By Bill Desowitz It was fitting that Jack Nicholson unexpectedly raced to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on November 18 to participate in the 30th... »

DVD Releases Out of the Past (Warner Home Video) Out of the Past (1947) is film noir at its best—stylistically and thematically dark, yet full of... »

By Bill Desowitz After the raw intensity of Monster’s Ball, German-born director Marc Forster found the quieter and more lyrical Finding Neverland... »

By Bill Desowitz Director Taylor Hackford is fascinated by the process of artists who define themselves. He scrounged for 15 years to make the Ray... »

Luchino Visconti’s opulent 1963 epic about the dying Italian aristocracy during the Garibaldi revolution of 1860, starring the majestic Burt Lancaster, comes to DVD at long last in both its full-length restored Italian version (transferred from the 8-perf negative in Technirama) and shorter English-language version. The image is nothing short of breathtaking, showing off... »

DVD Releases By Bill Desowitz Pennies from Heaven (BBC Video, Warner Home Video) Dennis Potter’s surreal masterpiece about music, dreams and failure... »

By Bill Desowitz The first thing Michael Mann said before discussing Collateral—the tense thriller from Dreamworks about a hit man (Tom Cruise) and... »

by Bill Desowitz First Singin’ in the Rain, then The Adventures of Robin Hood and now Meet Me in St. Louis. The list of Technicolor classics to get... »

By Bill Desowitz Anthony Minghella likes to refer to his closest below-the-line collaborators as his gang of Russians. He trusts them implicitly,... »

By Bill Desowitz After 24 films, Clint Eastwood never ceases to amaze as a director, advancing the art of classical storytelling and applying valuable... »