DVD Review: Youth in Oregon
[amazon_link asins=’B01N35XONC’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’71e87d71-1a5a-11e7-8e16-516a8f203711′]Ray Engersoll (Frank Langella) is constantly thinking about death. We are introduced to the elderly, retired doctor in the opening scene of Youth in Oregon. He is gloomily staring at the surgery scar on his chest. A serious heart attack two years earlier necessitated that he, and his cheerful, social […]
The Big Chill (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00JPUUSEE”]The Big Chill centers on seven people, college friends and veterans of the activist 1960’s, who reunite for the weekend; brought together for the funeral of their friend Alex, who inexplicably committed suicide. His manner of death haunts the group’s otherwise happy memories of him. Being together also serves to remind them that none […]
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The Complete Series (DVD)
Certainly one of the most unusual television shows in the history of the medium, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman blended the daytime soap opera (than at the height of their popularity), with biting social satire. Produced by Norman Lear, who had already changed the television landscape earlier in the 1970’s with All in the Family, found […]
Blu-ray Review: New York, New York
In 1977 director Martin Scorsese was on a roll. Hot off the critical and commercial success of Mean Streets, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and Taxi Driver, he was given free rein to do whatever he wished. His pet project was very complex: a blending of cinema verité and the elaborate musical sequences of the […]