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DVDs, 1/1.
By David Hudson on 01/01/2009
DVD Talk picks the "Top 20 Releases of 2008." Their #1: "The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration."
"If I had not seen 'The Lady Vanishes' at the age of seven I might never have become a film critic," writes Robin Wood. Also in Criterion's Current, Lisa Dombrowski, author of "The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You!": "It is a good time to belong to the cult of Fuller. Those of us who consider ourselves members never forget our moment of induction."
"A Matter of Life and Death" is coming out this week on DVD (in a package that includes "Age of Consent"), so Robert Horton revives a piece that "originally appeared in the May-June 1990 issue of Film Comment, as part of a series commissioned by editor Richard T Jameson for a special Michael Powell tribute."
"'Woman on the Beach' (2006) is less severe than Hong [Sang-soo]'s earlier films," writes Michael Atkinson here at IFC. "It's Hong at his simplest and most trusting; suddenly, simply letting the characters control the tale, à la Rohmer, is sufficient for him." (The DVD includes an interview with Hong conducted by Andrew Grant, by the way.) Also reviewed: Nina Davenport's "Operation Filmmaker."
"The presences of the exemplary Nouvelle Vague icons Bernadette Lafont and Bulle Ogier in the female lead roles notwithstanding, what cachet 1971's 'Les Stances a Sophie' has accrued over the years is largely extra-cinematical." Glenn Kenny explains in his "Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report" for the Auteurs' Notebook.
"Sweet Smell of Success" is the Noir of the Week.
Online viewing tip. AO Scott in the NYT on "The Apartment," the story of Budd Baxter's "progress from schnook to mensch." More on the film from James Schamus at FilmInFocus.
DVD roundups: Harry Knowles (AICN), Peter Martin (Cinematical), Movie City News, Noel Murray (Los Angeles Times), PopMatters and Slant.
[Photo: "The Godfather," Paramount Pictures, 1972]
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Very cool to see some more Michael Powell stuff on DVD! That'll be a great double feature.
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