Critic’s Choice: New DVDs

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 Critic’s Choice: New DVDs
For all of its implication in its historical moment, “The Thief of Bagdad” plays like a timeless fantasy and a new version of “Come Drink With Me” is highly satisfying visually. > [link]

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Come Drink With Me.
Published 5/27/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... "turned the genre away from the supernatural vagaries and clanging swordplay that had dominated it and moved the action into the relatively realistic, hand-to-hand combat and clean, well-defined spaces of the contemporary kung fu movie," writes Dave Kehr in the New York Times. ...

Criterion's Thief of Bagdad.
Published 5/27/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... - like a timeless fantasy, a pure and naïve expression of, as Sabu puts it in his famous curtain line, the search for 'some fun and adventure, at last!'" writes Dave Kehr in the New York Times. ...

DVD Spotlight: Thief of Bagdad
Published 5/27/2008 by underdog at GreenCine
... - like a timeless fantasy, a pure and naïve expression of, as Sabu puts it in his famous curtain line, the search for 'some fun and adventure, at last!'" writes Dave Kehr in the New York Times. ...

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