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Tag: DVD
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Cosmopolis and the incredible shrinking theater
Is David Cronenberg’s latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?
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Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver
A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
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Video Drone: The director of American History X takes on the chaos in our schools
On the DVD release of Tony Kaye’s Detachment
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What’s new, again: Ann Hui’s Visible Secret
Checking out the great Hong Kong director Ann Hui at her goofiest
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Now on DVD: Richard Lester’s How I Won the War (1967)
Revisiting the Richard Lester war movie parody, newly available on DVD
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Obsolescence Week: Into the snow!
We open Obsolescence Week with a consideration of the VHS tape
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Now on DVD: Monte Carlo
A reevaluation of the 2011 family comedy Monte Carlo, now available on DVD.
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50 Cent/Bruce Willis movie Set Up, straight to DVD
50 Cent/Bruce Willis movie Set Up straight to DVD September 20
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Attention Kino Shoppers
Thousands of DVDs and VHS tapes sell at bargain prices at the Facets Warehouse Sale.
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Urgh! or Argh?
The legendary postpunk concert film gets an official DVD release . . . sort of.
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A Botch-ed breakup
The DVD of Botch’s final concert is good, but it’s not good enough.