Tushingham in Zhivago. Screen cap from the DVD Beaver review. As I discussed in last week's Topics, etc. at The Auteurs' Notebook, there's a lovely new Blu-ray edition of David Lean's…
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Ah, Preminger. The obstreperous Otto. Is that an apt description of the man? Probably not entirely, but some sort of alliterative description sometimes seems de rigueur when contemplating such figures.…
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Believe it or not—and I know you want to believe it, really I do—I'm not too often prone to professional jealousy. My dislikes and resentments, and I admit, they are…
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Good news...not that it's what you'd call unexpected: the new Second Run DVD of Frantisek Vlacil's magnificent The Valley of the Bees is as spiffy and beautifully produced as pretty…
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As promised, today's Foreign Region DVD Report attempts to convey all of the pulse-pounding, 3-D, 7.1-channel-DTS sound, IMAX excitement of...oh, wait, no. Three films by Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub,…
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I've bumped this delightful (if I may say so myself) piece up a bit from its original place. Because writing about movies really is more important.That corner of my sensibility…
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