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DVD Tuesday: Waltz with Bashir
If you didn't see Waltz with Bashir in the theater, you have the opportunity to correct that mistake today on DVD. It is rare that a film so perfectly combines a complex, powerful story with such dazzling visual technique. Concerned with lost memories surrounding the 1982 Lebanon War, this is a must-see film for any fan of cinema (or history for that matter). Confessions of a Shopaholic is not such a picture. Pink Panther 2 is not such a picture. Inkheart is not such a picture. Thankfully, both My Dinner with Andre and Last Year at Marienbad are.
Waltz with Bashir
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Inkheart
Pink Panther 2
Phoebe in Wonderland
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
My Dinner with Andre (Criterion Collection)
Last Year at Marienbad (Criterion Collection)
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band: Live in Toronto '69
Table for Three
I'm pretty sure that The Code went straight to DVD, but for the life of me I can't remember and damned if I'm too lazy to look it up. Honestly, wouldn't Morgan Freeman's sonorous tones capture your attention even in a bad movie? If My Dinner with Andre sounds too high-brow, maybe try My Dinner with Jimi? Or, better, watch Andy Kaufman's hilarious My Breakfast with Blassie! Everyone knows that hot dads like young chicks, but who knew that hot moms liked them, too? And how the hell did Tit Queens of the Past, Vol. 8 slip, uh, past me?
The Code
My Dinner with Jimi
Jackie Mason: the Ultimate Jew
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
The Andrzej Munk Trilogy: Eroica/Bad Luck/Man on the Tracks
Diary of a Suicide
Janis Joplin with Big Brother: Ball and Chain
All Cardio Step With Gay Gasper
Hot Mamas Like Young Chicks
Tit Queens of the Past, Vol. 9
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