Email Author Joshua Land

2006 Stories by Joshua Land

• Rack Focus

  published February 14, 2006

  Afro Promo: Black Cinema Trailers 1946–76 (Other Cinema) This eye-opening disc from the always adventurous Other... More >>

• Hot Air: All-Dude Desert Psychotherapy Dry and Dull

  published February 7, 2006

  Desperate to finally feel something, Fight Club's insomniac hero begins semi-randomly attending support groups in search of... More >>

• Rack Focus

  published February 7, 2006

  The Cary Grant Box Set (Sony) Arriving just in time for Valentine's Day, this handsomely packaged box set pays tribute... More >>

• Rack Focus

  published January 24, 2006

  The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder: Punk and New Wave (Shout! Factory) From October 1973 through the beginning of 1982,... More >>

• Rack Focus

  published January 17, 2006

  Amos Gitai: Territories (Facets) The most internationally famous of Israeli filmmakers, Amos Gitai is best known abroad... More >>

• Rack Focus

  published January 10, 2006

  The Bad Sleep Well (Criterion) A young man seeks to expose his father's killer in Akira Kurosawa's Hamlet-like... More >>

• New Doc Examines Van Peebles's Essential Cool

  published January 10, 2006

  Far from fading quietly into the lifetime-achievement mists, Melvin Van Peebles has lately come to be recognized as the very essence of cool.... More >>

• Bearing the Unbearable: Israeli and Palestinian Films About the Conflict

  published January 3, 2006

  "Try to make me look good," grins one Israeli soldier midway through Checkpoint. "Blame it on the higher ranks, not me." Shot at various... More >>

• Rack Focus

  published January 3, 2006

  The Chumscrubber (DreamWorks) This inept American Beauty redux nearly succeeds in making the specious Sam Mendes... More >>