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Blu-ray Review: Portrait of Jason
Distributor: Milestone Films
Release Date: November 11, 2014
MSRP: $39.99
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Film: A / Video: B- / Audio: B+ / Extras: A-
Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason may be the quintessential verité film, yet from its opening, deliberately unfocused s...
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Blu-ray Review: “Safe”
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: December 9, 2014
MSRP: $39.99
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: B+ / Extras: A-
Safe begins with a sense of retreat, the camera pointed through the windshield of a car as it traverses Californi...
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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: “The Wind Rises”
Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release Date: November 18, 2014
MSRP: $36.95
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: B+
In recent days, one of the worst possible stories for fans of animation in general floated over the summer...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Kiki’s Delivery Service”
Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release Date: November 18, 2014
MSRP: $36.95
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Film: B+ / Video: A / Audio: A / Extras: B-
As with Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises, his 1989 effort Kiki's Delivery Service is obsessed w...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Princess Mononoke”
Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release Date: November 18, 2014
MSRP: $36.95
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: B-
What must it have been like to see Princess Mononoke in the fall of 1999 in American theaters? Even with a...
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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
MSRP: $124.95
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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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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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