Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Bushkin, Henry. Untitled on Johnny Carson. Houghton Harcourt. Oct. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780544217621. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780544217737. MEMOIR/TELEVISION Johnny Carson’s attorney for nearly two decades, at a time when the Tonight Show was at its height and Carson went through two divorces, Bushkin ultimately served as his “counselor, partner, employee, business advisor, earpiece, mouthpiece, enforcer, [...]
Reviews of Downton Abbey Season 3, Manufactured Landscapes, and Searching for Sugar Man, plus a full list of video reviews in the Mar. 1 issue.
Reviews of Blake Bailey’s Farther & Wilder, Carol Burnett’s Carrie and Me, and Donald Lopez Jr.’s From Stone to Flesh, plus a full list of arts and humanities reviews in the Feb. 15 issue.
Upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases of note.
Reviews of Call the Midwife Season One, The Tempest, and Shut Up and Play the Hits, plus a full list of video reviews in the Feb. 15 issue.
The latest releases on dvd and Blu-ray.
Biskind, Peter, ed. My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles. Metropolitan: Holt. Jul. 2013. 240p. ISBN 9780805097252. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805097269. CD: Macmillan Audio. AUTOBIOG/ENTERTAINMENT Back when, the inimitable Orson Welles recorded a series of private conversations while lunching with director Henry Jaglom, a good friend. In the recently rescued tapes, [...]
Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon. b/w. 88+ min. In Japanese w/English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa, dist. by Criterion Collection. Nov. 2012. DVD ISBN 9781604656541. $29.95; Blu-ray ISBN 9781604656534. $39.95. DRAMA Truth be told—or will it? Comes a Bright Day. color. 91+ min. Simon Aboud, dist. by Strand Releasing. Nov. 2012. DVD UPC 712267321322. $24.99. Closed-captioned. DRAMA A hostage [...]
Reviews of The Forsyte Saga Collection, Ballplayer: Pelotero, and No Job for a Woman, plus a full list of video reviews in the Sept. 15 issue.
Notable film and television releases on DVD and Blu-Ray.
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