DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals
Shocking Times: Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue on DVD
While the counterculture turns on, Miles plugs in with startling results
Category: Genres
Mike Leigh’s 20th Century Snaps: Vera Drake and Naked
Two sides of the same desperate coin
Baby, Take a Bow: That’s Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood continues to surprise and thrill
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Thrillers & Action
Against Pleasure, Against Identification: Feminism, Cultural Atheism, and the Tragic Subject (Part One)
Rescuing feminism from rape and queer theory
The Aviator: Marty and Leo Do Howard
It all started when his mother washed his balls
Beyond Subtitles: Some Thoughts on Viewing Foreign Language Films
It’s the visuals, stupid
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Doing What Moves Them at the Moment: Five of Cassavetes’ Best on DVD
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
No Cellos, Please, I’m American: Mike Nichols’ Closer Is Haute Merde
All glitz and no guts
Drama · Historical & Epic · Reviews
Plumbing the Depths: Renoir and Kurosawa Do Gorky
Criterion’s double-feature DVD features two minor works by two major auteurs
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Revisiting Preminger’s The Moon Is Blue
Mixing it up with Otto and Alfred (Kinsey, that is)
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
The Interpretative Odyssey of 2001: Of Humanity and Hyperspace
More fun in the new (old) world
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams
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