The TV Series:

Sisters chugged along on for six seasons on NBC in the '90s, never a huge hit yet highly prized by advertisers for the female-dominated audience it attracted. Mixing heartfelt drama with goofy comedy, the show benefited from a capable cast and insightful scripts - a strawberry kiwi wine cooler thirtysomething, if you will. I remember enjoying the first couple of seasons when they originally aired, although to be honest I've never given the series a second thought until Shout Factory started reissuing the show on DVD in 2015. Except for a few minor music substitutions, the six-disc Season Three package allows us to relive all 24 episodes of Georgie, Teddy, Alex and Frankie Reed's distaff adventures as they aired in 1992-93.

The...Read the entire review

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By my count, Fritz Lang's massive 1928 German silent Spies (a.k.a. Spione) contains about 50 characters, 100 plots, 500 subplots and more than 10,000 individual cuts (don't hold me to that, however). Yes, it's bloated and overlong, yet there's no denying that all modern spy films can easily trace their lineage to this one, made when the 36 year-old auteur was flying off of the prior year's extravagant masterwork Metropolis. This more modest but no less ambitious film survived only in a butchered 90-minute cut for decades, until it was given a massive digital restoration in 2004. That two-and-a-half hour version is included on the Kino Classics Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, presenting this influential, lightning-paced opus as closely to how it was originally seen as possible.

Watching Spies is a bit like being caught on a runaway train, hurtling towar...Read the entire review

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Look closely, and you'll find something familiar around the edges of 1948's Station West - it's a classic Film Noir story adapted for an 1881 sagebrush setting. In this RKO production, you have the regular-guy hero trapped in a web of evildoing beyond his control - played by Dick Powell in cynic mode off his career resurgence in Murder, My Sweet. Powell's John Martin Haven becomes entranced by a seductive femme fatale saloon proprietress. The shady lady is embodied by beautiful Jane Greer, fresh off her noir turn in Out of the Past. Those in the market for offbeat Westerns ought to like this crafty little good vs. evil saga, newly released on m.o.d. disc by Warner Archives.

Filmed on location in the mou...Read the entire review

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Sweet stuff - RKO's 1934 production of Anne of Green Gables was a faithful, whimsy-infused adaptation of L. M. Montgomery's classic novel about a spunky, talkative orphan girl who melts the hearts of all around her. It follows other family-friendly '30s adaptations from the kiddie lit book shelf, along the same lines as Little Women (1933), Treasure Island (1934) and David Copperfield (1935). Although those three films have been available on DVD for an eternity, it's taken Warner Bros. this long to finally release Anne as a made-to-order disc through their Warner Archives program. As usual, the film is devoid of extras (not even a trailer), although Anne's legions of fans probably won't mind.

Anne's adventures...Read the entire review

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The Happy Ending is an incisive drama that could've only emerged from the malaise of the late '60s - it stars Jean Simmons (Guys and Dolls; Elmer Gantry) as a restless, beautiful upper middle class housewife caught in a funk after 16 uneventful years of marriage. Here's another acclaimed-in-its day movie that has since fallen to the wayside, although it's fascinating to speculate how much of this story came from the real-life marriage of Simmons and producer-writer-director Richard Brooks (The Professionals; In Cold Blood). Though overlong and fraught with flaws, the project spurred Brooks and Simmons to coax out the best in each other.

The Happy Ending doesn't pussyfoot around. It's to Brooks' and Simmons' credit that they make the lead character, Mary Wilson, a complex, not especially sympathetic person. Through flashbacks and impression...Read the entire review

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In the absorbing, stylish French drama The New Girlfriend, a young woman's preconceptions about love and sexuality get upended after learning a secret held by her best friend's husband. Françoise Ozon's twisty little tale ended up on a few critics' lists of the best LGBT films of 2015. For those who couldn't catch it during its limited theatrical release, the solid Blu-ray edition from Cohen Media Group is the next best thing.

Like Ozon's previous international hits 8 Women and Swimming Pool, The New Girlfriend sports a plot that combines mischievous humor and offbeat, sometimes absurd twists in a plush Euro-chic setting. Adapted from a short story by British suspense author Ruth Rendell, the story follows the awakening of Claire (the gamine-like Anaïs Demoustier) as she adjusts to the loss of her friend since childhood, the blonde, enigmatic Laura...Read the entire review

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Although I didn't know much about 1948's April Showers going in to this review, I do remember it as something actress Ann Sothern cited as typical of the forgettable projects she muddled through between the '40s Maisie movies and her comeback as a television sitcom star. While this particular movie didn't do Sothern any favors, the Warner Archives made-to-order DVD proves it to be an engaging, enjoyable little flick. Co-starring the terrific Jack Carson (Mildred Pierce), April Showers brings a bit of caustic bite to a most familiar genre - the nostalgic backstage musical.

Set amongst the itinerant lives of vaudeville performers in the early 20th century, April Showers does the same thing that 20th Century Fox...Read the entire review

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The Strongest Man is an appealing indie comedy from first-time writer-director Kenny Riches. Although it's populated with a small, quirky cast of characters, you could say that the real star of the movie is the city of Miami, with all its glitz, grit, mixed cultures and contradictions. Released on DVD from Kino Lorber, the film has its fair share of flaws but is worth checking out for fans of offbeat, intimate, dialogue-driven tales.

While the milieu of The Strongest Man might be overly familiar to those who watch a lot of indie films (lots of static, symmetrically composed shots, a cast of disaffected, ennui-filled characters), Riches invests enough humanity in the story to make it worth seeking out. The movie follows a Cuban-Ameri...Read the entire review

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Jack Benny became a comedy legend playing the fey, fussy skinflint in his decades of fame on radio and television. It's an interesting surprise, then, to see him in the 1935 MGM production It's in the Air as a completely different type - a sleazy grifter who smooth-talks his way into co-piloting an experimental aircraft with his dim pal, Ted Healy. Co-starring Nat Pendleton, Grant Mitchell and Una Merkel, this obscure feature is getting some renewed exposure on made-to-order DVD through Warner Archives. Will the resulting disc send you over the moon? Don't touch that dial.

Trading a bit on the '30s crazes for aviation and lovable crooks, It's in the Air basically follows hapless heroes Benny and Healy for 80 minutes as they dig t...Read the entire review

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Deep In My Heart was MGM's star-studded, affectionate tribute to Broadway's operetta king, Austrian-American composer Sigmund Romberg. The glitzy 1954 production looks fantastic on the Warner Archives Blu-ray release. However, as with other musicals of this ilk, the enjoyability of individual numbers far outweighs the movie as a whole. Putting it bluntly, this one's a mess.

By the time Deep In My Heart came out, MGM was well-equipped to do these musical bio-pics. This particular one served as the last in a long line of entertaining-if-factually sketchy movies that stretched back to The Great Ziegfeld (1936), with competent direction from Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) and luxurious, beautifully staged musical numbers. The problem? José Ferrer. The actor had recently won an Oscar for Cyrano de Berge...Read the entire review

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I've gotta hand it to Criterion - they hit it out of the park when it comes to the cover art of their release of Bitter Rice, a gritty, spirited drama from Italian director Giuseppe De Santis. Done in the style of a pulpy vintage paperback, the Blu-ray's artwork depicts two beautiful babes pouting in a yellow ocher rice paddy. The 1949 film, an early effort from legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis, strikes the same balance implied in that alluring cover art - a stark, wholly Italian production caught between realism and delirious melodrama.

In exposing the terrible working conditions of a certain segment of Italy's poor population, Bitter Rice at least pays some lip service to the Italian Neorealist movement of the day. Mostly, however, it's pure, steamy melodrama filled with types familiar to film noir fans. With hardly any modifications, one can easily pic...Read the entire review

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Though it's mostly remembered today for spawning a hummable, Oscar-winning hit song, 1966's Born Free was a landmark. The movie related the efforts of a British couple to raise a baby lion like a big house cat, with the ultimate goal of releasing it into the wilds of Kenya where it belonged. While the end product is a bit fanciful, the movie remains a lovingly done, thrilling travelogue with a positive conservationist message - nicely presented in a new Blu-ray from the folks at Twilight Time.

Born Free found its source story from a best-selling 1960 memoir by an Austrian naturalist, Joy Adamson, who recalled her experience in Africa raising an orphaned lioness she dubbed Elsa alongside her game warden/adventurer husband, George. For the movie, producers Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin expanded Adamson's simple, optimistic book into a widescreen metaphor about the human nee...Read the entire review

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What causes an everyday guy to become a raging, violent bigot? The Australian indie Drown attempts to shed some light on hate crimes by deconstructing one such (fictional) incident, delving into the mind of a flinty, psychotically damaged young man who suddenly snapped one fateful night. Oh, and because it takes place in an all-male lifeguard school, you get a lot of shots of hunky guys in tiny speedos. Dean Francis' beefcake-in-trouble opus arrives from Strand Releasing in a nice-looking DVD - if the drama doesn't always score, at least the sumptuous photography looks good.

Despite the flaws (and there are many), Drown is a good vehicle for up-and-coming Australian actor Matt Levett. Levett radiates intensity as lead character Len Smithy, a cocky lifeguard whose seething, self-loathing homophobia brings about tragic results. Many took notice of the handsome actor as...Read the entire review

The TV Series:

Produced for cable television's Ovation channel in the mid-2000s, the series Art of the Heist rounds up a battery of art history experts, police investigators, reporters and other witnesses to recall some of the greatest art-related crimes ever committed. Athena's four-DVD set assembles 14 episodes of this American-produced series - a good, not great watch for art history buffs or fans of puzzling True Crime stories past and present.

Each Art of the Heist allots an hour for a narrator to supply an overview of a specific subject, while interviews, tight editing and low-budget reenactments fill out the details - a format pretty familiar to cable TV subscribers. The resulting shows are mildly interesting, overall, although the e...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Daybreak, a torrid melodrama set in early 20th century Vienna, was an early sound MGM production somewhat awkwardly tailored for its resident Latin Lover, Ramon Novarro. In a role originally meant for another fading silent star, John Gilbert, Novarro has a distinct lack of virility as a playboy soldier who seduces a frail innocent. Miscast or not, this 1931 production is intriguing enough to warrant a made-to-order DVD release on the Warner Archive collection.

Like many an MGM production, Daybreak was given a classy treatment from an acclaimed source. Instead of staying true to Arthur Schnitzel's bleak novel, however, Louis B. Mayer decided to have director Jacques Feyder shoot an alternate ending. The resulting film ends up being...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The classic German documentary Triumph of the Will seems to be the ultimate litmus test on admiring a film despite the terrible, reprehensible message it puts forth. When Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-glorifying film was released in 1935, the rest of Europe took notice of Adolf Hitler's rapid ascension to power. As straight-up propaganda, it still impresses as a vulgar, at times beautiful document of arrogance at its most monumental. Synapse's Blu-ray edition boasts a crystalline picture for this landmark of the documentarian's art.

Triumph of the Will captures the Nazis' self-exaltation during the Nuremberg rallies, a celebration the Party held more or less annually between 1923 and 1938. Riefenstahl's film of the sixth rally, from 1934, represents the only time these rallies were recorded for posterity in a comprehensive way. Like most propaganda, the film doesn't shy aw...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Pert Jane Powell has to pick between three different, worthy beaus in The Girl Most Likely. While the movie itself amounts to nothing more than cutesy, innocuous fluff, it has a place in history in being the very last release from the iconic RKO Radio Pictures. Yeah, it's true that splashy musicals were becoming anachronistic by 1958, but the made-to-order DVD from Warner Archive proves that Jane and company had a whole lot of fun frolicking in Squaresville, U.S.A.

The Girl Most Likely was capably handled by director Mitchell Leisen (Midnight; Remember the Night) as a carefree musical remake of Ginger Rogers' 1941 vehicle Tom, Dick and Harry. Where the earlier film was a straightforward romantic comedy, ...Read the entire review

The Movie:

In Laughing Boy, Latino heartthrob Ramon Novarro dons an awkward looking wig to play the title role, a simple, earnest Navajo. Among a batch of Novarro's MGM vehicles getting rereleased on made-on-demand DVD from Warner Archive, this 1934 film probably isn't the best place to start for those interested in the once-huge, now unjustly obscure actor. Novarro tries, but the clunky melodrama it offers isn't a good match for his modest talents.

If anything, Laughing Boy dripped with prestige - it was based on a lauded novel by Oliver La Farge, winner of a Pulitzer in 1930 yet rarely read today. The Harvard-educated La Farge delved into the customs of the Navajo tribe to tell this story. Set in contemporary times, the book follows the li...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Dystopia ahoy! Richard Lester's 1969 comedy The Bed Sitting Room left no stone unturned, or no sacred cow un-tipped. Set in a near-future Great Britain destroyed by the atomic bomb, the film skewers the government, religion, family values, and the monarchy with a distinct lack of mercy. Though I wish the final results were more tightly paced, the movie remains out-there enough to be a welcome addition to Kino Lorber's Studio Classics line of hard-to-find films on home video.

Lester sets up the world of The Bed Sitting Room as a desolate wasteland (filmed in a garbage dump and other evocative locales), where the few remaining survivors carry on their lives with a "can do, cheerio" mix of positivity and obliviousness. Vital institutions have been reduced to a single figure or two - the BBC news is read by a dignified guy in a half-suit (Frank Thorton) crouched i...Read the entire review

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When the lauded French director Eric Rohmer unleashed The Marquise of O… in 1976, it apparently took the cineaste crowd by surprise. Theatergoers used to the auteur's quiet, modern, dialogue-driven films on relationships were unaccustomed to this arch period piece derived from a centuries-old novella. While it does deal with a relationship - albeit a strange one - Rohmer watchers greeted The Marquise of O… as a star director's trifling indulgence. Quel dommage!

Now, it's here that I must confess something: I've never seen any of Rohmer's other films before viewing Film Movement's beautiful Blu-ray edition of The Marquise of O…. Based on this one movie, I'd deduce that Rohmer is a very precise, detail-oriented director with a special affinity for getting subtle performances from his cast. At times, the film fits in with the blanket assumption that ...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The dreamy 1931 film Tabu came as the result of a one-of-a-kind collaboration between two silent cinema greats - director F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu; Sunrise) and documentarian Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North). This tragic love story utilized the island of Tahiti to breathtaking effect, yet it's more than merely a picture postcard of life in the tropics. The Kino Classics' Blu-ray presents this transitional silent (with synchronized score) in a beautifully restored edition with informative extras and lots of footage Murnau shot yet never included in the final film.

Superficially, Tabu shares a lineage with other early talkie travelogues, torrid stories in exotic locales such as White Shadows in the South Seas or Trader Horn. The big difference here is that Murnau spent a solid nine months in Tahiti (Flaherty left the project at so...Read the entire review

The TV Series:

Anyone up for some leftover turkey? Four more episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have arrived on durable, re-watchable physical media with volume XXXIV in Shout Factory's long-running series. For this particular multi-DVD set, Shout have gone international - American International, that is. Not only do all four episodes riff on grade-z movies from the famous cinematic teensploitation factory of the '50s, '60s and '70s, the set includes a nice, brand new feature-length documentary on the studio's history with contributions from Roger Corman and other insiders.

It's inevitable that there would be an AIP-centric MST3k box set - other than Japanese monsters and Italian sword-and-sandal flicks, the grade-Z teen horror and cam...Read the entire review

The Movies:

Although he ended up being unfairly overshadowed by his followers, Julian Duvivier (1896-1967) was one of France's craftiest, most influential filmmakers. Suffused with passion, energy and a dose of fatalistic attitude, his eclectic 1930s output in particular left its mark on fellow filmmakers like Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné and René Clair. Duviver's artistry was best expressed in 1937's Pepe le Moko, the thrilling proto-noir starring Jean Gabin. Along similar lines to that accomplished landmark in Poetic Realism, the four films found on Criterion's Julien Duvivier in the Thirties Eclipse set give a comprehensive overview of a wholly skilled director at his peak.

Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties consists of th...Read the entire review

The TV Series:

Gentle on my mind, Velveeta on my television set - the appearance of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour: Christmas Specials on DVD is as good a reason as any to celebrate the season. Although the Shout Factory release contains just two holiday-centric episodes from Campbell's 1969-72 series, given the general paucity of worthwhile vintage variety shows on DVD, I'm willing to accept even this paltry offering. In the words of Oliver Twist, "Please, sir - I want some more!"

Originally airing in 1969 and 1970, the two episodes on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour: Christmas Specials served as excellent showcases for Campbell's easygoing charm and tremendous musical talent. Campbell paid his dues on L.A.'s session music scene in the '60s, fina...Read the entire review

The Movies:

Ruddy-faced, silver-topped Spencer Tracy stars as a feisty rancher defending his land against evil miners and the conflicting interests of his own sons in Broken Lance, a well-produced melodrama-in-the-desert from 20th Century Fox. Kind of a Western and kind of not, this overlooked 1954 film has been reissued as a handsome limited edition, region free Blu-ray from Twilight Time.

Skillfully directed by Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet; Raintree County), Broken Lance counts as one of the more thoughtfully done, adult Westerns of the day which de-emphasized horses and simple gunplay in favor of sheer human drama. The conflict between Spencer Tracy's character and his four sons borrows heavily from Shakespeare's King Lear, while the fact that this movie was remade from a straightforward film noir starring Edward G. Robinson - 1948's House of Str...Read the entire review

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Irene Dunne was one of the few leading ladies of Hollywood's golden age that could pull off appearing patrician and sexy at the same time. Her charm is one of the few distinctive things about Never a Dull Moment!, a limp comedy from late in her career. Produced by RKO in 1950, the film is one of several obscure Dunne vehicles getting released on made-to-order DVD from the folks at Warner Archives. Here, Dunne gets to flirt shamelessly, take pratfalls like a pro, act concerned, even warble a few songs in her pleasant soprano. What's not to like? Eh, I'll explain later.

Never a Dull Moment! was based on a memoir by Kay Swift, a Broadway tunesmith who briefly gave up Manhattan's glitterati for life as a ranch wife after impulsively m...Read the entire review

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Jonas Mekas came to New York from Lithuania in 1949, eventually making a name for himself on the city's active post-War cultural scene as a poet, writer, bon vivant and co-founder of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, Film Maker magazine, and the Anthology Film Archives. Amid all that, he also found time to make his own films - impressionistic, observational works filled with equal levels of beauty and banality. The folks at Kino Lorber have collected a good chunk of Mekas' film work with the participation of the man himself. Lost Lost Lost & Walden: Two Diary Films from Jonas Mekas is an annotated, Criterion-style package that's sure to intrigue fans of '60s experimental film.

Two of Mekas' "diary films," made up of strung-together shorter pieces, comprise the main portion of this release. Shot with immediacy using a handheld 16mm film camera, Walden (1969) a...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Won't somebody please think of the children?

Earnest, provocative message-drama in the mold of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Child Is Waiting addressed the issue of how to care for developmentally disabled children - a heady topic for 1963, and now. Kino's Lorber's beautiful looking Studio Classics Blu-ray brings a bit more exposure to this overlooked, sensitively done effort from producer Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg).

A Child Is Waiting stars Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland as employees at the Crawthorne State Training Institute, a cloistered school intended for challenged kids to learn and interact with others like themselves. Garland's Jean Hansen, a newly hired music teacher, develops a special bond with one student, a slow yet otherwise regular-appearing boy named Reuben (Bruce Ritchey). Miss Hansen's attentiveness toward the...Read the entire review

Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Living In Oblivion: 20th Anniversary.

The Movie:

The ways not to make a movie are laid bare in Living In Oblivion, the perceptive and wickedly funny 1995 indie comedy. With Shout Factory's dual-format, extras-laden 20th anniversary edition, viewers can get back into that casual '90s-indie vibe with Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener and Peter Dinklage. It still delivers.

With Living in Oblivion director-screenwriter Tom Dicillo channeled the bleak experience of making his previous film - 1992's Brad Pitt vehicle Johnny Suede - into a sharp commentary on filmmaking which ended up combining healthy doses of auto...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Henry Winkler took a break from "The Fonz" and Happy Days with 1978's feature film The One and Only, a pleasant romantic comedy set against the early professional wrestling scene in the 1950s. Here's another obscurity from the Paramount Pictures back catalog that's been given a decent, bare-bones home video reissue by Olive Films - cool, or not-cool? Well, if you already like Winkler and desire to see him in something other than reverse-mortgage home loan commercials, you may want to check this one out.

Directed by Carl Reiner (The Jerk) working from a witty script by Steve Gordon (Arthur), The One and Only is surprisingly enjoyable - at least in its first half. Winkler plays Andy Schmidt, a self-obsessed ham of an aspiring actor making time in sleepy Ohio before his master plan of conquering the 1950s entertainment world can come to fruition. In...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The Lesson is a gritty drama about a hard-working, stubbornly principled woman who is forced to re-think her own ethics when she gets into a desperate situation involving money. Released on DVD by Film Movement, the movie offers up some enthralling, thought-provoking stuff from an unlikely place - Bulgaria. Having never seen a Bulgarian film before, based on The Lesson I'd say the country has at least two good filmmakers (the team of Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov) who excel at good, meaty drama in the same vein as recent Romanian cinema like 2013's Child's Pose.

The Lesson sports an excellent lead performance by actre...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The 1935 musical Here's to Romance stars the big-voiced Nino Martini as a sweet-tempered opera singer who comes under the patronage of a wealthy woman intent on making her husband jealous. This fluffy, pseudo-European sophisticated comedy in the mold of Ernst Lubitsch represents the (pre-20th Century) Fox Studio's attempt to get on the operetta bandwagon, with mixed results. The little-seen film has been reissued as part of the Fox Archives series of vintage movies on made-to-order DVD.

Here's to Romance is a charming if slight and formulaic musical, hampered mostly by Nino Martini's lack of screen presence. As Nino Donelli, a poor Italian singer needing the support of a wealthy patron, Martini gesticulates and bellows with his mu...Read the entire review

The TV Series:

A dashing, crime-fighting hero able to shape-shift into any animal he wants - how could it possibly go wrong? As it turned out, Manimal (1983) became a by-word for monumentally terrible TV, like Cop Rock (1990) and Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (2005). But is it really as bad as all that? For the morbidly curious vintage TV fan, Shout Factory has come to the rescue and made all eight episodes of Manimal officially available as a nice Complete Series three-DVD set. As with many notorious bombs of screens large and small, this show turns out to be a pretty decent effort dwarfed by its stinky-poo reputation.

As a middle-schooler, I remember being intrigued by Manimal's description in the hotly awaited 1983 Fal...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The Great Museum is a documentary where long stretches of nothing much happens - in this case, that's not such a bad thing. Full of meticulously composed, quietly observant takes, the 2014 film offers an insider's view of the inner workings of a world-class art museum - Vienna, Austria's Kunsthistorisches. It's an elegantly made film that's both revealing and respectful of its subject, befitting a place that holds the crown jewels of Europe, canonical paintings from the Renaissance up through the 19th century, and antiquities from ancient Rome and Egypt.

The Great Museum offers a side of the art museum world that visitors rarely, if ever, see - in fact, visitors are only seen briefly near the film's conclusion, streaming into a new...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Gus Van Sant's shimmering drama My Own Private Idaho is one of those films whose stature has grown over the years. Upon its original release, the audiences and critics of 1991 seemed blindsided by the novelty of two up-and-coming actors, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, playing gay hustlers. With 24 years' hindsight, we can see what a landmark the film actually is - like Twin Peaks or The Simpsons (seen briefly in the movie!), what appeared quaint and eccentric back then now comes across as a bellwether for a greater acceptance of "different" sensibilities in our culture. Criterion's excellent Blu-ray edition gives the movie the polish it deserves.

My Own Private Idaho is like Gus Van Sant's cinematic playground - contrasting gritty reality with dreamlike, hallucinatory images, having the actors directly address the camera, even doing a long sequence dir...Read the entire review