I first saw Dario Argento's Inferno back in the mid-80s, when being disappointed by a Dario Argento movie meant something entirely different than what being disappointed by a Dario Argento film means
It is kind of thrilling to see that the ever-exemplary U.K.-based Eureka!/Masters of Cinema label is so bullish on the Blu-ray disc format. July and August were big Blu-ray months for the label, seeing
Can one be nostalgic for a time and a place in which one never lived? Certain works of art evoke something very much like that feeling. Listening to live recordings of John Coltrane and of Sonny Rollins
What, finally, is the point of the Blu-ray disc? Not just for cinephiles, but for anyone with a home entertainment setup? Which questions lead us back to the question of what's the point of a home entertainment
It's finally gotten to the point where the alternative means of viewing and the write-around just won't make it anymore. I've got to admit, finally, that my home viewing situation, which finds me bereft
This is the film that made me fall in love with Montvideo. Montevideo being the major city in Uruguay and the setting for the climax of this picture, a naval battle whose outcome I shall be spoiling
This Eureka! U.K. release, conveniently and considerately mastered in an all-region Blu-ray, is one of those items best described as—well, for myself the word would be "nifty." As in, it's kind
I cannot remember a time in my life during which I did not believe that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was in some fundamental way a perfect fim. I should not have to point out here that I am not calling
One of the many ways in which Ule Edel's recent film The Baader Meinhof Complex failed, both artistically and in terms of actual address of its subject, was in demonstrating the activities of its title
About ten years ago, when I was the editor of the Home Guide section of Premiere magazine, I was looking into expanding the scope of that back-of-the-book section's DVD coverage, and including more obscure
There is a tendency among certain cinephiles (an understandable one given the defensive they are so frequently put upon by ostensibly normal people who will on occasion drop pithy idiocies along the
In a 20-minute interview that is one of the supplements to this excellent DVD edition (a Region 2 PAL UK set from the label Axiom) of Kings of the Road, a contemporary Wenders considers this film and