DVD Verdict reviews: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: RIVERS AND TIDES, and more!

Today, DVD Verdict posted reviews of AFTER STONEWALL, ANDY GOLDSWORTHY:
RIVERS AND TIDES, THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR, DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I
LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB: 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
EDITION, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, GUNGA DIN, THE ROGER DONALDSON COLLECTION,
and YOUTH OF THE BEAST: CRITERION COLLECTION:


AFTER STONEWALL (reviewed by Brett Cullum, overall score 90/100):
"It's education about a community that is often misunderstood even by
its own members. It should be mandatory viewing for people seeking
history in its purest form. Stories of importance told by people who
were there, and saw all of it happen and felt the effects. In that it
succeeds marvelously well."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/afterstonewall.php

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: RIVERS AND TIDES (reviewed by Bill Gibron, overall
score 95/100):
"For this amazing sculptor/photographer, art is time plus nature
accented with patience. It is combining the proper organic elements
together so that they appear to be a direct response to the passage of
eons, the rise and fall of the season and tides. It's manipulation of
what already exists in the terrain, the taking of the untreated beauty
of the world around him and forming it into shapes both suggestive and
completely foreign to their surroundings."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/goldsworthyrivers.php

THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR (reviewed by Dennis Prince, overall score 91/100):
"Williams, therefore, reserves a front-row seat for each of us, allowing
us to coldly witness the self-destruction of this affected couple, to
see the depths to which they sink, to see their wanton manipulation of
innocent bystanders in a sad and emotionally sadistic game of revenge.
By its practically apathetic perspective, we viewers are kept at arm's
length of the despair on display, wanting to somehow help yet unable to
offer any assistance to the characters mired in their individual and
collective turmoil. It's a frustrating situation from the viewer's
standpoint, and that's clearly Williams' intent."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/doorinfloor.php

DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB:
40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION (reviewed by David Ryan, overall
score 95/100):
"Without that Cold War touchstone, Dr. Strangelove goes from being a
biting, absurd satire to just a plain old funny movie. The film is still
well made and well acted, but a lot of the point has been lost."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/strangelove40th.php

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (reviewed by David Johnson, overall score 90/100):
"Movies like Friday Night Lights give me hope for the tired genre of
sports films. Apart from Miracle, I can't recall many recent, noteworthy
entries into the sports film canon. But Friday Night Lights is nothing
like Miracle -- or for that matter, any other of the Hollywood sports
movies you may be used to."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/fridaynightlights.php

GUNGA DIN (reviewed by Diane Wild, overall score 89/100):
"Gunga Din is the rollickingest of rollicking adventures, and the
precursor to modern classics like the Indiana Jones trilogy."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/gungadin.php

THE ROGER DONALDSON COLLECTION (reviewed by David Johnson, overall
score 87/100):
"From top to bottom, Anchor Bay is commended for putting together a fine
double-shot of R-to-the-D. Its Kiwi-licious."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/donaldsoncoll.php

YOUTH OF THE BEAST: CRITERION COLLECTION (reviewed by Adam Arseneau,
overall score 91/100):
"Youth Of The Beast was the film that put Suzuki on the long downward
spiral toward creative freedom and escapism from the banality of a never-
ending stream of dull yakuza B-movies. We see the early developing of
his trademark expressionist use of colors, daring script re-writes, and
kinetic editing, the cumulative effect of which got him fired and
blacklisted by the Japanese studio system for making 'incomprehensible'
films...all things that made him infamous as a cult legend in avant-
garde cinema."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/youthbeast.php

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