One of the great lions of the French New Wave — and famously the most Hitchcockian of the tribe — Claude Chabrol went the way of all flesh this weekend at the age of 80, leaving scores of must-sees behind, plenty of them on DVD. Unlike his compatriots, Chabrol got off to a slow start, and his late films are some of his best…
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On DVD: 11 Ways to Remember the Late, Great Claude Chabrol
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Like a missile out of the declared Hollywood underground, the Werner Herzog-directed, David Lynch-produced, Michael Shannon-starring My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done lands in your yard and dares you to get near, lest it finally detonate. Fresh to DVD this week, it’s not a movie you can bring expectations to, unless you’re expecting a cranial injury and a case of vertigo.
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On DVD: Lost on Planet Werner with My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
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Sure, Christmas movies for Christmastime, ad infintum, but Labor Day movies? Why not? Most of us seem unaware of it, but Labor Day is in fact a day federally designated to celebrate the unions and a unionized working class. It was initiated in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland to appease the a discontented working class, and the possibility of labor groups using the anniversary of the Haymarket riots and hangings of 1886 to institute an annual protest parade against the ownership class. Today, it’s merely a salute to the very work everyone gets a day off from. But hey, a little labor history’s good for the colon — and these 13 films (or any selections thereof) aren’t the worst way to honor the holiday.
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On DVD: How to Organize a Do-It Yourself Labor Day Film Festival
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New to DVD : Sally Potter’s 1993 metamovie Orlando , from which sprang (for most of us, anyway) the unearthly miracle of Tilda Swinton. Adapting an unadaptable Virginia Woolf novel — a “biography” of a young nobleman who lives for hundreds of years and switches his sex somewhere in the middle — Potter exploits Swinton’s uniquely beautiful oddness. At first in drag, Swinton is less a convincing boy than an undeniably charming androgyne, all moonish eyes and alabaster skin, but after the hero changes to heroine (“Same person, no difference at all — just a different sex,” she says, turning naked toward a full-length mirror), we still haven’t seen anything quite like her before. Orlando is a wry, feminist anthem-movie, but it’s far from the only DVD -rentable freak on Swinton’s pre-Oscar resume…
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On DVD: Catching Up With Tilda Swinton, the Queen of Weird
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It’s a British film, and it’s over five hours long all told, but The Red Riding Trilogy is a masterpiece, and there’s nothing new that’s better worth your time. In many ways it feels like more than a movie, or three movies, and more like a unified field theory of human darkness and modern social evil, splayed out in grueling, fascinating long form. It spans a full decade of fictional history in the nastiest chunk of “the North Riding” of Yorkshire, with dozens of characters, many of whom seem like neglectable supporting nobodies until they bloom later on as primary figures of malice or guilt or fermented secrets.
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On DVD: The Epic, Rule-Breaking Masterpiece Red Riding Comes Home
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Fresh on DVD this week — movies that road-test what you think of as “movies” and “watching” and even “having your blood pressure forcibly lowered,” if you’ve got the moviehead nerve to take the challenge. What, too tough?
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Introducing Top 5 Round-Up, Your Required Weekend DVD Viewing
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Truly, reality TV is too timid a whore to tackle the real American dysfunctional family — the kind that breeds crime and weird sexual compulsions and suicides in cluttered, unkempt houses on the not-so-hot side of town. I knew kids that came from those families, and chances are so did you. No, for this you need an indie documentary, and Terry Zwigoff’s famous, acclaimed Crumb (1995), now out in a tricked-out package from Criterion, may be the best film ever made about that creepy edge of American life.
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On DVD: What Reality TV Could Learn From Crumb
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With the series’ final season out now on DVD, you can’t be blamed for having Lost fatigue, generally experienced as a repetitive weary squint and a growing intolerance for elaborate enigmas. But as escapist locales go, remote tropical islands never go out of fashion — and so let’s review some alternative getaways worth viewing at home:
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On DVD: 7 Other Desert Islands You Could Try Getting Lost On
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Survival of the Dead represents George A. Romero’s sixth entry in his Dead series of zombie movies — which amounts to well over 370 oozing-exploding head shots and several dozen impromptu ways to topple a meat-walker. But who’s counting?
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On DVD: After Six Dead FIlms, Has George A. Romero Shot Sophistication in the Head?
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Winking and bopping and hip-swiveling from its opening credits to its last gasp, Kim Jee-won’s lo mein western The Good, the Bad, the Weird is an entrancing study in excess. As the camera swoops alongside through 1930s Manchuria to a hurtling locomotive about to be beset by multiple heists, you can just feel Quentin Tarantino’s zipper strain. It’s safe to say this is the first Chinese western (albeit a Korean film) — not a “Chinese western” as the wuxia pian martial arts epics are sometimes called, but a western with outlaws, hired guns, frontier trains, shoot-outs, desert towns and cowboy hats, as genre-genuine as Clint Eastwood’s poncho. Which, of course, is Italian.
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On DVD: A Trailblazing Western Comes Blasting Out of… China?
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