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DVD Review: The Woodmans(0)

May 18, 2012

Photographer Francesca Woodman died years ago. It is apparent from how her parents, sculptor Betty, and painter George, speak distantly of her. The pain is still there, but it’s not as acute as it must have been when they found out. The Woodmans are a family of artists. Charlie, Francesca’s older brother, a video artist, [...]

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DVD Review: Hazel – The Complete Third Season

To hope for more episodes like season 2’s “Hazel’s Day Off” in Hazel: The Complete Third Season is too much hope, but an observation is unearthed that went unnoticed before: Episodes are marginally better when the Baxter family isn’t occupied with domestic matters. This should have been apparent from “Hazel’s Day Off” alone, but the [...]

DVD Review: Sleeping Beauty (2011)

Novelist Julia Leigh makes her directorial film debut with the hauntingly exquisite Sleeping Beauty (2011).  Starring newcomer Emily Browning as struggling college student Lucy, the film follows her nihilistic journey through the gloomy jungle of Sydney, Australia as she tries to make her way to rent money. Sparse finances, of course, are just the red [...]

DVD Review: 95 Miles to Go

On a Friday in February 2005, with my parents at a taping of the fourth-to-last episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, I saw Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, and Monica Horan at work, but I was more interested in watching director Gary Halvorson at the quad split, a monitor on a [...]


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