DVD Reviews
Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 (Image Entertainment)
This 2-disc DVD set from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Image Entertainment covers an era of filmmaking that is almost lost to authentic recall;
To Catch the Sun in a Net: Slovak Cinema in the 1960s
A ten-feature box-set from the Slovak Film Institute has Peter Hourigan delightedly continuing his exploration of the cultural heritage of a national cinema that has
Michael Powell Down Under: Norman Lindsay’s Age of Consent
A Backstory Thursday 27 March 1969 was an iconic day in the evolution of the modern Australian cinema. In Melbourne, at the Forum Cinema, Tim
On Abel Gance’s J’Accuse and La Roue
Peter Hourigan offers an appreciative evaluation of these two silent-era classics recently released on DVD by Flicker Alley
Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (British Film Institute)
Richard Armstrong takes a look at this historically significant DVD compilation from the British Film Institute
Death in Brunswick: 2 Disc Collectors Edition (Umbrella Entertainment)
In 1952, non-Anglo-Saxon migrants were such a strange phenomenon that the Australian Government’s Film Division, Department of the Interior, for the Department of Immigration felt
They’re a Weird Mob (Roadshow Home Entertainment)
By the mid-1960s, two near-down-and-outs came together. One was Michael Powell. Despite having made (many with Emeric Pressburger) some of the greatest – and best-loved
Saved from the Flames: 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896-1944 (Flicker Alley)
The survival rate of films made before 1950 is at such a low percentage that any effort to locate and restore our cinematic heritage is
Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (Milestone Film & Video)
A vehicle crawls along a road that cuts across a brown and dusty landscape, where an African-American youngster tends an ailing horse. Three shiftless white
Romulus, My Father (Madman Films)
Review of the recent DVD release of Richard Roxburgh’s début feature, an adaptation of Raimond Gaita’s acclaimed memoirs about his father