100 MILES FOR MILES DAVIS, an original tribute by @jasonmilesmusic to his friend and companion #MilesDavis in celebration of Davis' upcoming 100th birthday later this month is out now and already getting raves, including this "CHOC" (outstanding new album) review in @jazz.mag
Directed by Ray McKinnon and co-starring @waltongogginsbonafide in his first feature film leading role, the “enlightened and inspired” (The Hollywood Reporter) RANDY AND THE MOB has been newly restored from the original film materials and is now available for the first time ever on Digital & Blu-ray!
MOVIE REVIEW
Elvis Presley - Elvis '56 (Remastered Collector's Edition)
NR - 4 out of 5 stars
Genre: Documentary, Music
Year Released: 1987, Lightyear Entertainment Blu-ray 2026
Runtime: 58m
Director(s): Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
Where to Watch: available now, order your copy here: mvdshop.com or https://amzn.to/4bw5NZ5
RAVING REVIEW: ELVIS ’56 operates on a different level than you’re expecting for a documentary of the legend himself. Instead of attempting to summarize Elvis Presley's entire life, the documentary isolates a single year and examines it in great detail. That year, 1956, is arguably the most important twelve-month stretch in the history of modern pop music. By the end of it, a young singer from Memphis had transformed from a regional curiosity into the most recognizable figure in entertainment (and the world).
The documentary presents that transformation chronologically, allowing the audience to watch the phenomenon unfold in real time. At the beginning of the year, Elvis is still something of an unknown quantity outside the South. By the end of it, he is appearing on national television, igniting controversy across the country, and reshaping the sound and attitude of youth culture almost overnight.
Directors Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond assemble the story almost entirely through archival material. The film relies on television performances, photographs, interviews, and historical recordings to reconstruct the whirlwind year that launched Elvis into global superstardom. Rather than framing the story through modern commentary, the documentary allows the era itself to speak through its surviving footage.
Watching Elvis perform during these early television appearances reveals why his impact felt so immediate and disruptive. His performances radiate a raw energy that contrasts sharply with the polished entertainers around him. In an era when mainstream television favored perfection in presentation and a conservative movement, Elvis appeared unpredictable.
The film captures several of the year's most famous moments...
My full review on my Letterboxd and www.OHMR.us
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MOVIE REVIEW
Heaven
PG-13 - 4.5 out of 5 stars
Genre: Documentary
Year Released: 1987, Lightyear Entertainment Blu-ray restoration 2026
Runtime: 1h 20m
Director(s): Diane Keaton
Where to Watch: available on Blu-ray, digital platforms, and VOD now. Order your copy here: https://amzn.to/4qnIK6U
RAVING REVIEW: What do people actually mean when they say they believe in heaven, and why does the answer matter so much to them? HEAVEN doesn’t promote or disprove belief; nor does it advocate for curiosity as a virtue. It merely provides a space and then backs away. This is what makes Diane Keaton's directorial debut feel so revolutionary, even to this day. HEAVEN has been around since 1987 and was recently restored. The film plays less like a product of its time and more like one that arrived ahead of its time, waiting for its audience to catch up.
The premise is simple. Keaton interviews a wide variety of people concerning what they believe occurs after death. Keaton asks direct, almost innocent questions. What does heaven look like? How do you get to heaven? What does god look like? While the film isn’t innovative in posing these questions, it’s powerful because of the serious manner in which they are asked and the serious treatment given to the responses, regardless of whether they are unusual, humorous, or disturbing.
Keaton never appears on camera. The decision not to is so important. Keaton removes herself, thus refusing to make the film appear to be a personal essay or a performative inquiry. The viewer is instead made the surrogate interrogator. You aren’t viewing Diane Keaton's response. You are responding with her. The removal of her commentary also encourages viewers to engage with the material rather than being guided through the film. This is one of the most vital structural choices Keaton made when creating the film.
In terms of its form, HEAVEN is presented as a collage. The interviews are conducted in carefully designed, frequently surreal settings...
My full review on my Letterboxd and www.OHMR.us
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Praised as “endlessly engaging, one-of-a-kind” (The Wall Street Journal), Academy Award-winning icon Diane Keaton’s offbeat documentary HEAVEN explores life after death through a fascinating mix of interviews, film clips, and spiritual perspectives.
Long revered for her singular voice both in front of and behind the camera, Keaton’s directorial debut remains a strikingly original cinematic curiosity.
Recently remastered in HD for the first time, this limited edition Blu-ray also features remastered sound, bringing the film’s inventive visuals and design to life like never before.
📀 Releasing February 17th from Lightyear Entertainment
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Pre-order at MVD Shop, OLDIES.com, Amazon, or your favorite nationwide retailer.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27! 7th House is proud to present the WORLD PREMIERE of the new 4K restoration of a singular curiosity of late-’80s cinema: ARIA (1987)! JEAN-LUC GODARD, ROBERT ALTMAN, NICOLAS ROEG, DEREK JARMAN, JULIEN TEMPLE, KEN RUSSELL and more joined forces to create this audacious, eclectic anthology, as these visionary directors to interpret selections of the world’s greatest operatic arias as pure cinema, each bringing their unique visual language to music that has echoed across centuries.
Conceived by producer Don Boyd and built on the idea that opera’s emotional intensity could be liberated from the stage and translated into image, gesture, and dream, the film unfolds as a sequence of short works set to some of the most beloved and dramatic pieces in the operatic canon. Sensual, provocative, thought-provoking, and often darkly funny, it pairs each aria with a distinct cinematic sensibility, resulting in a dazzling patchwork of styles that range from lush romanticism to biting satire, surreal reverie to pop-art spectacle.
Rather than presenting opera as heritage or museum piece, ARIA revels in its capacity for excess, sensuality, humor, and emotional extremity. At once irreverent and reverent, extravagant and experimental, ARIA is less a conventional narrative film than a cinematic concert hall of the imagination—a space where image and music collide in a spirit of bold invention.
Decadent, eccentric, and wholly unique, ARIA remains an underseen artifact of 1980s international art cinema: a lavish, mischievous celebration of the operatic form and the boundless possibilities of film as a medium for visualizing sound. Now ripe for rediscovery with a gorgeous new 4K restoration, join us as we dim the lights and let these ten imaginings unfold—ten arias, ten worlds, one unforgettable cinematic spectacle.
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Diane Keaton’s HEAVEN screens remastered in High Definition this Sunday (6:15pm) & Monday (4:00pm) at The Brattle in Cambridge as part of their Cinematic Tribute series - Get tickets at: brattlefilm.org/movies/heaven
