documentary

Disc News Update 02.17

Unless you're a die-hard fan of Being John Malkovich or Putney Swope, Criterion's May announcements are pretty disappointing....

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Corman's World - Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel: BD Review

Hollywood's ultimate B-movie mogul gets his own star-studded career retrospective documentary....

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The War Room: BD Review

As 2012 presidential campaigns begin hitting fever pitches, Criterion reaches back and offers up this intriguing, damning, and revealing doc on Bill Clinton's 1992 race to Washington...

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Frozen Planet: BD Review

Yet another knockout nature doc from BBC Earth - even with a couple of missteps, it's a staggering high-def achievement....

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Disc News Update 04.10

Today we have info on the extensive restoration for Jaws' upcoming high-def edition, as well as updated details on Blu-ray releases for Full Metal Jacket: 25th Anniversary Edition and The Artist....

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In Their Own Words: DVD Review

"Remember that joke Evelyn Waugh told E.M. Forster? What a riot!"

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Madonna - Truth or Dare: BD Review

Madonna: "Anybody who says my show is 'neat' has to go...."

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Into the Abyss: BD Review

Werner Herzog's latest documentary is a harrowing investigation of crime, punishment, and the shrapnel they both leave behind....

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The War: BD Review

The Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary is every bit as good now as it was when it debuted in 2007, but is it worth the high-def upgrade...?

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Charlotte Rampling - The Look: BD Review

The legendary star maintains her mystique in this new documentary, though the film as a whole gets a little too woo-woo for its own good....

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George Harrison - Living in the Material World: BD Review

"Sunrise doesn't last all morning / A cloudburst doesn't last all day...."

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Bill Moyers - Capitol Crimes: DVD Review

Tired of current Bain- and Kenya-oriented political scandals from Washington? Why not join Bill Moyers as he turns his focused gaze to Jack Abramoff and parties like it's 2006....?

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Disc News Update 06.13

Today brings news of a Dane Cook comedy, a David Tennant rom-com, and a James Cameron documentary all on course for summertime high-def editions...

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Disc News Update 06.18

Criterion's September slate: Fincher, de Sica, and a double-dose of Marcel Carne....

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And Everything Is Going Fine: BD Review

Steven Soderbergh's fifth film to receive the Criterion treatment is a brash, sad portrait of monologist Spalding Gray....

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Disc News Update 06.20

The new Christian Bale drama The Flowers of War gets high-def specs today, and Warner readies a massive November Blu-ray edition of Friends: The Complete Series....

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Disc News Update 07.13

Final Blu-ray specs for The Hunger Games, plus news of new high-def editions of Dexter: The Complete Sixth Season, and even Pet Sematary gets some BD love....!

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Jaws: BD Review

Yes, there's a new edition of Jaws, and yes, you will need to buy it....

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Disc News Update 08.08

Final Blu-ray specs for Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures and Lawrence of Arabia arrive today....

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Paradise Lost 3 - Purgatory: DVD Review

The chilling Oscar-nominated documentary series comes to a surprisingly redemptive end....

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Chimpanzee: BD Review

This latest DisneyNature documentary isn't perfect, but it's nevertheless pretty darned irresistible....

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Casting the Runes: DVD Review

This creepy 1979 British horror import gets a standalone standard-def presentation....

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The Costume Drama Classic Collection: DVD Review

Acorn's big summer DVD box set will make anyone with a crush on Colin Firth blush with excitement....

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Megacities: DVD Review

This doc series goes beyond 'bright lights, big city' and really investigates the very fabric of modern international urbanism....

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You Can't Do That on Film: DVD Review

The author of the upcoming SLIMED! The Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age brings us a guest review of this retro fanboy documentary....

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What Happened to Kerouac?: DVD Review

One of the 20th century's most polarizing writers is the subject of this surprisingly limp documentary....

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Brave New World: DVD Review

The new Stephen Hawking documentary series is no Brief History of Time, that's for sure....

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The Amazing Spider-Man: BD Review

This franchise reboot with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone is signficantly more exciting than it has any right to be...

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Vertigo: BD Review

Alfred Hitchcock: Masterpiece Edition Vol. 7: Hitch's demented romantic masterpiece, featuring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak as lovers both dead and alive....

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Marnie: BD Review

Alfred Hitchcock: Masterpiece Edition Vol. 11: Hitch's loopy Sean Connery thriller - misstep or misunderstood masterpiece....?

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Mankind - The Story of All of Us: BD Review

This massive documentary set isn't a full-blown classic, though it sometimes truly has the feel of one....

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Putin's Kiss: DVD Review

This ambitious documentary takes a long, hard look at the realities and fantasies at the heart of modern Russian identity....

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Samsara: BD Review

This oblique doc showcases some of the most impressive cinematography of recent times....

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Whore's Glory: DVD Review

This brazen new documentary from Michael Glawogger is exotic, but ultimately surprisingly unnecessary....

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King - A Filmed Record: DVD Review

This iconic - and Oscar-nominated - MLK documentary is a major filmmaking accomplishment....

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The Story of Math Collection: DVD Review

Its title makes it sound a little dull, but this documentary set will thrill its intended audience to no end....

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Pina: 3D BD Review

Criterion releases its first 3D Blu-ray title and the results are - well, they're okay....

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Disc News Update 01.28

Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden actioner gets early high-def specs in today's announcements....

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Beauty Is Embarrassing: DVD Review

Neil Berkeley's documentary on the work of artist Wayne White is often ludicrously charming....

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Top Gun: 3D BD Review

The 80s action classic gets a 3D high-def bump - would Goose approve....?

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Side by Side: BD Review

George Lucas, David Fincher, and Martin Scorsese discuss the death of film in this Keanu Reeves-narrated doc....

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Chronicle of a Summer: BD Review

The iconic French documentary gets a high-def debut, and it's as fascinating as it's ever been....

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How to Survive a Plague: DVD Review

David France's haunting, Oscar-nominated documentary is an uneven but impactful experience on this new DVD edition....

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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: DVD Review

This documentary on artist Anselm Kiefer doesn't probe its subject matter all that much, but his giant installations are truly wonders to behold....

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Africa: BD Review

David Attenborough and crew score again with yet another mesmerizing nature documentary saga....

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Waiting for Lightning: BD Review

Skater dude Danny Way wants to jump over the Great Wall of China. Do you think he'll make it....?

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Disc News Update 03.19

A Bergman classic and arguably the most important documentary of the 20th century get high-def specs from Criterion....

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Vietnam - The Ten Thousand Day War: DVD Review

One of the most impressive long-form television documentaries ever made gets a DVD re-release, but is it worth a double-dip....?

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Great Barrier Reef: BD Review

It's subject matter is  impossibly beautiful, but does this nature doc do the Australian reef justice....?

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Shakespeare - The King's Man: DVD Review

This behind-the-curtain look at William Shakespeare's late-career output is shockingly exciting documentary entertainment....

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