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All posts by Jake Cole
Blu-ray Review: Possessed
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: October 21, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B+ / Video: B+ / Audio: B / Extras: C-
Joan Crawford may have been one of the few above-the-line stars to actively typecast herself, pursuing roles she k...
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Blu-ray Review: Tati Shorts
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: B / Video: B- / Audio: C / Extras: C
So thorough is Criterion’s Jacques Tati box set that its disc of short films...
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Blu-ray Review: “Parade”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
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Film: B+ / Video: B / Audio: B+ / Extras: B+
After the surprising and clashing cynicism of Trafic, the good-natured ele...
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“Beyond the Lights”
Those who say all the stories have been told and that all that is left is to retell them in different ways fail to account for the fact that this is how new stories are made. If you strip it of its context, Beyond the Lights has been told before, a film about ...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Trafic”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: B+ / Video: A / Audio: A / Extras: C-
Traffic is a car’s default state of life, or so Jacques Tati’s Playtime fol...
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Blu-ray Review: “Playtime”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: A+ / Video: A / Audio: A / Extras: A-
Playtime extrapolates Mon Oncle’s stiflingly impersonal home into a globali...
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Blu-ray Review: “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: October 14, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: A-
James Cagney’s fearsome energy, his preternatural ability to play human beings as honey badgers, at their most dang...
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“Beside Still Waters”
Note. This review originally was published as part of our coverage of the Atlanta Film Festival.
Beside Still Waters sets itself apart from the increasingly homogenized indie scene for myriad reasons, none more important nor immediately apparent than its sh...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Mon Oncle”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: A / Video: A+ / Audio: A / Extras: A-
Mon Oncle may be the second Hulot feature, but it’s the first to perfect th...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: A
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday belongs on the shortlist of the most charming films...
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