DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
DVD Video Review: In the final part of his look at Universal's repackaging, clydefro finds Jimmy Stewart with Marlene Dietrich and an accordion. (Not at the same time)
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
DVD Video Review: The Criterion Collection welcomes Anthony Mann and the western into its stable with an excellent, underseen story of family conflict starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston.
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Busu Yoshihiro Nakamura - 2005 Tartan Asia Extreme Region 1 DVD I only have a couple more titles to go before I have seen every Tartan Asia Extreme DVD available from the Denver Public Library. The Booth is a...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
DVD Video Review: Beginning a two-part look at Universal's recent repackaging of six James Stewart westerns, clydefro reviews the trio of titles directed by Anthony Mann
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
"JAMES STEWART: THE WESTERN COLLECTION." (1939-1966. NOT RATED. UNIVERSAL. $39.98. SIX DISCS.) read more
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
DVD Event of the Week: No, it's not the just released 10,000 BC , the Cavemen in Chains shlockfest which we had a little fun with earlier this month ; rather it's the stunning new Criterion Edition version of Anthony Mann 's 1950 Freudian western classic The Furies , starring Walter Huston and Barbara Stanwyck as a father/daughter rivalry that would have given shpilkes to King Lear. From Criterion's...
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Peter SobczynskiIn this week's edition, your faithful critic offers up a cinematic smorgasbord ranging from Irish gangster comedies to Swedish soft-core erotica while babbling at length about one of the greatest westerns that he has yet to see from beginning to end.When it comes to picking the title that I plan on reviewing in depth each week in this particular column, I have maybe two hard-and-fast...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
"Criterion's surprising, all-stops-out release of [Anthony] Mann's early western The Furies (1950) offers a valuable view of this director nearing the height of his powers, before his gifts had calcified; in many ways, it's his most exciting movie because...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Out today on DVD: The Furies, a noirish 1950 Western from director's director Anthony Mann. For a father and daughter, Walter Huston and Barbara Stanwyck sure seem, uh, intimate as they spar over each other's choice of romantic partners. Suffice...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The 1950s were arguably the greatest years of the Western — the period in which clichés were sustained and destabilized through psychology, revisionism, high style, and the kind of grandeur that follows when the most durable clichés are reframed against...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
After her days as a Hollywood glamourpuss but before becoming a cowgirl icon in the hit TV show The Big Valley , Brooklyn girl Barbara Stanwyck starred in this roaring 1950 Western. Released on a typically excellent Criterion DVD, Anthony Mann's drama pits a power-mad rancher (Walter Huston) against his epically impetuous daughter (Stanwyck) in a family feud as vicious as the genre's battles between...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
As much as I enjoyed Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, I was surprised how the animated film adaptation remained true to the book. Satrapi co-wrote and co-directed the film, and has produced one of the most amazing movies of...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The director Anthony Mann, an early master of the film noir, turned to the Western in midcareer, and his second, “The Furies” (Criterion), from 1950, is one of the greatest--in effect, a frontier noir with epic ambitions and Shakespearean audacities. The story revolves around T. C. Jeffords (Walter Huston . . .
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
By Dan Callahan [ The Furies streets on June 24th, 2008. Screencaps from DVDBeaver . ] Anthony Mann is best known today for the remarkable series of westerns he made with James Stewart in the fifties, but he reached his peak with Men in War (1957) and Man of the West (1958), late works which brought his central theme of the violence within man and the demoralizing aftermath of violence to nearly intolerable...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Persepolis, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Be Kind, Rewind, and more.
