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DVDs for 2/3/09 –‘Our Man in Havana’ and the Martini Movies Collection
Carol Reed’s 1959 Our Man in Havana makes its home video debut on Sony’s mixed-up “Martini Movies” imprint. The loosely connected group of titles have little (if anything) in common and Sony promotes...
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Why John Carpenter Is the Most Underrated Filmmaker Of Our Time
About a decade ago while I was attending the Vancouver International Film Festival, I ended the screening day over beers with a small group of critics. By the end of the evening, we came around to...
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Videophiled Cool and Classic: Ozu’s ‘Tokyo,’ Carpenter’s ‘Assault’ and Four...
Tokyo Story (Criterion, Blu-ray+DVD Combo) is perhaps the definitive film by Yasujiro Ozu, the artist called the most “Japanese” of Japanese directors. Chishu Ryo (Ozu’s favorite performer) and Chieko...
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‘Assault On Precinct 13′ on TCM
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is not John Carpenter’s first feature–he made his debut with Dark Star (1974), a college project he began at USC with fellow student Dan O’Bannon and expanded for...
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