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 outside plot [...]

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”) about [...]

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 leads [...]

Weekly DVD Releases

DVD collectibles released July 31: “The Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4″is a surprise package from Warner Home Video: a boxed five-disc set featuring 10 examples (two films per disc) of classic film noir, some of which have been pretty hard to come by prior to this. The complete set sells for $59.92; each two-film [...]

DVDs: “Pirates: At World’s End,” “Blade Runner”

Just Announced: Disney has just announced a December 4 release for “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” The film will be available in single-disc, two-disc Special Edition and double disc Blu-ray Disc editions. Extras will include bloopers; a documentary on the history of piracy and the pirate code; a look at the relationship between [...]

Weekly DVD Releases

DVD collectibles released July 24 : From classic Hollywood there’s “Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory Volume 2,” a seven-disc set with single discs of “The Pirate,” “That’s Dancing” and “Words and Music,” double-discs of “That Midnight Kiss” and “Toast of New York,” and “Royal Wedding” and “Belle of New York”; individually for $19.97, the [...]

Revolution …

Three films have been released to DVD this week that pretty much sum up many of the “revolutionary” feelings that abounded in the 1960s. All three are from The Criterion Collection, which puts out defintive versions of major and classic films from the silent era to the present. First off is Lindsay Anderson’s “If ….” [...]

Viva Elvis!

I have a confession to make. I never was a big fan of Elvis Presley, though I could appreciate how The King fascinated millions (maybe billions) of fans with his sexy sneer, swiveling hips, and deep-throated, bedroom voice. I was more into doo-wop instead of rockabilly, and by the time I learned to appreciate Elvis [...]

Blinded by the Light

“The mole is an animal that digs tunnels underground searching for the sun. Sometimes his journey leads him to the surface. When he looks at the sun, he is blinded.” So begins Alejandro Jodorowsky’s classic “El Topo,” a surrealistic journey mixing religion, 1960s “Theatre of Cruelty,” Western film motifs and downright craziness into a film [...]

The Fabulous 60s

L egendary journalist Peter Jennings narrates this year-by-year scrapbook of The Fabulous 60s, an historical cornucopia packed with the unforgettable sights and sounds of the era. This documentary takes a kaleidoscopic look back at the turbulent decade, 10 years that began in hope with humankind’s exploration of space and the youngest elected President of the [...]

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