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Tag Archives: Thrillers
Recent Disks From England
Basil Dearden’s The Bells Go Down, which I wrote about last week, is just one of a number of disks I recently received from England. Maybe it’s a bit of nostalgia, but the past few years I’ve been digging back … Continue reading
Sean Garrity and Bill Fugler’s Blood Pressure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16oTd3MlTE”
There’s always a slight strangeness to watching a film made by people you know. It’s never an entirely objective experience, but there’s always a real sense of relief when you like the movie. Last week, I caught one of the … Continue reading
More Recent Viewing
Someone recently posted a comment on one of my reviews for Blogcritics, calling me stupid for not “getting” a movie he’d obviously been obsessing over for a long time. Sometimes, of course, one doesn’t completely understand a movie the first … Continue reading
Michael Winner 1935-2013
Michael Winner, who died on Monday, didn’t get a lot of respect as a filmmaker. Best known for his Death Wish movies and other violent thrillers starring Charles Bronson, he seemed like a crass commercial opportunist. The Death Wish films, … Continue reading
Book Review: House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse
Kier-la Janisse has had a varied and colourful career as a film and music programmer in various places, including Vancouver, Austin TX, Winnipeg and Montreal; she initiated and ran a festival of horror and fantasy films in Vancouver called CineMuerte … Continue reading
Summer Viewing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ud3pK5Wa90″
I’m not sure what I should blame it on – the enervating effects of a long hot summer, the stresses of finishing my documentary, financial worries, early onset dementia – but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to drag myself out … Continue reading
More in-flight entertainment
Flying to England a few weeks ago for my nephew’s wedding, my experience of airline entertainment was even less satisfying than on my trip to Beijing last year. As before, the wide selection of movie choices was undeniably eclectic – … 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
I went to see the new Studio Ghibli release a couple of weeks ago. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) is based on the Borrowers books by Mary Norton, mostly written in the ’50s. These stories of little people who … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Directors, Fantasy, Franco Prosperi, Fred Zinnemann, French Film, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Hayao Miyazaki, Horror, Jean Rollin, Mondo Film, Thrillers
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