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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Gregory Peck

Posted: November 4th, 2008, 5:46am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

A new film collection showcases the decorous, paternal authority that Gregory Peck projected over the course of his long career.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Horror Movies

Posted: October 21st, 2008, 5:25am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Halloween usually brings a crimson tide of horror movies on DVD, and this year is no exception.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Risky Business’ and ‘The Last Laugh’

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:02am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

A newly remastered edition of “Risky Business” restores the film’s subtle textures. And “The Last Laugh” has never looked as dazzling on home video until now.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘How the West Was Won’

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:32am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

The best reason for buying a Blu-ray player right now is Warner Home Video’s high-definition version of “How the West Was Won.”

New DVDs: On the Margins of Noir

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:39am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

The Fox Film Noir collection includes Archie Mayo’s “Moontide” (1942), Elia Kazan’s “Boomerang!” (1947) and Jean Negulesco’s “Road House” (1948).

New DVDs: His Wicked, Wicked Ways Go West

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Errol Flynn, Hollywood’s unruly swashbuckler, is also a forgotten hero of the western.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Larisa Shepitko

Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:27am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Two harsh but hauntingly beautiful fables — “Wings,” released in 1966, and “The Ascent,” from 1977 — are the best-known films of the director Larisa Shepitko.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Perils of the New Land’

Posted: August 12th, 2008, 1:28am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

“Perils of the New Land” brings together two early features and three short films set in a New York City still being fed by waves of European immigrants.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘The Inglorious Bastards’

Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:32am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Now that Quentin Tarantino’s remake of the 1978 action film, “The Inglorious Bastards,” may finally be produced, a three-disc edition of the original comes to DVD.

New DVDs: Tyrone Power, Giving the Women Something to Sigh About

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 2:48am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Tyrone Power was, as the title of a new boxed set from Fox puts it, a “matinee idol.”

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer,’ Stan Laurel and ‘Remembrance of Things to Come’

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 5:13am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

New this week are Thorold Dickinson’s 1955 film “Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer,” “The Stan Laurel Collection, Volume 2” and Chris Marker’s “Remembrance of Things to Come.”

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Deneuve and Loren Still Haunt the Screen

Posted: June 10th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Lionsgate Entertainment honors Sophia Loren and Catherine Deneuve, two near-mythological figures of the European cinema, with boxed sets of seldom-seen films.

Film: Special Effects From the Real World

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 10:35pm GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Tarsem, the director of “The Fall,” didn’t need computergenerated dazzle. Just ask the swimming elephant.

An Appraisal: A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 3:53am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

Richard Widmark never quite shook the dark associations of his early roles, even after his studio, 20th Century Fox, rehabilitated him as a leading man.

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Film: Four Stars’ Bright Idea Still Shines 90 Years On

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

United Artists will turn 90 next year, and Film Forum celebrates with a five-week tribute.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:36am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

The “Forbidden Hollywood Collection” is devoted to the frank and racy films that emerged from Hollywood before the strict enforcement of the Production Code in 1934.