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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...