Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2011 and earlier.
18 Year Old Virgin
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
The Ballad of Narayama
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Cabaret
- Excerpt: Review of the new Blu-ray of the film classic.
Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Excerpt: “Cabaret” showed that musicals don’t have to be light and fluffy, that they can tackle real issues in the world, and that influence is still widely felt today.
The Children Are Watching Us
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Film Fiber: Frenzy brings it all back home (and shouldn’t)
Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
Following
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Gone With the Wind
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Fact, Fiction, Feminism, and The Elephant in the Room
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Guns, Girls and Gangsters
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Heaven’s Gate
- Excerpt: Grandiose fail or misjudged masterpiece? Most will probably place “Heaven’s Gate” somewhere in between those extremes.
The House of Seven Corpses
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
I Wish
- Excerpt: I Wish is an enthralling childhood narrative, illustrating the reality of the lives of young Japanese students as they navigate the dreams of youth on their way to the expectations of adulthood. Acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has created an agile narrative that ping-pongs between the inherent drama of everyday survival and the breezy realms of the young and hopeful, drawing a line between both to also show how the same things affect the children’s parents and grandparents.
Ikiru
- Excerpt: Getting a Kurosawa classic out of my blind spot.
In the Cut
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Ivan’s Childhood
Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: Andrei Tarkovsky once said that he made Ivan’s Childhood “to establish whether or not I had it in me to be a director.” As it turns out, he did. And more.
Lust in the Dust
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: the comedy is often labored, but everyone seems to be working hard to entertain you: the flick earns the same sort of goodwill you’d give a guy at a party who delivers an involved joke that he’s obviously worked hard at memorizing, even though the punchline isn’t that funny.
Modern Times
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
Overdrive: the Films of Leos Carax at the Harvard Film Archive (Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais Sang, the Lovers on the Bridge)
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
Pina
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
Point Break
Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
The Qatsi Trilogy
Spies
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Tarnished Angels
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Try and Get Me! (aka the Sound of Fury)
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: ased on a real incident that took place in San Jose, California in the 1930s, Try and Get Me! is one of the darkest—and best—noir films I have ever seen.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Dusty Somers @ dustysomers.com
La Vieille Maitresse
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Wake in Fright
We Own the Night
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
White Zombie
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Woman on the Beach
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Yuki & Nina
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
