Criterion Collection Blu-rays and DVDs benefit from a curatorial approach to packaging, pairing superior bonus materials with discs cut from the best available prints. It's the movie lover's label.
A Civil Action legislates onto single-layered DVD with a widescreen letterbox picture format (1.85:1) and
the following audio options: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), with closed captioning also included. Special features include a making of ...
The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including
Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the screen by playwright Harold Pinter, and which features ...
Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice
John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy ...
Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring
Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leaves her boyfriend, Joe Wilson (Tracy), behind in their Midwestern hometown when she takes a job in another ...
A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the other woman in this rather obvious divorce
court drama from Warner Bros. George Brent stars as William Reynolds, a hardworking but markedly unmotivated office manager whose wife, Nan (Ann Dvorak), manages to ...
Jim Sheridan's Irish drama In the Name of the Father comes to DVD with a
widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. Spanish subtitles are ...
As a companion to Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, French New Wave filmmaker
Jacques Rivette directed the five-hour historical epic Jeanne la Pucelle (Joan the Maid), reduced to less than four hours for its U.S. release. Both parts ...
The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law
School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from ...
