A Hollywood kid, Brooks’ life and career cover an astonishing span of show ... “Lost in America” in 1985, “Defending Your Life” in 1991 and “Mother” in 1996 — that were snapshots ...

The best film by America’s greatest comic filmmaker arrives on Blu-ray this week in the form of Criterion’s release of Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life. Some Brooks partisans might argue on behalf ...

Filmmaker and comedian Albert Brooks’ profoundly amusing look at the afterlife debuts on the Blu-ray format with a resurrected high definition visual presentation in Defending Your Life ...

About two-thirds of the way through Albert Brooks‘ dramedy “Defending Your Life,” both Brooks’ own character Daniel (the multi-hyphenate also wrote and starred in the film) and the ...

Purgatory is depicted in Brooks' 1991 classic, "Defending Your ... life? Who hasn't written an email or two that couldn't be made to sound sinister in a courtroom or on a tabloid cover?

After that came “Modern Romance” and “Lost in America” in the early-to-mid ’80s, and “Defending Your Life” in 1991. The Brooks-Reiner banter is so understated and natural as to ...

By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic It’s strangely appropriate that Rob Reiner’s new documentary, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, is getting its film festival rollout at a moment when ...