Criterion’s Blu-ray offers a visually rich presentation of Frank Capra’s classic Depression-era romantic comedy It Happened One Night, along with some excellent supplements.
Criterion Blu-ray review:Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934)
Tag: Comedy
The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection have outdone themselves with their magnificent, jam-packed seven-disk Blu-ray set of the work of the great French director Jacques Tati
More from Twilight Time
Twilight Time continues to release an interesting assortment of titles, often now with excellent commentaries and impressive supplemental material.
Late summer viewing 2014, part two
A selection of recently viewed films ranges from revisionist horror to horror-comedy to experimental to Hitchcock imitation (or homage), all impressively presented on Blu-ray.
Recent disks from England: Arrow Video, part one
England’s Arrow Video, while still largely focusing on genre titles, is rapidly becoming the equal of the BFI and Criterion in the quality of their releases, including extensive, informative supplements on many disks.
Recent Viewing: April and May, part one
Once again, I’ve fallen way behind in commenting on the movies I’ve been watching: ’60s political agitprop, mind-bending time travel, demonic possession, cheesy B monster movies, Cold War submarines and futuristic trains …
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Stanley Kramer’s struggle to be funny
Wanting to make a comedy to end all comedy, in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, serious-minded Stanley Kramer produced a bloated compendium of comedy styles which stubbornly refused to be funny.
Blu-ray Review: Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925)
Criterion follows up last year’s Safety Last! with a richly produced edition of Harold Lloyd’s biggest hit, The Freshman.
Harold Ramis 1944-2014
Harold Ramis, who died on February 24, seemed like a modest guy with a quietly effective comic talent as a performer and a pleasantly old-fashioned style as a director.
The Lure of Paradise
If I had watched Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy a few weeks earlier, these three films would have made it into my year-end post as one of 2013’s highlights. I first encountered Seidl’s work (the documentary Animal Love and drama Dog Days) around the same time I came across Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher and Time […]
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