"Is it a dream that two of cinema''s holiest of grails, Berlin Alexanderplatz and Killer of Sheep, arrive on Region 1 DVD on the same day? If so, don''t wake me up," bids Ed Gonzalez at Slant, wrapping his comments on Criterion''s handsome package for the project one could say Rainer Werner Fassbinder lived to see through. Further up that same page is Keith Uhlich''s original review, dating back to April, when Berlin Alexanderplatz was screened in New York, following the example set by the Berlinale, as what can only be termed a Butt-numb-a-thon. The series'' 940 minutes were never meant to be gorged on, so we can be all the more glad for this set, which allows us to take it all in as it was presented: episode by episode. C Jerry Kutner, writing in Bright Lights, you''ll remember, has the right idea.
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