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In Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, production designer Rick Heinrich delights in force-projected environments that allow for… […]

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 Leonard Klady The Aviator is brought to life in bold and sumptuous sets created by Dante Ferretti that evoke a time when the grandiose was in… […]

By Leonard Klady Someone once pointed out that the very best films about war have an anti-war tilt. I’m sure there’s an exception but I can’t… […]

By Leonard Klady In Phantom of the Opera there’s a glow not simply in the warm light of John Mathieson’s camera but in the very fabric of the… […]

By Leonard Klady Spike Milligan once told an interviewer that his early days touring the English provinces with his fellow Goon Show cohorts Peter… […]

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 every bit of Ciueppe Rotunno’s luscious cinematography and transforming the viewing experience. (Criterion Collection)

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

Shefter Named AMIA President Archivists Set Goals For Restoring And Preserving Irreplaceable Assets VANCOUVER, November 17—Milt Shefter has been… […]

Simmons Joins BTL As a new member of the BLT staff, I wanted to introduce myself to the community. Many may already know me as I’ve been in the… […]