Welcome to DVDBlu Review. Thank you
kindly for your interest. Let me explain what this very new and
rapidly growing site is about so you can decide if you'd like to
stick around.
And now for a message from your author |
My name is Christopher S. Long and I've
been writing film reviews for over ten years. I'm a member of the
Online Film Critics Society and I've written for Cineaste magazine,
DVDBeaver, and other print and online publications in the past. You
may have seen my reviews posted at Rotten Tomatoes, or maybe you
haven't. The main site I wrote for this past decade, which I am not
inclined to name at the moment, was abruptly pillaged by Vikings and
burned to the ground recently along with all my work. From its ashes
springs DVDBlu Review.
I have two primary goals at this site:
to restore a decade's worth of my writing to the internet, and to
continue coverage of some of the best new DVD and Blu-ray releases. I
have reviewed nearly 500 Criterion titles as well as many great
releases from Milestone Films, Kino Lorber, Zeitgeist, and other top
labels over the past ten years; I will gradually add these older
reviews to the site while also providing weekly coverage of new
releases and other relevant news. The content will definitely skew to
the so-called “arthouse” rather than blockbusters and I aim to be
selective rather than comprehensive. Every now and then I'll slip in
a new theatrical review as the spirit moves me, but the focus here
will be on those shiny discs we love so much.
Having said that, my primary interest
is in the films themselves, not the technical specs of each disc. I
will discuss the video, audio, and extras for each release, but this
is not going to be the site to talk about bit rates or to wage battle
over the righteousness of a 1.78:1 vs. a 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Please don't be intimidated by the
flurry of posts in March 2015. That's just me revving the site from 0
to 60, posting a year's worth of reviews before officially launching
this blog. The pace will slow down from that as I focus more on new
coverage but I will be adding older reviews as well as new features
such as director spotlights, “Best Of” lists, and more.
I hope you like what you see. If you
do, tell twenty of your friends. If you don't, just keep it between
you and me.
My favorite directors are Stanley
Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Robert Bresson, and Jean-Luc Godard. I will
always have a special place in my heart for documentaries and
especially for the films that blur the lines between fiction and
non-fiction. The first time I remember crying at a movie was when
Spock died, and I just cried again when Leonard Nimoy died. Aside
from Spock, Jeanne Dielman is my one true love.
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