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SLACKER: THE CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

By | October 2004

I don’t know if Richard Linklater attracts the same fanaticism that Kubrick, Spielberg, Lucas, Ridley Scott, and even Kevin Smith, attract, but I don’t see how any die-hard fans can pass this one up…

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SLACKER: THE CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

As they do with other media, critics love to dissect the history of film into different periods. You have the silents, the early talkies, the pre-Hayes...

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TIME BANDITS (DVD)

Anyone else irritated when a movie comes out on DVD three times and no one edition has all the available special features? In the case of “Time...

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DOWN BY LAW (DVD)

Jim Jarmusch has described his 1986 film “Down By Law” as a “neo-beat-noir-comedy”. That may be true, but let me begin by simply saying how goddamn...

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THE ROLLING STONES: GIMME SHELTER (DVD)

"The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter," the 1970 Maysles brothers documentary, briefly follows the Rolling Stones during their 1969 US tour. What might have...

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SPARTACUS (Criterion Special Edition DVD)

Never much of a fan of the sword and sandal epics Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" has always been one of those films I was torn about. At a rather lengthy...

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MONA LISA (CRITERION SPECIAL EDITION DVD)

"Neil's image of London... was London seen through the eyes of an Irish poet." ^ -Bob Hoskins from the commentary track of "Mona Lisa". Neil Jordan's 1985...

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DOUBLE SUICIDE (DVD)

Masahiro Shinoda's 1969 screen adaptation of a 1720 banraku puppet play is striking and unusual in a number of respects--for a start, the minimalist sets...

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GREY GARDENS (DVD)

Grey Gardens (PG) Criterion Collection #123 Movie: [***] ; Presentation: [****] Those who adhere to the wildly held, wildly wrongheaded notion that feature...

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THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (Obchod Na Korze) (DVD)

In 1965, the Czech film, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos' "The Shop on Main Street" won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and this film ends in a manner not...

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THE VANISHING (DVD)

George Sluizer's The Vanishing (not to be confused with the wretched 1993 American remake, which he was also directed--difficult as that is to fathom) may...

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