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DVD/Blu-ray of the Week – Paris, Texas, Criterion style
Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, Paris, Texas (Criterion) was not Wim Wenders’ first American film—that would be Hammett (1982), which proved to be a dispiriting experience...
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Road Movie to the Soul: The Cinema of Wim Wenders
(In conjunction with Criterion’s release of Paris, Texas on DVD and Blu-ray, I offer this uncut version of an essay originally published in the Scarecrow Video “A Tribute to Wim Wenders” program in...
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Buena Vista Social Club
[Originally published in Eugene Weekly, 1999, reprinted for the DVD new rerelease] In 1996 composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of...
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Videophiled: Olive presents ‘Dreaming The Quiet Man,’ ‘Best Seller,’‘The End...
Olive John Ford: Dreaming The Quiet Man (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD), a feature-length documentary on the making of John Ford’s beloved romantic classic, frames the production in the feeling that the Irish...
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Blu-ray / DVD: ‘The American Friend,’ ‘Bitter Rice,’ and the ‘Lady Snowblood’...
The American Friend (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – “What’s wrong with a cowboy in Hamburg?” Dennis Hopper’s Tom Ripley is nothing like the character that Patricia Highsmith created and explored in five...
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