Selected Essays, Interviews and Criticism by
ALEXANDRA DuPONT
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REVIEWS for THE DVD JOURNAL
[alphabetical by film title]
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[alphabetical by film title]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
Big Trouble in Little China: Special Edition
Cleopatra: Five Star Collection
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Collector's Edition
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard: Five Star Collection
Do the Right Thing: The Criterion Collection
Frank Herbert's Dune: The Director's Cut (2000)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Collector's Edition
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Special Widescreen Edition
Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Collector's Editions
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring -- pithy quotes contributed to a review by Dawn Taylor.
Meet the Parents: Collector's Edition
The Mummy (1999): Ultimate Edition
The Office: The Complete First Series
Planet of the Apes: The Evolution -- overview of the complete 1968-73 film series.
Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series
Jackie Chan's Project A 2
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Spartacus: The Criterion Collection
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace -- advance review of the original theatrical release; among the first on the Internet, and certainly among the meanest.
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace -- DVD review.
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
The Star Wars Trilogy (box set of Episodes IV-VI)
The Terminator: Special Edition
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser
THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut
The Usual Suspects: Special Edition
X-Men 1.5 -- brief critical interjection in a longer essay by Damon Houx.
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'Bone' writer/artist Jeff Smith: [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ]
Bone #52 and Giant THB 1.v.2 [last item in group column]
Bone #53 and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2 hardcover [scroll way, way down the column]
'Chicken Run' and 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
'E.T.' 20th Anniversary Special Edition
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
'Kill Bill' and 'Bubba Ho-Tep'
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Pearl Harbor -- which the author dared to enjoy on its stupid-war-movie merits.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
'Snatch' and 'A Hard Day's Night'
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
'Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith' and 'Serenity'
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
[alphabetical by film title]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (DVD review)
Big Trouble in Little China (DVD review)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (DVD review)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (DVD review)
Do the Right Thing: The Criterion Collection (DVD review)
'Dune' Sci-Fi Channel miniseries (DVD review)
Jurassic Park and The Lost World (DVD reviews)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (DVD review)
Planet of the Apes: The Evolution -- overview of the complete 1968-73 film series on DVD.
Planet of the Apes TV series (DVD review)
Spartacus: Criterion Collection (DVD review)
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (DVD review)
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (DVD review)
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (DVD review)
The Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV-VI)
THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut
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Interview w/ 'Bruno' cartoonist C. Baldwin
Criticism of criticism: Book review of Gary Indiana's review of 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom' [second item]
Book review of Jon Lewis''Hollywood v. Hard Core' [second item]
Book Review: 'The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes'
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Reader Poll Results: Best
Movies EVER!
An appraisal of 10 "favorite" movies -- as determined by a poll of In Focus magazine readers in 2003. (Traveler's advisory: The online layout differs significantly from the layout of the print-magazine piece. The authoršs considerable footnotes -- originally crafted for the bottom of each page -- have, for the Web site, been inserted between brackets [and between sentences] in the main body of the essay. You have been warned.)