DVD Review: Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
Rocco and his Brothers Directed by Luchino Visconti. Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Giradot, Katina Paxinou. Released...
DVD Review: Kino releases a new master of A Fistful of Dollars
Kino Lorber has offered a new blu ray release of “A Fistful of Dollars,” Sergio Leone’s first “Spaghetti Western” featuring Clint...
DVD Review: Judgment at Nuremberg
The 1960s is often considered a uniformly weak decade for cinema, being compared to the golden age of the 30s and 40s. This is true to a...
DVD Review: Inherit the Wind (1960)
Kino Lorber’s classics division has released an outstanding blu ray of “Inherit the Wind,” the screen version of the 1955 play by Jerome...
DVD Review: Take the Money and Run (1969) is Woody Allen’s first screen triumph
Kino Lorber’s blu ray release of Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run” allows us to clearly see the foundation of Allen’s “early, funny”...
Cinema Revisited: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
“What is your favorite movie?” People who study and write about film history are asked this constantly. And, honestly, I always answer...
Elvis Presley musicals come to blu ray
Elvis Presley’s importance to music cannot be overstated. He is perhaps the single most important figure in the history of popular songs....
DVD Review: Jackie Gleason in Papa’s Delicate Condition
PAPA’S DELICATE CONDITION Directed by George Marshall. Starring Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charle Ruggles, Linda Bruhl, Laurel...
Help! (1965) The second Beatles movie
A religious cult needs one of Ringo’s rings in order to make a human sacrifice. So they travel to England to get the ring, planning to...