"Kiss Me Deadly" and More DVDs
David HudsonCriterion releases Kiss Me Deadly on DVD and Blu-ray today and, for the occasion, they're running an essay by J Hoberman adapted from his book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of
Shohei Imamura
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Midnight Eye, Cineaste, Olmi
David HudsonA mid-August Wednesday sees fresh rounds of reviews in Midnight Eye and Cineaste and a screening of Ermanno Olmi's Palme d'or-winning The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) in New York. "I shall nail my
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region Blu-ray disc Report: "Profound Desires Of The Gods" (Shohei Imamura, 1968)
Glenn KennyLet's get this out of the way right away, just so we can bounce back from the vulgar and move forward into a more refined realm of cinephilic discourse: Holy s**t. Yes, holy s**t. As in, holy s**t, this
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Province of the Wretched, Part I: Lockdown
Ryland Walker KnightLinked by their concerns with sexuality (or, more directly, perversion), if not by the near simultaneous release of several of their films on DVD in the US, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura belong to