Fin de cinéma

On the surface, September would seem to be a disappointing month for Criterion, with only two official releases, David Mamet's Homicide ...

There will likely be a lag in my blog posts for the next two weeks or so. I'm heading out of town, and I suppose, I'm not really ...

While last weekend's maladies de l'âme kept me from writing, this weekend's physical ailments (of the nasal persuasion) have pr...

Thanks Eric . Nicholas Ray's Party Girl , not to be confused with the Parker Posey vehicle from the mid-'90s (Hello, Chanel!), is no...

Eric announced earlier Mondo Macabre's announcement that they were releasing Alain Robbe-Grillet's Gradiva . Now it's been offi...

I'm taking this opportunity to do what so many others on my Facebook news feed are doing and thanking Bea Arthur for being a friend. She...

For those of you not tired of me blabbing about Sébastien Lifshitz, I'd like to thank my friend Jordany for directing me to his new film...

Universal has added four more titles to their Blacklot Series, all set for 7 July: Arthur Lubin's Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves , with ...

Just a few DVD release updates for you. Sony has lined up dates for both of their foreign language Oscar hopefuls, Laurent Cantet's The ...

Ever since HBO raised the bar for television, it’s a lot less criminal to indulge in one’s love of the serialized medium. Plenty of grave of...

Miramax is releasing Mike Leigh's wonderful Happy-Go-Lucky , starring Sally Hawkins, on 10 March, as well as The Boy in the Striped Paja...

Kino will release three silent works from director F.W. Murnau on DVD on 17 March. The first is a resorted edition of Faust ; the second is ...

Strand announced the DVD release of Bruce LaBruce's wonderful Otto; or Up with Dead People for 10 February, just in time to make my Val...