I have to admit: when I learned that the first Blu-ray release from Criterion would be of their newly remastered version of Wong Kar-Wai's 1994 Chungking Express, I was slightly…
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I don't really keep up with celebrity gossip, so it was only just now, at the newsstand, that the Vogue cover line heralding an interview with puling nonentity Jennifer Aniston…
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This week's DVD report asks the burning question, "Why do you have to go to Japan, figuratively speaking, to get a Blu-ray of Minnelli's great An American in Paris?" At…
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There are two kinds of people in the world. People who believe Barry Lyndon, and people who believe Forrest Gump. I always figured director David Fincher as one of the…
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The opening shot of The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford, 1940In his recent video appreciation of this film, The New York Times' A.O. Scott admits to being a little gobsmacked: "I'd…
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So last night I had the privilege of moderating a Q&A with several cast members of Revolutionary Road at a special SAG screening. (Jeffrey Wells took some pictures of the…
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