Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 842 1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 120 min. Some of the imagery has input from the famed Ishiro Honda. If anybody’s dreams are interesting, Akira Kurosawa’s should be, and this late career fantasy is a consistently rewarding string of morality tales and visual essays that pop off the screen.
Written by Frank Miller, Walon Green from characters created by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner Produced by Jon Davison Directed by Irvin Kershner I wish I could say that 1990’s RoboCop 2 has been. Cinematography: Mark Irwin Production Design: Peter Jamison Original Music: Leonard Rosenman Special Effects: Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, Peter Kuran, Rocco Gioffre. Collector’s Edition / Street Date Ma/ 34.93 Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert DoQui, Tom Noonan, Gabriel Damon, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry. RoboCop 2 Blu-ray Shout! Factory / Scream Factory 1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 117 min.
Druglord Caine is a menace, but we’re just as appalled by the film’s vivid depiction of a greater terror: Predatory Privatization. Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition brings out the amazing backstory of the production of this stop-motion- intensive first sequel to RoboCop. It’s ugly, it’s violent, it’s graphic novelist Frank Miller’s nasty vision through and through.