by Sean Axmaker | Aug 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A year ago I surveyed a number of Blu-ray releases from the Warner Archive, which is predominantly a line of manufacture-on-demand DVD-Rs offering films that otherwise wouldn’t support a traditional DVD release. It also, however, releases a few choice Blu-rays...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 15, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A Day in the Country (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – Jean Renoir has long been called the cinematic successor to the French Impressionists—he is, after all, the son of Auguste Renoir, and his generosity and humanism and interest in the lives of working class folks is in...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 19, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Performance (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) may have been released in 1970 but this collision of London gangster machismo and drug culture, where “Nothing is true; everything is permitted,” is unmistakably a product of the sixties. Mick Jagger makes his feature...