Global Discoveries on DVD: Auteurist and Non-Auteurist Shopping Tips
By Jonathan Rosenbaum If there’s any overarching lesson I learned from teaching film history to undergraduates over the past year in Richmond, Virginia (which, logistically speaking, is what obliged me...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Subjects for Further Research
By Jonathan Rosenbaum 1. IL CINEMA RITROVATO DVD AWARDS 2011 Jurors: Lorenzo Codelli, Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter von Bagh. BEST DVD 2010 / 2011...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD: About 40 More Items (or Thereabouts)
By Jonathan Rosenbaum For its 68th DVD release, the Austrian Film Museum, which published the first substantial book about James Benning in 2007, has begun the long-overdue project of restoring and...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | A Few Items You May Not Know About
By Jonathan Rosenbaum The arrival on DVD of Jean-Pierre Gorin’s three solo features—Poto and Cabengo (1980), Routine Pleasures (1986), and My Crasy Life (1992)—has been long overdue, and it’s possible...
View ArticleAzazel Jacobs
By Jonathan Rosenbaum Many reviewers of Azazel Jacobs’ four features understandably place them in a direct lineage from his father Ken’s work. Both filmmakers are clearly preoccupied with interactions...
View ArticleDeaths of Cinema: Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012
The American Cinema Revisited: Rosenbaum on Sarris (From Cinema Scope #6, January 2001) By Jonathan Rosenbaum Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris Edited by Emanuel...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD: Sometimes (Matters Arising)
By Jonathan Rosenbaum 1. Two special four-disc sets have become available this quarter to fill in sizable gaps in our grasp of Eastern European cinema during the mid-20th century. First, Polish Cinema...
View ArticleDVD: Some More Auteurist & Non-Auteurist Shopping Tips
1. IL CINEMA RITROVATO DVD AWARDS 2012 IX edition Jurors: Lorenzo Codelli, Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti, Jonathan Rosenbaum BEST DVD 2011/2012 The Complete Humphrey Jennings...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Assorted Heavy Meals, Tidbits, & Half-Loaves
By Jonathan Rosenbaum 1. À bout de souffle (1960) and Le mépris (1963).Catching up belatedly on these StudioCanal Blu-rays that are available only in Europe (or from European outlets), I should call...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Freebies, Purchases, Extras
By Jonathan Rosenbaum One limitation of this column when it comes to overseas releases is that many (if not all) of my selections are determined by which companies send me review copies and which ones...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Buñuel, Chabrol, Flaherty, Fuller, Lang, Lewin,...
By Jonathan Rosenbaum 1. At last, Pere Portabella’s long-awaited and much-delayed Complete Works, beautifully and simply produced. It comes in a compact box from Intermedio: seven DVDs containing 22...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Monuments, Documents, and Diversions
By Jonathan Rosenbaum 1. IL CINEMA RITROVATO (Bologna) DVD AWARDS 2013 X edition Jurors: Lorenzo Codelli, Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti, and Jonathan Rosenbaum, chaired by Peter...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Yes and/or No
By Jonathan Rosenbaum It’s customary for this column to focus on items that I know are currently available. But sometimes there are important potential or upcoming releases whose release dates remain...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Mitigating Circumstances
By Jonathan Rosenbaum There’s no question that DVDs and Blu-rays are fostering new viewing habits and also new critical protocols and processes in sizing up what we’re watching. A perfect example of...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD: Extras, Promos, Prices
By Jonathan Rosenbaum I shelled out $56.19 US (including postage) to acquire the definitive and restored, director-approved DVD of Providence (1977) from French Amazon, and I hasten to add that this...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Prizewinners, Also-Rans, and Others
By Jonathan Rosenbaum DVD AWARDS 2014 XI edition (Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna) Jurors: Lorenzo Codelli, Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti and Jonathan Rosenbaum, chaired by Peter...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Conspicuously Absent or Apt to be Overlooked
By Jonathan Rosenbaum For now the truly shocking thing was the world itself. It was a new world, and he’d just discovered it, just noticed it for the first time.—Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book I: Some...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD: Missing Directors, Extras, First Looks
By Jonathan Rosenbaum Missing Directors 1. I’m one of those people who habitually confuses Daniel Mann (1912-1991) with Delbert Mann (1920-2007) and vice versa, and I suspect that part of my confusion...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Then and Now, Hither and Yon
By Jonathan Rosenbaum Saddled with its stupidly inappropriate and misleading reissue title Betrayed, William Castle’s justly celebrated Z-budget 1944 thriller When Strangers Marry—shot in seven days...
View ArticleGlobal Discoveries on DVD | Mostly About Extras
By Jonathan Rosenbaum Practically speaking, we should invent our own extras, not necessarily or invariably depend on those that are made on our behalf. To cite four examples of what I mean: a)...
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