Bill Weber
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Review: Visions of Eight Olympic Documentary on Criterion Blu-ray
Criterion's release of Visions of Eight offers plenty of goodies not found in their 100 Years of Olympic Films box set.
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Review: Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality on Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Kino's disc boasts a solid 2K restoration and spirited and informative new commentary track.
Review: 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg on Criterion Blu-ray
By the measure of the films it includes alone, this set is a must-own.
Review: Robert Downey Sr.'s Putney Swope on Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray
This gorgeous, supplement-rich Blu-ray attests to the continued relevance of Downey's cult classic.
Blu-ray Review: Cohen Media's The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 1
This Blu-ray release of two of Keaton's greatest films does justice to the silent comedian's visual genius.
Blu-ray Review: Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy on the Criterion Collection
The sight of Rossellini's war trilogy remastered in HD will be cause alone for some to double dip.
Review: Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on Criterion Blu-ray
If you're looking to step into a rain shower before diving headfirst into Demy's cinematic pool, this release is the best place to start.
Blu-ray Review: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on the Criterion Collection
For a three-hour, epoch-ending epic made by a comedy neophyte, it yields a treasure of showbiz lore on a par with the loot buried under the Big W.
Blu-ray Review: F.W. Murnau's Sunrise on Fox Home Entertainment
It's presented in close-to-ideal context and the best possible digital quality, while preserving the look and sound of its original incarnation.
Review: Visitors
This symphony of pristine 4K images doesn't add up to one grand epiphany, but an intermittent cluster of small ones.
Review: Il Sorpasso
Dino Risi's well-cast leads can't quite sell his heavy-handed irony as truths about masculine character.
Review: Richard Lester's Royal Flash on Twilight Time Blu-ray
While no classic of anti-establishment comedies, this swashbuckling spoof gets by on star power and perpetual motion.
Review: Tim's Vermeer
It chronicles the quest of a self-described "geek," and there are pleasurable frissons of discovery in the detective work.
Review: Two Lessons
This pair of hour-long docs depicts a community of agrarian or hard-laboring citizens without condescension and with a touch of populist poetry.
Review: Night Train to Lisbon
Bille August's film is a protracted, soporific trip into Portuguese history that would like to be a romantic thriller.
Review: Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion on Criterion Blu-ray
Criterion issues this nakedly political satire-thriller with scrupulous attention to its makers' intentions and the film's place in European film history.
Review: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance on Cohen Media Group Blu-ray
Griffith's masterpiece, likely the most influential film ever made, has been given new life with a gold-standard digital cleanup.
Review: Leo McCarey's The Bells of St. Mary's on Olive Films Blu-ray
The charms of its superstar leads and utopian approach to social problem-solving is hard to resist.
Review: Faust
This methodically balmy version of the dramatic poem often lurches about at a remote, enigmatic distance.
Review: Go for Sisters
LisaGay Hamilton and Yolonda Ross persuasively embody modern urban feminine strength, but they're eventually stranded in a recycled road movie.