Lots to like in the latest DVD releases
WADJDA (Soda). The first feature film to be shot in Saudi Arabia and, what is most amazing is that it has been directed by a woman (sic, Haifaa Al Mansour). ...
DVD REVIEWS
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs
WINGS (Eureka). During the next four years we will be seeing lots of films about World War 1. 27-year-old William Wellman’s great epic (1927), winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture, is o ...
Last Tango in Halifax and other DVD new releases
LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX (BBC) is likely to appeal more to women than men. Two elderly widowers (Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi), former childhood sweethearts, decide to marry. ...
The Great Beauty and more latest DVDs releases
THE GREAT BEAUTY (Artificial Eye). Paul Sorrentino’s virtuoso film (on many people’s list for best foreign film) is from the same stable as Fellini and Antonioni: nostalgic and anti-Roman Catholic, it ...