by Sean Axmaker | Sep 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Chimes at Midnight (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) has been difficult to see under any circumstances for at least the last three decades. It suffered from distribution issues during its original release (a woefully misguided pan by New York Times film critic Bosley...
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 | Oct 30, 2013 | Home Viewing
La Notte (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “trilogy of alienation” (it’s bracketed by L’Avventura, 1961, and L’Eclisse, 1962, both on Criterion DVD), stars Marcello Mastroianni as a celebrated...