April 17
Criterion Triple Treat
This week's DVD releases are a Criterion delight (sounds like a dish).
There's the brilliant "Brute Force," there's "La Haine" (which my friend and colleague DK Holm claims is a movie tailor made for me) and there's "Overlord" all getting the special Criterion treatment. Other notable discs are Mike Hodges' "Pulp," Robert Altman's "Thieves Like Us" and last year's "Notes on a Scandal," a movie I love in spite of its weak ending that rejects the novel's darker bite. But no matter, I have a thing for Judi Dench as the cynical spinster and find value in some of what she says--no matter how deranged. But I need to get out of my apartment more.
Read the rest of my obsessions
here.
--posted by Kim