The People Speak: Howard Zinn
With the death on January 27 of historian Howard Zinn (author of “A People’s History of the United States,” the first book to present American history through the eyes of working people rather than political and economic elites), we wanted to call to your attention the release of Zinn’s DVD “The People Speak” on […]
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
Hey ex-Hippies: It’s time to set your soul free again (”We are stardust, we are golden”). This year marks yet another benchmark for aging hipsters: the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Though I was unable to attend the event ( I did, however, attend a few other benchmark musical events, including the first L.A. concerts of […]
You Must Remember This …
Some of our dreams began here:
Warner Home Video has announced a December 2 release date for the impressive “Casablanca Ultimate Collector’s Edition,” available as a two-disc Blu-ray set or a three-disc DVD set, housed in a giftbox with a laser cut O-sleeve, 48-page photobook, 10 one-sheet reproduction cards, archival correspondence, exclusive passport […]
Ring-a-Ding Ding! It’s Frank’s Week
This is a big week for fans of Frank Sinatra, with a profundity of releases — including DVDs and CD compilations — to honor the 10th anniversary of the singer-actor’s death on May 14, 1998.
Warner Home Video will commemorate “The Chairman of the Board” by releasing a total of 22 of his films in five […]
All You Need Is Love
In the mid-1970s, at the suggestion of John Lennon, celebrated journalist and film director Palmer decided to document “The Story of Popular Music” and set about interviewing and filming all the major players in the industry. Even in the mid-70s, this was seen as a monumental task, but despite the scale of the undertaking, Palmer […]
Commune
During the radical fervor of the late 1960s and early 1970s, utopian communities – Communes — dotted the country. They aimed to reshape the world with free love and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongst local, often rural, residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to […]
Let’s Graduate
Regarded by film historians and movie critics as one of the key, groundbreaking films of the 1960’s, “The Graduate” (1967) helped rewrite the rules of Hollywood filmmaking and helped usher in a new crop of younger directors. MGM revisits one of the most illicit affairs in film history when “The Graduate: 40th Anniversary Edition” […]
Help!
Apple Corps has announced the release of The Beatles’ long out-of-print second feature film Help!” on October 30. Directed by Richard Lester, who also directed the band’s debut feature film “A Hard Days Night,” “Help!” made its theatrical debut in 1965. The story follows The Beatles as they become passive recipients of an […]
Weekly DVD Releases
DVD collectibles released August 21:
Highlight of the week is a pair of classics from the folks at The Criterion Collection: Luis Bunuel’s “The Milky Way” and David Mamet’s “House of Games.” The first of what Bunuel later proclaimed a trilogy (along with “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “The Phantom of Liberty”) […]
Weekly DVD Releases
DVD collectibles released August 7:
Highlight of the week is the “TCM Spotlight: Myrna Loy/William Powell Collection,” featuring five MGM classics starring the sophisticated duo. William Powell re-teamed with Myrna Loy after the first “Thin Man” movie for “Evelyn Prentice” (1934), an expert thriller in which Powell plays a womanizing lawyer whose adulterous affair […]
