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DVD Reviews
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A round-up of some of the best from one of the more interesting National cinemas of the past few years.
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An in-depth DVD review of Wakamatsu's seminal Roman Porno film.
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The long wait for Tarkovskians is finally over. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) is out on DVD!
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An in-depth analysis of Criterion's swank release of Sir Carol Reed's British noir classic.
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Kudos to Columbia-Tristar for their continued excellence in Asian DVD's.
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Firstrun Features does an admirable job with the DVD transfer of Dariush Mehrjui's excellent Leila.
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Although there is a fear among film purists where digital revolution is concerned, those of us who study film are more often inclined to acknowledge the benefits of digital technology. For such reasons as the recent DVD-Rom entitled Masterpieces of Silent Japanese Cinema.
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Throughout, Tati contrasts the cold colors and industrial sounds of the Arpel’s and the Plastac factory to the warm, earth tone colors, traditional French music, and human sounds of the old quarter. Tati may prefer this idealized vision of the past, but he remains the realist.
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The most gratifying aspect of Criterion's new digital transfer of Mario Monicelli's classic comedy caper film I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) is the fuller appreciation of the stunning black and white cinematography by Gianni Di Venanzo.
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The subject of Cane Toads is so bizarre, and the reaction of the people interviewed so emotionally polarized, that it feels like a mockumentary. On the broad scope of things, Cane Toads tells the cautionary tale of what can happen when nature is tampered with.
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A relatively new breed of film comedy hybrid has emerged in the past 20 or so years, the 'mockumentary.'
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Josef von Sternberg once said that he would not mind if his films were projected upside down, so much was his contempt for 'conventional' Hollywood storytelling.
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Red Desert is the final film of Antonioni's Alienation Tetralogy, and one of the best films to depict the complex notion of neurosis and social illness.
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Image Entertainment presents for the first time in North America, the uncut, English dub version of Mario Bava's gothic masterpiece, The Mask of Satan (re-titled Black Sunday by AIP for its US release in 1961).
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