[Editor’s Note: This film is currently only available in the U.S. in the Jack Ryan 5-Film Collection in 4K, but it will no doubt be released by itself internationally and domestically at some point in the future, thus we are…
[amazon_link asins=’B07CZHRQXP’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’06b6aff2-a886-11e8-8a24-55695495736d’]Created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Rhys Thomas, Documentary Now! isn’t your average television show. Aired on IFC, with a third season scheduled to premiere on February 20, 2019, the series spoofs…
[amazon_link asins=’B07DKSSDDH’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’08e0f0dd-a30a-11e8-b22e-ad5ccc66fa31′]One of the best films ever directed for television, Nicholas Meyers’ (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) The Day After, recently arrived on Blu-ray via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Originally broadcast on November 20,…
[amazon_link asins=’B07CXBXRBX’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5800d55f-9f11-11e8-a3f0-9d99ae094243′]Three years removed from the success of The Apartment, 1963 saw the release of Billy Wilder’s Irma La Douce. This oft-forgotten classic features the repairing of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in the starring roles,…
[amazon_link asins=’B07F1SQZ7K’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’8c424abd-9751-11e8-b09b-7395eaba8d61′]Riding a wave of acclaim for his screenplay for Jeremiah Johnson, John Milius developed a script The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, that he hoped would be his directorial debut. Unfortunately for him,…
[amazon_link asins=’B077HKJXTH’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’315380ea-940a-11e8-b549-adc0364a85f4′]French director Louis Malle (Au revoir les enfants) isn’t generally associated with the noir genre, but his first narrative feature, Elevator to the Gallows, based on the pulp novel by Noël Calef, and set to…
[amazon_link asins=’B07C5LQ7PV’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’2fa00139-8dcc-11e8-abc7-4bd968ce0fe1′]An elderly British orthodox rabbi is giving a sermon on freedom and choice–a message that hangs over the entire film–to his rapt audience when he suddenly keels over dead. The film then cuts to Manhattan,…
[amazon_link asins=’B075N6DTJ8′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’0fb8816d-89f6-11e8-8dc2-f1ff274e0e43′]Originally released by The Criterion Collection in 2002, The Complete Monterey Pop Festival consists of three iconic D.A. Pennebaker films: Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and Shake! Otis at Monterey. Held on a June weekend…
[amazon_link asins=’B07CXBY1RQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’7be4863a-82d1-11e8-b9d9-c79cbc3332f5′]After several years directing commercials in England, Michael Mann spent the latter half of the 1970’s writing scripts for several popular television shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Police Story and the popular Angie Dickinson cop…
[amazon_link asins=’B07CXZ9DLZ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c8efadef-7d70-11e8-a0a7-4bab6af9ca4f’]Co-writer/director Steve James’ (Hoop Dreams) Prefontaine tells the story of Steve Prefontaine, considered by many America’s greatest long-distance runner of all time. Holding the American record in seven different distance track events, Prefontaine was favored…