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DVD Video Review: A young Jewish woman arrives in America in the 1890s and finds it not what she expected, in Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking indie Hester Street, starring an Oscar-nominated Carol Kane. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 2 release from Metrodome.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
DVD Video Review: The dead walk...and they're up on YouTube within hours. George Romero reboots his zombie franchise in Diary of the Dead. Review by Gary Couzens.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
DVD Video Review: A man goes in search of the hit-and-run driver who killed his son in Reservation Road, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino and straight to DVD in the UK. Gary Couzens investigates.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
DVD Video Review: Terence Davies' follow-up to his prize-winning debut feature "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is released on DVD today through the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
DVD Video Review: Terence Davies's autobiographical trilogy of short films comes to DVD from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens reviews Second Sight's Region 2 Deluxe Edition of Picnic at Hanging Rock and finds possibly the definitive SD edition. The three-disc release includes both the director's cut and the longer original version.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens revisits Peter Weir's first feature, The Cars That Ate Paris. This Region 2 release from Second Sight is the first time the film has been commercially available for home viewing in the UK in its original aspect ratio.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
DVD Video Review: Before the Rain, Milcho Manchevski's three-part story set in London and war-torn Macedonia, won the 1994 Golden Lion and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. As it gets the Criterion treatment, Gary Couzens reviews.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
DVD Video Review: Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano star in Baby It's You, a 60s-set wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance written and directed by John Sayles. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 1 release from Legend Films.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
DVD Video Review: 1942, Papua New Guinea, and an ill-equipped and outnumbered Australian force have to hold off the advancing Japanese. A 2006 dramatisation of a true-life World War Two story is released on UK Region 2 DVD by Showbox. Gary Couzens takes a look, and co...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
DVD Video Review: Ken Stott and a very young David Tennant star in Takin' Over the Asylum, Donna Franceschild's award-winning comedy-drama serial from 1994 makes it to DVD. Review by Gary Couzens.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
DVD Video Review: Bill Douglas's three films about his childhood and adolescence form one of the great British films of the last forty years. Gary Couzens reviews the BFI's two-disc DVD set.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
DVD Video Review: Six characters, German and Turkish, are brought together in The Edge of Heaven, director Fatih Akin's award-winning follow-up to Head-On. Review of Artificial Eye's Region 2 DVD by Gary Couzens.
