Blu-ray Review – Shoah: Four Sisters – Cohen Media

Shoah: Four Sisters Director: Claude Lanzmann Screenplay: Claude Lanzmann Minutes: 273 Year: 2018 Score: 7.31 Release: Cohen Media Group Five years and three-hundred posts ago my essay on Claude Lanzmann’s seminal holocaust documentary Shoah went live. It is a film that will change your life forever, and this follow-up, Shoah: Four Sisters, is a collection […]

Blu-ray Review – Flying Clipper – Flicker Alley

I am confident in saying that Flying Clipper will be replacing my go-to recommendation from the Flicker Alley series of travel/Cinerama films both because of the standard letterbox presentation but also because the special features are a great set of restoration and technical explanations of the film. A very strong release.

Two Documentaries

Over the past week I have watched two documentaries one will probably receive an Academy award nomination, the other will not. The docs in question are O.J. Made in America and Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. O.J Made in America dir. Ezra Edelman – 463 min – 2016 – 5.77 WARNING: There […]

Errol Morris Gates of Heaven

If you, dear reader, decide to watch Gates of Heaven, something I do not recommend, please prepare yourself ahead of time. Prepare yourself to learn more about the internment of animals than you likely care to know. Prepare yourself for a level of shifty corporations, and for the little man fighting a battle they can not win. Prepare yourself to a pretty good guitar solo.

Tokyo Olympiad

What are the Olympics? A sporting event designed to feature summer and winter sports occurring once every four years staggered? Yes, but. The Olympics are more than this and that is what director Kon Ichikawa was looking to highlight. To him the Olympics is a two week span of world peace. For two weeks nations around the world come together for sport.

Liv & Ingmar – A Love Story Between Best Friends

Liv & Ingmar which was originally released as a documentary feature and was later included as a special feature on the recent Criterion release of Persona.

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Histoire(s) du cinéma is a two hundred and sixty-six minute video project by Jean-Luc Godard crafted between the late ‘80s through the late ‘90s.

Shoah

I have just finished watching Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, a 550-minute documentary film about the Holocaust. I cannot imagine what words I can say about the film. How do you comment on the cinematography when the subject matter is so bleak? It was a very well-made documentary and I can see why Sight & Sound […]