New DVDs......

As listed in the back pages of "Film Comment," here is a sampling of new films and tv shows now available on DVD....

 

Movies I have NOT seen, but I've heard good things about:

1) An Angel at my Table- Jane Campion, New Zealand,  1990, Criterion

2) Billion $ Brain, Ken Russell, UK, 1966, MGM

3) Boudu Saved From Drowning, Jean Renoir, France, 1932, Criterion

4) Coward Bends the Knee, Guy Maddin, Canada, 2003

5) Head-On, Fatih Akin, Germany (in German and Turkish), 2004-highly recommended

6) Major Dundee (new version), Sam Peckinpah, 1964 -I have seen the original, uncut version- hope this is better!

7) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Preston Sturges, 1944

8)Nobody Knows, Kore-da, Japan, 2004

9) Turtles Can Fly, Ghobadi, Iran (in Kurdish), 2004

10) Whirlpool, Otto Preminger, 1949

 

Movies I have seen (but not on DVD) with my five-star rating:

1. Masculin/Feminin- JL Godard, France, 1966-*****

2. Naked-Mike Leigh, 1993 ***

3. Cop (with James Woods), 1988 ****

4. Cat People, Val Newton, 1942 ****

5. Queen Chritina (with Great Garbo) dir. Mamoulian 1933 *****

6. The Man Who Fell to the Earth (with David Bowie), N. Roeg ****

7. Demon Seed 1977 ***

8. Funny Ha Ha, 2003 ****

9. Landscape in the Mist Greece 1990 ****

10. Places in the Heart, R. Benton, 1984 ****

11. To Kill a Mockingbird ****

12. Touki Bouki, Senegal (yes, I've seen it!) ***

 

I must also highly recommend my good friend Les Blank's film "Burden of Dreams," a classic documentary about filmmaking, "Distant," which I consider to be the best Turkish film ever made, and Robert Altman's political satire of Nixon "secret Honor." All these films have been out on DVD as of this year.