By Sean O’Connell
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we review:
“The Road”
I didn’t envy the filmmaker who’d eventually accept the difficult task of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road.” Even after Joel and Ethan Coen proved it possible at shaping McCarthy’s prose into narrative form — as they expertly did with “No Country for Old Men” — “The Road” is an altogether different beast, a bleak march through a dystopian future where a father (Viggo Mortensen) combats harsh elements to ensure the survival of his only son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
Yet John Hillcoat figured out how to tunnel to the heart of McCarthy’s novel without sacrificing the edges. As a result, “The Road” is a difficult slog through a painful process that’s every bit...
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we review:
“The Road”
I didn’t envy the filmmaker who’d eventually accept the difficult task of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road.” Even after Joel and Ethan Coen proved it possible at shaping McCarthy’s prose into narrative form — as they expertly did with “No Country for Old Men” — “The Road” is an altogether different beast, a bleak march through a dystopian future where a father (Viggo Mortensen) combats harsh elements to ensure the survival of his only son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
Yet John Hillcoat figured out how to tunnel to the heart of McCarthy’s novel without sacrificing the edges. As a result, “The Road” is a difficult slog through a painful process that’s every bit...
- 5/25/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Chicago – David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” is one of the most beloved films of all time and it has been masterfully transferred to Blu-ray courtesy of the best studio in existence when it comes to ushering timeless classics on to the next generation format. Warner Brothers has done it again with a must-own for classic movie fans.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Ask ten people to name a classic “epic” and several will list “Doctor Zhivago” (with maybe only another Lean film, “Laurence of Arabia” beating it out for the first to mind.) The 1965 film based on the novel by Boris Pasternak was such a cultural phenomenon when it was released that it stands as the eighth highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation (at $987 million, just behind “Jaws” and just ahead of “The Exorcist”).
Doctor Zhivago was released on Blu-Ray on May 4th, 2010.
Photo credit: Warner Brothers Home Video
Like a lot of films,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Ask ten people to name a classic “epic” and several will list “Doctor Zhivago” (with maybe only another Lean film, “Laurence of Arabia” beating it out for the first to mind.) The 1965 film based on the novel by Boris Pasternak was such a cultural phenomenon when it was released that it stands as the eighth highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation (at $987 million, just behind “Jaws” and just ahead of “The Exorcist”).
Doctor Zhivago was released on Blu-Ray on May 4th, 2010.
Photo credit: Warner Brothers Home Video
Like a lot of films,...
- 5/17/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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