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Why 'The Comedy' and 'The Revisionaries' Top Indiewire's 5 DVD/Blu-ray Picks This Week
This week on DVD/Blu-ray: One of the most divisive movies to play at Sundance in ages; a documentary sure to infuriate and enlighten in equal measure; Andrew Dominik's long-in-the-works follow-up to "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; one of last year's big success stories ...
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Discworld: Naked Spaniards, Early Cinema Verite and the Cheerier 'Amour'
Whenever I tell people that my wife and I acquired Video Free Brooklyn last summer, still colloquially called a "video store" since it first opened in 2002, I frequently get this absurd question: "So, it's all VHS tapes?" No, I always say, we've gone the other direction, stocking only DVDs and Blu-r...
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Why 'The Raid' Tops Indiewire's 6 DVD/Blu-ray Picks This Week
This week on DVD and Blu-ray: the foreign action film that puts its American counterparts to shame; one of the most gruesome films ever to come out of Australia; Ben Wheatley's critically acclaimed follow up to "Down Terrace"; a Cuban zombie blast; a black-and-white vampire oldie; and a harrowing fi...
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Why 'Like Crazy' Tops This Week's 5 Blu-ray/DVD Picks
This week on DVD and Blu-ray: Last year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner; the latest from one of the world's most revered auteurs; the UK's most succesful documentary of all time; season one of HBO's biggest new shows; and the first mainstream effort from the director of "Hust...
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Christine Vachon Reflects on 'Velvet Goldmine,' Our Blu-ray Pick of the Week
Todd Haynes is nothing if not versatile. He made his name in 1991 with his Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Poison," a highly stylized queer activist hybrid told in three unconnected strands. He's directed only five more projects, but each has been more ambitious and unexpected than the last.
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Paul Rudd Talks "Our Idiot Brother," Our DVD Pick of the Week
In our DVD/Blu-ray pick of the week,"Our Idiot Brother," Paul Rudd's second film directed by his good friend Jesse Peretz (they collaborated on the 2001 comedy "The Chateau"), Rudd plays the nicest guy since Forrest Gump opened up his box of chocolates. Ned is a dim if w...
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"Making the Boys" is Our DVD Pick of the Week
For a generation that grew up watching "Will & Grace," Mart Crowley’s 1968 play “The Boys in the Band” might not seem like a big deal. It was. The story of a group of gay men gathering for a birthday party came at a time before the Stonewall riots, when gays weren't discussed, just ignored.
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'Bellflower' is Our DVD Pick of the Week
Evan Glodell's "Bellflower" is the sort of indie success story that many filmmakers dream of but few achieve. A first-time director and a team of unknowns make it to Sundance with an incendiary film that gets people talking. But approaching this film as the too-familiar Cinderella...
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From X-Men, to Keira Knightley in Love, A Wealth of DVDs
You know that feeling of overload when too many big fall films arrive at once? Today is one of those days for DVD and streaming video, as many of spring and summer’s best movies arrive.
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Separating Art From Gossip: Mel Gibson in "The Beaver" On DVD
There's celebrity and then there's art, which means you don't have to be a Mel Gibson apologist to appreciate his stunning performance in The Beaver. (Public opinion might be swinging back his way, but that's a different conversation.)
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