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Critics' Picks: The dark prince of postwar Italy

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Paolo Sorrentino's dazzling, daring "Il Divo" brings the cinematic bravado of Coppola and Scorsese back home

Have an alt-horror Halloween!

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Forget the sequels, formulas and pointless gore -- at the low-rent, freaky fringes, horror movies are still alive

DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Let's dance! "Adventureland" and "Last Days of Disco" bring the coke, "Audition" brings the sexual terror

Rape, power and Polanski's "Chinatown"

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

What are the real lessons in the filmmaker's neo-noir classic?

Kurosawa's "Kagemusha" on DVD

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

How George Lucas and Francis Coppola helped the Japanese master create the greatest spectacle of his late career

Critics' Picks: The Holy Grail of "Dollhouse"

By Mary Elizabeth Williams — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

The first season DVD of Joss Whedon's drama offers an extra episode -- the show's darkest and most promising yet

Critics' Picks: Roman Polanski's homicidal madness

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

A young Catherine Deneuve stars in "Repulsion," a shocking early film from the notorious director, out on a new DVD

Critics' Picks: The original time-traveling cop

By Stephanie Zacharek — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

The DVD of the British version of the TV series "Life on Mars" cuts a window into another world

Dirty jokes, hot witches and a chess game with Death

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Dour philosophy lecture or Scando-horror-comedy? Seen afresh, Bergman's early masterpiece is full of surprises

Still more DVDs you should have seen (but didn't)

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Trumbo's antiwar parable, Maddin's gorgeous weirdness, a children's film by Tarkovsky, arty French erotica, more.

DVDs you should have seen, but didn't: Buñuel, Visconti, Hitchcock, Chris Marker and more

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Two of Buñuel's weirdest, Chris Marker's magnum opus, Riviera Hitchcock, the original "Odd Couple" and more.

Why the original "Star Trek" still matters

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Cheap, sexist and nerdy? Check, check and check. But the original Kirk and Spock offered an erotic, Apollonian beacon of hope amid the darkness of '70s culture.

The best DVDs of 2009 (so far)

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession," Patrick McGoohan in "The Quare Fellow," Rossellini takes on Louis XIV, new reissues of Audrey Hepburn's best-loved films and more.

DVDs you should have seen in 2008, but didn't

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Eddie Albert in "1984," the best of MST3K, an even sexier "Lady Chatterley," classic Brit-horror, and Donald vs. Chip 'n' Dale.

Drinks, dancing, dinner, self-loathing

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Director William Friedkin talks about revisiting his pre-Stonewall lightning rod "The Boys in the Band" -- and his peculiar role in the history of gay film.

What's behind the "WALL-E" cult?

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Is Pixar's Chaplin-meets-Kubrick robot romance really the best animated film ever? Plus: Answers to our "Sukiyaki Western Django" quiz revealed!

"Greatest film ever" or a cream cake?

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Mocked on initial release and long unavailable, Max Ophüls' wide-screen spectacle "Lola Montès" returns in a lustrous restoration. So what's the big deal?

Torture porn, made beautiful

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Pasolini's "Salò" blends fascism, de Sade and upscale art cinema into the most notorious film in the medium's history. Watch it at home!

Television without shame

By Thomas Rogers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

The deliciously naughty "Shameless" -- starring a young James McAvoy -- is one of the best comedies ever made about urban poverty.

Awesome Kids' Video Project: The sequel!

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

As requested, the also-rans in our reader poll of family summer flicks. Also: Is this list racist? Is Hannibal Lecter right for your family? And more!

The ultimate family DVD list

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

We asked; you answered. Here's the most-awesome-ever summertime list of offbeat, kid-friendly movies available on DVD -- as chosen (mostly) by Salon readers.

Good night and good TV

By Thomas Rogers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

"The Newsroom" does for the talking heads what "The Office" does for cubicle dwellers -- and may be the funniest TV show ever made about the news business.

City kids

By Megan Doll — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

Brazilian TV series "City of Men" explores the hardships of growing up among guns and gangsters in Rio's slums.

Charlie Wilson's unfinished war

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

The legendary Texas congressman talks about his secret 1980s Afghan war (and its blowback), the Obama campaign and being better-looking than Tom Hanks.

French cinema's prickly stepmom

By Andrew O'Hehir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT

A new DVD box set captures the puzzling genius of Agnès Varda, maybe the least-appreciated great filmmaker of Europe's golden age.