Insider of the Month | Ramesh Raskar
A prominent M.I.T. technologist behind a new camera imaging system capable of a trillion frames per second takes a long, hard look at the J.J. Abrams – Steven Spielberg retro thriller Super 8.
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Insider of the Month | Yolanda Crous
A Brides editor (and frequent maid of honor) on why the female-driven hit comedy Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, is equal parts hilarious and heartfelt.
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Insider of the Month | Fernando Mateo
The outspoken head of New York’s
largest taxi union goes on the meter for the 35th anniversary Blu-ray edition of Taxi Driver, with Robert De Niro.
Insider of the Month | Josh Bivens
What an economist thinks of the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, which deconstructs the global financial crisis of 2008.
REVIEWS
New on Blu-ray & DVD
Boardwalk Empire, Season One of HBO’s hit series set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, from creator Terence Winter.
Moneyball, a buddy drama with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, set in the world of baseball.
Contagion, director Steven Soderbergh’s thriller about a killer virus.
Interviews
Janusz Kaminski Q&A
An interview with Polish-born cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who just picked up his fourth Oscar nomination for War Horse. (He’s already a two-time winner: Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan.) Spielberg’s closest collaborator talks about “seeing characters through light,” his favorite movie theaters, and why actors weren’t necessarily better when films were in black and white.
NEWS
Coming Soon
Heavy-metal-weight boxing and the golden anniversary of a classic courtroom drama in the Jim Crow South. Those and more Blu-rays and DVDs we look forward to catching in the weeks ahead.
Recommended
Rewind of the Month
Another look at Ernst Lubitsch’s Design for Living. The pre-Code comedy, adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward, stars Gary Cooper, Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins as a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentlemen’s agreement.”
Recent Articles
MDi Exclusive
Rise of the Planet of the Apes storyboard artist Warren Drummond uses his original sketches to break down a pivotal sequence in which a super-smart chimpanzee named Caesar realizes his survival inside a shoddy primate sanctuary will hinge on his intellectual merits.
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Conversations | Rick McCallum
Producer Rick McCallum takes us behind the scenes on his Tuskegee Airmen action-biopic Red Tails. Plus, how he sniffs out directors and what’s holding up the Star Wars live-action TV series.
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Feature
Who is crazier
Black Swan or
Taxi Diver?
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