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6 items from 2012
Rosemary’S Baby coming to The Criterion Collection?
18 April 2012 4:29 PM, PDT | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »
The possibility of an edition of Roman Polanski's classic thriller, Rosemary's Baby, released by The Criterion Collection has been rumored for ages. The film seemed destined for Criterion (Knife In The Water, Cul-de-sac, and, his best film in my eyes, Repulsion, have hit home video via the mighty C) and due to one of their ever-great "wacky drawings," looks to be made available soon.
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- Joshua Brunsting
DVD Release: Lassiter
9 February 2012 6:28 PM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: April 24, 2012
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Hen’s Tooth
Tom Selleck goes black tie in 1984's Lassiter.
Tom Selleck (TV’s Blue Bloods) is a suave, debonair man-about-town…and a notorious thief—in the 1984 action adventure crime film Lassiter.
Whether he’s charming high society’s elite at a black-tie dinner or emptying their safes in the dead of night, Nick Lassiter certainly excels at what he does. On the eve of World War II, Lassiter finds himself in London, where local authorities are well aware of his history as a notorious cat burglar. When word leaks out that a cache of uncut diamonds is to be smuggled through the German embassy, Lassiter is coerced by police and the FBI to perform one last heist on their behalf.
Directed by Roger Young (Kiss the Sky), Lassiter also stars Jane Seymour (TV’s Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), Lauren Hutton (The Joneses »
- Laurence
Carnage – review
4 February 2012 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Roman Polanski's claustrophobic comedy brilliantly unpicks the veneers of middle-class politeness
In 1996, I wasted an evening (actually an hour in the theatre and a journey into the West End) seeing Art, Yasmina Reza's vapid play about three French friends arguing over the aesthetic merits of a blank canvas one of them has bought. So I didn't bother with her much vaunted God of Carnage when it opened here and around the world three years ago to the masochistic amusement of enthusiastic middle-class audiences, apparently pleased to see themselves and their friends in a corridor of distorting mirrors.
The prospect of seeing yet another exposé of bourgeois hypocrisy reminded me of a 1950s New Yorker cartoon in which a bland, middle-aged hostess is presenting a bearded, long-haired young man in jeans to a tweedy, middle-aged guest, who's saying: "No, madam, I do not want to meet a spokesman for the Beat Generation. »
- Philip French
Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film
30 January 2012 2:43 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In the hands of Roman Polanski, the one-room chamber cinema of Carnage lives up to its name, says John Patterson. Spoiler alert! It all ends messily
"Mmm … Francis Bacon?" says Kate Winslet to Jodie Foster, leafing through a coffee-table book devoted to the master of the cramped interior and the silent scream, "cruelty and splendour, chaos and balance …" Later she will vomit violently and at considerable length all over this same book but for now, she's offering a neat summary of the virtues of Roman Polanski's toothsomely claustrophobic Carnage, from Yasmina Reza's stage play.
One apartment – the film's entire set – holds two bourgeois New York couples meeting to discuss their sons, one of whom has knocked out the other's front teeth, and to effect some kind of settlement between the boys. Add Polanski to this toxic cocktail of passive-aggressive PC liberalism (Foster) v Darwinian corporate sharkiness (Christoph Waltz »
- John Patterson
Film Review: Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz Shine in Roman Polanski’s Surprisingly Average ‘Carnage’
13 January 2012 8:31 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Roman Polanski may not seem to be the first choice for a film about culture clashes in New York City but he has notable experience with dramas with only a few characters in a few locations (“Knife in the Water,” “Cul-de-sac,” “Death and the Maiden”). He knows how to build character tension through interaction – the games people play with words. Sadly, “Carnage” doesn’t quite deliver on the same level (or Polanski’s notable best) as the Tony Award-winning stage play but there are still elements that work here. Given the Oscar pedigree of the people who made it, one can’t be blamed for expecting a bit more from it, but there’s definite value here, particularly in a pair of great performances.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
In one of the Yasmina Reza’s greatest mistakes in adapting her own play, we actually see the incident that was only referred to »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Best Blu-ray Discs of 2011
2 January 2012 6:07 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Best Contemporary Titles
Winner: "The Tree of Life"
Runner-up: "Black Swan"
Love it or hate it, Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" is visually the most luscious film of the year and Blu-ray transfer recreates this in perfect detail. No digital artifacts or enhancements are done here, there is a bit of grain but that's expected with the photography on offer, while the IMAX 65mm sequences are true visual wonders.
Coming in second is my favourite film of last year, Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller "Black Swan". Here is a challenge of a different sort, a film shot on both 16mm film and off the shelf Dslr video cameras. The result is a deliberately soft and grainy handheld-style image which lends a realistic documentary feel to proceedings and could look terrible if the Blu-ray transfer was handled poorly. Full kudos to Fox for a high quality presentation lacking in »
- Garth Franklin
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