DVDs, Globes and more Lists and Awards
David Hudson"A new DVD specialty label, Twilight Time, featuring limited editions of vintage 20th Century Fox films, was launched Tuesday," reports Susan King in the Los Angeles Times. "The first film under
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"Rock Follies," Lou Castel, DVDs, Fests, Lists
David HudsonIn the run-up to their presentation of Head (1968) at 92Y Tribeca on December 18, a screening introduced by Eric Lefcowitz, author of Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-for-TV Band
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"Metropolis" and More DVDs; "Marlene" and More Events
David HudsonHorst von Harbou, still photographer on the set of Metropolis (1927) and brother of screenwriter Thea von Harbou, and so, brother-in-law to Fritz Lang, made that photograph up there in 1925 during
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Bright Lights 70, "Malle Entendu" @ Not Coming, DVDs
David HudsonGary Morris takes us by the hand and leads us into the new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal: "This issue, #70, with a mere 26 articles may seem shorter than usual, but we've tried to compensate
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Kazan, Cazale and More DVDs
David HudsonThe Elia Kazan Collection, featuring 15 films and Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones's A Letter to Elia, is clearly the release of the week. "Gathering every feature Kazan made between 1945 and 1963
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UnionDocs in Brooklyn and Berlin, DVDs, "Aftershock"
David Hudson"What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary?" asks Mike Everleth, pointing us to a multi-part special program happening tonight in Brooklyn
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"House," Kubrick, Chaplin and Filmmaker
David HudsonWilliam Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) is out on Blu-ray (see the October 12 roundup) and at his own site, Dave Kehr notes that the two-disc package presents both "original release cut and the 2000
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"Apocalypse Now," Sirk, More DVDs
David HudsonAnother day, another list for the Guardian's Film Season. This one's the "action and war 25," and topping it is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, "a cult film for the ages, an imperfect classic
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DVDs. Bugs, Bogey and Beelzebub
David HudsonOne of Neal Gabler's arguments in An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood is that the films that came out of Warner Bros Pictures in the mid-20th century are steeped in Jack and Harry
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Bogart, Grindhouse, Otherzine
David Hudson"The first great antihero of American movies, Humphrey Bogart remained the epitome of nonconformist cool for generations after his death," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times. "The Bogey of
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"The Thin Red Line" and More DVDs
David Hudson"Terrence Malick's epic war-film daydream The Thin Red Line (1998) is already out on DVD, but it is being reissued this week from The Criterion Collection, and when Criterion steps up to the line
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Fall Previews and Small Screens
David HudsonFor the New York Times' AO Scott, the "salient question is this: Will any of the movies surfacing this fall provoke the kind of conversation that television series routinely do, breaking beyond