John Huston's Last Film, The Dead, On DVD!

Out on DVD is John Huston's final film, The Dead (Lionsgate). Based on a James Joyce story, this elegant 1987 masterwork is set on a snowy night in 1904 Dublin at a dinner party that stirs the embers of memories and regret. With a fine screenplay by Tony Huston, exquisite camerawork by Fred Murphy, the film is elegiac as it is incredibly moving. And the cast is peerless -- Dan O'Herlihy, Helena Carroll, Donal Donnelly and Anjelica Huston are all extraordinary. There is a moment when Anjelica Huston stops on the staircase while a man is singing upstairs and seems caught in a trance, which she later reveals to be the memory of a young boy who died for her, and it is just mesmerizing.