| In an effort to bring you more information about the best new releases on DVD, Fast Forward will be compiling a monthly list of discs that are worth looking for at your local video store. And if you can’t find these in Calgary, we’ve included the name of the company releasing each title in parentheses, along with the director’s name.
· Amos Gitai: Exile Box Set (Includes Kadosh and Kippur, Facets): Controversial films from internationally renowned Israeli director.
· Cartouche (Phillippe De Broca, Anchor Bay): Swashbuckling adventure features French superstar Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless).
· Chaos (Hideo Nakata, Kino): More atmospheric Japanese horror from the director of Ringu.
· Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, Criterion Collection): The second film from pre-eminent French master Robert Bresson.
· The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (Joseph Mankiewicz, 20th Century Fox): Underappreciated romantic fantasy classic from Hollywood’s golden age.
· The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, Zeitgeist): Waste not, want not, says Agnès Varda in this film essay about the politics of consumption.
· Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges, Paramount): Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the Clanton gang face off in this classic oater.
· Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Kino): If you missed Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece last August at the Uptown, this DVD is the next best thing.
· Paul Verhoeven Collection (Paul Verhoeven, Anchor Bay): Box set of five early films from the director of Basic Instinct and Total Recall includes his 1983 thriller The Fourth Man.
· The Swimmer (Frank Perry, Columbia/TriStar): If slightly sentimental, this is one of the strangest movies Burt Lancaster ever made.
· The White Sheik (Federico Fellini, Criterion Collection): Fellini’s first solo directorial effort reveals a glimmer of his future genius. |
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