First, the bad news: as the above screen capture testifies, the image is soft. Sometimes softer than this. Acceptable, but soft, most likely from the source. Also, the French subtitles…
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Barbara Stanwyck in Anthony Mann's 1950 The Furies, a top-knotch psychological Western just recently released on disc by The Criterion Collection. It's very strong stuff but suffers a bit from…
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This BFI two-disc set is quite the nifty package for the would-be Preminger completist who's not overly troubled by the varied vicissitudes of the current global economic situation. Error is…
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At a symposium on films and film criticism held last fall in Brookline, Massachusetts, the great critic and essayist Phillip Lopate, in the middle of an eloquent and inarguably correct…
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I've made a number of inquiries with my former employer as to whether a piece of text I filed with them in early May was actually going to be used…
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I generally limit my foreign-region DVD recommendations to titles that can be appreciated by English-speaking peoples, that is, which carry English-language subtitles or have English language soundtracks. I don’t doubt…
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