Criterion has just announced the release of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert on Blu-Ray (and DVD) in June. Now I get to cross this exquisite film off my 10 Most Wanted on Blu-Ray list. My others? Hmmm…
1. Jason and the Argonauts
Not that it will look all that spectacular in Blu-Ray (Harryhausen’s films rely [...]

It’s a little Bakshi kick I’m on to revisit American Pop after watching Blue Underground’s spectacular Blu-Ray of Fire & Ice (and anticipating the BD release of his Lord of the Rings [1978] in April). A couple years ago I wrote a career survey of Bakshi’s films, which you can read here; I did [...]

With our tax refund this year we bought a new TV, a 50″ Samsung plasma television and a significant upgrade from our previous television, an early HD-ready set, much smaller but not flat-screen, that weighed about a thousand pounds.  This, in conjunction with recently inheriting my parents’ cast-off surround-sound speakers, has resulted in a “home [...]

Susana (Mexico, 1951)
D: Luis Bunuel
Criterion’s relatively-new Eclipse series releases box sets of overlooked films, free of special features but cheaper than a Criterion Collection “special edition” equivalent. My wish list of what Eclipse should cover is growing. I would still like them to do a Jacques Rivette set, but oh, how I would relish a [...]