Rainer Werner Fassbinder had only been making feature films for four years when he tackled the enormous miniseries version of World on a Wire. Filmed in two parts totaling over three and a half...
A kind of low budget combination of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City and William Wyler’s Detective Story, Arnold Laven’s Vice Squad offers an entertaining West Coast twist to the police work shown...
The Phantom of the Opera gets a great showcase on Blu-ray with this performance at the Royal Albert Hall last October, in honor of its 25th anniversary. Like last year’s Blu-ray of Les...
After scoring as an international sensation and winning six 2011 Emmy Awards, Downton Abbey became last season’s most buzzed about new show (curiously, the first season won no major prizes in...
Winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at the SXSW Film Festival and being called “the next Woody Allen” must be heady stuff indeed for young filmmaker Lena Dunham. In Tiny Furniture, she...