DVD Archives - Page 2 of 27 - Funerals & Snakes

Auteurs DVD Great Art Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny Tales From The Warner Archives

Tales From the Warner Archives #12: "Two Weeks In Another Town" (Vincente Minnelli, 1962)

The conventional wisdom in certain circles is that this quasi-sequel/companion piece to 1952's The Bad…

Glenn KennyFebruary 9, 2011

Auteurs DVD Formal qualities Great Art Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

We have all got it coming, or, Joseph Losey meets the plausibles: some observations on the finale of "The Prowler" (1951)

As you might infer from the title of this post, spoilers will follow. So when…

Glenn KennyFebruary 3, 2011

Auteurs DVD Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Image of the day, 1/26/11

Peter Breck in Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller, 1963. Now this, really, is my idea of…

Glenn KennyJanuary 26, 2011

DVD Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Image of the day, 1/24/11

Richard Attenborough and Charles Mingus, All Night Long, Basil Dearden, 1962. I'd been listening a…

Glenn KennyJanuary 24, 2011

DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny Tales From The Warner Archives

Tales from The Warner Archives #11: "-30-" (Jack Webb, 1959)

In my heedless youth, with my slovenly wannabe-hippie attitude and all, I was never much…

Glenn KennyJanuary 4, 2011

DVD Housekeeping Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

"Jeu" on

Marie Bell, perhaps about to demonstrate that blondes don't necessarily have more fun, in Jacques…

Glenn KennyDecember 28, 2010

Blu-ray DVD Housekeeping Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Mr. B in Blu

The French, they are...well, they are the first to put out some great silent pictures…

Glenn KennyDecember 21, 2010

Aesthetics Amusement Auteurs Comedy Creeping you out DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Tales From The Warner Archives #10: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Anne Francis in a film by Kenneth Anger...

...oh, no, wait, it's the aforementioned. That is, Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here, 1954. A…

Glenn KennyDecember 14, 2010

DVD Housekeeping Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Four adventures of Anne-Marie and Jean-Luc

People who think that ECM is only good for New-Agey, "soft" sounds and such clearly…

Glenn KennyDecember 14, 2010

Affinities Americana Awesomeness DVD Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny Tales From The Warner Archives

Tales From The Warner Archives #9: "Stranger on the Third Floor" (Ingster, 1940) and "The Outfit" (Flynn, 1973); an Elisha Cook, Jr. double feature (sort of)

The ineffable Mr. Cook, Jr., does not spend a whole lot of his brief screen…

Glenn KennyDecember 6, 2010

DVD