Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2020 Film Reviews
Monsieur Boucaire (1946)
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
Phantom Love (2007)
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: Phantom Love is a film that weds the experimental director Nina Menkes’ intrapsychic world with the formal innovations pioneered by surrealist artists and filmmakers of the first part of the 20th century, particularly the films of Luis Buñuel.
The Red Shoes (1948)
- Excerpt: Lermontov explains the scenario while fingering a sculpture of a decapitated foot (unwittingly relevant to Anderson’s story), and when asked what happens to the girl whose shoes won’t allow her to stop dancing, he explains off-handedly or off-footedly that she dies, of course. That was indeed Andersen’s world of fairy tales without happy endings, wrung from his own tortured soul.
Where There’s Life (1947)
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
Written on the Wind (1956)
- Excerpt: Written on the Wind shows a rich family coming unglued, ungripped, unzipped.
