DVD & TV One of the best movies of 2005, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has recently arrived on DVD. Working from a strong script by Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), director Tommy Lee Jon ...   More

DVD & TV Two new arrivals on DVD give a pair of overlooked films a chance to be discovered. Junebug is an understated character piece with extremely well-realized details. Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), the cosmo ...   More

DVD & TV F for FAKE (1974)-Orson Welles' last work of genius as a filmmaker is a playfully intricate examination of forgery, charlatans and narrative truth. The documentary ostensibly unravels the early-70s sc ...   More

DVD & TV Some films are beautiful beyond plot or scenery and are happy marriages of mood and character, more like tone poems than conventional narratives. One of these rare delights is Wim Wenders' 1984 Paris, ...   More

DVD & TV When Roman Polanski's The Pianist was released in 2002, a common line found among its praise was that it was his first great film in more than 20 years. While I wouldn't so quickly dismiss Death & ...   More

DVD & TV Yes, Seinfeld is the must-have TV-show-on-DVD of the season. But there are other great, if less celebrated, sets out there.Mr. Show with Bob & David is an HBO sketch comedy show that ran from '95 ...   More

DVD & TV John Cassavetes is the archetypal modern American independent filmmaker. There were other mavericks before him, like Orson Welles and Samuel Fuller, but Cassavetes' singular style and determination to ...   More

DVD & TV In 1964, a British television documentary gathered 14 7-year-olds from different economic and societal backgrounds for a series of interviews. The age was chosen from a Jesuit maxim, "Give me a child ...   More

DVD & TV With Ray currently playing in theaters and earning accolades, it's time to spotlight a great musician's bio-pic that somehow hasn't gotten its popular due over the years: Bird (1988). Directed by Clin ...   More

DVD & TV In 1981, Steve Martin tried to drastically change his image and Herbert Ross tried to reinvent the musical for a new sensibility. The film was Pennies from Heaven, and it was a box-office flop. A few ...   More