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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Why blog?
When I started writing this blog last year, I did it on the advice of the friend who had helped me set up my website. The primary purpose of the website was essentially to provide an on-line resume of my … Continue reading
DVD of the week: Messiah of Evil (1973)
Messiah of Evil (1973) is one of those movies I’d vaguely heard about over the years, but never had an opportunity to see until the recent DVD release from Code Red. In fact, it seemed that I’d only heard about … Continue reading
Raro Video and Italian genre cinema
In the short history of DVD, many companies have come and gone. The major distributors are still around, of course, and public domain companies like Mill Creek seem to be surviving despite the generally poor quality of their output. But … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged Action, Actors, Directors, Italian Film, Thrillers, Violence
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Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (1912-1993), who was born in the United States but grew up in Scotland from the age of five, made only nine features between 1949 and 1969, when he took up a teaching position at the California Institute of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Actors, Adventure Films, British Film, Burt Lancaster, Children, Comedy, Directors, DVD, Ealing, Tony Curtis
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