … [Read more...]
The View From Home 7: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonStagecoach (Criterion)Release date: May 25Standard list price: $30.99As the legend goes, John Ford’s Stagecoach established the Western as an A picture, reviving it from its creatively moribund inception as disposable, one-dimensional nickelodeon fare and elevating it to the lofty standards of Whitmanesque poetry and pre-Wellesian compositional … [Read more...]
The View From Home 4: New releases on DVD
The Italian Straw Hat (Flicker Alley)Release date: April 6Standard list price: $23.99In the movies and the theater, the institution of marriage is not often a melodious tradition, with infidelity and domestic strife serving as effective dramatic devices for more than a century. But day-to-day wedlock is downright harmonious compared to the ceremony leading up to it.Cinematic or … [Read more...]
The View From Home: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonWhile we’ve been dedicated to reviewing the newest movies to hit theaters on a regular basis, we here at ArtsPaper know that most viewing is done at home these days. Many movies already debut on pay television concurrently with their theatrical release, and many quality films either don’t receive theatrical distribution or don’t play in the comparatively small … [Read more...]