by Sean Axmaker | Aug 18, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Lambert & Stamp (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD) are Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. There’s no reason you’d know their names unless you are steeped in the minutia of the sixties British rock scene. No, they’re not some forgotten rock duo, at least...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 10, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Life of Riley (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) – It is curious that Alain Resnais, who was the most narratively experimental and ambitious of directors at the birth of the nouvelle vague in France, spent the last two decade of his filmmaking career melding cinema and...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Palm Beach Story (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – Leave it to Preston Sturges to create the sexiest and most grown-up romantic comedy of his day. Claudette Colbert has never been more desirable as Gerry Jeffers, the flirtatious pragmatist with a clear-eyed take on the...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 20, 2014 | Home Viewing
Two films by nouvelle roman novelist-turned-filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet make their American home video debut this week: Trans-Europ-Express (Kino / Redemption, Blu-ray, DVD), his 1966 genre lark with Jean-Louis Trintignant as a drug smuggler and as an actor playing...