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Video & DVD Reviews

Here are DVD's I use in teaching Sequential Art. Some are gems. Some are flawed gems. Some are very flawed gems. But all of them have something to offer for students of visual story. Consider the MPAA ratings. Fresh has some brutal violence in it. My Life as a Dog has some childhood sexuality in it. I'll write detailed reviews when I can, but my short list of gems (from my subjective POV) includes Paper Moon, Bullets Over Broadway, Koyaanisqatsi, The Verdict, The Elephant Man, My Life as a Dog and Fresh.

Let me know your thoughts and responses — this is a work in progress.

(1999)

Animal Crackers

(1930)

Babe: Pig in the City

(1998)

Back to the Future

(1985)

(1940)

The Bicycle Thief

(1949)

The Big Lebowski

(1998)

Bill Cosby Himself

(1983)

Bullets Over Broadway

(1995)

(1929)

Dogtown & Z-Boys

(2001)

Edward Scissorhands

(1990)

The Elephant Man

(1980)

(1977)

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

(1997)

(1991)

(1994)

(1993)

A History Of Violence

(2005)

(1934)

(1939)

(1956)

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

(1983)

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

(2004)

(1988)

My Dinner With Andre

(1981)

My Life As A Dog

(1987)

(1992)

(1973)

The Purple Rose of Cairo

(1985)

(1954)

Shadows and Fog

(1992)

(1989)

The Storyteller

(1997)

Sullivan’s Travels

(1941)

The Thin Blue Line

(1988)

(1995)

(1959)

(1992)

(1982)

Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

(1988)

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