Criterion serves up two more deep-dish DVDs from yesteryear Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Hollywood’s self-exams are usually dipped in acid: What Price Hollywood?, A Star is Born, Sunset Boulevard, The Bad[…]
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Frederic March and Carole Lombard Find Nothing Sacred in the Big Apple
“There she is, in all her beads and ribbons!” How Manhattan is Nothing Sacred? To be more Manhattan, it would have to be Manhattan. Because once more we’re on that[…]
Recalling the Dream of Parenthood in Raising Arizona
Of babynappings and bodily fluids, Coens and Kubricks In Raising Arizona (1987), a blatantly obscure graffiti can be seen in the lavatory wall behind escaped convicts, Hale and Evelle (John[…]
Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire on DVD
The longest episode of foreplay in cinema history? Pierre Louys’ novel The Woman and the Puppet, first published in 1898, has been a popular source for cinema, with at least[…]
Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey on DVD
The Criterion Collection offers another scrumptious golden-era DVD Criterion has spruced up the peerless 1936 Universal comedy My Man Godfrey and given it a bright new sheen. The digital transfer[…]
Carry On Sitcom: The British Sitcom Spin-off Film 1968-1980
These cinematic dogs get a pat on the head before being given the boot When Ealing comedy, the cinematic brand that uniquely embodied 20 years of idiosyncratically “charming” English humour,[…]
Casino Royale at 33: The Postmodern Epic in Spite of Itself
It’s really a courtly epic in ’60s drag. It was a coup that Columbia Pictures had banked on: the one 007 property that got away from Broccoli and Saltzman’s cash[…]
Comedy · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
Primal Gross-out: Pink Flamingos Restored
The seminal trash classic all dressed up with somewhere to go Cinema, like any art form, has its milestones — the first “story film” in The Great Train Robbery (1903),[…]
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