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...outsider. I still have guys over to watch football on Sunday. I do have a butler. P. Diddy had a butler who carried an umbrella over his head, and I thought, I'd love to have a butler. He waters my tomatoes. He's putting my home movies on DVD...
...just about owning the latest Pixar movie or Star Wars reissue. The DVD format has created a connoisseur class that values taste in title selection, pristine print quality, peerless extras and lavish production. For those collectors, the Chanel of DVD outfits is Criterion, spawned by the pre-eminent '50s art-house distributor Janus Films. From the 350 titles issued thus far in the Criterion Collection, here's a sampling of its classy wares...
...captured French officers (Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin) in a gradually warming debate on the codes of honor and survival. But Renoir the humanist is no sentimentalist, as the film's French title makes clear: La Grande Illusion translates as The Big Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game from the start. There is Renoir's filmed reminiscence of the movie and his own wartime exploits, as well as a fond essay by Von Stroheim on this superb director...
...Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) and now the mercenary and munitions companies getting rich off of U.S. Defense Department contracts. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers will open the same innovative way Greenwald's previous documentaries have screened - in a select few theaters starting September 8th, a DVD release mid-month, and later thousands of grass-roots "house parties" where the documentary video is played for invited friends and neighbors. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner spoke with Greenwald as two of his films - the one he directed, another he produced - appear on the scene...
...People are accepting that this is an activism tool that can help create change. It's not a distribution system that maximizes profit, so it wouldn't work for Hollywood. Think about it: every house party we hold requires just one person to buy a DVD because we're not charging anyone to watch the film at people's homes. Hollywood is not running to embrace a model for social change. I'm not sure anybody's found a way to monetize...