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The New York Times, 1 J. Hoberman wrote a short review of a newly released Blu-ray version of Gaslight that features both George Cukor’s 1944 film and Thorwold Dickinson’s 1940 version.  The piece is titled “ Gaslight Hasn’t Lost Its Glow.”  Upon reading the piece, the title of the review becomes somewhat curious.  While acknowledging that Ingrid Bergman is ‘a great actress’, Hoberman goes on to dismiss the Cukor film as a vehicle for her talents.  In contrast, he asserts that “…the Dickinson film is superior to the Hollywood version in nearly every way: more ecomonical...

▶︎ Phantom Thread is widely available on digital platforms, 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD. The ‘phantom thread’ in the title of Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth feature refers to a term that seamstresses working in the East End of Victorian London used to describe the sensation they felt after emerging from long, repetitive hours in the workshop. After returning home exhausted, the women would find their hands moving involuntarily, their fingers clasped as though sewing invisible, ‘phantom’ threads. It’s a title that offers hints of the gothic undercurrents that drive Anderson’s f...