By Tom Tracy Leonardo DiCaprio is wearing a living swan around his neck, while Allen Ginsberg is caught tying his shoe in a grungy bathroom. And the Rev. Al Sharpton sits in a beauty salon with his hair up in curlers under a dryer. Yet the laid-back Annie Leibovitz, one of American popular culture’s leading portrait photographers for four decades, said she has never pushed … [Read more...]
The View From Home 44: New releases on DVD and Blu-ray
Criterion has waited until December to release what should go down as one of the most monumental home video releases of the year: Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi Trilogy, packaged together in glorious Blu-ray for the first time ($53.99, same price for DVD). Three earth-shattering experimental features set to the music of Philip Glass, the Qatsi films are wordless symphonies of cities, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 19: New releases on DVD
Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss (Criterion) Release date: Jan. 18 Standard list price: $21.99 each In 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 from 1965. Fuller, in at the time in … [Read more...]