DVD REVIEWS

British Musicals of the 1930s (Network)

British Musicals of the 1930s (Network)

Robert Tanitch reviews four musicals on a double-disc DVD set BLOSSOM TIME (1934). An operetta about Franz Schubert’s life in Vienna in the 1820’s presents problems because very little is known about ...
Ealing Studios Rarities Collection – volume 12

Ealing Studios Rarities Collection – volume 12

Robert Tanitch reviews 4 four 1930’s British films on a double-disc DVD set LOYALTIES (1933).  Basil Dean had directed John Galsworthy’s play in 1922 and his film gives a very good idea of what acting ...
American drama gets big emotional performances

American drama gets big emotional performances

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Entertainment on Video) Tracy Letts’s bitter, cynical saga is a classic American dysfunctional family drama with big, emotional stagy perfo ...

Oscar Isaac – A major new star in the making

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Network). The Coen Brothers have another success. The story is set in Greenwich Village in the 1960’s A struggling folk singer is going nowh ...