Articles by Mark Carpenter

Straight Time

Ulu Grosbard

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

One of the underrated gems of ’70s American cinema, Straight Time (1978) features Dustin Hoffman at his best as Max Dembo, an ex-convict wh...

Jane Eyre

Robert Stevenson

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

Jane Eyre (1944), based on Charlotte Bronte’s novel, pares down the story in classic Hollywood fashion to emphasise the tumultuous romance...

The Ernest Hemingway Film Collection

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2007

The Ernest Hemingway Film Collection is comprised of five Hemingway film adaptations made mostly in the ’50s for Twentieth Century Fox. Box...

The Full Monty: Fully Exposed Edition

Peter Cattaneo

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2007

The Full Monty (released in 1997) famously relates the story of six unemployed working men in hideously depressed Sheffield, England, who,...

George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing

Rocco Urbisci

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2007

This new bare-bones DVD record of a George Carlin special taped in 2005 for HBO finds the comedian in full-on rant mode, covering a wide ra...

Scoop

Woody Allen

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

Woody Allen’s latest movie, Scoop, noticeably failed to live up to the expectations raised by its weightier precursor, Match Point, when it...

A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

A Scanner Darkly was the first of two remarkable film adaptations put out by Richard Linklater (Before Sunset, School of Rock) just this ye...

Fiddler On The Roof

Norman Jewison

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Fiddler On The Roof, the widely beloved 1971 film adaptation of the Broadway musical, is now available as a lavish two-disc collector’s edi...