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29 Aug Blu-ray diary: the BFI’s tasty answer to Criterion’s Rossellini/Bergman box

Posted at 11:49h in Blu-ray & DVD, Review by James Covey 1 Comment
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For the 100th anniversary of Ingrid Bergman's birth—my 100th blog post. Thanks to all my readers and for all the positive feedback I've received in the past three years. I just re-upped with my hosting service so I guess you're in for another year of...

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Rome Open City

26 Apr Blu-ray diary: Roberto Rossellini—The War Trilogy (BFI limited-edition Blu-ray box set)

Posted at 01:00h in Blu-ray & DVD by James Covey 2 Comments
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Film disc collectors often talk guiltily, or regretfully, or occasionally scornfully, about "double-dipping"—buying a new Blu-ray edition of a film previously purchased on DVD or on an inferior Blu-ray. But if there was ever a case for it (as well as for owning a multi-region player),...

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Anna Magnani in Rome Open City

14 Dec DVD diary: Rossellini’s War Trilogy—completing the cycle

Posted at 18:22h in Blu-ray & DVD by james 1 Comment
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My fall 2013 encounter with Rossellini has transpired in a strange order...

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Vittorio De Sica in Il Generale Della Rovere

09 Dec Blu-ray diary: Il Generale Della Rovere

Posted at 21:52h in Blu-ray & DVD by james 0 Comments
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In case it wasn't obvious from my last post, I seem to have a new addiction and it's the films of Roberto Rossellini.  At the moment the more formalist auteurs seem like weaksauce to me compared to the way that Rossellini challenges and reconsiders formal...

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Ingrid Bergman

23 Nov Blu-ray diary: Criterion’s Rossellini+Bergman package might be the best box set of 2013

Posted at 21:45h in Blu-ray & DVD by james 2 Comments
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A ball started rolling for me when I saw that restored print of Rome, Open City at TIFF in September. It was the first Rossellini film that I'd ever seen and I found it simply devastating —a much more harrowing, yet illuminating, emotional experience than...

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