The Complete Metropolis
DVD Talk Collector Series At age 83, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has been given a new lease on life. Not that it needed it, exactly. Lang’s immensely influential vision of a dystopic future society had enjoyed a full restoration of its known elements in 2001, playing theatrically to much fanfare. I saw it for this first time that year, on the big screen. I was totally dumbstruck by the movie as a …
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More DVD and Blu-ray boxed set gift ideas
With DVD and Blu-ray boxed sets, the bigger the better, we say. Well, not always. We looked back over recent months and found some of the better, bigger boxed sets that we’ve reviewed, assembling them here for your gift-giving convenience — mixed in with some newer ones we haven’t told you about yet.
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A Second Look: ‘America Lost and Found: The BBS Story’ collection captures New Hollywood’s iconic, weird twists
The new seven-film DVD boxed set from the Criterion Collection includes ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ ‘The Last Picture Show,’ ‘Head’ and ‘Drive, He Said.’ The story of American cinema’s last official golden age — the late ’60s and early ’70s groundswell known as the New Hollywood — has been told and retold so many times and with such gilded nostalgia that it is by now, at least in part, a sentimental myth.
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A Second Look: ‘America Lost and Found: The BBS Story’ collection captures New Hollywood’s iconic, weird twists
The new seven-film DVD boxed set from the Criterion Collection includes ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ ‘The Last Picture Show,’ ‘Head’ and ‘Drive, He Said.’ The story of American cinema’s last official golden age — the late ’60s and early ’70s groundswell known as the New Hollywood — has been told and retold so many times and with such gilded nostalgia that it is by now, at least in part, a sentimental myth.
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