2006 Forget Blu-ray or HD DVD “? the most staggering digital images I’ve yet seen this year originated over 100 years ago. Thought to be lost to the ages, the astonishing recovery of footage shot by pioneering English filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon has been described as the cinematic equivalent of discovering Tutankhamen’s tomb. […]
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V for Vendetta: Special Edition
2006 Perhaps my biggest complaint about the Wachowski brothers-scripted “V for Vendetta” is that it reduces the ideas of rebellion and terrorism to prosaic speeches, delivered just before punching the detonator; passionate concepts about change are espoused but they’re empty theatrics “? you’re not incited to do much beyond crunch some more popcorn. It’s […]
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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005 Nihilism, not rebellion, tended to guide the punk rock that exploded on the West Coast in the Eighties. But three guys from San Pedro, Calif., had something different in mind. Forming a band called the Minutemen, the trio of D. Boon, Mike Watt and George Hurley cranked out angular art-punk stuffed with tasty […]