The new Studio Canal Bluray of Federico Fellini‘s La Strada “doesn’t have the grain I was anticipating”….sold! DVD Beaver‘s Gary W. Tooze writing that a remastered Bluray looks too smooth or overly DNR-ed is, I feel, cause for celebration. Plus he adds that this new 1080p version “is much brighter [with] more detail on the bottom, right and left edges…the best I have ever seen the film presented…a must-own Blu-ray, for the film if nothing more.” I just bought thus sucker –$20 and change.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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