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DVD Round-up: May 2019 edition
Another monster month for May, with Criterion and Eureka dominating again with a surfeit of releases. Nevertheless, cult label Arrow impressed with their release of the intense Japanese high school indie Blue Spring, while Bluebell offered a bare-bones but welcome edition of classic sex comedy La Ronde. A Face in the Crowd – 6 May (Criterion) Kicking…
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Film Review: ‘Jupiter Ascending’
★★☆☆☆ Unceremoniously shifted from a healthy summer spot last year to capitalise on the pre-blockbuster month of February, it’s doubtful that lack of competition will bolster the box office of Jupiter Ascending (2015) – a tiresome sci-fi yarn that cannibalises from so many past fantasy properties that in the future, special ‘spot the homage’ screenings…
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Billy Liar’
★★★★★ John Schlesinger’s celebrated slice of sixties British New Wave makes its debut on Blu-ray this week, and remains an absolute must-see for all serious cinephiles. Although lumbered with the ‘angry young men’ label back at the time of its release, Billy Liar (1963) actually eschews that kitchen sink realism and remains a quirkier beast…
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DVD Review: ‘Nosferatu’
★★★★★ The jewel in the crown of the BFI’s ongoing Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film season, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu is restored and rereleased this week thanks to Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label. One of silent cinema’s most widely celebrated offerings, A Symphony of Horror remains an eerily expressionist nightmare of cultural anxiety…
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DVD Review: ‘The Castle’
★★★☆☆ Cannily released by arthouse distributors Artificial Eye in the same week as the Austrian auteur’s 2012 Palme d’Or winner Amour, Michael Haneke’s made for TV Franz Kafka adaptation The Castle (Das Schloß, 1997) is not regularly cited in rundowns of the director’s very best work – more than likely due to its televisual origins.…
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DVD Review: ‘The Look of Love’
★★☆☆☆ The first offering in a busy year for Steve Coogan – and newly released this week on DVD and Blu-ray – The Look of Love (2013) is the latest collaboration between the comedian and genre-hopping British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom. This fruitful creative partnership has, in the past, offered up such bounties as 24 Hour…
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DVD Review: ‘Good Vibrations’
★★★☆☆ Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn have defied the conventional sobriety of a film about ‘the Troubles’ in their Belfast-set music biopic, Good Vibrations (2012). Without shying away from the darker aspects of the city in the 1970s, their story is concerned with one man who believed music could make a difference in…
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DVD Review: ‘Juan of the Dead’
★★★★☆ Providing a new twist to a sub-genre as stale and fetid as that of the zombie movie is no mean feat, so great credit is due to Argentinian director Alejandro Brugués for producing a second feature as funny, fresh and inventive as Juan of the Dead (Juan de los Muertos, 2011). After winning a…
