Film Festival a la Carte: Reviews of Independent, Documentary, and Foreign Films
New on DVD/Blu Ray/On Demand
Posted by Peter Gutiérrez on April 7, 2012
Notable Genre DVDs, Spring 2012
Too Weird, Too Wonderful: Home Video Releases You Won’t Want To Miss
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection
With all the renewed attention that Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 cult hit...
“The Skin I Live In” and the Proble...
The DVD and Blu-ray release earlier this month of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is probably causing few ripples in the perennial, if quietly implicit, debate on...
On the Bowery (1957)
Written & Directed by Lionel Rogosin, in collaboration with Richard Bagley & Mark Sufrin
Produced by Rogosin
Released by Milestone Films
USA. 67 min. Not Rated
With Ray...
Rabies
Edited, Written & Directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado
Produced by Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi Tami Leon & Julia Schifter
Hebrew with English...
Mozart’s Sister
Written, Produced, & Directed by Réne Féret
Released by Music Box Films
French with English subtitles
France. 120 min. Not rated
With Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine...
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Written & Directed by Tom Tykwer
Produced by Stefan Arndt
Released by Strand Releasing
German with English subtitles
Germany. 119 min. Not rated
Starring: Sophie Rois,...
The Best of 2011
Go for broke—that could be the motto for many of this year’s noteworthy films. Terrence Malick created the world out of the Big Bang, all set to a pseudo-Wagnerian score, in...
Notable Genre DVDs and Blu-Rays of ...
We all know that countless titles are released for the home video market every year—in the genre category alone there’s too much for any individual to track, including me. Or...
Island of Lost Souls
Directed by Erle C Kenton
Written by Philip Wylie & Waldemar Young, based on The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Released by Criterion Collection
USA. 70 min. Not...
Without a Home
Directed by Rachel Fleischer
Produced by Joanna Adler & Fleischer
Released by Breaking Glass
USA. 74 min. Not rated
Rachel Fleischer’s documentary Without a Home is vital....
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
Directed by Nick Broomfield & Joan ChurchillProduced by Marc Hoeferlin
Released by Freestyle Releasing
UK/USA. 90 min. Not rated
Trolling the frozen streets of Wasilla,...
The Last Circus
Written & Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Produced by Gerardo Herrero & Mariela Besuievsky
Spanish with English subtitles
Released by Magnet Releasing
Spain/France. 105...
Life in a Day
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Produced by Liza Marshall
Released by YouTube/Ridley Scott & Tony Scott/National Geographic Entertainment
USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13
Life in a Day...
The Names of Love
Directed by Michel Leclerc
Produced by Caroline Adrien, Antoine Rein & Fabrice Goldstein
Written by Leclerc & Baya Kasmi
Released by Music Box Films
French with English...
Buck
Directed by Cindy Meehl
Produced by Julie Goldman
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 88 min. Not Rated
By the time Buck Brannaman’s mother died at the age of 11, his already...