These engaging, if only skin deep, documentaries look at one legendary artist and the broader history of the medium he would help change.
DVD Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Joshua Reviews Manfred Kirchheimer’s Stations Of The Elevated And The New York Film [DVD Review]
New York is a one in a million type city. A melding of nationalities, races, religions, sexual orientations, New York City is the rare city that is both shockingly intimidating and yet singularly alluring and inviting...
Joshua Reviews Charlie Ahearn’s Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer [DVD Review]
This powerful look at one of hip-hop culture's great documentarians finally arrives on home video.
Joshua Reviews David Riker’s La Ciudad [DVD Review]
David Riker's masterpiece is now on DVD, and it remains as powerful today as it was over 15 years ago.
Icarus Films Releasing New Five Film Patricio Guzman Box Set; ‘A Country’s Journey’
New set includes five of the best films from one of documentary films greatest unknown poets.
James Reviews Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic’s Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector [DVD Review]
Did James remember to rewind this feature or did he just tape over it with something better?
James McCormick
Scott Reviews Masters of Cinema’s Lubitsch in Berlin Box Set [DVD Review]
Lubitsch's early silent films prove illuminating to his better-known works, and are incredibly entertaining in their own right.
Scott Nye
Joshua Reviews Liliana Cavani’s I Cannibali [Blu-ray Review]
Liliana Cavani's unsung masterpiece finally hits Blu-ray thanks to Raro Video.
David Reviews Vera Iwerebor’s Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room [DVD Review]
The amazing real-life story of one of Hollywood's earliest and biggest child actor superstars turns out to be a surprisingly poignant tale of grace and reconciliation.
David Blakeslee
Joshua Reviews Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God [DVD Review]
One of the year's most important documentaries comes to home video.
David Reviews Pip Chodorov’s Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
A swift-moving introduction to avant-garde film from the perspective of someone raised from childhood in that scene.
Joshua Reviews Borgen: Season One [DVD Review]
The Danish import is one of the better TV shows you haven't seen.
Scott Reviews The Complete (Existing) Films of Sadao Yamanaka [Masters of Cinema DVD Review]
A beautiful introduction to a versatile filmmaker's too-short career.
David Reviews Chris Smith’s The Pool [DVD Review]
This award-winning independent American film shot in India in 2006 finally has a well-deserved home video release.
Scott Reviews BFI’s COI Collection Volume 8 – Your Children and You [DVD Review]
The collection might be of more interest to historians than cinephiles, but parents of any stripe can still learn a lot from these postwar shorts.