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DVDs: Mer de Malle
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Sep 06, 2006  |  0 comments

Director Louis Malle made his feature debut in 1958 at age 24 with Elevator to the Gallows (The Criterion Collection; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras •••½), a coolly controlled tale of a murder plot gone awry.

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DVDs: Movies of Tony Scott
Ken Korman  |  Sep 06, 2006  |  0 comments
Crimson Tide Touchstone Unrated Extended Edition
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras
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DVDs: Re-release of the Star Wars Trilogy
Rad Bennett  |  Nov 09, 2006  |  0 comments

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

The original xXx achieved almost lyrical heights of excess through its digitally enhanced, over-the-top action sequences.

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments

Badly dubbed dialogue and exaggerated acting make martial-arts movies unintentionally funny (to Westerners, at least). But in Kung Fu Hustle (Sony; Movie ••••, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras •••• ), director Stephen Chow sets out to grab laughs by mining the genre's clichés.

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Jan 14, 2006  |  0 comments

An edgy update, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Warner; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••••) takes several liberties with Roald Dahl's classic book, but it also manages to convey the story's dark humor.

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Feb 03, 2006  |  0 comments

Do clones deserve the same rights as their human progenitors? That's the ethical dilemma that director Michael Bay grapples with in the sci-fi foray The Island (DreamWorks; Movie •••, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras ••).

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  May 09, 2006  |  0 comments

David Lean's 1970 epic Ryan's Daughter (Warner; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••••) gets the grand treatment in this two-disc special edition. Sourced from restored 65mm picture elements, the 2.2:1 transfer is consistently crisp, revealing every crag in stone houses.

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Jul 05, 2006  |  0 comments

The New World (New Line; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras •••), Terrence Malick's film about the fateful collision of English settlers with Native Americans in 1607, is short on dialogue and long on trippy shots of sunlight leaking through virgin forests.

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DVDs: Rehashed Horror
Brandon Grafius  |  Feb 03, 2006  |  0 comments

If something scared an audience the first time, it should work again, right? And the third, fourth, and fifth times, yes? Well, House of Wax (Warner; Movie •½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••) steals its title from a Vincent Price vehicle, but it's little more than an amateurish excuse to slice and dice attractive teens.

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DVDs: Sci-Fi Sequels
Steve Simels  |  Dec 01, 2003  |  0 comments
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DVDs: Tapped Out
Mel Neuhaus  |  May 09, 2006  |  0 comments

The greatest kaleidoscopic experience without the benefit of hallucinogens, the terrific six-disc Busby Berkeley Collection (Warner; Movies ••••½, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras ••••) has five of the choreography genius's best-known works: Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934), Gold Diggers of 1935

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DVDs: The Bond That Ties
Josef Krebs  |  Jan 03, 2007  |  0 comments

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DVDs: The films of Henri Langlois
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Nov 09, 2006  |  0 comments
THE MATRIX RELOADED Warner
Movie •• DVDs •••••
Phantom of the Cinémathèque Kino
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••½
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DVDs: Three Burials By Mr. Jones
Ken Korman  |  Sep 06, 2006  |  0 comments

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Sony; Movie ••••, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras •••) didn't win any major American awards, but for many who saw the directorial debut of actor Tommy Lee Jones, this beautiful yet unsentimental take on the modern Western was the film to beat in 2005.

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