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Tag Archives: DVD
DVD Review: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse)
Criterion’s Eclipse line has three general streams: to explore fringe genres, to introduce work by lesser known filmmakers, to present lesser known works by more familiar directors. The latest release, Masaki Kobayashi Against the System, falls into the third category, … Continue reading
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Tagged Criterion, Directors, DVD, Eclipse, Film History, Japanese Film
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Miklos Jancso and the abuses of power
Miklos Jancso is one of the key figures of Hungarian cinema, but my first encounter with his work didn’t go well. In fact, when I saw the first two parts of his unfinished Vitam et Sanguinam trilogy at the 1981 … Continue reading
Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan
There’s far more stuff in the world than any of us can ever have complete first-hand knowledge of, so we often have to rely on second- and third-hand information about things we haven’t yet encountered. This leads to a tendency … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, DVD, Exploitation, Flipside, Horror
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The rise of boutique DVDs: The Flipside
Even with the tens of thousands of movies released on DVD since the format debuted in the late ’90s, vast amounts of film history remain untouched. Of course, home video has always been a commercial enterprise, the preservation and dissemination … Continue reading
Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes
Two years after writing The Wild Bunch (1969), Walon Green teamed up with respected documentary producer David L. Wolper for one of the oddest films ever to win an Academy Award. The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971), although it got the Oscar … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Directors, Documentary, DVD, Literary Adaptation, Thrillers
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Recent Viewing part 2
I’ve been falling behind on my notes about what I’ve been watching, so I won’t be going into a lot of detail here, just making a few observations about some of the movies I saw in the past month. The … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, DVD, Horror, Italian Film, Thrillers
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Recent Viewing part 1
The completist impulse is a key element of the collector’s mentality. For instance, I have forty-nine of Hitchcock’s features on DVD, plus his two Second World War propaganda shorts and season one of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It’s not that I … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, DVD, Franco Prosperi, Horror, Italian Film, Review, Roy Ward Baker
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Nuclear Madness
It’s probably difficult, if not impossible, for someone born in the last 20 or 30 years to understand the psychological atmosphere that prevailed at the height of the Cold War when the two superpowers were locked in a policy appropriately … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Documentary, DVD, nuclear war, Peter Watkins, Propaganda, Review, Stanley Kubrick
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Year End 2011: video
Not surprisingly, given the amount of time I spend watching movies at home, I came across quite a few worthwhile titles during the year. I’ve already written about many of these in this blog, so will just offer capsule comments … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure Films, Directors, Documentary, DVD, Found-footage, French Film, Italian Film, Japanese Film, Silent Film, Western
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Lionel Rogosin: part two
Lionel Rogosin is generally referred to as a documentary filmmaker. He himself rejected the label, saying several times in the documentaries accompanying the three features in the Carlotta DVD set that he saw himself following in the steps of Robert … Continue reading
