New Yorker: DVD of the Week

Summary: A look at video releases, with commentary by Richard Brody: Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" (1958); Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" (1975); Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face" (1960); Jared Hess's "Nacho Libre" (2006); Howard Hawks's "Monkey Business" (1952); "The Lenny Bruce Performance Film" (1965); Mark Robson's "Phffft!" (1954); Roger Vadim's "...And God Created Woman" (1956); Abderrahmane Sissako's "Bamako" (2006); Otto Preminger's "Daisy Kenyon" (1947); Albert and David Maysles's "Salesman" (1968); Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "L'Enfant" (2005); Douglas Sirk's "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" (1951); Lou Ye's "Summer Palace" (2006); Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" (1957); Eric Rohmer's "Chloe in the Afternoon" (1972); Anthony Mann's "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954); Jared Hess's "Napoleon Dynamite" (2004); "War of the Colossal Beast" (1958); Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Gertrud" (1964); Edmund Goulding's "Nightmare Alley" (1947); Joe Swanberg's "Hannah Takes the Stairs" (2007).