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Monthly Archives: April 2012
DVD review: The Scarlet Worm (2011)
In the American southwest of 1909, an enforcer named Print (Aaron Stielstra) who works for a rancher named Mr. Paul (Montgomery Ford) justifies his work by transforming each killing into a kind of artistic statement. He likes to lecture his … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: The War Room (1993)
D. A. Pennebaker was one of the founders of direct cinema, working with people like Richard Leacock and the Maysles brothers, Albert and David, to free documentary from the limitations of the voice-of-god narrator and didactic purpose. Their idea was … Continue reading
Cursed by Warner Brothers:
The Strange Fate of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)
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After decades of neglect (at best) or even active suppression, the release of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) on DVD should be cause for celebration, particularly as it arrives in a 2-disk special edition from the prestigious British Film Institute. … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, British Film, Censorship, Directors, Historical Film, Ken Russell, Oliver Reed, Violence
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Titanic: a personal footnote
As I was about to write my review of A Night to Remember, I visited my mother and dug through boxes and albums of old photographs looking for one in particular that I remembered from my childhood. This was of … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: A Night to Remember (1958)
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To mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, just as James Cameron releases a 3D version of his 1997 moneymaking behemoth, Criterion has brought out a new edition of Roy Ward Baker’s A Night to Remember (1958), still … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, Documentary, Review, Roy Ward Baker, Titanic
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Otto Preminger and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is the quintessential courtroom drama. Looked at now (in an excellent Blu-ray edition from Criterion) as a perfect expression of its genre, it may even seem formulaic in light of everything that’s been … Continue reading
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Tagged American film, Ben Gazzara, courtroom drama, George C. Scott, James Stewart, Lee Remick, Otto Preminger, paranoia, Review
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March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle
As usual I seem to be out of sync with the current pop culture climate – of the most recent movies I’ve gone out to see, I enjoyed a colossal box office bomb, had serious reservations about the year’s biggest … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Found-footage, Review, Satire, Science Fiction, Violence
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