Category Archives: DVDs
ULYSSES GAZE Review: Theo Angelopoulos
TO VLEMMA TOU ODYSSEA / ULYSSES’ GAZE (1995) Direction: Theo Angelopoulos Cast: Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Mihalakopoulos Screenplay: Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni Harvey Keitel, Ulysses’ Gaze Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos‘ 1995 effort To Vlemma tou Odyssea / Ulysses’ Gaze is the first of that director’s four films that I have seen that is not unequivocally a [...]
CASABLANCA Review Pt.5 – DVD: Lauren Bacall Documentary BACALL ON BOGART
Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part IV – Ingrid Bergman The ending is good — Louie and Rick talk of leaving Casablanca after Louie covers for Rick’s killing the Nazi Major Strasser — but there is nothing either actor does that lifts the scene above its own well-written basis. Then there is Strasser’s portrayer, Conrad Veidt, an actor [...]
Serge Bozon’s LA FRANCE on DVD
Pascal Greggory, Sylvie Testud in La France Lorber Films, a division of the recently formed Kino Lorber, will be releasing La France (2007), the latest film from acclaimed writer-director Serge Bozon (Mods, L’amitié) on DVD. Described as a "war film and musical, elegiac and avant-garde, cerebral and poignant" by the New York Times‘ Nathan Lee, La France was an official selection at the 2008 Cannes [...]
MEREDITH MONK – INNER VOICE Screening
PRESS RELEASE Meredith Monk – Inner Voice Brings the Iconoclastic American Performer, Singer, Filmmaker and Choreographer To Film Screens at the Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center January 29, 1:30pm; Monday, February 1, 6pm Introduced by the director Babeth M. VanLoo "An admiring portrait of an individual whose calm, joyous personality makes her quite wonderful company, both at work and in conversation." - Dennis Harvey, [...]