Movie Index

Movies and the posts that refer to them.

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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

10 Rillington Place (1971)
  Two More from Twilight Time

10 to Midnight (1983)
  Twilight Time round-up

100 Monsters (1968)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

10th Victim, The (1965)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 2
  Shameless exploitation

11.22.63 (2016)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

12 Monkeys (1995)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part one

13 Frightened Girls (1963)
  Boxed In

13 Ghosts (1960)
  William Castle's horrors from Indicator

13 Hours (2016)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

18 Bronzemen (1976)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

1974: La posesión de Altair (2016)
  Cauldron Films, round three

1984 (1984)
  Michael Radford's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 (1984)

2 Guns (2013)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
  Wrapping up 2022

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  Stanley Kubrick 5A: Science Fiction – 2001: A Space Odyssey
  Back to the future: 2001 revisited

21 Up (1977)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

28 Up (1984)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

35 Up (1991)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

36 Deadly Styles, The (1980)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

39 Stripes (1979)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

42 Up (1998)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

45 Years (2015)
  Andrew Haigh's 45 Years (2015): Criterion Blu-ray review

49 Up (2005)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

4D Man (1959)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

5 Against the House (1955)
  Indicator in a box

5 Card Stud (1968)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

5 Women for the Killer (1974)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The (1953)
  Dr. Seuss' Nightmare: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

52 Pick-Up (1986)
  Recent viewing: April & May 2016

56 Up (2012)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

63 Up (2019)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

7 Grandmasters, The (1977)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

7 Plus Seven (1970)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

7 Up (1964)
  Michael Apted's documentary legacy

711 Ocean Drive (1950)
  Indicator's Columbia Noir #2

7th Voyage of Sinbad, The (1958)
  Recent disks from England, part one

80,000 Suspects (1963)
  Blu-rays from Network

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Abandoned (1949)
  Universal Noir #1 from Indicator

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
  Brief comments, part two

ABCs of Death 2, The (2014)
  Fall viewing, part two

ABCs of Death, The (2013)
  Fall viewing, part two

ABCs of Love and Sex, The (1978)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Abominable (2005/2018)
  B-horror nostalgia: Ryan Schifrin's Abominable (2005/2018)

Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971)
  Styles of Horror, part two

Abrakadabra (2019)
  New disk label Cauldron gets impressive launch

Absurd (1981)
  Post-Op, week four

Abwärts (1984)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Acción Mutante (1993)
  Recent Severin viewing

Act of Killing, The (2012)
  Face To Face With Evil: The Act of Killing (2012)

Act of Murder, An (1948)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Action U.S.A. (1988)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Ad Astra (2019)
  Smart Sci-Fi

Adalen 31 (1969)
  Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema from Criterion

Addiction, The (1995)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Addio Zio Tom (1971)
  Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011)

Adios, Sabata (1970)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Adjustment Bureau, The (2011)
  Year End 2011

Adventure in Space and Time, An (2013)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part two

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, The (1984)
  Five Shades of B

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (1939)
  DVD diary: September - part one

Adventures of Stella Starr of the Galaxy Rangers in the 23rd Century, Chapter 7: Falling Starr!, The (1994)
  Can it really be that long ago?

Aenigma (1987)
  Euro Horror

Affair in Trinidad (1952)
  Indicator's Columbia Noir #2

Africa, Addio (1966)
  Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011)

After Earth (2013)
  Genre Viewing: Science Fiction

After Midnight (2019)
  Spooky

After the Curfew (1954)
  World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review

Aftermath, The (1980)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Against the Grain (2023)
  Lost films and alternative histories

Ahi va el diablo (2012)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

Akenfield (1974)
  New releases from the BFI, 2016: Part 2

Al morir la matinée (2021)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Aldrich Over Munich (2012)
  More Recent Viewing

Alex Wheatle (2020)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Alice (1988)
  Recent viewing - video

Alice in den Städten (1974)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (1974-76)

Alice in the Cities (1974)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (1974-76)

Alien Private Eye (1989)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Alien: Covenant (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Alien: Romulus (2024)
  Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus is a fine franchise reboot

All About Eve (1950)
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950): Criterion Blu-ray review

All Neat In Black Stockings (1968)
  Two more British Films from Network

All That Jazz (1979)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

All That Money Can Buy (1941)
  William Dieterle's All That Money Can Buy (1941): Criterion Blu-ray review

All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
  Giallothon!

All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
  Giallothon!

All the Devil's Men (2018)
  Random viewing, short takes

All the Money in the World (2017)
  Brief comments, part two

All White in Barking (2007)
  DVD of the Week: All White in Barking/Men of the City

All-American Murder (1991)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Alley Cat (1984)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Alligator People, The (1959)
  The Alligator People: Tragedy in the Key of B

Almost a Movie! (1979)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Almost Human (1974)
  Italian cops and killers

Along with Ghosts (1969)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Alpha Incident, The (1978)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Alpha Papa (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

Alphabet City (1984)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

Alphaville (1965)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 1
  Another eclectic week

Altered States (1980)
  The good and the bad of Warner Brothers

Alucarda (1973)
  Wrapping up 2022

Amazing Transparent Man, The (1960)
  The low-budget art of Edgar G. Ulmer

Ambulance (2022)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Ambulance, The (1990)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

American Buffalo (1996)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

American Experience: War of the Worlds (2013)
  October 30, 1938: When Welles Unleashed Wells

American Hippie in Israel, An (1972)
  When "bad" can be good ...

American Hustle (2013)
  Year End 2013

American Mary (2012)
  Horrors, Old and New

American Rickshaw (1989)
  New disk label Cauldron gets impressive launch

American Sniper (2014)
  The disappearance of real-world disk retail

American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part one

American, The (2010)
  Recent Viewing part 2

Amsterdamned (1988)
  Euro Horror

Amusement Park, The (1975)
  George A. Romero's The Amusement Park (1975)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  Otto Preminger and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

And God Said to Cain (1970)
  Recent Arrow box sets

And Life Goes On (1992)
  Abbas Kiarostami's The Koker Trilogy (1987-94): Criterion Blu-ray review

And Now the Screaming Starts (1973)
  Post-Op, week four

And Soon the Darkness (1970)
  A Kino Lorber miscellany

Anderson Tapes, The (1971)
  Race, class and crime in New York

Andrei Rublev (1966)
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966):Criterion Blu-ray review

Andromeda Strain, The (1971)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974)
  Paul Morrissey's Gothic horrors

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973)
  Paul Morrissey's Gothic horrors

Angel (1982)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Angel (1983)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Angel for Satan, An (1966)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969)
  Who are we to laugh at the past?

Angst (1983)
  Random notes: two films and a book

Aniara (2018)
  Smart Sci-Fi

Animal Farm (1954)
  The pleasures of hand-made animation

Animal Love (1996)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part three

Annabelle (2014)
  Brief comments, part one

Annabelle: Creation (2017)
  Brief comments, part one

Annihilation (2018)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Annihilators, The (1985)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Anomalisa (2015)
  Sex in Movies: narrative interruptus

Another Body (2023)
  Sophie Compton & Reuben Hamlyn's Another Body (2023): deep-fake porn and stolen identity

Anthropophagous (1980)
  Post-Op, week four

Antiviral (2012)
  Horrors, Old and New

Antlers (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Apaches (1977)
  Vampire Circus footnote

Aparajito (1956)
  Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy: Criterion Blu-ray review

Apollo 13 (1995)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Appelez-moi Madame (1987)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

Appointment in Honduras (1953)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Appointment in London (1953)
  A week of DVDs

Appointment, The (1981)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Appropriate Adult (2011)
  DVD Review: Appropriate Adult (2011)

Apur Sansar (1959)
  Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy: Criterion Blu-ray review

Arabella: Black Angel (1989)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Arabian Nights, The (1974)
  Boxed In

Archer (2009-)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Are You in the House Alone? (1978)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Arena (1989)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Ark, The (1993)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Armageddon (1977)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Armored Attack (1957)
  Year End 2015

Army (1944)
  Subverting propaganda:Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II

Arrival (2016)
  Summer viewing: science fiction

Arsenal Stadium Mystery, The (1939)
  Thorold Dickinson

Artemis 81 (1981)
  Spectrum of Horror: from class to crass

As Above, So Below (2014)
  Oh, the horror! part two

As Long As You've Got Your Health (1966)
  Discovery and loss: Pierre Etaix 1928-2016

As the Gods Will (2014)
  Brief comments, part two

Ascent, The (1977)
  Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent (1977): Criterion Blu-ray review

Ash Tree, The (1975)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Ash vs Evil Dead (2015-18)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Ashanti (1979)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation (2022)
  Monsters, killers and existential dread on Blu-ray

Assassin (1973)
  The Pemini Organisation on Blu-ray from Indicator

Assassination (1967)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Assault (1971)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Assault on Wall Street (2013)
  Brief comments, part two

Assignment, The (2016)
  The alpha and omega of Walter Hill

Asteroid City (2023)
  Year End 2023

Astrologer, The (1975)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Asylum (1972)
  Post-Op, week four

At Close Range (1986)
  Catching up with Twilight

Atoll K (1951)
  Two swansongs

Atomic Blonde (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Atomic City, The (1952)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Atrocity Exhibition, The (2001)
  Viewing notes, September 2016

Attack Force Z (1981)
  Recent Severin viewing

Attack of the Demons (2019)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Attack the Block (2011)
  Recent viewing, part 2

Attic Expeditions, The (2001)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Atticus Institute, The (2015)
  Watching Horror

Audition (1999)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part one

Audrey Rose (1977)
  Melodrama from Twilight Time

Australia After Dark (1975)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Autopsy (1975)
  Euro Pulp

Autopsy of Jane Doe, The (2016)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Avatar (2009)
  A week of DVDs

Avenging Angel (1985)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

AVP Alien vs Predator (2004)
  Pulp Epics

Awakening, The (2011)
  Blu-ray Review: The Awakening (2011)

Axe (1974)
  The exploitation art of Frederick R. Friedel

B

Baal (1970)
  Volker Schlöndorff's Baal (1970): Criterion Blu-ray review

Baba Yaga (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Babadook, The (2014)
  Oh, the horror!

Baby Blood (1990)
  A Kino Lorber miscellany

Baby Carriage, The (1963)
  Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema from Criterion

Baby's Room, The (2006)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Baby, The (1973)
  Perverse Families & Dysfunctional Kids

Bacurau (2019)
  Getting serious

Bad Biology (2008)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Bad Black (2016)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

Bad Dreams (1988)
  Styles of Horror, part three

Bad Moon (1996)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Bad Seed, The (1956)
  Beware the children!

Bad Taste (1987)
  Video Nasties, Part 2

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Badge 373 (1973)
  Back to the '70s

Badlands (1973)
  Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

Bait (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Baker's Wife, The (1938)
  Marcel Pagnol's The Baker's Wife (1938):Criterion Blu-ray review

Ballad in Blood (2016)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, The (1982)
  Robert M. Young's The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982): Criterion Blu-ray review

Ballad of Tam Lin, The (1970)
  Genre On Disk, part one
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Bandidos (1967)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Barbara (1970)
  Lost films and alternative histories

Barbarella (1968)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Barcelona (1994)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Whit Stillman's Barcelona (1994)

Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

Barfly (1987)
  Interesting releases from Australia's Imprint

Barney Miller (1974-82)
  Binge Viewing

Baron Blood (9172)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

Baron Prasil (1962)
  The Fabulous World of Karel Zeman
  Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman:Criterion Blu-ray review

Barry Lyndon (1975)
  Stanley Kubrick 6: Odd Man Out - Barry Lyndon (1975)

Bartleby (1970)
  Clive Rees' The Blockhouse (1973) and other recent Indicator releases

Basket Case (1981)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Basket Case 2 (1990)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Basket Case 3 (1992)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Baskin (2015)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Bat Woman, The (1968)
  Aussie horror and Mexican luchadores and luchadoras from Indicator

Batman, The (2022)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Battery, The (2012)
  Spooky

Battle for the Lost Planet (1984)
  Year End 2019

Battle in Outer Space (1960)
  Ishiro Honda: Masters of Cinema

Battle Royale (2000)
  DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)
  March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Battle Royale II (2003)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, The (1927)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Battles Without Honour and Humanity (1973)
  Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza epic

Battles Without Honour and Humanity 2: Hiroshima Death Match (1973)
  Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza epic

Battles Without Honour and Humanity 3: Proxy War (1973)
  Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza epic

Battles Without Honour and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974)
  Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza epic

Battles Without Honour and Humanity 5: Final Episode (1974)
  Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza epic

Battles Without Honour and Humanity: The Complete Saga (1980)
  Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza epic

Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)
  Two Films by Marguerite Duras: Criterion Blu-ray review

Bay of Blood (1971)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Beaches of Agnes, The (2008)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Beast in Heat, The (1977)
  Fall viewing, part one

Beast Must Die, The (1952)
  Folk horror and Argentine noir

Beast Must Die, The (1974)
  The good, the mediocre and the annoying

Beast of Blood (1970)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Beast Within, The (1981)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Beastmaster, The (1982)
  John Dies At the End ... and that's not a bad thing
  2020: Year-End Thoughts

Beasts (1976)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television

Beasts of No Nation (2015)
  Cary Joji Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation (2015):Criterion Blu-ray review

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
  Additional Recent Viewing ...

Beat Girl (1959)
  The revival of Flipside

Beat the Devil (1953)
  Miscellaneous viewing - Summer 2019

Beatrice Cenci (1969)
  Miscellaneous notes: Severin Films

Beatriz (1976)
  Recent fantasy and horror on disk

Beau Is Afraid (2023)
  Year End 2023

Beau Travail (1999)
  Claire Denis' Beau Travail (1999): Criterion Blu-ray review

Beauty Day (2011)
  Alien sex and the comedy of self-destruction: two documentaries

Bed of the Dead (2019)
  Another eclectic week

Bees, The (1978)
  Fall viewing, part one

Before I Hang (1940)
  Karloff at Columbia on Eureka Blu-ray

Before We Vanish (2017)
  Post-Op, week one

Being John Malkovich (1999)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Believer's Heaven, The (1977)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Believers, The (1987)
  Melodrama from Twilight Time

Bellman & True (1987)
  Post-Op, week one

Bells Go Down, The (1943)
  Basil Dearden, Humphrey Jennings, and the fires of London

Beneath (2013)
  Styles of Horror, part one
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
  Additional Recent Viewing ...
  Year End 2013

Bermuda Triangle, The (1978)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Berserk (1967)
  Recent Brit disks

Best Worst Movie (2009)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
  Columbia Noir #3 from Indicator

Beware My Brethren (1972)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Beware: Children at Play (1989)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
  Home-Grown Horrors

Beyond Terror (1980)
  The second coming of Cauldron

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
  Holiday viewing

Beyond the Darkness (1979)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018: Part Two

Beyond the Hills (1912)
  The cinematic art of Cristian Mungiu

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Beyond the Seventh Door (1986)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
  The low-budget art of Edgar G. Ulmer

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
  Sex in Movies: narrative interruptus

Beyond, The (1981)
  Italian genre beyond Bava

Big Bus, The (1976)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Big Country, The (1958)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Big Fish & Begonia (2016)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Big Flame, The (1969)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Big Gundown, The (1967)
  January releases from Indicator

Big Heat, The (1953)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Big Parade, The (1925)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Big Racket, The (1976)
  Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

Big Sleep, The (1978)
  Pizza, beer and revenge

Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
  Crime and Horror from Radiance

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
  A Kino Lorber miscellany

Bio-Zombie (1998)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018 - Weird Stuff

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  Twilight Time again ...

Birds, The (1963)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 2
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one
  Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)

Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
  Documentary and the evolution of movies
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part two

Birth of a Nation, The (2016)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part two

Bitter Rice (1949)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949)

Bitter Stems, The (1956)
  Folk horror and Argentine noir

Black Boots, Leather Whip (1983)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Black Candles (1982)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Black Castle, The (1952)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Black Cat (1991)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Black Cat 2 (1992)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Black Cat, The (1934)
  Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Black Cat, The (1966)
  Boxed In

Black Cat, The (1981)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Black Cat, The (1990)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Black Circle (2018)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Black Crystal, The (1991)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Black Dahlia, The (2006)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Black Death (2010)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Black Friday (1940)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Black Girl (1966)
  Ousmane Sembène's Mandabi (1968): Criterion Blu-ray review

Black God, White Devil (1964)
  Glauber Rocha's Black God, White Devil (1964): Criterion Blu-ray review

Black Gunn (1972)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Black Magic (1949)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Black Magic Rites (1973)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Black Panther (2018)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Black Panther, The (1977)
  Flipside: The Black Panther (1977)

Black Pit of Dr. M, The (1959)
  Mexico Macabre: four horror classics from Indicator

Black Rainbow (1989)
  In dreams

Black River (1957)
  DVD Review: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse)

Black Room, The (1935)
  Karloff at Columbia on Eureka Blu-ray

Black Room, The (1982)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Black Sabbath (1963)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

Black Sea (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

Black Sunday (1960)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

Black Sunday (1976)
  Action and politics in '70s thrillers

Black Tight Killers (1966)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Blackenstein (1973)
  What makes a "bad" movie good?

Blackmail (1929)
  The transition to sound: Arthur Robison's The Informer (1929)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Blacula (1972)
  Blaxploitation and historical counter-narrative

Blade in the Dark, A (1983)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Blade of the Immortal (2017)
  Brief comments, part two

Blade Runner (1982)
  You can't go home again

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  You can't go home again

Blame (2006)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Blancheville Monster, The (1963)
  Italian Gothic horror on Blu-ray

Blast of Silence (1961)
  Allen Baron's Blast of Silence (1961): Criterion Blu-ray review

Blind Chance (1981)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance (1981)

Blind Fury (1989)
  The two sides of Shintaro Katsu

Blind Menace, The (1960)
  The two sides of Shintaro Katsu

Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
  Recent Viewing: horror from Arrow Video

Blockhouse, The (1973)
  Clive Rees' The Blockhouse (1973) and other recent Indicator releases

Blood & Diamonds (1977)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Blood (1973)
  Summer viewing: short takes

Blood and Black Lace (1964)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Blood and Roses (1960)
  Styles of Horror, part two

Blood Ceremony (1973)
  Wrapping up 2022

Blood Delirium (1988)
  Italian Gothic horror on Blu-ray

Blood Drinkers, The (1964)
  Boxed In

Blood Father (2016)
  Late summer viewing, part two: Thrills and Chills

Blood Feast (2017)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Blood for Dracula (1974)
  Paul Morrissey's Gothic horrors

Blood Harvest (1986)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Blood Hunt (1985)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Blood Lands, The (2014)
  Catching up, part two

Blood Massacre (1991)
  Another mixed bag ...

Blood of Fu Manchu, The (1968)
  Indicator in a box

Blood of the Vampire (1958)
  Trawling the Internet

Blood on Satan's Claw, The (1971)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Blood Pressure (2012)
  Sean Garrity and Bill Fugler's Blood Pressure

Blood Rage (1983)
  I love a deal ...

Blood Spattered Bride, The (1972)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

Blood Suckers (1971)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Bloodlust (1977)
  Wrapping up 2022

Bloodstream (1985)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Bloody Birthday (1980)
  Beware the children!
  Looking back ...

Bloody Birthday (1981)
  Year End 2019

Bloody Brood, The (1959)
  Who are we to laugh at the past?

Bloody Moon (1981)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Bloody New Year (1987)
  Trashy Brit horrors

Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Bloody Sect (1982)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Blow Out (1981)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Blue (1993)
  "Art films" and the nature of boredom

Blue Black Permanent (1992)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part two

Blue Lamp, The (1950)
  Ealing Studios
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Blue Max, The (1966)
  Twilight Time X 3

Blue Monday
  All-time favourite music video

Blue Vengeance (1989)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Boardinghouse (1982)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Body Beneath, The (1968)
  Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan

Body Double (1984)
  Recent Indicator viewing

Body of My Enemy, The (1976)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Boogey Man, The (1980)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Boogie Man Will Get You, The (1942)
  Karloff at Columbia on Eureka Blu-ray

Book of Blood (2009)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Boom (1968)
  Camp Losey

Borderlands, The (2013)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Borley Rectory (2017)
  Ghostly excess

Born to Be Bad (1950)
  A DVD Addict In Paris

Borom Sarret (1963)
  Ousmane Sembène's Mandabi (1968): Criterion Blu-ray review

Borsalino & Co. (1974)
  Recent Viewing 1

Boss, The (1973)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

Boston Strangler, The (1968)
  Twilight Time round-up

Boxtrolls, The (2014)
  The pleasures of hand-made animation

Boy and His Dog, A (1975)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Boy and the Heron, The (2023)
  Year End 2023

Boy and the Kite, The (1962)
  Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema from Criterion

Boy Ten Feet Tall, A (1963)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Boy Who Turned Yellow, The (1972)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Boys Next Door, The (1984)
  Year End 2019

Boys, The (1962)
  Aspect Rati-woes

Brain of Blood (1971)
  Boxed In

Brain, The (1988)
  Another eclectic week

Brainiac, The (1962)
  Mexico Macabre: four horror classics from Indicator

Brainscan (1994)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
  Further down Memory Lane

Bram Stoker's The Shadowbuilder (1998)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Branded to Kill (1967)
  Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill (1967): Criterion Blu-ray review

Brannigan (1975)
  Law, disorder and cynicism in the '70s

Bravados, The (1958)
  Holiday viewing

Braven (2018)
  Brief comments, part two

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
  Catching up, part two

Breakfast Club, The (1985)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

Breaking Point, The (1950)
  Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point (1950): Criterion Blu-ray review

Breakout (1975)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Bride of the Monster (1955)
  A Poverty Row evening

Bride With White Hair, The (1993)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Bride Wore Black, The (1968)
  Bias and preconception in movie-watching

Bride, The (1973)
  S.F. Brownrigg's regional horrors

Brides of Blood (1968)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Brides of Dracula, The (1960)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

Brides of Fu Manchu, The (1966)
  Indicator in a box

Bridge, The (1959)
  Boys in War: Bernhard Wicki's Die Brücke (The Bridge, 1959)

Brigand of Kandahar, The (1965)
  Hammer adventures from Indicator

Brighter Summer Day, A (1991)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
  Twilight Time X 3

Broadway (1929)
  Disk discovery: Paul Fejos' Lonesome (1928) from Criterion

Broken City (2013)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Brood, The (1979)
  Cronenberg, Body-Horror and The Brood (1979)

Brotherhood of Blades (2014)
  Post-Op, week one

Brotherhood of Blades: The Infernal Battlefield (2017)
  Post-Op, week one

Brotherhood of Satan, The (1970)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three
  September Arrow releases

Brotherhood of the Bell, The (1970)
  Remember Paul Wendkos?

Brothers and Sisters (1980)
  Recent Viewing 1

Brothers Rico, The (1957)
  Columbia Noir 4 from Indicator

Brute, The (1977)
  Gerry O'Hara's The Brute (1977)

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
  John Dies At the End ... and that's not a bad thing

Bubble, The (1966)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Bugsy Malone (1976)
  Holiday viewing

Bullet Head (2017)
  Catching up, part two

Bullet is Waiting, A (1954)
  Columbia Noir 4 from Indicator

Bullet Train (2022)
  Brief Notes, December Part Two

Bullet Train, The (1975)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
  DVD of the Week:The Moment of Truth (1965) by Francesco Rosi

Bullitt (1968)
  Peter Yates (1929-2011)
  Brief comments, part one

Bumblebee (2018)
  Binging

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
  Twilight Time again ...

Burbs, The (1989)
  Recent Viewing: more horror from Arrow

Burning (2018)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Burning Hell, The (1974)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Burning Paradise (1994)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Burning Season, The (2023)
  Recent big-screen viewing

Burning, The (1980)
  Looking back ...

Burnt Offerings (1976)
  I love a deal ...

Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
  Resurrecting a pre-tax shelter classic: The Rainbow Boys (1973)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Byzantium (2012)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part two

C

C.B. Strike (2017-18)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

C.H.U.D. (1984)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Cake of Blood (1971)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Calendar Girl Murders (1984)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Caliber 9 (1972)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

Call Me Madame (1987)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

Call of Cthulhu, The (2005)
  Adapting Lovecraft

Caller, The (1987)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Calling Dr. Death (1943)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Caltiki: The Immortal Monster (1959)
  Viewing notes: May 2017

Calvaire (2004)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Camera I (2004/2011)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

Camp on Blood Island, The (1958)
  Indicator's Hammer vol. 3: Imperialism, War & Race

Candle for the Devil, A (1973)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Candy (1968)
  The pleasures of transgression

Candy Tangerine Man, The (1974)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Candyman (1992)
  Adapting Clive Barker

Candyman (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
  Euro Pulp

Cannibal Ferox (1981)
  Cannibal feast

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
  Video Nasties, Part 3
  Cannibal feast

Cannibal Man, The (1972)
  The films of Eloy de la Iglesia

Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
  Canoa, A Shameful Memory (1976): Criterion Blu-ray review

Canterbury Tales, The (1972)
  Boxed In

Cape Fear (1961)
  Summer viewing: short takes, part 2

Captain Clegg (1962)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray
  Hammer Vol. 6: Night Shadows from Indicator

Captain Phillips (2013)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part two

Captive State (2019)
  Post-Op, week one

Captured (1959)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Car, The (1977)
  I love a deal ...

Card Player, The (2004)
  Dario Argento in decline

Carlito's Way (1993)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Carnage (2011)
  Recent viewing - theatrical

Carnival of Blood (1970)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Carnival of Souls (1962)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls (1962)

Case 39 (2009)
  Beware the children!

Case Is Closed: Forget It, The (1971)
  Organized crime, political corruption and bourgeois complicity: four Italian Mafia movies

Case of the Bloody Iris, The (1972)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Cash On Demand (1961)
  Hammer thrillers on Blu-ray from Indicator

Castle Keep (1969)
  The early films of Sydney Pollack

Castle of Blood (1974)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Castle of Fu Manchu, The (1969)
  Indicator in a box

Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Castle Rock: The Complete Series (2018)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Cat Creeps, The (1946)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Cat in the Brain (1990)
  Euro Horror

Cat o'Nine Tales, The (1971)
  Recent Viewing: horror from Arrow Video

Cat People (1982)
  Styles of Horror, part one

Catacombs (1965)
  Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

Catch My Soul (1973)
  Recent discoveries on disk

Cathy's Curse (1976)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018

Catman of Paris, The (1946)
  Interesting releases from Australia's Imprint

Cease Fire (1953)
  A post-Covid 3D evening

Ceddo (1977)
  Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène: Criterion Blu-ray review

Celebration, The (1998)
  Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration,1998): Criterion Blu-ray review

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1973)
  Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974): Criterion Blu-ray review

Cell, The (1980)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Cellar Dweller (1987)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Cellar, The (1989)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Cemetery Man (1994)
  Shameless exploitation

Cemetery of Terror (1985)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Censor (2021)
  Folk horror and Argentine noir

Certain Women (2016)
  Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women (2016): Criterion Blu-ray review

Chains (1949)
  Recent viewing, part 2

Challenge for Robin Hood, A (1967)
  More recent Indicator releases

Challenge, The (1982)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Champagne and Bullets (1993)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Changeling, The (1980)
  Late Fall viewing: Oh, the horror!

Changes, The (1975)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part three

Charley Varrick (1973)
  Walter Matthau, man of action?
  Indicator Blu-rays, part two: America in the 1970s

Charlie Bubbles (1968)
  The enigmatic Albert Finney

Charlie Victor Romeo (2013)
  Movies and reality intersect in two recent releases

Charlie's Family (1997)
  Representing Violence: The Manson Family (2003)

Chase, The (1966)
  Twilight Time round-up

Chato's Land (1972)
  Recent Twilight Time releases

Che! (1969)
  Binging on Twilight Time

Chess of the Wind (1976)
  World Cinema Project 4: Criterion Blu-ray review

Chicago Syndicate (1955)
  Columbia Noir 4 from Indicator

Child 44 (2015)
  The disappearance of real-world disk retail

Child in the Night (1990)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Child, The (1977)
  Post-Op, week one

Children of the Corn (1984)
  Recent Arrow viewing
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Children, The (1980)
  Beware the children!
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Children, The (2008)
  Beware the children!

Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
  Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979): Criterion Blu-ray review

Chimes at Midnight (1966)
  The myth of Orson Welles' failure
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks
  Viewing notes, September 2016

China Gate (1957)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

China Syndrome, The (1979)
  Brief comments, part one

Chosen, The (1978)
  Post-Op, week one

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
  Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979): Criterion Blu-ray review

Christine (1983)
  Five Shades of B

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Christmas Tale, A (2006)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Chronicle (2012)
  March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle

Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
  Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, cinema verite and the problem of “actuality”

Church, The (1989)
  Hi-def Italian mayhem

Cinerama Holiday (1955)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Citizen Kane (1941)
  Rethinking Kane and Chain Saws

City of Fear (1959)
  Columbia Noir #3 from Indicator

City of the Dead, The (1960)
  Summer viewing: short takes

City of the Living Dead (1980)
  Italian genre beyond Bava
  More Italo-horror: The Good, the Bad and the Gory

Class of 1984 (1982)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Cleanskin (2012)
  Late summer viewing: Spies, Killers and Terrorists

Climax, The (1944)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Climber, The (1975)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Clive Barker's Book of Blood (2009)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Cloak & Dagger (1984)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Cloak and Dagger (1946)
  Exiles at war

Clock, The (2010)
  The One, True Doctor and the Passage of Time

Clockmaker, The (1974)
  Bertrand Tavernier April 25, 1941-March 25, 2021

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
  Stanley Kubrick 5B: Science Fiction – A Clockwork Orange

Closed Circuit (1978)
  Movies and reality intersect in two recent releases

Closer to God (2016)
  Holiday viewing

Clowns, The (1970)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Cluny Brown (1946)
  Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946): Criterion Blu-ray review

Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Coco (2017)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Code 7, Victim 5 (1964)
  In-flight entertainment

Cold Blood (2019)
  Catching up, part two

Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
  More recent Indicator releases

Colin (2008)
  DVD of the Week: Colin (2008)

Collector, The (1965)
  A Terence Stamp double-bill

Collingswood Story, The (2002)
  Cauldron Films, round three

Colombiana (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Color of Night (1994)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Color Out Of Space (2019)
  New features by two favourites

Color Out of Space, The (2015)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

Colossal (2016)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
  Summer viewing: science fiction

Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Combat Shock (1986)
  Buddy Giovinazzo's American Nightmares

Combat! (1962-67)
  Combat! Television's Last "Good" War

Come and See (1985)
  Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985): Criterion Blu-ray review

Come Back, Africa (1959)
  Lionel Rogosin: part two

Come Drink With Me (1966)
  Art and action in the films of King Hu
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part one

Comedy of Terrors, The (1963)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Commuter, The (2018)
  Late summer viewing: Spies, Killers and Terrorists

Compliance (2012)
  DVD Review: Compliance (2012)

Computer Chess (2013)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part Two

Conan the Barbarian (1982)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Conan the Destroyer (1984)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Confession, The (1970)
  The political cinema of Costa-Gavras

Conjuring 2, The (2016)
  More random notes: September 2016

Conquest (1983)
  Another mixed bag ...

Conquest of Space (1955)
  Serendipity at the mall: disk discoveries from England and Australia

Contagion (2011)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Contraband (1980)
  Cauldron releases, summer 2022

Convicted (1950)
  Columbia Noir #3 from Indicator

Convoy (1978)
  Blu-rays from Kino Lorber

Convoy Busters (1978)
  Wrapping up 2022

Coogan's Bluff (1968)
  The disappearance of real-world disk retail

Copkiller (1983)
  Italian cops and killers

Cops vs Thugs (1975)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Cornshukker, The (1997)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Corrupt (1983)
  Italian cops and killers

Corruption (1968)
  Acting Up a Storm

Corruption of Chris Miller, The (1973)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Cosmopolis (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Cossacks in Exile (1938)
  Edgar G. Ulmer's Cossacks in Exile (1938)

Council of the Gods (1950)
  Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)

Count Dracula (1970)
  Dreams of Dracula

Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
  Year End 2015
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Countdown (1967)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Counter Clockwise (2016)
  Time, paradox and loss

Cours du soir (1967)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Crack in the World (1965)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Cracker (1993-2006)
  Wrapping up 2022

Craft, The (1996)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Crash (1996)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Crashout (1955)
  Random viewing, short takes

Crawl (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Crawling Hand, The (1963)
  Trawling the Internet

Crawlspace (1986)
  Acting Up a Storm

Crazies, The (1973)
  Life and Death in the films of George A. Romero

Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)
  Euro Pulp

Crazy Samurai Musashi: 400 vs 1 (2020)
  One-Shot Wonders: samurai slaughter and zombies

Creation is Violent: Anecdotes from Kinski’s Final Years (2021)
  Euro Pulp

Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
  When "bad" can be good ...

Creature (1985)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Creature From Black Lake (1976)
  Monsters, killers and existential dread on Blu-ray

Creature From the Black Lagoon, The (1954)
  A 3D New Year

Creature With the Atom Brain (1955)
  The joy of B: Sam Katzman's 1950s horrors

Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
  The Pemini Organisation on Blu-ray from Indicator

Creep Behind the Camera, The (2014)
  Creeps be creeping

Creeping Garden, The (2014)
  Random thoughts: May 2017

Creeping Terror, The (1964)
  Creeps be creeping

Crime Does Not Pay (1935-47)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Crimes of Passion (1984)
  Murder, mayhem, sex and madness from Arrow

Crimes of Stephen Hawke, The (1936)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Crimes of the Black Cat, The (1972)
  The second coming of Cauldron

Crimes of the Future (1970)
  Cronenberg in transition: Scanners (1981)
  The future crimes of David Cronenberg

Crimes of the Future (2022)
  The future crimes of David Cronenberg
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Crimewave (1985)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Criminal (2016)
  Recent viewing: April & May 2016

Criminally Insane (1975)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Crimson Kimono, The (1959)
  Twilight Time goes West

Crimson Peak (2015)
  Random notes: two films and a book
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Cross of Iron (1977)
  Masculinity under stress: late films by Sam Peckinpah and William Friedkin

Cross of the Devil (1975)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Croupier (1997)
  Recent Arrow releases, part two

Cruising (1980)
  The transgressive art of William Friedkin

Crumbs (2015)
  Miguel Llansó's trash aesthetic

Cry of the Banshee (1970)
  Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

Crying Blue Sky (1983)
  Avery Crounse's Eyes of Fire (1983)

Crying Woman, The (1933)
  Early Mexican horror from Indicator

Crypt of the Living Dead (1973)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Cuadecuc, Vampir (1971)
  Dreams of Dracula

Cujo (1983)
  Monsters, killers and existential dread on Blu-ray

Cult of the Damned (1969)
  Who are we to laugh at the past?

Cure (1997)
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1997)

Cure for Wellness, A (2016)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018 - Weird Stuff

Curfew (1989)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Curious Female, The (1969)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
  Genre On Disk, part one

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Curse of the Crying Woman, The (1963)
  Mexico Macabre: four horror classics from Indicator

Curse of the Demon (1957)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The (1964)
  Hammer on Blu-ray from Indicator, part two

Curse of the Undead (1959)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Curse of the Vampires (1966)
  Boxed In

Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Cut and Run (1995)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Cutter's Way (1981)
  Catching up with Twilight

Cutting Moments (1996)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Cyborg 2087 (1966)
  One of these things is not like the others

Cyclone (1978)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Cynic, the Rat and the Fist, The (1977)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

César (1936)
  Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy (1931-36): Criterion Blu-ray review

D

Dachra (2018)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Daimajin (1966)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Damaged Goods (1937)
  The low-budget art of Edgar G. Ulmer

Damaged Lives (1933)
  The low-budget art of Edgar G. Ulmer

Damnation Alley (1977)
  Damnation and the Fields of Ambrosia

Damned, The (1947)
  Damned Treason

Damned, The (1962)
  Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4: Faces of Fear

Damned, The (1969)
  Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969): Criterion Blu-ray review

Dandy in Aspic, A (1968)
  More from Indicator

Danger: Diabolik (1968)
  Fall viewing, part two

Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Dario Argento's Dracula (2012)
  Styles of Horror, part three
  A 3D New Year

Dark August (1976)
  Post-Op, week one

Dark Half, The (1993)
  Oh, the horror!

Dark Intruder (1965)
  Trawling the Internet

Dark Knight Rises, The (2012)
  Summer Viewing
  Thinking About Genre, part 2

Dark Mirror, The (1946)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Dark of the Sun (1968)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Dark Past, The (1948)
  Columbia Noir #3 from Indicator

Dark Side of Love, The (1984)
  Fall viewing, part one

Dark Tower (1988)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Dark Waters (1994)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018: Part Two

Darker Than the Night (1975)
  Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada

Darkroom (1989)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Darlin' (2019)
  Cannibal feast

Daughter of Horror (1957)
  Recent BFI releases

Daughters of Darkness (1971)
  Recent viewing: November 2015
  Euro Pulp

David Golder (1931)
  Julien Duvivier in the Thirties: Eclipse 44

David Holzman's Diary (1967)
  Whatever Happened to Jim McBride?

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
  David Lynch: The Art Life (2016): Criterion Blu-ray review

Dawn (2014)
  Holiday viewing

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  Life and Death in the films of George A. Romero

Dawn of the Dead (2004)
  Remaking and undoing horror

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Day After, The (1983)
  Nuclear war and the movies
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Day In the Country (1936/46)
  An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film

Day of Anger (1967)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Day of the Beast, The (1995)
  Brief comments, part one

Day of the Dead (1985)
  Styles of Horror, part one

Day of the Jackal, The (1973)
  Recent Viewing
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Day of the Outlaw (1959)
  Miscellaneous viewing - Summer 2019

Day of the Owl, The (1968)
  Organized crime, political corruption and bourgeois complicity: four Italian Mafia movies

Day of the Triffids (1963)
  In-flight entertainment

Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1961)
  Val Guest and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Days of Heaven (1978)
  Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

De Lift (1983)
  Euro Horror

Dead & Buried (1981)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Dead and the Deadly, The (1982)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Dead Ant (2017)
  Year End 2019

Dead Center, The (2018)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Dead Don't Die, The (2019)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Dead Girls (1990)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Dead Heat (1988)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Dead Lands, The (2014)
  Catching up, part two

Dead Man (1995)
  Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995): Criterion Blu-ray review

Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Dead of Night (1945)
  Another eclectic week

Dead of Night: BBC (1972)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Dead of Night: The Haunted Mirror (1945)
  Googie Withers (1917-2011)

Dead One, The (1961)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972)
  Genre play in Germany

Dead Reckoning (1947)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Dead, The (2010)
  Zombie addendum: The Dead (2010)

Dead-End Drive-In (1986)
  Recent Brit disks, part two

Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
  More Arrow ...

Deadline (1980)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Deadlock (1970)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

Deadly Affair, The (1966)
  Indicator Blu-rays: England in the '60s

Deadly Blessing (1981)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Deadly Camp, The (1999)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Deadly Games (1982)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus (1989)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Deadly Mantis, The (1957)
  An evening with '50s monsters

Dear Dead Delilah (1972)
  Year End 2019

Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)
  Art of the Comic Strip: Dear Mr. Watterson

Death by Love (1990)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Death Has Blue Eyes (1976)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Death House (1988)
  John Saxon 1936-2020

Death Hunt (1981)
  Death Hunt (1981): entertainment vs. history

Death in the Family (1981)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Death Laid An Egg (1968)
  Post-Op, week one

Death Line (1972)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Death Note (2006)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
  Death and madness from Indicator

Death of Stalin, The (2017)
  Recent theatrical viewing
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Death Race (2008)
  Pulp Epics

Death Race 3: Inferno (2013)
  DVD Review: Death Race 3: Inferno

Death Run (1987)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Death Screams (1982)
  September Arrow releases

Death Walks at Midnight (1972)
  Random notes: August 2016

Death Walks on High Heels (1971)
  Random notes: August 2016

Death Warmed Up (1984)
  Fall viewing, part one

Death Was a Passenger (1958)
  Recent BFI releases

Death Watch (1980)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 1
  The subjectivity of watching: Bertrand Tavernier's Death Watch (1980)

Death Whistles the Blues (1962)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Death Wish 3 (1985)
  Pizza, beer and revenge

Death Wish II (1982)
  Pizza, beer and revenge
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Death Wish: The Crackdown (1987)
  Pizza, beer and revenge

Deathcember (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Decameron, The (1971)
  Boxed In

Decoder (1984)
  Year End 2019

Deep Cover (1992)
  Bill Duke's Deep Cover (1992): Criterion Blu-ray review

Deep End (1970)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Deep Inside (1968)
  Lost films and alternative histories

Deep Red (1975)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Deep Rising (1998)
  Holiday viewing

Def By Temptation (1990)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Def-Con 4 (1985)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Degustation maison (1977)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Delirium (1972)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Delirium (1979)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Deliver Us From Evil (2014)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Deliverance (1972)
  Summer viewing: short takes, part 2

Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
  Shameless exploitation
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Delta Space Mission (1984)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Dementer (2019)
  Chad Crawford Kinkle's folk horror

Dementia (1953)
  Recent BFI releases

Demon (2015)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Demon Rat, The (1992)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Demon Seed (1977)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 1
  Arrow Video, part two: White of the Eye (1987)
  Holiday viewing

Demonia (1990)
  Euro Horror

Demonoid (1981)
  Fall viewing, part one

Demons (1985)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Demons of Ludlow, The (1983)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Demon’s Baby, The (1998)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Department S (1969-70)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Deported (1950)
  Universal Noir #1 from Indicator

Depraved (2019)
  New features by two favourites

Der Kali Prozess (2003)
  Andreas Marschall's Tears of Kali (2004)

Der Samurai (2014)
  Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

Der Todesking (1990)
  Sex-Death-Exploitation-Art

Deranged (1974)
  Recent Viewing: more horror from Arrow

Derby (1971)
  A mixed bag from Screen Archives

Desecration (1999)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Designated Victim, The (1971)
  Shameless exploitation

Desperate Hours, The (1955)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Destroyer (2018)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Destruction Force (1977)
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

Detective, The (1968)
  More from Twilight Time

Detour (1945)
  Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945): Criterion Blu-ray review

Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Devil Commands, The (1941)
  Karloff at Columbia on Eureka Blu-ray

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Devil's Express (1976)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Devil's Game, The (1981)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Devil's Lover, The (1972)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Devil's Men, The (1976)
  Clive Rees' The Blockhouse (1973) and other recent Indicator releases

Devil's Rain, The (1975)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

Devil's Sisters, The (1966)
  Grefé, Shatner and the resurrection of Impulse (1974)

Devil's Widow, The (1970)
  Genre On Disk, part one

Devils, The (1971)
  Ken Russell (1927-2011)
  Cursed by Warner Brothers:The Strange Fate of Ken Russell's The Devils (1971)
  Miscellaneous Thoughts

Devonsville Terror, The (1983)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Diary of a Madman (1963)
  An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film
  Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (1960)
  Two swansongs

Die Brücke (1959)
  Boys in War: Bernhard Wicki's Die Brücke (The Bridge, 1959)

Die Farbe (2015)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

Die Kinder von Golzow (1961-2007)
  Year End 2010

Die Unerzogenen (2006)
  A week of DVDs

Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
  Hammer on Blu-ray from Indicator, part two

Die, Monster Die! (1965)
  Adapting Lovecraft

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
  Late Boris Karloff on Blu-ray

Dimension 5 (1966)
  One of these things is not like the others

Disappearance, The (1977)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Disco and Atomic War (2009)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part three

Disco Exorcist, The (2011)
  DVD Review: The Disco Exorcist (2011)

Disconnected (1983)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972)
  Three Films by Luis Buñuel: Criterion Blu-ray review

Disneyland Dream (1956)
  Disneyland Dream (1956)

Divide, The (2011)
  Michael Dowse's Goon: Made in Winnipeg

Divided We Fall (1982)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Divine Fury, The (2019)
  Catching up, part two

Divinity (2023)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Django Unchained (2012)
  The Director as Sociopath ...

Do-Ga-Ni (2011)
  DVD Review: Silenced (Do-Ga-Ni)

Doberman Cop (1977)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Doctor and the Devils, The (1985)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Doctor Blood’s Coffin (1961)
  Trawling the Internet

Doctor Butcher M.D. (1980)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018: Part Two

Doctor Cyclops (1940)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Doctor Sleep (2019)
  More genre viewing

Doctor Who (1963-)
  The One, True Doctor and the Passage of Time

Dog Soldiers (2002)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Dog Tags (1987)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Dogs of War, The (1980)
  More from Twilight Time

Dogs, The (1978)
  Political thrillers, horror and metaphor

Dollman (1991)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Dolls (1986)
  Watching Horror
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Domino Principle, The (1977)
  It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Stanley Kramer's struggle to be funny

Don't Answer the Phone! (1979)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
  Twilight Crime

Don't Breathe 2 (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Don't Go in the House (1979)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Don't Look in the Basement (1972)
  S.F. Brownrigg's regional horrors

Don't Open the Door (1974)
  S.F. Brownrigg's regional horrors

Don't Panic (1988)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Donnie Darko (2001)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

Doom Asylum (1987)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Doomwatch (1970-72)
  Recent viewing: April & May 2016

Door (1988)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Door II: Tokyo Diary (1991)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Door-to-Door Maniac (1961)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Dos Monjes (1934)
  World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review

Double Face (1969)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Double Indemnity (1944)
  Revisiting two more old favourites

Douce (1943)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Down (2001)
  Euro Horror

Down the Road Again (2011)
  Don Shebib's Canadian working class poetry: Goin' Down the Road (1970) and its sequel

Downpour (1972)
  World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review

Downtime (1985)
  Unearthed Treasure: Greg Hanec's Downtime (1985)

Dr. M (1990)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964)
  Stanley Kubrick 4B: America in England - Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Dracula (1958)
  Genre On Disk, part one

Dracula (1979)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Dracula's Fiancee (2002)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
  Random viewing, short takes

Dragon Gate Inn (1967)
  The wuxia epics of King Hu

Dragon Inn (1967)
  The wuxia epics of King Hu

Dragon's Return (1968)
  Recent discoveries on disk

Dragonslayer (1981)
  Dragons and ghosts, resurrected in 4K

Dragonwyck (1946)
  Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

Dreadnaught (1981)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Dream Demon (1988)
  In dreams

Dream No Evil (1972)
  Post-Op, week one

Dream Stalker (1991)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Driller Killer, The (1979)
  Rhyming Pairs

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
  Indicator in a box

Drive My Car (2021)
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car (2021): Criterion Blu-ray review

Driver, The (1978)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Drum, The (1938)
  Sabu and the Kordas

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
  More from Twilight Time

Drunken Master (1978)
  Recent Brit disks, part two

Duel (music video), The (2018)
  Music video uploaded

Duel to the Death (1983)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Duffer (1971)
  DVD of the week: Duffer/The Moon Over the Alley

Dumb Waiter, The (1979)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Dune (1984)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 3
  Pulp Epics
  Podcasting again ...
  David Lynch's Dune redux
  Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

Dungeonmaster, The (1984)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Dunwich Horror, The (1969)
  Adapting Lovecraft
  Late summer viewing, part two: Thrills and Chills
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Dust Bowl, The (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Dust Devil (1992)
  Fall viewing, part two

E

Earthquake (1974)
  More late winter viewing, part one
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three

Earwig and the Witch (2020)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

East, The (2013)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Eastern Condors (1987)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Eaten Alive (1976)
  Random notes: August 2016

Ebola Syndrome (1986)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Ecce Homo (1968)
  Trawling the Internet

Ecologia del delitto (1971)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Eden and After (1970)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Edge of Eternity (1959)
  Desert noir and 3D from Twilight Time

Edge of Sanity (1989)
  Murder, mayhem, sex and madness from Arrow

Edge of the Axe (1988)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Edge of Tomorrow (1961)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  In real life, resetting is more difficult ...

Education (2020)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Effects (1979)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-73)
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Eight Hours Don't Make a Day: Criterion Blu-ray review

Eight Hours of Terror (1957)
  Post-Op, week one

El bosque del lobo (1970)
  Recent fantasy and horror on disk

El Dia de la Bestia (1995)
  Brief comments, part one

El Dorado (1966)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

El fantasma del convento (1934)
  Early Mexican horror from Indicator

El Pico (1983)
  The films of Eloy de la Iglesia

El Pico 2 (1984)
  The films of Eloy de la Iglesia

El Puro (1969)
  Arrow's Savage Guns: 4 Classic Westerns on Blu-ray

El Sur (1983)
  Victor Erice's El Sur (1983): Criterion Blu-ray review

El vampiro negro (1953)
  Román Viñoly Barreto's El vampiro negro (1953)

El violador infernal (1988)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
  Late winter viewing, part one

Electric Chair, The (1975)
  Post-Op, week four

Element of Crime (1984)
  Lars Von Trier's Europe Trilogy (1984-1991): Criterion Blu-ray review

Elephant Boy (1937)
  Sabu and the Kordas

Eleventh Commandment, The (1987)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Elvira Madigan (1967)
  Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema from Criterion

Elysium (2013)
  Genre Viewing: Science Fiction

Emigrants, The (1971)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Jan Troell's The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972)

Emil and the Detectives (1931)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Emil und die Detektive (1931)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Emitaï (1971)
  Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène: Criterion Blu-ray review

Empathy, Inc. (2018)
  Recent fantasy and horror on disk

Emperor of the North (1973)
  Twilight Time round-up

End of the Road (1970)
  Additional Recent Viewing ...

Ender's Game (2013)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Endless Night (1972)
  A frustrating evening

Endless, The (2017)
  The pleasure of not knowing

Enemy (2013)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Epic of Everest, The (1924)
  Documentary and the evolution of movies

Epidemic (1987)
  Lars Von Trier's Europe Trilogy (1984-1991): Criterion Blu-ray review

Equalizer 2, The (2018)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Equus (1977)
  Sidney Lumet, from stage to screen

Eraserhead (1977)
  The Key to Eraserhead?
  David Lynch/Eraserhead interview
  Podcasting again ...

Ercole al centro della terra (1961)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Erotic Nightmare (1999)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Errand, The (1980)
  Recent BFI releases

Escape from Broadmoor (1948)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Escape in the Fog (1945)
  Indicator in a box

Escape Plan (2013)
  Genre Viewing: Science Fiction

Escape to Burma (1955)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea (1972)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

et mourir de plaisir (1960)
  Styles of Horror, part two

Eternity and a Day (1998)
  Discovering Theo Angelopoulos

Europa (1991)
  Lars Von Trier's Europe Trilogy (1984-1991): Criterion Blu-ray review

Europe '51 (1952)
  Rossellini & Bergman: a collision of life and art

Evening of Edgar Allan Poe, An (1970)
  Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

Event Horizon (1997)
  Pulp Epics

Evil Ed (1995)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Evil Eye (1963)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Evil Laugh (1986)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Evil of Dracula (1974)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

Evils of the Night (1984)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Evilspeak (1981)
  Video Nasties, Part 2

Ex Machina (2015)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

Excalibur (1981)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Execution Game, The (1979)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Executioner, The (1963)
  Criterion Blu-ray review:Luis Garcia Berlanga's The Executioner (1963)

Executioner, The (1974)
  Italian cops and killers

Executioners (1993)
  Johnnie To's The Heroic Trio/Executioners (1993): Criterion Blu-ray review

eXistenZ (1999)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (2005)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
  Brief comments, part one

Exorcist III, The (1990)
  Old horrors, newly packaged

Exorcist, The (1973)
  Beware the children!
  The transgressive art of William Friedkin

Exotic Ones, The (1968)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Expect No Mercy (1995)
  Zale Dalen's Skip Tracer (1977) & the Canadian tax shelter era

Expendables 2, The (2012)
  Summer Viewing

Experiment in Terror (1962)
  Recent Indicator viewing

Expresso Bongo (1959)
  The revival of Flipside

Exterior Night (1994)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Exterminator 2 (1984)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Extraordinary Voyage, An (2011)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Eye in the Sky (2015)
  Tripping, shopping and the airborne multiplex
  Late summer viewing: Spies, Killers and Terrorists

Eye of the Needle (1981)
  Melodrama from Twilight Time

Eyeball (1975)
  Giallothon!

Eyes of Fire (1983)
  Avery Crounse's Eyes of Fire (1983)

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
  More from Indicator

Eyes Wide Shut (1998)
  Stanley Kubrick 8B: Male Anxiety and Marriage - Eyes Wide Shut (1998)

F

F For Fake (1973)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part three

F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Fabulous Baron Munchausen, The (1962)
  The Fabulous World of Karel Zeman
  Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman:Criterion Blu-ray review

Fabulous World of Jules Verne, The (1958)
  The Fabulous World of Karel Zeman
  Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman:Criterion Blu-ray review

Face at the Window, The (1939)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
  Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957): Criterion Blu-ray review

Face of Darkness, The (1976)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Face of Fu Manchu, The (1965)
  Indicator in a box

Faces In the Crowd (2011)
  Michael Dowse's Goon: Made in Winnipeg

Faces Places (2017)
  Agnes Varda's passion for life

Facts of Murder, The (1959)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Fade to Black (1980)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Fades, The (2010)
  Binge Viewing

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 1

Fail Safe (1964)
  One of these things is not like the others

Fall of Ako Castle, The (1978)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
  Genre On Disk, part one
  Styles of Horror, part two

Fall of the Louse of Usher, The (2002)
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Falsche Bewegung (1975)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (1974-76)

Falstaff (1966)
  The myth of Orson Welles' failure
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Family Secret, The (1951)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Fan, The (1982)
  Wrapping up 2022

Fanatic (1965)
  Hammer on Blu-ray from Indicator, part two

Fanny (1932)
  Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy (1931-36): Criterion Blu-ray review

Fantastic Voyage (1966)
  More in-flight entertainment
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Fantasticks (1995/2000)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Fantomas (1964)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Fantomas Unleashed (1965)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Fantomas vs Scotland Yard (1967)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
  Pizza, beer and revenge

Fargo (1996)
  Holiday viewing

Fascination (1979)
  Recent Viewing

Fast Five (2011)
  Vin Diesel: fitting in

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Fat Man on a Beach (1974)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Fatal Exam (1990)
  Home-Grown Horrors

Fate of Lee Khan, The (1973)
  Art and action in the films of King Hu

Fear (1954)
  Recent viewing: April & May 2016

Fear and Desire (1953)
  Stanley Kubrick 3: The Missing Piece - Fear and Desire (1953)

Fear No Evil (1968)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Fear No Evil (1981)
  Another mixed bag ...

Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2 (2016)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Fear, The (1995)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1966)
  Holiday viewing

Feathered Serpent (1976/1978)
  DVD of the week: The Feathered Serpent

Feed the Light (2014)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018: Part Two

Felicity (1978)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Fellini Satyricon (1969)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Fellini Satyricon (1969)

Female Executioner, The (1985)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1972)
  More Arrow ...

Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701’s Grudge Song (1973)
  More Arrow ...

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
  More Arrow ...

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
  More Arrow ...

Ferat Vampire (1982)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Festen (1998)
  Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration,1998): Criterion Blu-ray review

Field In England, A (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part three

Fiend (1980)
  Another mixed bag ...

Fifth Cord, The (1971)
  Giallothon!

Fight For You Life (1977}
  Video Nasties, Part 3

Film (1965)
  Summer viewing: the serious stuff

Film (1979)
  Summer viewing: the serious stuff

Filming "Othello" (1979)
  Orson Welles' Othello (1952/55): Criterion Blu-ray review

Filmworker (2017)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Final Flesh (2009)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Final Prayer (2013)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Finishing Line, The (1976)
  Vampire Circus footnote

Firepower (1979)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

Fires Were Started (1943)
  Basil Dearden, Humphrey Jennings, and the fires of London

Firestarter (1984)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

First Cow (2020)
  Getting serious

First Love (2019)
  Asia extreme

First Men in the Moon (1964)
  Binging on Twilight Time

First Purge, The (2018)
  Brief comments, part one

Five Days, The (1973)
  Recent Severin viewing

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
  Exiles at war

Flame In the Streets (1961)
  Recent Viewing part 1

Flaming Star (1960)
  Binging on Twilight Time

Flash Gordon (1980)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, The (1952)
  Ozu Yasujiro's The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952): Criterion Blu-ray review

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
  Recent fantasy and horror on disk

Flesh and the Fiends, The (1960)
  Fall viewing, part one

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
  Paul Morrissey's Gothic horrors

Flesh+Blood (1985)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Flesheater (1988)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)
  Summer viewing: short takes

Flowers in the Attic (1987)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Footprints on the Moon (1975)
  Giallothon!
  Shameless exploitation

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
  Recent Indicator viewing

For Those in Peril (1944)
  A week of DVDs

Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The (1970)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Forbidden Room, The (2015)
  Catching up, part two

Force 10 From Navarone (1978)
  The good, the mediocre and the annoying

Forever Purge, The (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Forgiveness of Blood, The (2011)
  DVD Review: The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)

Forgotten Memories (1997)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Forgotten Silver (1995)
  The real pleasure of fake commentaries
  Lost and Found

Formula for a Murder (1985)
  Shameless exploitation

Fort Yuma Gold (1966)
  Catching up, part two

Forty Acre Feud (1965)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Forza Bastia (1978)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Four Faces West (1948)
  In-flight entertainment

Four Feathers, The (1939)
  DVD of the week: The Four Feathers (1939)

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
  Recent Severin viewing

Four of the Apocalypse, The (1975)
  Arrow's Savage Guns: 4 Classic Westerns on Blu-ray

Four Sided Triangle (1953)
  Genre On Disk, part one

Fourth Victim, The (1971)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Fox with a Velvet Tail, The (1971)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Foxcatcher (2014)
  October viewing notes

Fragment of Fear (1970)
  Recent Indicator viewing

Frailty (2001)
  Miscellaneous Thoughts

Framed (1947)
  Indicator's Columbia Noir #2

Frank (2014)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Frankenhooker (1990)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Frankenstein (1994)
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Frankenstein's Army (2013)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Frankenstein: Day of the Beast (2011)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Freaks (1932)
  Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers on Blu-ray from Criterion

Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Freeway (1996)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

French Cancan (1954)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

French Connection, The (1971)
  The transgressive art of William Friedkin

French Dressing (1964)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part Two

Freshman, The (1925)
  Blu-ray Review: Harold Lloyd's The Freshman (1925)

Fright Night (1985)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Frighteners, The (1996)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Frightmare (1974)
  Spectrum of Horror: from class to crass

From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

From Beyond (1986)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

From Caligari to Hitler (2014)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

From Up On Poppy Hill (2011)
  Everyday magic: Goro Miyazaki's From Up On Poppy Hill

Front Page, The (1931)
  Classic Howard Hawks on Blu-ray

Frontier(s) (2007)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo (1995)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Frozen Ghost, The (1945)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Fulci for Fake (2019)
  Euro Horror

Full Circle (1977)
  Dragons and ghosts, resurrected in 4K

Full Metal Jacket (1986)
  Stanley Kubrick 8A: Male Anxiety and War - Full Metal Jacket (1986)

Full Treatment, The (1960)
  Hammer thrillers on Blu-ray from Indicator

Funhouse, The (1981)
  Random notes: August 2016

Furie (2019)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
  Recent big-screen viewing

Furious 7 (2015)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Fury (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

G

Gaea Girls (2000)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 2

Gai dimanche (1935)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, The (2013)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Galaxy of Terror (1981)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three

Game of Death, A (1945)
  Fall viewing, part one

Game of Survival (1989)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Game, The (1984)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Game, The (1997)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965)
  Kaiju mania

Games (1967)
  Perverse Families & Dysfunctional Kids

Gang War in Milan (1973)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Gangster Squad (2013)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Ganja & Hess (1973)
  Styles of Horror, part two

Garment Jungle, The (1957)
  Indicator in a box

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004)
  The real pleasure of fake commentaries

Gaslight (1940)
  Thorold Dickinson

Gates of Heaven (1978)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Gatling Gun (1968)
  Catching up, part two

Gator (1976)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part One

Gator Green (2013)
  Representing Violence: The Manson Family (2003)

Geisha House, The (1999)
  DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)

General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait (1974)
  Barbet Schroeder's General Idi Amin Dada (1974): Criterion Blu-ray review

Genocide (1968)
  When Horror Came to Shochiku: from absurd to apocalypse ...

Germany Pale Mother (1980)
  Year End 2015

Get Carter (1971)
  The good and the bad of Warner Brothers

Get Mean (1975)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part One

Get Out (2017)
  Summer viewing: short takes, part 2

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
  Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (1999): Criterion Blu-ray review

Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, The (1964)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018

Ghost Rider (2006)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Ghost Story (1974)
  Spooky

Ghost Story for Christmas (1971-78, 2005-13)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Ghost Story, A (2017)
  Ghosts Good and Bad

Ghosts of Mars (2001)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Ghosts Series 1 (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Ghosts Series 2 (2020)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Ghostwatch (1992)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Giallo a Venezia (1979)
  Giallothon!

Giallo in Venice (1979)
  Giallothon!

Giant Claw, The (1957)
  The joy of B: Sam Katzman's 1950s horrors

Giant Gila Monster, The (1959)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Giant Spider Invasion, The (1975)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Gideon's Day (1958)
  John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Indicator Blu-ray

Gift, The (2015)
  Brief comments, part one

Girl From Tobacco Row (1966)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Girl in Black Stockings, The (1957)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Girl Who Knew Too Much, The (1963)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Girl with All the Gifts, The (2016)
  Random viewing, short takes

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Girl Without Hands, The (2016)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Girly (1970)
  Perverse Families & Dysfunctional Kids

Giuseppina (1959)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Gleaners & I, The (2000)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Glen and Randa (1971)
  Whatever Happened to Jim McBride?

Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Glory Guys, The (1965)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

God Told Me To (1976)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)
  Monsters, killers and existential dread on Blu-ray

Godmothers, The (1973)
  Grefé, Shatner and the resurrection of Impulse (1974)

Gods of Egypt (2016)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016
  A 3D New Year

Godzilla (1954)
  Kaiju mania
  Two Godzilla novellas by Shigeru Kayama

Godzilla Minus One (2023)
  Year End 2023

Gog (1954)
  Seeing in the New Year

Goin' Down the Road (1970)
  Don Shebib's Canadian working class poetry: Goin' Down the Road (1970) and its sequel

Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968)
  When Horror Came to Shochiku: from absurd to apocalypse ...

Gold (1934)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part two

Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The (1973)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
  Post-Op, week one

Good Book, The (1997)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Good Die Young, The (1954)
  Memories of monochrome England

Good Times, Wonderful Times (1965)
  Lionel Rogosin: part two

Goodbye, 20th Century (1998)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Goon (2012)
  Michael Dowse's Goon: Made in Winnipeg

Gorgo (1961)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Gorgon, The (1964)
  Hammer on Blu-ray from Indicator, part two

Gosford Park (2001)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part one

Gospel According to Matthew, The (1964)
  Recent Viewing 1

Gothic (1987)
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Gow: The Headhunter (1931)
  A picture needs a thousand words ...

Graduation (2016)
  The cinematic art of Cristian Mungiu

Graduation Day (1981)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Grand Duel, The (1972)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Grand Hotel (1932)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Grand Slam (1967)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Grandmaster, The (2013)
  Genre Viewing 2

Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
  John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Indicator Blu-ray

Grave of the Vampire (1972)
  Demons and vampires from the '70s

Grave Robbers (1989)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Grave Secrets (1989)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Grave, The (1995)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Graveyard of Honor (1975)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Graveyard of Honor (2002)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Gravity (2013)
  Genre Viewing: Science Fiction

Gray Lady Down (1978)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Great Silence, The (1968)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975)
  Back to the '70s

Great Wall, The (2016)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Great White Silence, The (1924)
  Recent Viewing 2
  Documentary and the evolution of movies

Great Yokai War, The (2005)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Green Slime, The (1968)
  More late winter viewing, part one

Gretta (1984)
  Fall viewing, part one

Grey Gardens (1975)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Grim Reaper, The (1976)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Groundstar Conspiracy, The (1972)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Guardian, The (1990)
  More random notes: September 2016

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  Twilight Time: Fantasies of romance

Gumshoe (1971)
  The enigmatic Albert Finney

Gun for Jennifer, A (1998)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Gun Fury (1953)
  Twilight Time goes West

Gundala (2019)
  Holiday viewing

Gunfighter, The (1950)
  Tired ageing badmen: Criterion Blu-ray review

Guns and Guts (1974)
  Two Mexican westerns from Vinegar Syndrome

Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1958)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

H

H-Bomb, The (1956)
  Val Guest and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

H-Man, The (1958)
  Ishiro Honda: Masters of Cinema

Habit (1995)
  Fessenden and Stanley, together again

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Hagazussa (2017)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Hail, Caesar! (2016)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Halfway House, The (2004)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Halloween (1978)
  Remaking and undoing horror
  Watching Horror

Halloween (2007)
  Remaking and undoing horror

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
  Watching Horror

Halloween 5 (1989)
  Watching Horror

Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later (1998)
  Watching Horror

Halloween II (1981)
  Watching Horror

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
  Watching Horror

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
  Watching Horror

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
  Watching Horror

Hand of Death, The (1976)
  Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Hanging Heart (1983)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Hangman (1985)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
  Seeing the world in black-and-white ... again

Hangover Square (1945)
  Hangover Square and the mysteries of adaptation

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Happiness (1998)
  Tod Solondz's Happiness (1998): Criterion Blu-ray review

Happy Anniversary (1962)
  Discovery and loss: Pierre Etaix 1928-2016

Happy Ever After (1974)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Harbour Drift (1929)
  Guest post: A Weimar Cinema Revelation: Harbour Drift (1929), part one
  Guest post: A Weimar Cinema Revelation: Harbour Drift (1929), part two

Hard Rock Zombies (1985)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Hard Times (1975)
  The alpha and omega of Walter Hill

Hard To Be a God (2013)
  Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God (2013)

Harder They Fall, The (1956)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Hardware (1990)
  Fessenden and Stanley, together again

Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Harper (1966)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Harpoon (2019)
  Holiday viewing

Harry Brown (2009)
  Recent viewing, part 2

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
  Re-evaluating Italian horrors on Blu-ray from 88 Films

Hateful Eight, The (2015)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Haunted Palace, The (1963)
  Styles of Horror, part two

Haunted Samurai (1970)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Haunted, The (1964)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018

Haunting of Hill House, The (2019)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three

Haunting of Julia, The (1977)
  Dragons and ghosts, resurrected in 4K

Hawaii (1966)
  Recent Twilight Time releases

Haywire (2011)
  Recent viewing - theatrical

Heads (1994)
  My one sad shot at stardom

Hearse, The (1980)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Heart of a Dog (2015)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog (2015)

Heart of the Angel (1989)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Heartless (2009)
  Miscellaneous Thoughts

Hearts and Minds (1973)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Hearts and Minds (1973)

Heiress, The (1949)
  William Wyler's The Heiress (1949): Criterion Blu-ray review

Helicopter Canada (1966)
  Resurrecting a pre-tax shelter classic: The Rainbow Boys (1973)

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
  More Italo-horror: The Good, the Bad and the Gory

Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils (2002)
  Cursed by Warner Brothers:The Strange Fate of Ken Russell's The Devils (1971)

Hell or High Water (2016)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part Two

Hellfighters (1968)
  Summer viewing: short takes

Hellgate (1989)
  Looking back ...

Hellmouth (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Hellstrom Chronicle, The (1971)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Hellzapoppin (1941)
  Deconstructing Hollywood ... for laughs: Hellzapoppin (1941)

Help Me ... I'm Possessed (1974)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Her Private Hell (1968)
  Recent Viewing part 1

Hercules at the Centre of the Earth (1961)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four
  Fall viewing, part two

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Here Comes the Devil (2012)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

Here Is Your Life (1966)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Here Is Your Life (1966)

Hereditary (2018)
  Late Fall viewing: Oh, the horror!

Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Heroic Times (1983)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Heroic Trio, The (1993)
  Johnnie To's The Heroic Trio/Executioners (1993): Criterion Blu-ray review

Heroin Busters, The (1977)
  Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
  Recent viewing, part 3

Hickey & Boggs (1972)
  Law, disorder and cynicism in the '70s

Hide and Seek (1972)
  Recent disks from England, part one

High Command, The (1937)
  Thorold Dickinson

High Treason (1951)
  Damned Treason

High Wind in Jamaica, A (1965)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

High-Rise (2015)
  Viewing notes, September 2016

Highway Racer (1977)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955)
  Thorold Dickinson

Hills Have Eyes Part 2, The (1984)
  Trash diversions
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Himizu (2011)
  Recent Viewing 2

Hired to Kill (1989)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Hiroshima (1953)
  Recent Arrow viewing

His Girl Friday (1940)
  Classic Howard Hawks on Blu-ray

History is Made at Night (1937)
  Frank Borzage's History is Made at Night (1937): Criterion Blu-ray review

Hit, The (1984)
  Tired ageing badmen: Criterion Blu-ray review

Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Hitch In Time, A (1978)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Hitcher in the Dark (1989)
  Euro Pulp

Hitler - A Film from Germany (1977)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Hitler's Children (1943)
  A DVD Addict In Paris

Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Holcroft Covenant, The (1985)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Hole In the Ground, The (1962)
  Nuclear Madness
  Val Guest and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Holiday in Spain (1960)
  A mixed bag from Screen Archives

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Holocaust 2000 (1978)
  Post-Op, week one

Home (1998)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Home From the Hill (1985/87)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Home-Made Car, The (1963)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Homesman, The (2014)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Homework (1989)
  Abbas Kiarostami's The Koker Trilogy (1987-94): Criterion Blu-ray review

Homicidal (1961)
  William Castle's horrors from Indicator

Honeymoon Killers, The (1969)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: The Honeymoon Killers (1969)

Hooked Generation, The (1968)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Horde, The (2009)
  The disappearance of real-world disk retail

Horrible Dr. Hichcock, The (1962)
  Crime and Horror from Radiance

Horror Express (1972)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Horror High (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Horror Hospital (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Horror Hotel (1960)
  Summer viewing: short takes

Horror Island (1941)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Horror of Dracula (1958)
  Genre On Disk, part one

Horror Show, The (1989)
  Styles of Horror, part three
  Why do I do it?

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
  Fall viewing, part one

Horsehead (2014)
  Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

Hot Snake (1976)
  Two Mexican westerns from Vinegar Syndrome

Hotel Terminus (1988)
  DVD diary: September - part one
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
  DVD diary: September - part one

Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

Hour of the Gun (1967)
  Twilight Time goes West

House (1985)
  Why do I do it?

House By the Cemetery, The (1981)
  Recent Viewing: horror from Arrow Video

House II: The Second Story (1987)
  Why do I do it?

House III: The Horror Show (1989)
  Why do I do it?

House Is Black, The (1963)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

House IV: The Repossession (1991)
  Why do I do it?

House of Bamboo (1955)
  Year End 2015

House of Exorcism, The (1975)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

House of Horrors (1946)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

House of Lost Women, The (1982)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

House of the End Times, The (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

House of the Living Dead (1974)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

House of the Long Shadows (1983)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

House of Usher (1960)
  Genre On Disk, part one
  Styles of Horror, part two

House of Usher, The (1989)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

House on Haunted Hill (1959)
  Oh, the horror! part two

House on Straw Hill, The (1976)
  Acting Up a Storm

House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

House That Screamed, The (1970)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

House Where Death Lives, The (1981)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

House With 100 Eyes, The (2013)
  Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
  Nelson Pereira dos Santos' ethnographic satire: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)

How to Build a Time Machine (2016)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
  Boxed in ... the urge to collect

How to Kill a Judge (1975)
  Organized crime, political corruption and bourgeois complicity: four Italian Mafia movies

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Howling, The (1981)
  Horrors, Old and New

Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence, The (2015)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Human Condition (1959-61)
  Being human: two new Criterion releases

Human Lanterns (1982)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Hunger Games, The (2012)
  March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle

Hunted (1972)
  The Pemini Organisation on Blu-ray from Indicator

Hunted, The (2003)
  Masculinity under stress: late films by Sam Peckinpah and William Friedkin

Hunting Ground (1983)
  Wrapping up 2022

Hurry Sundown (1967)
  Year End 2013

Husbands (1970)
  John Cassavetes' Husbands (1970): Criterion Blu-ray review

Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
  Twilight Time round-up

Hustle (1975)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Hyena (2014)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Häxan (1922)
  Benjamin Christensen's Häxan (1922): Criterion Blu-ray review

Hôtel du Nord (1938)
  Marcel Carné's Hôtel du Nord (1938): Criterion Blu-ray review

I

I Am Belfast (2015)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part Two

I Am Cuba (1964)
  Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba (1964): Criterion Blu-ray review

I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
  Summer viewing: short takes, part 2

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

I cannibali (1970)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

I Come in Peace (1990)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

I Knew Her Well (1965)
  Antonio Pietrangeli's I Knew Her Well (1965): Criterion Blu-ray review

I Like Bats (1986)
  Recent Severin viewing

I Padroni della Citta (1976)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
  Video Nasties, Part 3
  Remaking and undoing horror

I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
  Remaking and undoing horror

I tre volti della paura (1963)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

I Vinti (1952)
  Background Detail

I Want Him Dead (1968)
  Arrow's Savage Guns: 4 Classic Westerns on Blu-ray

I Was a Fireman (1943)
  Basil Dearden, Humphrey Jennings, and the fires of London

I Will Buy You (1956)
  DVD Review: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2002)
  Interesting releases from Australia's Imprint

I'm Still Here (2010)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part three

I, Daniel Blake (2016)
  Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake (2016): Criterion Blu-ray review

I, Monster (1971)
  Recent Indicator viewing

I, the Jury (1953)
  Cheap sci-fi and hardboiled noir in 3D

Ice Cream Man (1995)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Icy Breasts (1974)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Idaho Transfer (1973)
  Peter Fonda's Idaho Transfer (1973)

Identikit (1974)
  Recent Severin viewing

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Il Boss (1973)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

Il sesso della strega (1973)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Il Tetto (1956)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Ilya Muromets (1956)
  Aleksandr Ptushko's epic fantasies

Im Lauf der Zeit (1976)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (1974-76)

Images (1972)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Imitation Game, The (2014)
  Year End 2014

Immortal One, The (1963)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Immortal Story, The (1968)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Orson Welles' The Immortal Story (1968)

Immortals (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Impulse (1974)
  Grefé, Shatner and the resurrection of Impulse (1974)

Impulse (1984)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

In a Lonely Place (1950)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: In a Lonely Place (1950)

In a Valley of Violence (2016)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part Two

In Cold Blood (1967)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Richard Brooks' In Cold Blood (1967)

In My Mind (2017)
  Intimidated by Art

In the Aftermath (1988)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

In the Company of Men (1995)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

In the Earth (2021)
  Recent fantasy and horror on disk

In the Fog (2012)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part two

In the Folds of the Flesh (1970)
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

In This Corner of the World (2016)
  Rhyming Pairs

Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
  The real pleasure of fake commentaries

Incident in a Ghostland (2017)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Incident, The (1967)
  Twilight Crime

Incredible Melting Man, The (1977)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
  They don't make 'em like that any more ...
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two
  Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957): Criterion Blu-ray review

Incubus (1966)
  Ghosts, demons and cinematic experiments

Incubus (1982)
  Year End 2018

India Song (1975)
  Two Films by Marguerite Duras: Criterion Blu-ray review

Indian Tomb, The (1959)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Infernal Affairs (2002)
  The Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002-03): Criterion Blu-ray review

Infernal Affairs II (2003)
  The Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002-03): Criterion Blu-ray review

Infernal Affairs III (2003)
  The Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002-03): Criterion Blu-ray review

Infernal Rapist (1988)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Inferno (1953)
  Desert noir and 3D from Twilight Time

Inferno (1980)
  Recent Viewing: horror from Arrow Video

Inferno (2016)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Inferno of Torture (1969)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Infinity Pool (2023)
  Back to the multiplex

Informer, The (1929)
  The transition to sound: Arthur Robison's The Informer (1929)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  The Director as Sociopath ...

Inherent Vice (2014)
  A bear, a detective and the big city

Inherit the Wind (1960)
  Catching up with Twilight

Inheritance, The (1962)
  DVD Review: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse)

Initiation of Sarah, The (1977)
  Murder, mayhem, sex and madness from Arrow

Initiation, The (1984)
  More genre viewing

Inner Sanctum Mysteries (1943-45)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Innkeepers, The (2011)
  Recent Viewing 2
  Miscellaneous Thoughts

Innocent Bystanders (1972)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Inseminoid (1981)
  Trashy Brit horrors

Insiang (1976)
  World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part two

Inside Man (2006)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Insomnia (1997)
  Remaking and undoing horror

Insomnia (2002)
  Remaking and undoing horror

Insomniac, The (1971)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Institute Benjamenta (1995)
  Recent viewing - video

International Lady (1941)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

International, The (2009)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Intersections (1977)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

Interstellar (2014)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Intruder, The (1975)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Invaders (1967-68)
  Binge Viewing

Invasion from Inner Earth (1974)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013
  Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Invention For Destruction (1958)
  Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman:Criterion Blu-ray review

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
  The Pathology of Power:Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Invisible Agent (1942)
  Brief comments, part two

Invisible Man Appears, The (1949)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Invisible Man Returns, The (1940)
  Brief comments, part two

Invisible Man vs the Human Fly, The (1957)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Invisible Man's Revenge, The (1944)
  Brief comments, part two

Invisible Man, The (1933)
  Brief comments, part two

Invisible Man, The (2020)
  Holiday viewing

Invisible Maniac (1990)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Invisible Ray, The (1936)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Invisible Target (2007)
  Late summer viewing, part two: Thrills and Chills

Invisible Woman, The (1940)
  Brief comments, part two

Invitation to Hell (1982)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Ionopsis (1997)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Ipcress File, The (1965)
  Holiday viewing

Iron Giant, The (1999)
  More random notes: September 2016

Iron Monkey (1993)
  Brief comments, part two

Iron Prefect, The (1977)
  Organized crime, political corruption and bourgeois complicity: four Italian Mafia movies

Iron-Fisted Monk, The (1977)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Island of Death (1976)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1996)
  Recent viewing, part 3
  Lost Soul: Richard Stanley vs Hollywood commerce

Island of Lost Souls (1932)
  Recent viewing, part 3

Island of Terror (1966)
  Terence Fisher and science fiction

Isle of Dogs (2018)
  Recent theatrical viewing

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
  Ealing Studios
  Googie Withers (1917-2011)

It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
  Wrapping up 2022

It Came From Kuchar (2009)
  The pleasures of transgression

It Came From Outer Space (1953)
  A 3D New Year

It Came from the Desert (2017)
  Catching up, part two

It Follows (2014)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

It Happened One Night (1934)
  Criterion Blu-ray review:Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
  It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Stanley Kramer's struggle to be funny

It's About the Second Coming (1980)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

It's in the Bag! (1945)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Italian Connection, The (1972)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Ivan's Childhood (1962)
  Andrei Tarkovsky

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Jabberwocky (1977)
  Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (1977): Criterion Blu-ray review

Jack Be Nimble (1992)
  Brief Notes, December Part Two

Jack Frost (1996)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Jack Reacher (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Jack the Ripper (1959)
  Miscellaneous notes: Severin Films

Jack the Ripper with Screaming Lord Sutch (1963)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Jack's Wife (1972)
  Life and Death in the films of George A. Romero

Jackie Brown (1997)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Jamaica Inn (1939)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Jane Eyre (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Jason Bourne (2016)
  Tripping, shopping and the airborne multiplex

Jaws 2 (1978)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Jaws 3D (1983)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Jaws of Satan (1981)
  Trawling the Internet

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Jazz Singer, The (1959)
  Jerry Lewis in The Jazz Singer (1959)

Jekyll (1969)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Jellyfish Eyes (2013)
  Late winter viewing, part one

Jenseits der Strasse (1929)
  Guest post: A Weimar Cinema Revelation: Harbour Drift (1929), part one
  Guest post: A Weimar Cinema Revelation: Harbour Drift (1929), part two

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
  The early films of Sydney Pollack

JeruZalem (2015)
  Fall viewing, part two

Jester's Tale, A (1964)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part three

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)
  Miguel Llansó's trash aesthetic

Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien (2010)
  Twilight Time again ...

Joanna (1968)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
  Jodorowsky's Dune: the triumph of imagination

John Carter (2012)
  March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle

John Dies at the End (2012)
  John Dies At the End ... and that's not a bad thing

John Wick 3 (2019)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Johnny O'Clock (1947)
  Columbia Noir #3 from Indicator

Johnny on the Run (1953)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Jour de fete (1949)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Journey to Italy (1954)
  Rossellini & Bergman: a collision of life and art

Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
  The Fabulous World of Karel Zeman
  Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman:Criterion Blu-ray review

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
  Binging on Twilight Time

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Journeys Through French Cinema (2017)
  Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Ju-On: Black Ghost (2009)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Ju-On: The Curse (2000)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Ju-On: The Curse 2 (2000)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Ju-On: The Grudge (2003)
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2004)
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Ju-On: White Ghost (2009)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Jubilation Street (1944)
  Subverting propaganda:Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II

Judex (1963)
  Criterion DVD Review: Judex (1963)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  Twilight Time again ...

Jug Face (2013)
  The disappearance of real-world disk retail
  Chad Crawford Kinkle's folk horror

Juggernaut (1974)
  Blu-rays from Kino Lorber

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

June Carr: The Virtual Vaudevillian (1997)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Jungle Book (1942)
  Sabu and the Kordas

Jungle Holocaust (1977)
  Euro Pulp

Junior Bonner (1972)
  A Kino Lorber miscellany

K

Kalpana (1948)
  World Cinema Project 4: Criterion Blu-ray review

Kameradschaft (1931)
  Summer viewing: the serious stuff

Kamikaze '89 (1982)
  Genre play in Germany

Karl Marx City (2016)
  Haunted by the past: Karl Marx City (2016)

Karl May (1974)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Keep an Eye Out (2018)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Kelly's Heroes (1970)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Khartoum (1966)
  Twilight Time X 3

Kidnapped Coed (1975)
  The exploitation art of Frederick R. Friedel

Kill Zombie (2012)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Kill, Baby ... Kill! (1966)
  Ghosts Good and Bad

Killdozer (1974)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Killer Condom (1996)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Killer Crocodile (1989)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Killer Crocodile 2 (1990)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Killer Elite, The (1975)
  More from Twilight Time

Killer is Still Among Us, The (1986)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Killer Nun (1978)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Killer of Dolls, The (1975)
  Wrapping up 2022

Killer Reserved Nine Seats, The (1974)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Killer Shrews, The (1959)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Killer's Kiss (1955)
  Stanley Kubrick part 1: Becoming Kubrick

Killer's Moon (1978)
  Trash diversions

Killers, The (1946)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: The Killers (1946/1964)

Killers, The (1956)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: The Killers (1946/1964)

Killers, The (1964)
  Recent disks from England: Arrow Video, part one
  Criterion Blu-ray review: The Killers (1946/1964)

Killing Birds (1987)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Killing Game, The (1978)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Killing of America, The (1981)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three
  Year End 2019

Killing of Sister George, The (1968)
  Miscellaneous viewing - Summer 2019

Killing, The (1956)
  Stanley Kubrick part 1: Becoming Kubrick

King Kong (1933)
  Summer viewing: short takes

King of Comedy, The (1982)
  Summer viewing: short takes, part 2

King of Jazz (1930)
  John Murray Anderson's King of Jazz (1930): Criterion Blu-ray review

King of Kings (1961)
  Recent Viewing 1

King of the Hill (1993)
  The Apprenticeship of Steven Soderbergh: King of the Hill (1993)

Kingdom II, The (1997)
  Ghosts, demons and cinematic experiments

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
  Recent big-screen viewing

Kingdom, The (1994)
  Ghosts, demons and cinematic experiments

Kingdom: Exodus, The (2022)
  Ghosts, demons and cinematic experiments

Kings of the Road (1976)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (1974-76)

Kiss Before the Mirror, The (1933)
  Murder, robbery and paranormal activity: three new releases

Kiss Me Monster (1969)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Kiss of the Vampire, The (1963)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
  Universal Noir #1 from Indicator

Klute (1971)
  Alan Pakula's Klute (1971): Criterion Blu-ray review

Knife of Ice (1972)
  Carroll Baker and Umberto Lenzi on Blu-ray

Knife+Heart (2018)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Knock at the Cabin (2023)
  Back to the multiplex

Knock On Any Door (1949)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Knockabout (1979)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Koker Trilogy (1987-94)
  Abbas Kiarostami's The Koker Trilogy (1987-94): Criterion Blu-ray review

Kolobos (1999)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Kong: Skull Island (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Krabat: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part two

Kramasha: To Be Continued (2007)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Krampus (2015)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
  Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kwaidan (1964)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Kôchiyama Sôshun (1936)
  The storytelling art of Sadao Yamanaka

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L'Assassino (1961)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part three

L'ecole des facteurs (1946)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

L'exécutrice (1985)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

L'homme qui ment (1968)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

L'Illusioniste (2010)
  DVD diary: September - part two

L'immortelle (1963)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

L'éden et après (1970)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

La casa del fin de los tiempos (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

La Chienne (1931)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Jean Renoir's La Chienne (1931)

La cérémonie (1995)
  Claude Chabrol's La cérémonie (1995): Criterion Blu-ray review

La femme du boulanger (1938)
  Marcel Pagnol's The Baker's Wife (1938):Criterion Blu-ray review

La fiancee de Dracula (2002)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

La Habanera (1937)
  DVD of the Week: La Habanera (1937)

La llorona (1933)
  Early Mexican horror from Indicator

La llorona (2019)
  Political thrillers, horror and metaphor

La Mala Ordina (1972)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

La Noche de la Ira (1985)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

La Nuit des Traquees (1980)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

La Piscine (1969)
  Recent viewing: April & May 2016

La poison (1951)
  Sacha Guitry's La poison (1951): Criterion Blu-ray review

La rose de fer (1973)
  Recent Viewing

La tete d'un homme (1933)
  Julien Duvivier in the Thirties: Eclipse 44

La vampire nue (1970)
  Recent Viewing

La Venere d’Ille (1979)
  More Italo-horror: The Good, the Bad and the Gory

La vérité (1960)
  Henri-Georges Clouzot's La vérité (1960): Criterion Blu-ray review

La Zona (2007)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Laddaland (2011)
  DVD Review: Laddaland (2011)

Lady Cocoa (1975)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Lady Frankenstein (1971)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Lady From Shanghai, The (1947)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

Lady Gambles, The (1949)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Lady in Cement (1968)
  Twilight Time round-up

Lady in White (1988)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Lady Kills, The (1977)
  Wrapping up 2022

Lady Morgan's Vengeance (1965)
  Italian Gothic horror on Blu-ray

Lady on a Train (1945)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Lady Reporter (1989)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Ladybug Ladybug (1964)
  Getting serious

Ladykillers, The (1955)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Lair of the White Worm, The (1988)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Lake Michigan Monster (2018)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Lake of Dracula (1971)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Lake, The (1978)
  Recent BFI releases

Land of Hope, The (2012)
  Recent disks from England, part two

Land of Milk and Honey (1971)
  Discovery and loss: Pierre Etaix 1928-2016

Larceny (1948)
  Universal Noir #1 from Indicator

Las viboras cambian de piel (1974)
  Two Mexican westerns from Vinegar Syndrome

Lash LaRue: A Man and His Memories (1992)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Last Airbender, The (2010)
  A week of DVDs

Last Gasp (1995)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Last House on Massacre Street, The (1973)
  S.F. Brownrigg's regional horrors

Last House on the Left, The (1972)
  Remaking and undoing horror

Last House on the Left, The (2009)
  Remaking and undoing horror

Last Hurrah of Chivalry (1979)
  Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Last Hurrah, The (1958)
  John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Indicator Blu-ray

Last King, The (2016)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Last Man on Earth, The (1964)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Last Matinee, The (2021)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Last Night, The (1982)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Last of the American Hoboes, The (1967)
  Lost films and alternative histories

Last Performance, The (1929)
  Disk discovery: Paul Fejos' Lonesome (1928) from Criterion

Last Stand, The (2013)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Last Starfighter, The (1984)
  More late winter viewing, part one

Last Winter, The (2006)
  Fessenden and Stanley, together again

Late Great Planet Earth, The (1979)
  More late winter viewing, part one

Laughing Dead, The (1989)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Laughing Policeman, The (1973)
  Walter Matthau, man of action?

Law of the Border (1966)
  World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review

Lawman (1971)
  Twilight Time goes West

Le Beau Serge (1958)
  Recent Viewing: the New Wave

Le Bonheur (1965)
  Recent Viewing: the New Wave

Le cercle rouge (1970)
  Jean-Pierre Melville's Le cercle rouge (1970): Criterion Blu-ray review

Le frisson des vampires (1971)
  Recent Viewing

Le mariage de Chiffon (1942)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Le Orme (1975)
  Giallothon!
  Shameless exploitation

Learning Tree, The (1969)
  Gordon Parks' The Learning Tree (1969): Criterion Blu-ray review

Legacy of Dracula (1970)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Legacy, The (1978)
  Trashy Brit horrors

Legend of a Hero (1986)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Legend of Hercules 3D, The (2013)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Legend of the Mountain (1979)
  King Hu's Legend of the Mountain (1979)

Legend of the Witches (1970)
  "Folk Horror"

Les Chiens (1978)
  Political thrillers, horror and metaphor

Les Cousins (1959)
  Recent Viewing: the New Wave

Les documents interdits (1989)
  Found-footage addendum

Les Echappees (1981)
  Random thoughts: Summer 2017

Les Raisins de la Morte (1978)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Les visiteurs du soir (1942)
  Thanksgiving viewing

Let There Be Light (1946)
  John Huston's Let There Be Light (1946)

Let Us Prey (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
  Another mixed bag ...

Letter Never Sent (1959)
  DVD of the Week: Letter Never Sent (1959)

Letter to Momo, A (2011)
  More recent animation

Letter to Three Wives, A (1949)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Lettres d'amour (1942)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Leviathan (1989)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Levres de sang (1975)
  Recent Viewing

Lieutenant Jangles (2018)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Lifeforce (1985)
  Horrors, Old and New

Lift (2001)
  DVD of the Week: All White in Barking/Men of the City

Lift, The (1983)
  Euro Horror

Lights Out (2013)
  Watching Horror

Like Me (2017)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Like Rabid Dogs (1976)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Lilies of the Field (1963)
  Two More from Twilight Time

Limbo (2021)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Limite (1931)
  World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review

Limits of Control, The (2009)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Lineup, The (1958)
  Indicator in a box

Lisa and the Devil (1973)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

Little House, The (2014)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
  Flipside: extreme male anxiety

Little Murders (1971)
  Indicator Blu-rays, part two: America in the 1970s

Little Stranger, The (2018)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, The (1974)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Living Magoroku, The (1943)
  Subverting propaganda:Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II

Living Skeleton, The (1968)
  When Horror Came to Shochiku: from absurd to apocalypse ...

Liza the Fox Fairy (2015)
  Cauldron releases, summer 2022

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
  Tripping, shopping and the airborne multiplex

Local Hero (1983)
  Bill Forsyth's Local Hero (1983): Criterion Blu-ray review

Locke (2014)
  In real life, resetting is more difficult ...

Lodge, The (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Logan (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Lolita (1962)
  Stanley Kubrick 4A: America in England - Lolita (1962)

Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Lone Wolf & Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Lone Wolf & Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Lonesome (1928)
  Disk discovery: Paul Fejos' Lonesome (1928) from Criterion

Long Arm, The (1956)
  Ealing Studios

Long Good Friday, The (1980)
  Recent disks from Arrow Video

Long Goodbye, The (1973)
  Recent disks from England, part two

Long Gray Line, The (1955)
  John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Indicator Blu-ray

Long Shot (1977)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part two

Long Wait, The (1954)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Longest Yard, The (1974)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Longford (2007)
  Recent viewing, part 2

Look Back in Anger (1959)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Look of Silence, The (2014)
  Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence (2014)

Lord of the Flies (1963)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Lords of Salem, The (2012)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
  A bear, a detective and the big city

Lost Boys, The (1987)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Lost Hearts (1973)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Lost Highway (1997)
  David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997): Criterion Blu-ray review

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
  Lost Soul: Richard Stanley vs Hollywood commerce

Love and Saucers (2017)
  Alien sex and the comedy of self-destruction: two documentaries

Love Letters (1942)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Love Me Deadly (1972)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Love on the Dole (1941)
  Quality control
  Guest post: William K. Everson & British Film part 2
  Seeing the world in black-and-white ... again

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2008)
  Recent viewing, part 2

Lovers Rock (2020)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Loving Memory (1970)
  DVD of the Week: Loving Memory (1970)

Lucia (1968)
  World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review

Lucky (2017)
  Harry Dean Stanton's swansong: Lucky (2017)

Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Lunch Hour (1962)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Lunopolis (2009)
  DVD of the week: Lunopolis

Lurkers (1987)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Lust for a Vampire (1971)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Luther the Geek (1989)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Luz (2018)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Luz: The Flower of Evil (2019)
  Juan Diego Escobar Alzate’s Luz: The Flower of Evil (2019)

Lynch/Oz (2022)
  Exploring the nature of artistic inspiration: Alexandre O. Philippe's Lynch/Oz (2022)

L’horloger de Saint Paul (1974)
  Bertrand Tavernier April 25, 1941-March 25, 2021

M

M*A*S*H (1970)
  Viewing notes, September 2016

Macabra (1981)
  Fall viewing, part one

Macbeth (1971)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Polanski's Macbeth (1971)

Machine That Kills People, The (1952)
  Recent viewing: April & May 2016

Machine, The (2013)
  Robots "R" Us

Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Mad Magician, The (1954)
  A post-Covid 3D evening

Mad Max (1979)
  Mad Max: from B-movie to Myth

Mad Max 2 (1981)
  Mad Max: from B-movie to Myth

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
  Mad Max: from B-movie to Myth

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  The return of Mad Max ... kind of

Madeleine, anatomia di un incubo (1974)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Madeleine, Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
  A DVD Addict In Paris
  An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film

Madhouse (1981)
  Looking back ...

Madigan (1968)
  A Kino Lorber miscellany
  Revisiting some old favourites

Madman (1981)
  Looking back ...

Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
  Steamy Screen: The Melodramas of Gainsborough Pictures

Magnificent Butcher, The (1979)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Magnificent Seven, The (2016)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
  Getting serious

Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
  Getting serious

Maigret: The Complete Series (1960)
  Unearthing memories: BBC's Maigret and rural Canadian violence

Maigret: The Complete Series (1991-2004)
  The good, the mediocre and the annoying

Maitresse (1976)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Major Dundee (1965)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
  Thanksgiving viewing

Making of Adventures of Stella Starr of the Galaxy Rangers in the 23rd Century, Chapter 7: Falling Starr!, The (1993)
  Can it really be that long ago?

Making of the President 1960, The (1963)
  DVD Review: The Making of the President: The 1960s
  Reviewing documentary

Making of the President 1964, The (1966)
  DVD Review: The Making of the President: The 1960s
  Reviewing documentary

Making of the President 1968, The (1969)
  DVD Review: The Making of the President: The 1960s
  Reviewing documentary

Mako: Jaws of Death (1976)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Malabimba (1979)
  Fall viewing, part one

Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973)
  Arrow's American Horror Project, vol 1

Mama (2013)
  Blu-ray Review: Mama (2013)

Man Called Hero, A (1999)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Man from Planet X, The (1951)
  The low-budget art of Edgar G. Ulmer

Man in Grey, The (1943)
  Steamy Screen: The Melodramas of Gainsborough Pictures

Man in the White Suit, The (1951)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Man of Violence (1969)
  Recent viewing - video

Man on the Brink (1981)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Man on the Roof (1976)
  Walter Matthau, man of action?

Man on the Roof, The (1976)
  Crime and Horror from Radiance

Man on the Train (2002)
  Murder, robbery and paranormal activity: three new releases

Man They Could Not Hang, The (1939)
  Karloff at Columbia on Eureka Blu-ray

Man Who Could Cheat Death, The (1959)
  Recent Brit disks

Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970)
  Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, The (2018)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Man Who Lies, The (1968)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
  Year End 2013

Man with a Shotgun, The (1961)
  Post-Op, week one

Man with Nine Lives, The (1940)
  Karloff at Columbia on Eureka Blu-ray

Man With the Iron Fists, The (2012)
  Pure Genre Pleasure: The Man With the Iron Fists

Man With Two Heads, The (1972)
  A Poverty Row evening

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
  Sinatra x 2

Mandabi (1968)
  Ousmane Sembène's Mandabi (1968): Criterion Blu-ray review

Mandy (1952)
  Ealing Studios
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Mangler, The (1995)
  Tobe Hooper's mangled career

Mangrove (2020)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Manhattan Baby (1982)
  Euro Pulp

Maniac (1963)
  Hammer on Blu-ray from Indicator, part two

Maniac Cop (1988)
  I love a deal ...

Manitou, The (1978)
  Demons and vampires from the '70s

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
  Five Shades of B

Manson Family, The (1997)
  Representing Violence: The Manson Family (2003)

Maps To the Stars (2014)
  David Cronenberg, now ... and then

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
  Year End 2022

March! (1971)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Marius (1931)
  Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy (1931-36): Criterion Blu-ray review

Mark of Lilith, The (1986)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Mark of the Devil (1970)
  Recent Viewing: more horror from Arrow

Mark of the Whistler, The (1944)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

Marooned (1969)
  Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

Marriage of Chiffon, The (1942)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Marseilles Trilogy (1931-36)
  Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy (1931-36): Criterion Blu-ray review

Martial Law (1990)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Martial Law 2: Undercover (1991)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Martin (1976)
  Martin (1976): George A. Romero's masterpiece

Marwencol (2010)
  Art and Identity: Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol (2010)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Mas Alla del Terror (1980)
  The second coming of Cauldron

Mask of Satan, The (1960)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror

Mask, The (1961)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Masked Mutilator (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Masks (2011)
  Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

Masque of the Red Death, The (1964)
  Styles of Horror, part two

Massacre Time (1966)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Massage Parlor Murders (1974)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Master of Dark Shadows (2019)
  Post-Op, week four

Master of the House (1925)
  Criterion Blu-ray Review: Master of the House (1925)

Master of the World (1961)
  Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

Master of the World (1983)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Master Race, The (1944)
  A week of DVDs

Master, The (2012)
  Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master

Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns (2005)
  Lost and Found

Matinee (1993)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part One

Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
  Michael Powell's A Matter of Life and Death (1946): Criterion Blu-ray review

Mausoleum (1982)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Max-Out (1970)
  A mixed bag from Screen Archives

MaXXXine (2024)
  Recent big-screen viewing

May (2002)
  Fall viewing, part two

Maya (1989)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Maze (1969)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Maze Runner, The (2014)
  Random viewing, short takes

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
  Random viewing, short takes

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
  Random viewing, short takes

Maze, The (1953)
  An evening with '50s monsters

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
  Leonard Cohen, Robert Altman and an elegy to a national myth

McPherson Tape, The (1989)
  Fall viewing, part two

Medium Cool (1969)
  DVD Review: Medium Cool (1969)

Melancholia (2011)
  Year End 2011

Memorial Valley Massacre (1988)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Memories of Murder (2003)
  Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder (2003): Criterion Blu-ray review

Men In Black 3 (2012)
  Summer Viewing

Men in War (1957)
  In-flight entertainment

Men of the City (2009)
  DVD of the Week: All White in Barking/Men of the City

Men of Two Worlds (1946)
  Thorold Dickinson

Menace II Society (1993)
  The Hughes Brothers' Menace II Society (1993): Criterion Blu-ray review

Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Mephisto Waltz, The (1971)
  Remember Paul Wendkos?

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
  Dorothy Arzner's Merrily We Go to Hell (1932): Criterion Blu-ray review

Message From Space (1978)
  DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)

Messiah of Evil (1973)
  DVD of the week: Messiah of Evil (1973)
  Crime and Horror from Radiance

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Metropolis (1927)
  Robots "R" Us

Miami Vice (2006)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Midnight (1980)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Midnight (2021)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Midnight Special (2016)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Midsommar (2019)
  Fall viewing, part two

Midway (2019)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker's Life (2022)
  Recent Arrow releases, part two

Mikey and Nicky (1976)
  Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976): Criterion Blu-ray review

Milano Calibro 9 (1972)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

Mill & the Cross, The (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 2

Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Miller's Crossing (1990)
  The Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing (1990): Criterion Blu-ray review

Millions Like Us (1943)
  A week of DVDs

Mimic (1997)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Mind of Mr. Soames, The (1970)
  A Terence Stamp double-bill

Mind, Body & Soul (1992)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Mindfield (1989)
  Political thrillers, horror and metaphor

Mindwarp (1992)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three

Mingoloo (1958)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Miracle In Milan (1950)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Miracle Mile (1989)
  More Arrow ...

Miracolo a Milano (1950)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Mirror (1975)
  "Art films" and the nature of boredom
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975): Criterion Blu-ray review

Miss Hokusai (2015)
  Viewing notes: May 2017

Miss Leslie's Dolls (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
  Year End 2015

Missouri Breaks, The (1976)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Mix-Up ou meli-melo (1986)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

Mob, The (1951)
  Indicator's Columbia Noir #2

Mock Up on Mu (2009)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Modesty Blaise (1966)
  Camp Losey

Mom 'n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s (2022)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Moment of Truth, The (1965)
  DVD of the Week:The Moment of Truth (1965) by Francesco Rosi

Moments (1974)
  The Pemini Organisation on Blu-ray from Indicator

Mon Oncle (1958)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Mona Lisa (1986)
  Recent disks from Arrow Video

Mondo Candido (1975)
  Recent Viewing

Mondo Cane (1962)
  Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011)

Monkey Shines (1988)
  Oh, the horror!

Monolith Monsters, The (1957)
  Another eclectic week

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Monster a Go-Go (1965)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Monster Dog (1985)
  More genre viewing

Monster of Highgate Ponds, The (1961)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Monster of the Opera, The (1964)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Moon & the Sledgehammer, The (1971)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Moon of the Wolf (1972)
  Brief Notes, December Part Two

Moon Over the Alley, The (1975)
  DVD of the week: Duffer/The Moon Over the Alley

Moonrise (1948)
  Poetic noir from Criterion

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Moonstalker (1989)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

More (1969)
  Recent viewing - video

Morgan (2016)
  Tripping, shopping and the airborne multiplex

Morgenrøde (2014)
  Holiday viewing

Morgiana (1972)
  A week of DVDs

Morituri (1965)
  Twilight Time spies

Morning for the Osone Family (1946)
  Subverting propaganda:Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II

Moslems in Britain: Cardiff (1961)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Most Dangerous Game, The (1932)
  A picture needs a thousand words ...

Most Dangerous Game, The (1978)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Most Wanted Man, A (2014)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Motel Hell (1980)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

mother! (2017)
  No, it's definitely not a rom-com

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Mothra (1961)
  Ishiro Honda: Masters of Cinema

Mouchette (1967)
  Seeking cinematic truth: two new Criterion Blu-rays

Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  Blast from the past: a 28-year-old term paper

Mr. Death (1999)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Mr. Klein (1976)
  Joseph Losey's Mr. Klein (1976): Criterion Blu-ray review

Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
  William Castle's horrors from Indicator

Mr. Vampire (1985)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Mr. Vampire II (1986)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Mr. Vampire III (1987)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Ms. 45 (1981)
  Rhyming Pairs

Mud (2012)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part three

Multi-Facial (1995)
  Vin Diesel: fitting in

Mummy, The (2017)
  Fall viewing, part two

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970)
  Perverse Families & Dysfunctional Kids

Muna Moto (1975)
  World Cinema Project 4: Criterion Blu-ray review

Muneco viviente V (2008)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Murder by Contract (1958)
  Indicator's Columbia Noir #2

Murder in a Blue World (1973)
  Cauldron releases, summer 2022

Murder In the Cathedral (1951)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Murder Mansion (1972)
  Euro Pulp

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Murder Rock Dancing Death (1984)
  Euro Pulp

Murderlust (1985)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
  Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
  Late summer viewing, part two: Thrills and Chills

Murders in the Zoo (1933)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Murph the Surf (1975)
  DVD Review: Robert Conrad Double Feature

Murphy's War (1971)
  Peter Yates (1929-2011)

Mutant War (1988)
  Year End 2019

Mutilator, The (1984)
  Looking back ...

My African Farm (1988)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

My Ain Folk (1973)
  The subjectivity of watching: Bertrand Tavernier's Death Watch (1980)

My Bloody Valentine (1981)
  Monsters, killers and existential dread on Blu-ray

My Dear Killer (1972)
  Giallothon!

My Girlfriend's Wedding (1969)
  Whatever Happened to Jim McBride?

My Name Is Nobody (1973)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part three

My Name is Pecos (1966)
  Recent Arrow box sets

My Son John (1952)
  Disk of the Week: My Son John (1952) - Bad craziness in Hollywood

My Way Home (1964)
  Miklós Jancsó and the abuses of power

Mysterious Intruder (1946)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

Mysterious Island (1961)
  More from Twilight Time

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
  World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review

Mystery Men (1999)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Mystery of Chess Boxing, The (1979)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Mystic, The (1925)
  Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers on Blu-ray from Criterion

Mystics in Bali (1981)
  Wrapping up 2022

N

N. a pris les dés... (1971)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

N. Took the Dice (1971)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Naked Alibi (1954)
  Universal Noir #1 from Indicator

Naked City (1958-63)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Naked Gun 2 1/2: Smell of Fear, The (1991)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The (1988)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Naked Zoo, The (1970)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Nashville (1975)
  Viewing notes, September 2016

Nature of Nicholas, The (2002)
  Looking back: Jeff Erbach's The Nature of Nicholas (2002)
  Year End 2023

Navajeros (1980)
  The films of Eloy de la Iglesia

Necrophagous (1971)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Negativipeg (2010)
  The Genius of Matthew Rankin

Neighboring Sounds (2012)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Nekromantik (1987)
  Sex-Death-Exploitation-Art

Nekromantik 2 (1991)
  Sex-Death-Exploitation-Art

Nemesis (1992)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Nest, The (1988)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Net, The (1953)
  Guest Post: Considering Anthony Asquith

Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960)
  Hammer thrillers on Blu-ray from Indicator

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
  Hammer thrillers on Blu-ray from Indicator

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2016)
  Intimidated by Art

New Centurions, The (1972)
  Twilight Crime

New Land, The (1972)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Jan Troell's The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972)

New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
  Year End 2013

New York Ninja (2021)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

New York Ripper, The (1982)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

Next of Kin (1989)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Next of Kin, The (1942)
  Thorold Dickinson
  Ealing Studios

Night Creatures (1962)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The (1971)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Night Ferry (1976)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part four: More other labels

Night Has Eyes, The (1942)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Night Key (1937)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Night Monster (1942)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Night Moves (1975)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

Night My Number Came Up, The (1955)
  Fall viewing, part one

Night of Rage (1985)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Night of the Big Heat (1967)
  Terence Fisher and science fiction

Night of the Creeps (1986)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Night of the Demon (1957)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Night of the Demon (1980)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Night of the Devils, The (1972)
  Crime and Horror from Radiance

Night of the Eagle (1961)
  Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

Night of the Following Day, The (1968)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Night of the Generals, The (1967)
  The "good German" in war movies
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Night of the Lepus (1972)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968): restored at last

Night of the Skull (1974)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Night of the Strangler (1972)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Night of the Virgin, The (2018)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part two

Night of the Walking Dead, The (1975)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Night Screams (1987)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Night Stalker, The (1972)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018

Night Strangler, The (1973)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018

Night Tide (1961)
  Genre On Disk, part one
  Perverse Families & Dysfunctional Kids

Night To Remember, A (1958)
  DVD of the Week: A Night to Remember (1958)

Night Train to Terror (1985)
  Fall viewing, part one

Night Visitor, The (1971)
  See Max, see Max run ... in his underwear

Night Will Fall (2014)
  Random thoughts: May 2017

Nightbeast (1982)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Nightbirds (1968)
  Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan

Nightbreed (1990/2014)
  The resurrection of Clive Barker's Nightbreed (1990/2014)

Nightcomers, The (1971)
  Michael Winner 1935-2013

Nightfall (1956)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Nightingale, The (2018)
  Holiday viewing

Nightmare (1964)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray
  Hammer Vol. 6: Night Shadows from Indicator

Nightmare (1981)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Nightmare Alley (1947)
  Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley (1947): Criterion Blu-ray review

Nightmare Alley (2021)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Nightmare at Noon (1988)
  Recent Arrow releases, part two

Nightmare Beach (1988)
  More genre viewing

Nightmare City (1980)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Nightmare Weekend (1985)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Nightmares (1980)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Nine Men (1943)
  A week of DVDs

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
  Quality control
  Revisiting some old favourites

Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984)
  Michael Radford's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 (1984)

Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Ninja Terminator (1984)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

No Blade of Grass (1970)
  Disk error: No Blade of Grass (Warner Archive)

No Country for Old Men (2007)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

No One Heard the Scream (1973)
  The films of Eloy de la Iglesia

No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
  Post-Op, week one

No Telling (1991)
  Fessenden and Stanley, together again

No Way Home (1996)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

No, il Caso e Felicimente Risolto (1973)
  Italian cops and killers

No, the Case is Happily Resolved (1973)
  Italian cops and killers
  Recent Arrow box sets

Noon Wine (1966)
  More from Twilight Time

North Sea Hijack (1980)
  Action and politics in '70s thrillers

North Star, The (1943)
  Year End 2015

Northman, The (2022)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Norway (2014)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Norwegian Ninja (2010)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
  Euro Pulp

Nostalghia (1983)
  Andrei Tarkovsky

Not Counting the Savages (1972)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Notfilm (2015)
  Summer viewing: the serious stuff

Nothing (2003)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Nothing Underneath (1985)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Notorious (1946)
  Watching genre, in black-and-white

Nowhere to Go (1958)
  Ealing Studios
  Recent Disks From England

Number 13 (2006)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Numbers Station, The (2013)
  Late summer viewing: Spies, Killers and Terrorists

Nurse 3D (2013)
  Styles of Horror, part three
  A 3D New Year

Nutty Professor, The (1963)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

O

Oblivion (2013)
  Genre Viewing: Science Fiction

Oblong Box, The (1969)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Obsession (1976)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part two

Ocean's 11 (1960)
  Revisiting some old favourites

October Moth (1960)
  Memories of monochrome England

Oculus (2014)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Odd Couple (1979)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Odd Man Out (1947)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947)

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
  Seeing the world in black-and-white ... again

Of Unknown Origin (1983)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

Offence, The (1972)
  Sidney Lumet, from stage to screen

Offspring (2009)
  Cannibal feast

Oily Maniac, The (1976)
  Holiday viewing

Old (2021)
  Not exactly back to normal
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Old Dark House, The (1963)
  Boxed In

Old Gun, The (1976)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Old Master, The (1979)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

Old Stone (2016)
  Asia extreme

Omen, The (1976)
  Beware the children!

On demande une brute (1934)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

On the Beach (1959)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

On the Black Hill (1988)
  New releases from the BFI, 2016: Part 2

On the Bowery (1956)
  Lionel Rogosin: On the Bowery (1956)

On the Comet (1970)
  The pleasures of hand-made animation

On the Run (1988)
  Wrapping up 2022

On the Silver Globe (1988)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 3

On Vampyres and Other Symptoms (2011)
  The revival of Flipside

Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Once Upon a Time in China 2 (1991)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Once Upon a Time in China 3 (1992)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Once Upon a Time in Uganda (2021)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

One Cut of the Dead (2017)
  One-Shot Wonders: samurai slaughter and zombies

One Cut of the Dead: In Hollywood (2019)
  One-Shot Wonders: samurai slaughter and zombies

One Dark Night (1982)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

One False Move (1992)
  Carl Franklin's One False Move (1992): Criterion Blu-ray review

One Million Years B.C. (1966)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

One Missed Call (2003)
  More genre viewing

One Missed Call 2 (2005)
  More genre viewing

One Missed Call: Final (2006)
  More genre viewing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
  Memories of monochrome England

One of the Missing (1968)
  DVD of the Week: Loving Memory (1970)

One on Top of the Other (1969)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

One River, Two Shores: Reflections on the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline (2009)
  Mackenzie Valley gas pains

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
  Stanley Kubrick 2: The Business - Spartacus (1960)
  Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Onion Field, The (1979)
  A Kino Lorber miscellany

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  Classic Howard Hawks on Blu-ray

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Only Yesterday (1991)
  Summer viewing: short takes, part 2

Opera (1987)
  Hi-def Italian mayhem

Operation Hurricane (1952)
  Val Guest and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Operation Red Sea (2016)
  Late summer viewing, part two: Thrills and Chills

Operation Third Form (1966)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Orchard End Murder, The (1981)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Order of Death (1983)
  Italian cops and killers

Orderly and Disorderly (1981)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Orgasmo (1969)
  Carroll Baker and Umberto Lenzi on Blu-ray

Original Cast Album: "Company" (1970)
  D.A. Pennebaker's Original Cast Album: "Company" (1970): Criterion Blu-ray review

Orphan (2009)
  Beware the children!

Orphan Black: Season 5 (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Osterman Weekend, The (1983)
  Sam Peckinpah's swansong: The Osterman Weekend (1983)

Othello (1952/1955)
  Orson Welles' Othello (1952/55): Criterion Blu-ray review

Other Music (2019)
  Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

Other, The (1972)
  Beware the children!
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Otherworld, The (2013)
  Miscellaneous notes: Severin Films

Our Hitler (1977)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Out of Order (1984)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Out of Sight (1998)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Out of the Furnace (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part two

Out of the Unknown: BBC (1965-71)
  Year End 2015

Outbreak (1995)
  In-flight entertainment

Outside the Law (1920)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Outwaters, The (2022)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Over Your Dead Body (2014)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Overlanders, The (1946)
  Ealing Studios

Overlord (2018)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Oxford Murders, The (2008)
  Recent Viewing part 2

P

Pacific Rim (2013)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013
  Thinking About Genre, part 1

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Paddington (2014)
  A bear, a detective and the big city

Paddington 2 (2018)
  Paddington 2 (2017)

Pain & Gain (2013)
  Year End 2013

Painted Bird, The (2019)
  Getting serious

Pandemonium (1982)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Panique (1946)
  Julien Duvivier's Panique (1946): Criterion Blu-ray review

Panther Women, The (1967)
  Aussie horror and Mexican luchadores and luchadoras from Indicator

Pantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)
  Serendipity at the mall: disk discoveries from England and Australia

Paperhouse (1988)
  In dreams

Parade (1974)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Paradigm (1969)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 1: Paradise Lost Trilogy (1996-2011)

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 1: Paradise Lost Trilogy (1996-2011)

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 1: Paradise Lost Trilogy (1996-2011)

Paradise: Faith (2012)
  The Lure of Paradise

Paradise: Hope (2013)
  The Lure of Paradise

Paradise: Love (2012)
  The Lure of Paradise

Parallax View, The (1974)
  Alan Pakula's The Parallax View (1974): Criterion Blu-ray review

Paranoiac (1963)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

ParaNorman (2012)
  Summer Viewing

Parasite (2019)
  Asia extreme

Partie de campagne (1936/46)
  An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film

Passenger, The (1975)
  Catching up, part two

Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
  The Passion of Mel Gibson

Passport to China (1960)
  Hammer adventures from Indicator

Patema Inverted (2013)
  Viewing notes: May 2017

Pather Panchali (1955)
  Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy: Criterion Blu-ray review

Pathogen (2006)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Paths of Glory (1957)
  Stanley Kubrick part 1: Becoming Kubrick

Patrick (1978)
  More late winter viewing, part one
  Aussie horror and Mexican luchadores and luchadoras from Indicator

Patrick Still Lives (1980)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Peanut Butter Solution, The (1983)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Peeping Tom (1959)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

People on Sunday (1930)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Perdida (2011)
  January releases from Indicator

Perdita Durango (1997)
  Recent Severin viewing

Performance (1970)
  Arrow Video, part two: White of the Eye (1987)

Perversion Story (1969)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

Pervertissima (1972)
  Wrapping up 2022

Peter Lorre: Das Doppelte Gesicht (1984)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Petropolis (2009)
  DVD of the Week: Petropolis (2009)

Pets (1973)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Peyton Place (1957)
  Melodrama from Twilight Time

Phantasm (1979)
  John Dies At the End ... and that's not a bad thing
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Phantasm II (1988)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Phantom (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

Phantom Lady (1944)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part four

Phantom of Death (1988)
  Shameless exploitation

Phantom of Liberty, The (1974)
  Three Films by Luis Buñuel: Criterion Blu-ray review

Phantom of the Monastery, The (1934)
  Early Mexican horror from Indicator

Phantom of the Opera, The (1962)
  Hammer Horror on Blu-ray
  Hammer Vol. 6: Night Shadows from Indicator

Phantom of the Opera, The (1998)
  Dario Argento in decline

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
  Recent disks from England: Arrow Video, part one

Phantom Thread (2017)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Phase IV (1974)
  Revisiting some old favourites

Phenomena (1985)
  Recent Viewing: horror from Arrow Video
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments (1994)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
  Catching up, part two

Pictures From Life's Other Side (1971)
  Whatever Happened to Jim McBride?

Pieces (1982)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Pied Piper, The (1986)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Pig (2020)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Pigs (1973)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Pillow of Death (1945)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
  Trawling the Internet

Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
  Ealing Studios
  Googie Withers (1917-2011)

Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Pirates of Blood River, The (1962)
  Hammer adventures from Indicator

Pirates: Band of Misfits, The (2011)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Pistol for Ringo, A (1965)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Pit Stop (1969)
  Recent disks from England: Arrow Video, part one

Pixote (1980)
  World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review

Plague Town (2008)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Planet of the Vampires (1965)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four
  Fall viewing, part two

Play Dead (1982)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Play Dirty (1968)
  Brief comments, part two

Playgirls and the Vampire, The (1960)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

PlayTime (1967)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Please Don't Touch Me (1959)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
  Fractured dream: Georges Franju's Spotlight on a Murderer (1961)

Plunder Road (1957)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Poem (1971)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Poil de Carotte (1932)
  Julien Duvivier in the Thirties: Eclipse 44

Point Blank (1967)
  Rhyming Pairs

Point, The (1971)
  More Recent Viewing

Poison for the Fairies (1986)
  Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada

Police Squad! (1982)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Pool of London (1951)
  Ealing Studios

Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Port of Flowers (1943)
  Subverting propaganda:Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II

Portrait of a Matador (1958)
  Recent BFI releases

Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Possessed, The (1965)
  Giallothon!

Possessor (2019)
  Holiday viewing

Postal (2007)
  Brief comments, part two

Postman, The (1997)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Power of the Whistler, The (1945)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

Power, The (1968)
  Byron Haskin's The Power (1968)

Prayer for the Dying, A (1987)
  Recent Twilight Time releases

Predestination (2014)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Premium Rush (2012)
  Summer Viewing

Premonition, The (1976)
  Arrow's American Horror Project, vol 1

Pretty Poison (1968)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Prey (1977)
  Trashy Brit horrors

Primal Rage (1988)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Prime Evil (1988)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Prince of Darkness (1987)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Prison (1988)
  Genre On Disk, part two

Prisoner, The (1967)
  Intimidated by Art

Prisoners (2013)
  Genre Viewing 2

Prisoners of the Earth (1939)
  World Cinema Project 4: Criterion Blu-ray review

Private Crimes (1993)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)
  Blu-rays from Kino Lorber

Privilege (1967)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Prodigal Son, The (1981)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Profondo Rosso (1975)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Prohibition (2011)
  Recent Viewing 1

Project Nightmare (1979/1987)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Project X (1968)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Prologue (2003)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Prometheus (2012)
  Disappointment of the week: Prometheus

Property is No Longer a Theft (1972)
  More Arrow ...

Prophecy 3: Ascent, The (2000)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Prophecy II, The (1998)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Prophecy, The (1995)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Prospect (2018)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

Prostitute (1980)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Psyche 59 (1964)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Psychedelic Priest (1971/2001)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Psychic Killer (1975)
  Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and other horrors

Psycho (1960)
  Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO

Psychomania (1973)
  New releases from the BFI, 2016

Pulp (1972)
  Rhyming Pairs

Pulse (2001)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

Punisher, The (1989)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Puppet Masters, The (1994)
  More genre viewing

Puppet Pal V (2008)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Purge, The (2013)
  October viewing notes

Purge: Anarchy, The (2014)
  October viewing notes

Purified, The (2002)
  Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration,1998): Criterion Blu-ray review

Purple Noon (1960)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Pursuit (1972)
  Seeing in the New Year

Pushover (1954)
  Columbia Noir 4 from Indicator

Pyjama Girl Case, The (1977)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Pyramid, The (2014)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Pyx, The (1973)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Q

Quadrophenia (1979)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Quatermass 2: BBC (1955)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Quatermass and the Pit: BBC (1958-59)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television
  British black-and-white fantasies

Quatermass Experiment: BBC, The (1953)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television

Quatermass II (1957)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Quatermass Xperiment, The (1955)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television
  Val Guest on Blu-ray

Queen of Spades, The (1949)
  Thorold Dickinson

Queens of Evil (1970)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Quiet Place in the Country, A (1968)
  Recent discoveries on disk

Quiet Place to Kill, A (1970)
  Carroll Baker and Umberto Lenzi on Blu-ray

Quiet Place, A (2018)
  Late Fall viewing: Oh, the horror!

Quiller Memorandum, The (1966)
  Twilight Time spies

Quintet (1979)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 3

Quiz-Crime No. 1 (1943)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Quiz-Crime No. 2 (1944)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Quälen (1983)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

R

R.P.M.* (*Revolutions Per Minute) (1970)
  Stanley Kramer and the limits of liberalism

Rabbit Is Me, The (1965)
  Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)

Rabid (1977)
  David Cronenberg, now ... and then

Rabid Dogs (1974/1996)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Rage (1972)
  Otto Preminger and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Rage of Honor (1986)
  Late summer viewing, part two: Thrills and Chills

Raging Fire (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Raid 2, The (2014)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Raiders of the Living Dead (1986)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Railrodder, The (1965)
  Resurrecting a pre-tax shelter classic: The Rainbow Boys (1973)

Rainbow Boys, The (1973)
  Resurrecting a pre-tax shelter classic: The Rainbow Boys (1973)

Raining in the Mountain (1979)
  Art and action in the films of King Hu

Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
  Catching up, part two

Ramrod (1947)
  Recent Brit disks, part two

Ranger, The (2018)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Rapiña (1975)
  Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada

Rare Blue Apes (1975)
  Lost films and alternative histories

Rare Exports (2010)
  Recent viewing, part 3

Rasen (1998)
  Catching up on Arrow

Rat Savior, The (1976)
  Trawling the Internet

Ratcatcher (1999)
  Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher (1999): Criterion Blu-ray review

Ratman (1988)
  Shameless exploitation

Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
  More Italo-horror: The Good, the Bad and the Gory

Raven's End (1963)
  Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema from Criterion

Raven, The (1935)
  Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Raven, The (1963)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Ravenous (1999)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Rawhead Rex (1986)
  Adapting Clive Barker

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Razorback (1984)
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Re-Animator (1985)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Re:Born (2016)
  Recent Brit disks, part two

Ready Player One (2018)
  Random viewing: a grab-bag

Real Friend, A (2006)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Rear Window (1954)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Reazione a catena (1971)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Rebellion (2011)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Reckless Moment, The (1949)
  Recent Indicator viewing

Reckoning, The (1969)
  Indicator Blu-rays: England in the '60s

Recluse (1979)
  Flipside: The Black Panther (1977)

Reconstruction (1970)
  Discovering Theo Angelopoulos

Red Dawn (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Red Midnight (1966)
  Lost films and alternative histories

Red Queen Kills Seven Times, The (1972)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Red Rock West (1993)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Red Shift (1978)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part three

Red Sparrow (2018)
  Late summer viewing: Spies, Killers and Terrorists

Red Spirit Lake (1993)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Red Sun Rising (1993)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Red Surf (1989)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Red Turtle, The (2016)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Red, White and Blue (2020)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Reflecting Skin, The (1990)
  Philip Ridley's The Reflecting Skin (1990)

Reform School Girls (1986)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Remember the Night (1940)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Rencontres (1977)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

Repeater (1979)
  Flipside: extreme male anxiety

Repo Man (1984)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Report to the Commissioner (1975)
  Blu-rays from Kino Lorber

Reptilicus (1961)
  Resurrecting a disparaged monster: Reptilicus (1961) in 4K

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  The Director as Sociopath ...

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
  Film Review: Resident Evil: Retribution

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
  Evil and dead

Resolution (2012)
  The pleasure of not knowing

Rest in Pieces (1987)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Resurrected (1989)
  Catching up with Twilight

Return of Captain Invincible, The (1982)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Return of Count Yorga, The (1971)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one
  Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Return of Daimajin (1966)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Return of Ringo, The (1965)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Return of Sabata (1971)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Return of the 18 Bronzemen (1976)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

Return of the Fly (1959)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Return of the War Room (2008)
  DVD of the Week: The War Room (1993)

Return of the Whistler, The (1948)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

Return to Glennascaul (1951)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Return to Glennascaul (1953)
  Orson Welles' Othello (1952/55): Criterion Blu-ray review

Return to Waterloo (1984)
  Bleak Britain

Revenge (1964)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Revenge (1971)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Revenge (1989)
  World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review

Revenge of Frankenstein, The (1958)
  Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4: Faces of Fear

Revolver (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Riddick (2013)
  Genre Viewing: Science Fiction

Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
  Rewriting the West:Monte Hellman's The Shooting and Ride In the Whirlwind

Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

Rider on the Rain (1970)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Rififi in the City (1963)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Right Hand of the Devil, The (1963)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Righteous, The (2021)
  Recent Arrow releases, part two

Riki-Oh: Story of Ricky (1991)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
  Catching up on Arrow

Ring 2 (1999)
  Catching up on Arrow

Ringu (1998)
  Catching up on Arrow

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
  Criterion Blu-ray Review: Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
  More from Twilight Time

Ritual of Evil (1970)
  Recent Kino Lorber releases

Rituals (1976)
  Another mixed bag ...

River of No Return (1954)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Road House (1989)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Road Warrior, The (1981)
  Mad Max: from B-movie to Myth

Road: A Story of Life and Death, The (2012)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 2

Robbery (1967)
  Blu-rays from Network

Robin Redbreast: Play For Today (1970)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Robin Wright at The Congress (2013)
  More recent animation

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
  Summer viewing: science fiction

Robinson in Ruins (2010)
  DVD diary: September - part one

RoboCop (1987)
  Robots "R" Us

Robot Holocaust (1987)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Robot Jox (1989)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Robot Monster (1953)
  Cheap sci-fi and hardboiled noir in 3D

Robowar (1988)
  Fall viewing, part one

Rock-Afire Explosion, The (2008)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Rocketeer, The (1991)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Rolling Thunder (1977)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Roof, The (1956)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Room 237 (2012)
  Room 237: an obsessive search for meaning in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Room at the Top (1959)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Rosalie (1966)
  An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film

Rosebud (1975)
  Action and politics in '70s thrillers

Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Rouge (1987)
  Stanley Kwan's Rouge (1987): Criterion Blu-ray review

Round-Up, The (1965)
  Miklós Jancsó and the abuses of power

Rulers of the City (1976)
  Raro Video and Italian genre cinema

Run All Night (2015)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Runaway Train (1985)
  Arrow Video, part three: Runaway Train (1985)

Runner, The (2022)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Running Man, The (1963)
  Looking back ...

Rush (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part two

Russia House, The (1990)
  Twilight Time spies

Ruthless (1948)
  Edgar G. Ulmer, B-movies, and the art of the low budget

S

Sabata (1969)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Sacred Symbol, The (1984)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Sacrifice, The (1986)
  Andrei Tarkovsky

Sadness of the Anthropophagi (1966)
  Serendipity at the mall: disk discoveries from England and Australia

Safe (2012)
  Summer Viewing

Safe House (2012)
  More in-flight entertainment

Saga of Anatahan, The (1953)
  A frustrating evening

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
  Recent Arrow releases, part one

Saint Bernard (2013)
  Fall viewing, part one

Salem's Lot (1979)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Salesman (1968)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Salt of Life (2011)
  Recent Viewing 2

Salvage Gang, The (1958)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Salvation, The (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

Sambizanga (1972)
  World Cinema Project 4: Criterion Blu-ray review

Sammy Going South (1963)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Sampo (1959)
  Aleksandr Ptushko's epic fantasies

Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Sanctum (2011)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Santa Fe Satan (1973)
  Recent discoveries on disk

Santet (1988)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Santet 2 (1989)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Santo vs Dr. Death (1973)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Santo vs Evil Brain (1961)
  January releases from Indicator

Santo vs Infernal Men (1961)
  January releases from Indicator

Santo vs the Riders of Terror (1970)
  Aussie horror and Mexican luchadores and luchadoras from Indicator

Saphead, The (1920)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Satan Bug, The (1965)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013
  Late winter viewing, part two

Satan's Baby Doll (1982)
  Shameless exploitation

Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Satan's Blood (1977)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Satan's Children (1975)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Satan's Slave (1976)
  Trashy Brit horrors

Satan's Slave (1980)
  Fall viewing, part one

Satanic Panic (2019)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Satanico Pandemonium (1973)
  Wrapping up 2022

Satanist, The (1968)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018 - Weird Stuff

Sator (2019)
  Cauldron releases, summer 2022

Saturn 3 (1980)
  Robots "R" Us

Savage Eye, The (1960)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Savage Three (1975)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Savages (2012)
  Summer Viewing

Scalpel (1976)
  I love a deal ...

Scanner Cop (1993)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part three

Scanner Cop 2: The Showdown (1994)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part three

Scanners (1981)
  Cronenberg in transition: Scanners (1981)

Scared to Death (1980)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Scarlet Blade, The (1963)
  Hammer adventures from Indicator

Scarlet Worm, The (2011)
  DVD review: The Scarlet Worm (2011)

Scary Movie (1991)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

Scary of Sixty-First, The (2021)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Schalcken the Painter (1979)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part two

Schizoid (1980)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Schramm: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer (1993)
  Sex-Death-Exploitation-Art

Scorpio (1973)
  More from Twilight Time

Scrapbook (2000)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Scream and Scream Again (1970)
  Year End 2015
  Crime and Horror from Radiance

Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
  Blaxploitation and historical counter-narrative

Scream for Help (1984)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Scream of Fear (1961)
  Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4: Faces of Fear

Scream of the Demon Lover (1970)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Screamplay (1985)
  The pleasures of transgression

Season of the Witch (1972)
  Life and Death in the films of George A. Romero

Seconds (1966)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Secret Ceremony (1968)
  Camp Losey

Secret of Crickley Hall, The (2012)
  Haunting Television: The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012)

Secret of the Whistler, The (1946)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

Secret People (1952)
  Thorold Dickinson

Secret Rites (1971)
  "Folk Horror"

Secret World of Arietty, The (2010)
  Recent Viewing

Secrets (1977)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Sect, The (1991)
  Hi-def Italian mayhem

Secta Siniestra (1982)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

See No Evil (1971)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Sei donne per l'assassino (1964)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Self-Portrait: Matthew Rankin
  The Genius of Matthew Rankin

Sennentuntschi (2010)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Sentinel, The (1977)
  Five Shades of B

Seobok: Project Clone (2020)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Septic Man (2013)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Serie Noire (1979)
  Another mixed bag ...

Serpico (1973)
  Brief comments, part two

Servant, The (1963)
  Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963): Criterion Blu-ray review

Session 9 (2001)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
  Giallothon!

Seven Days to Noon (1950)
  Recent Disks From England

Seven Minutes, The (1971)
  Sex in Movies: narrative interruptus

Seven Women for Satan (1974)
  Wrapping up 2022

Seven-Ups, The (1973)
  Twilight Crime

Seventh Curse, The (1986)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Seventh Grave, The (1966)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Severed Arm, The (1973)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Sex of the Witch (1973)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Sex Victims, The (1973)
  Recent BFI releases

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Shades of Gray (1948)
  John Huston's Let There Be Light (1946)

Shadow (2018)
  Catching up, part two

Shadow of the Cat, The (1961)
  Hammer Vol. 6: Night Shadows from Indicator

Shadowed Mind, The (1988)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Shame (1988)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Shanghai Joe (1973)
  Wrapping up 2022

Shanks (1974)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Shaolin Kids, The (1977)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

Shaolin Kung Fu (1974)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

Shaolin Plot, The (1977)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Shape of Water, The (2017)
  Recent theatrical viewing

Shatter Dead (1994)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

She (1984)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

She Beast, The (1966)
  The short career of Michael Reeves

She Devil (1957)
  Five Shades of B

She Freak (1967)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

She Killed in Ecstasy (1970)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Sherlock Holmes: BBC (1964-65)
  A week of DVDs

Shin Godzilla (2016)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Shining, The (1980)
  Stanley Kubrick 7: The Shining (1980)
  Room 237: an obsessive search for meaning in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Shining: Studies in the Horror Film (book), The (2015)
  Random notes: two films and a book

Shinjuku Boys (1995)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 2

Shinobi no mono 2: Revenge (1963)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Shinobi no mono 3: Resurrection (1963)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Shinobi no mono: Band of Assassins (1962)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Ship of Fools (1965)
  Stanley Kramer and the limits of liberalism

Shit & Champagne (2020)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Shivers (1975)
  Oh, the horror!

Shoah (1985)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part three

Shock (1977)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part one

Shock Treatment (1972)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Shock Treatment (1981)
  I love a deal ...

Shock Wave (2017)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Shock Waves (1977)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Shogun Assassin (1980)
  Criterion's complete Lone Wolf and Cub 1972-74

Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Shooting Stars (1928)
  The art of silent film: Anthony Asquith's Shooting Stars (1928)

Shooting, The (1966)
  Rewriting the West:Monte Hellman's The Shooting and Ride In the Whirlwind

Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Shopping (1994)
  DVD of the week: Shopping (1994)

Shot (1973)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Shout, The (1978)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part two

Show Boat (1936)
  James Whale's Show Boat (1936): music and race in Golden Age Hollywood

Shredder Orpheus (1990)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Shuttered Room, The (1967)
  Adapting Lovecraft

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
  More late winter viewing, part two

Sicilian Clan, The (1969)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part two

Siege of Pinchgut, The (1959)
  Ealing Studios

Silenced (2011)
  DVD Review: Silenced (Do-Ga-Ni)

Silent Action (1975)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Silent Madness (1984)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Silent Night (2023)
  Year End 2023

Silent Rage (1982)
  Another eclectic week

Silent Running (1972)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

Silent Star, The (1960)
  Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)

Simon, King of the Witches (1971)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Singapore (1947)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Sinistre (1995)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Sirocco (1951)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Sister of Ursula, The (1978)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Sister Streetfighter Collection (1974-76)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Sisters (1973)
  Recent disks from Arrow Video

Sisters In Law (2005)
  Recent Documentary Viewing, Part 2

Sisters in Leather (1969)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Six String Samurai (1998)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part three

Skidoo (1968)
  Year End 2013

Skin I Live In, The (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 2

Skinflicker (1973)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Skinner (1993)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

Skinny Tiger andf Fatty Dragon (1990)
  Asian action and fantasy from 88 Films and Eureka

Skip Tracer (1977)
  Zale Dalen's Skip Tracer (1977) & the Canadian tax shelter era

Sky Is Falling, The (1975)
  Recent fantasy and horror on disk

Sky-Bike, The (1967)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Skyfall (2012)
  Out of sync yet again ...

Skyhook (1958)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two

Slaughter Hotel (1971)
  Giallothon!

Slaughterhouse Rock (1987)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
  Back to the '70s

Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
  Euro Pulp

Sleep Dealer (2008)
  Smart Sci-Fi

Sleeping Beast Within, The (1960)
  Post-Op, week one

Sleepless (2001)
  Dario Argento in decline

Sleepwalker (1984)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Slow West (2015)
  Brief comments, part one

Slugs (1988)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Small Axe (2020)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Small World of Sammy Lee, The (1963)
  Seeing the world in black-and-white ... and shades of grey

Smashing the O-Line (1960)
  Post-Op, week one

Smile Before Death (1972)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
  Late summer viewing: more short takes

Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, The (1968)
  Noriaki Yuasa's intimate Yokai horror

Snapshot (1979)
  Aussie horror and Mexican luchadores and luchadoras from Indicator

Sniper, The (1952)
  Columbia Noir #3 from Indicator

Snorkel, The (1958)
  Hammer thrillers on Blu-ray from Indicator

Snowpiercer (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

So Long At the Fair (1950)
  Recent viewing, part 2

So Sweet ... So Perverse (1969)
  Carroll Baker and Umberto Lenzi on Blu-ray

So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Soapbox Derby (1957)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Soigne ton gauche (1936)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Solaris (1972)
  "Art films" and the nature of boredom
  Andrei Tarkovsky

Soleil O (1970)
  World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review

Sombra Verde (1954)
  Roberto Gavaldón's Untouched (Sombra Verde, 1954) on Blu-ray from Indicator

Some Kind of Hate (2015)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Something in the Dirt (2022)
  Murder, robbery and paranormal activity: three new releases

Something Wild (1961)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Jack Garfein's Something Wild (1961)

Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Song of Lunch, The (2010)
  Film(ed) poetry: The Song of Lunch (2010)

Sons of Steel (1988)
  Serendipity at the mall: disk discoveries from England and Australia

Sorcerer (1977)
  The good and the bad of Warner Brothers
  The transgressive art of William Friedkin

Sorcerers, The (1967)
  The short career of Michael Reeves
  Late Boris Karloff on Blu-ray

Sorrow and the Pity, The (1969)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Sotto il vestito niente 2 (1988)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Sotto it vestito niente (1985)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Sound Barrier, The (1952)
  Guest post: David Lean's The Sound Barrier (1952)

Sound of Fury, The (1950)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Source Code (2011)
  Year End 2011

South (1919)
  Documentary and the evolution of movies

South Park: Season 20 (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Southern Comfort (1981)
  More late winter viewing, part one

Southland Tales (2006)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Souvenirs d'"Othello" (1995)
  Orson Welles' Othello (1952/55): Criterion Blu-ray review

Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Space Children, The (1958)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Spartacus (1960)
  Stanley Kubrick 2: The Business - Spartacus (1960)

Spasmo (1974)
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

Special Day, A (1977)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Ettore Scola's A Special Day (1977)

Special Ed (2013)
  John Paskievich's Special Ed debuts at Hot Docs

Special ID (2013)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Specters (1987)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Spectral (2016)
  Random thoughts: May 2017

Spectre (2006)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Speedy (1928)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Harold Lloyd's Speedy (1928)

Spider (1991)
  Wrapping up 2022

Spider Labyrinth, The (1988)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Spiders (2013)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one
  A 3D New Year

Spiral (1998)
  Catching up on Arrow

Spiral Staircase, The (1946)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Spirits of the Air Gremlins of the Clouds (1988)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part one

Split (2017)
  M. Night Shyamalan's Split (2017)

Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
  Tobe Hooper's mangled career

Spook Warfare (1968)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Spotlight (2015)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Spotlight on a Murderer (1961)
  Fractured dream: Georges Franju's Spotlight on a Murderer (1961)

Spring (2014)
  Brief comments, part one

Square, The (1957)
  The revival of Flipside

Stagefright (1987)
  Fall viewing, part two

Stalker (1979)
  "Art films" and the nature of boredom
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979): Criterion Blu-ray review

Stand-In (1937)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Stanley (1972)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Star Time (1991)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  Tripping, shopping and the airborne multiplex

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
  Will this ever end?

Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)
  More random notes: September 2016
  October viewing notes

Stars in My Crown, The (1950)
  Background Detail

State of Siege (1972)
  The political cinema of Costa-Gavras

Stay (1980)
  The amateur passion of Michael J. Murphy

Steel and Lace (1991)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Stereo (1969)
  Cronenberg in transition: Scanners (1981)

Stevie (2002)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part three

Sting of Death (1966)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Stir (1980)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Stitches (2012)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Stolen Airship, The (1967)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part two

Stone (1974)
  Fall viewing, part one

Stone Cold Dead (1979)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Stone Tape, The (1972)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television

Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)
  Hammer thrillers on Blu-ray from Indicator

Story of Temple Blake, The (1933)
  Poetic noir from Criterion

Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, The (1939)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Kenji Mizoguchi's The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)

Straight Story, The (1999)
  Interesting releases from Australia's Imprint

Straight-Jacket (1964)
  Boxed In

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, The (1981)
  Recent disks from Arrow Video

Strange Confession (1945)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Strange Door, The (1951)
  The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Strange Report (1969-70)
  DVD diary: September - part one

Strange Stories (1953)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The (1971)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Strange World of Gurney Slade, The (1960)
  Recent viewing, part 3

Strangeness, The (1980)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Stranger in the House (1967)
  Recent Brit disks

Stranger, The (1946)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Stranglers of Bombay, The (1959)
  Indicator's Hammer vol. 3: Imperialism, War & Race

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (1970)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970)
  Viewing notes: June 2017 - Arrow Video

Street Mobster (1972)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Streets of Fire (1984)
  Year End 2013
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Streetwise (1984)
  Being human: two new Criterion releases

Stromboli (1950)
  Rossellini & Bergman: a collision of life and art

Stuff, The (1985)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Stunt Rock (1978)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Stylist, The (2020)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Suburbia (1983)
  Year End 2019

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Such Good Friends (1971)
  Year End 2013

Suckling, The (1989)
  Post-Op, week one

Sudden Death (1977)
  DVD Review: Robert Conrad Double Feature

Sudden Fury (1975)
  Unearthing memories: BBC's Maigret and rural Canadian violence

Suddenly in the Dark (1981)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Sugar Hill (1974)
  Seeing in the New Year

Suitor, The (1963)
  Discovery and loss: Pierre Etaix 1928-2016

Sunday Woman, The (1965)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Sunset Blvd (1950)
  They don't make 'em like that any more ...

Super 8 (2011)
  Not so Super 8

Super Fly (1972)
  Race, class and crime in New York

Supernatural (1933)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Supernatural: BBC (1977)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
  Melodrama from Twilight Time

Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
  Melodrama from Twilight Time

Surf II (1983)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part three

Suspect, The (2013)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Suspicious Death of a Minor, The (1975)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Suspiria (1977)
  Claudio Simonetti's Goblin live
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

Suspiria (2018)
  Random viewing, short takes

Swastika (1974)
  Miscellaneous viewing - March 2018

Sweeney (1975-78)
  Binge Viewing

Sweeney (1977)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Sweeney 2 (1978)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Swimmer, The (1968)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part three

Sword Identity, The (2011)
  DVD Review: The Sword Identity (2011)

Sword of Doom, The (1966)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: The Sword of Doom (1966)

Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
  More recent Indicator releases

Swords of Vengeance (1978)
  DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)

Swordsman of All Swordsmen, The (1968)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part two

Sworn to Justice (1996)
  Vinegar Syndrome closes out 2022

Sylvie and the Phantom (1946)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
  Claude Autant-Lara's wartime romances: Eclipse #45

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005)
  Seeking cinematic truth: two new Criterion Blu-rays

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
  Seeking cinematic truth: two new Criterion Blu-rays

Symptoms (1974)
  The revival of Flipside

Synchronic (2019)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Syndicate Sadists (1973)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

System, The (1964)
  Michael Winner 1935-2013

T

Taipei Story (1985)
  World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review

Take, The (1974)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974)
  Walter Matthau, man of action?
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part One

Tale of John and Mary, The (1980)
  The pleasures of hand-made animation

Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2013)
  More recent animation

Tale of Zatoichi Continues, The (1962)
  Year End 2013

Tale of Zatoichi, The (1962)
  Year End 2013

Tales From the Winnipeg Film Group (2017)
  Hometown Talent

Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Tam Lin (1970)
  Genre On Disk, part one
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Tampopo (1985)
  Juzo Itami's Tampopo (1985): Criterion Blu-ray review

Tange Sazen: The Million Ryô Pot (1935)
  The storytelling art of Sadao Yamanaka

Taste of Fear (1961)
  Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4: Faces of Fear

TC 2000 (1993)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Tears of Kali (2004)
  Andreas Marschall's Tears of Kali (2004)

Tell-Tale Heart, The (1953)
  Recent BFI releases

Telling Tales (1978)
  DVD diary: September - part one

Tender Dracula (1974)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Tenebrae (1982)
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

Teorema (1968)
  Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (1968): Criterion Blu-ray review

Terminal Game, The (1982)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Terminal Island (1973)
  A mixed bag from Screen Archives

Terraformars (2016)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Terror (1978)
  Trashy Brit horrors

Terror at Tenkiller (1986)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Terror Creatures from the Grave (1965)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Terror is a Man (1959)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Terror of the Tongs, The (1961)
  Indicator's Hammer vol. 3: Imperialism, War & Race

Terror Train (1979)
  Early winter viewing, part 2

Terrornauts, The (1967)
  Trawling the Internet

Terry on the Fence (1985)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Test Pilota Pirxa (1979)
  Trawling the Internet

Testament (1983)
  Nuclear war and the movies

Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974)
  Rethinking Kane and Chain Saws

That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
  Genre On Disk, part two

That Man From Rio (1964)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
  Three Films by Luis Buñuel: Criterion Blu-ray review

That Sinking Feeling (1979)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Theatre Bizarre, The (2011)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Theatre of Blood (1973)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part two

Theme Je (2004/2011)
  Francoise Romand: The Camera I

There's Always Vanilla (1971)
  Life and Death in the films of George A. Romero

These Are the Damned (1962)
  Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4: Faces of Fear

They Call Her One-Eye (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

They Came From Beyond Space (1967)
  Trawling the Internet

They Came From the Swamp (2020)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

They Came to a City (1944)
  British black-and-white fantasies

They Have Changed Their Face (1971)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

They Live (1988)
  Plumbing the depths of pulp
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 - part three

They Might Be Giants (1971)
  Death and madness from Indicator

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

They Were Not Divided (1950)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Thick-Walled Room (1953/56)
  DVD Review: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse)

Thin Blue Line, The (1988)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Thin Red Line, The (1998)
  Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

Thing From Another World, The (1951)
  More in-flight entertainment

Thing, The (1982)
  More in-flight entertainment
  Old horrors, newly packaged

Things to Come (1936)
  Blu-ray Review: Things to Come (1936)

Third Eye, The (1966)
  Italian Gothic horror on Blu-ray

Third Murder, The (2017)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Thirst (1979)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018: Part Two

Thirteenth Hour, The (1947)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  The real pleasure of fake commentaries

This Island Earth (1955)
  Another eclectic week

This Land Is Mine (1943)
  A DVD Addict In Paris

Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, The (1960)
  Two swansongs

Threads (1984)
  Nuclear war and the movies

Three Brothers (1981)
  Recent Arrow viewing

Three Children, The (1946)
  Recent releases from the BFI Flipside

Three Clear Sundays (1965)
  Recent viewing, part 1

Three Musketeers, The (2011)
  Recent Viewing part 3: brief notes

Three Stooges, The (2012)
  More in-flight entertainment

Thriller (1960-62)
  Year End 2010

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Through the Olive Trees (1994)
  Abbas Kiarostami's The Koker Trilogy (1987-94): Criterion Blu-ray review

Thunder Road (1958)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Thundercrack! (1975)
  The pleasures of transgression

Thursday the 12th (1982)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Ticket of Leave Man, The (1937)
  The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Ticks (1993)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Tiger Claws (1991)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Tiger Claws II (1996)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Tiger Claws III (2000)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Tiger of Eschnapur, The (1959)
  DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one

Tight Spot (1955)
  Indicator's Columbia Noir #2

Tih-Minh (1919)
  Digital resurrection

Time Bandits (1981)
  More Arrow ...

Time for Dying, A (1969)
  Budd Boetticher's A Time for Dying (1969) from Indicator

Time Machine, The (1960)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Time Out of Mind (1947)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Time Without Pity (1957)
  Year End 2019

Tingler, The (1959)
  William Castle's horrors from Indicator

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  Recent viewing - theatrical

Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
  The Adventures of Tintin, boy reporter

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
  The Adventures of Tintin, boy reporter

Tintin et le mystere de la toison d'or (1961)
  The Adventures of Tintin, boy reporter

Tintin et les oranges bleues (1964)
  The Adventures of Tintin, boy reporter

Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (2016)
  Being human: two new Criterion releases

Titan Find, The (1985)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

To Let (2006)
  Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
  I love a deal ...
  The transgressive art of William Friedkin

To Sir, With Love (1967)
  Bias and preconception in movie-watching

To Sleep So As to Dream (1986)
  Winter 2022 Arrow viewing, part two

Tokyo Joe (1949)
  Christmas, noir and Christmas-noir from Indicator

Tokyo Knights (1961)
  Post-Op, week one

Tokyo Tribe (2014)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

Tomb of Ligeia, The (1964)
  Oh, the horror! part two

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
  Revisiting some old favourites

Tomorrow at Ten (1962)
  A week of DVDs

Tony (2009)
  Recent Viewing part 2

Tony Rome (1967)
  Twilight Time round-up

Too Beautiful to Die (1988)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part one

Too Much Johnson (1938)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Toolbox Murders, The (1978)
  Random viewing, short takes - part two

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
  Brief Notes, December Part Two

Top Knot Detective (2017)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part three: Other labels

Torture Chamber of Doctor Sadism, The (1967)
  Boxed In

Torture Garden (1967)
  More from Indicator

Touch of Evil (1958)
  The myth of Orson Welles' failure

Touch of Sin, A (2013)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part two

Touch of Zen, A (1971)
  The wuxia epics of King Hu

Tough Ones, The (1976)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Tower (2016)
  Random thoughts: May 2017

Tower of London (1962)
  Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

Towering Inferno, The (1974)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Town Bloody Hall (1979)
  D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus' Town Bloody Hall (1979): Criterion Blu-ray review

Town on Trial (1957)
  Watching genre, in black-and-white

Town That Dreaded Sundown, The (1976)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Toys Are Not For Children (1971)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

Trafic (1971)
  The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (1971)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Polanski's Macbeth (1971)

Tragic Ceremony (1972)
  Vinegar Syndrome October releases, part two

Trail of Dracula, The (2016)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Trail of the Octopus, The (1919)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2

Train to Busan (2016)
  Evil and dead

Traitement de choc (1972)
  Winter viewing: Severin Films

Trans-Europe Express (1966)
  The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Transformers (2007)
  Binging

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
  Binging

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
  Binging

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
  Binging

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  Binging

Trap (2024)
  Recent big-screen viewing

Trapped Alive (1988)
  Looking back ...

Trapped By the Mormons (1922)
  From the department of “what the hell?!”

Trauma (1993)
  Dario Argento in decline

Traveling Executioner, The (1970)
  Damnation and the Fields of Ambrosia

Travellers (2003)
  DVD of the Week: All White in Barking/Men of the City

Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
  Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part two

Tree of Life, The (2011)
  Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978)
  Criterion Blu-ray review:Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

Tremors (1990)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Trench 11 (2017)
  Catching up, part two

Trial, The (1962)
  Orson Welles's The Trial (1962): Criterion Blu-ray review

Tribute to Houdini, A (1987)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Trilogy of Life (1971-74)
  Boxed In

Trip to the Moon, A (1902)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Triple 9 (2016)
  The disappearance of real-world disk retail

Troll (1986)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Troll 2 (1991)
  Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019

Trollhunter (2010)
  Recent viewing, part 3

True Stories (1986)
  David Byrne's True Stories (1986): Criterion Blu-ray review

Try and Get Me! (1950)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Tunnel, The (2011)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Turbo Kid (2015)
  Late winter viewing, part one

Twenty Times More Likely (1978)
  Vampire Circus footnote

Twenty-Nine (1969)
  Recent BFI releases

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
  More Recent Viewing

Twin Peaks (2017)
  Preliminary Notes on Twin Peaks 2017

Twins of Evil (1971)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part two

Twisted Nerve (1968)
  Aspect Rati-woes

Twister's Revenge! (1988)
  Weird Wisconsin: the movies of Bill Rebane

Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971)
  Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Gialli and Thrillers

Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The (1960)
  Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4: Faces of Fear

Two Faces of Peter Lorre (1984)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Two Girls on the Street (1939)
  World Cinema Project 4: Criterion Blu-ray review

Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part two

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Two Solutions For One Problem (1975)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Two Undercover Angels (1969)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

U

Ultimate Versus (2004)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Un carnet de bal (1937)
  Julien Duvivier in the Thirties: Eclipse 44

Uncle Sam (1996)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part one

Undeclared War (1990)
  Vinegar Syndrome January releases

Undefeatable (1993)
  Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Under Fire (1983)
  Binging on Twilight Time

Under the Bridges (1944)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Under the Shadow (2016)
  Spooky

Undercover Man, The (1949)
  Indicator in a box

Underground (1928)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

Underneath, The (1995)
  The Apprenticeship of Steven Soderbergh: King of the Hill (1993)

Undertaker, The (1988)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Underwater (2020)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part three

Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
  Twilight Crime

Unearthly Stranger (1963)
  Oh, the horror!

Unfair! (1970)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Uninvited Guest of the Star Ferry, The (1984)
  Italian murders and Ninja intrigue from Radiance

Uninvited, The (1944)
  Haunting Classic: The Uninvited (1944)

United States of Insanity, The (2021)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part three

Unknown Man of Shandigor, The (1967)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Unknown, The (1927)
  Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers on Blu-ray from Criterion

Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
  Fall 2023 viewing: Arrow Video

Unpolished, The (2006)
  A week of DVDs

Unscarred, The (2000)
  Buddy Giovinazzo's American Nightmares

Unsuitable Job for a Woman, An (1982)
  Clive Rees' The Blockhouse (1973) and other recent Indicator releases

Untamed Mistress (1951)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

Untamed, The (2016)
  Recent Arrow Blu-rays

Unter den Brucken (1944)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing

Until the End of the World (1991)
  Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World (1991): Criterion Blu-ray review

Untold History of the United States, The (2013)
  Year End 2013

Untouched (1954)
  Roberto Gavaldón's Untouched (Sombra Verde, 1954) on Blu-ray from Indicator

Untraceable (2008)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Up To His Ears (1965)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Uprising (2021)
  Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020): Criterion Blu-ray review

Upstream Color (2013)
  Recent Viewing: July 2013

Used Cars (1980)
  Binging on Twilight Time

Utopia (1951)
  Two swansongs

V

V/H/S (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Valachi Papers, The (1972)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part two

Valley of the Dolls (1967)
  Notes on melodrama and film history

Vampire Circus (1972)
  DVD of the Week: Vampire Circus (1972)

Vampire Doll, The (1970)
  Recent viewing, Summer 2018

Vampire in Venice (1988)
  Euro Pulp

Vampire Lovers, The (1970)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part two

Vampire Saga IV, The (1988)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Vampire vs Vampire (1989)
  Recent Asian releases from Eureka

Vampires (1998)
  Catching up, part two

Vampyr (1932)
  Digital resurrection

Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
  Early winter viewing, part 1

Van Diemen's Land (2009)
  A week of DVDs

Vanishing, The (1993)
  Recent miscellaneous viewing, part two

Vanquished, The (1952)
  Background Detail

Varda by Agnes (2019)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four

Velvet Underground, The (2021)
  Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground (2021): Criterion Blu-ray review

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Vengeance is Mine (1979)

Vengeance of Fu Manchu, The (1967)
  Indicator in a box

Venom (1981)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part One

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Versus (2000)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Vibora caliente (1976)
  Two Mexican westerns from Vinegar Syndrome

Vice Raid (1959)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Vicious Fun (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Victimas del pecado (1951)
  Emilio Fernández's Victimas del pecado (Victims of Sin, 1951): Criterion Blu-ray review

Victims of Sin (1951)
  Emilio Fernández's Victimas del pecado (Victims of Sin, 1951): Criterion Blu-ray review

Video Nasties: Draconian Days (2014)
  Video Nasties Revisted

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape (2010)
  DVD of the Week: Video Nasties, The Definitive Guide (2010)

View from a Hill, A (2005)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Vigilante (1983)
  Brief comments, part one

Vikings, The (1958)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Village of the Damned (1960)
  Beware the children!
  Watching genre, in black-and-white

Violent Blood Bath (1974)
  Spring 2024 viewing, part one

Violent City (1970)
  Wrapping up 2022

Violent Naples (1976)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Violent Saturday (1955)
  Recent disks from England, part two

Virus (1980)
  DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)

Visa to Canton (1960)
  Hammer adventures from Indicator

Visages Villages (2017)
  Agnes Varda's passion for life

Visit, The (2015)
  M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit (2015)

Visiting Hours (1982)
  Styles of Horror, part three

Viy (1967)
  Post-Op, week four

Voice of the Whistler (1945)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

Voice Over (1981)
  Flipside: extreme male anxiety

Voices (1973)
  Clive Rees' The Blockhouse (1973) and other recent Indicator releases

Von Ryan's Express (1965)
  Sinatra x 2

Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
  Summer grab-bag, part two: Vinegar Syndrome

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
  Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

W

Wages of Fear, The (1953)
  Revisiting two more old favourites

Wake Wood (2011)
  Beware the children!

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
  Columbia Noir 4 from Indicator

Walk East on Beacon (1952)
  Columbia Noir 4 from Indicator

Walker (1987)
  Alex Cox's Walker (1987): Criterion Blu-ray review

Walking the Edge (1983)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

War and Peace (1966-67)
  Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1966-67):Criterion Blu-ray review

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

War Game, The (1965)
  Nuclear war and the movies

War Horse (2011)
  More Recent Viewing

War Lord, The (1965)
  Recent disks from England, part two

War of the Arrows (2011)
  DVD of the week: War of the Arrows

War of the Worlds, The (1953)
  Byron Haskin's The War of the Worlds (1953):Criterion Blu-ray review

War Room, The (1993)
  DVD of the Week: The War Room (1993)

War Wagon, The (1967)
  Summer viewing: short takes

Warning From Space (1956)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part Two

Warning to the Curious, A (1972)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)
  Recent Viewing 2

Warriors Two (1978)
  Summer grab-bag, part one

Warriors, The (1979)
  Interesting releases from Australia's Imprint

Washing Machine, The (1993)
  Shameless exploitation

Watch Me When I Kill (1977)
  Wrapping up 2022

Watchmaker of St. Paul, The (1974)
  Bertrand Tavernier April 25, 1941-March 25, 2021

Watership Down (1978)
  The pleasures of hand-made animation

Waterworld (1995)
  Pulp Epics

Way Bad Stone (1991)
  Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Way to the Stars, The (1945)
  Late Summer Viewing, part 1

We Await (1996)
  Winter viewing 2: Vinegar Syndrome partners

We Can't Go Home Again (1973)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part two

We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Weapon, The (1956)
  Val Guest on Blu-ray

Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, The (1972)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Web, The (1947)
  Universal Noir #1 from Indicator

Weekend (1967)
  DVD Review: Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend (1967)

Weird Woman (1943)
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries on Blu-ray

Wendigo (2001)
  Fessenden and Stanley, together again

Went the Day Well? (1942)
  Ealing Studios

Werewolf, The (1956)
  The joy of B: Sam Katzman's 1950s horrors

West 11 (1963)
  Two more British Films from Network

West of the Tracks (2003)
  DVD of the week: West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu)
  "Art films" and the nature of boredom

Western Approaches (1944)
  Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Westfront 1918 (1930)
  Summer viewing: the serious stuff

Westworld: Season 1 (2016)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

What Did Jack Do? (2017)
  Thanksgiving viewing

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
  Ozu Yasujiro's The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952): Criterion Blu-ray review

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
  Random notes: August 2016

What We Do In the Shadows (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Wheels on Meals (1984)
  Chinese action and fantasy from Eureka

When It Rains (1995)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

When the Wind Blows (1986)
  Twilight Time again ...

Where Eagles Dare (1968)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Where is the Friend's House? (1987)
  Abbas Kiarostami's The Koker Trilogy (1987-94): Criterion Blu-ray review

Whip and the Body, The (1963)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Four
  Fall viewing, part two
  More Italo-horror: The Good, the Bad and the Gory

Whip Hand, The (1951)
  Recent viewing, May-June 2016, part two

Whiplash (2014)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Whiskey Mountain (1977)
  Recent Arrow viewing, Part One: William Grefé

Whisky Galore! (1949)
  Innocence and corruption in the films of Alexander Mackendrick

Whisperer In Darkness, The (2011)
  Adapting Lovecraft

Whisperers, The (1967)
  Bleak Britain

Whispering Star, The (2015)
  Smart Sci-Fi

Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
  Ghosts of Television Past, part one

Whistler, The (1944)
  Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler: Indicator Blu-ray review

White Fire (1984)
  Clearing the docket: Arrow Video

White Lightnin' Road (1964)
  The Exotic Ones: exploitation and religion from the Ormond family

White Lightning (1973)
  Viewing notes, March 2017: Part One

White of the Eye (1987)
  Arrow Video, part two: White of the Eye (1987)

White Reindeer, The (1952)
  "Folk Horror"

White Zombie (1932)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
  Beware the children!

Who Dares Wins (1982)
  Recent viewing: November 2015

Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)
  Vinegar Syndrome Partners

Who? (1974)
  Post-Op, week one

Whole Town's Talking, The (1935)
  John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Indicator Blu-ray

Whole Wide World, The (1996)
  Dan Ireland and The Whole Wide World

Why Don't You Love Me? (1999)
  An evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Why Don't You Play In Hell? (2013)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Wicked Lady, The (1945)
  Steamy Screen: The Melodramas of Gainsborough Pictures

Wicker Man, The (1973)
  "Folk Horror"

Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Wild Beasts (1984)
  Recent Viewing part 1

Wild Boys, The (2017)
  Post-Op, weeks two and three

Wild Bunch, The (1969)
  Holiday viewing

Wild Card (2015)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Wild Geese, The (1978)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018

Wild One, The (1954)
  Stanley Kramer and the limits of liberalism

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Willard (1971)
  Back to the '70s

Willow Creek (2013)
  Speed reviewing: 50 Capsule Comments

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  Recent viewing, part 3

Willy's Wonderland (2021)
  Thanksgiving viewing

Winchester (2018)
  Late Fall viewing: Oh, the horror!

Wind Rises, The (2013)
  Miyazaki's swan song: The Wind Rises
  The pleasures of hand-made animation

Wind, The (1986)
  Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Wings of Death (1985)
  Recent releases from the BFI

Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1977)
  Listmania redux: The Greatest Documentaries of All Time, part two

Winter Kills (1979)
  Pandemic viewing, Part One

Winterbeast (1992)
  Home-Grown Horrors

Witch Who Came From the Sea, The (1976)
  Arrow's American Horror Project, vol 1

Witch's Mirror, The (1962)
  Mexico Macabre: four horror classics from Indicator

Witch, The (1966)
  Italian Gothic horror on Blu-ray

Witch, The (2015)
  Brief viewing notes, July 2016

Witchboard (1986)
  Styles of Horror, part three

Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968)
  Benjamin Christensen's Häxan (1922): Criterion Blu-ray review

Witches, The (1968)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018, Part Two

Witchfinder General (1968)
  The short career of Michael Reeves
  Movies in Your Head
  Styles of Horror, part two

Witchmaker, The (1969)
  Brief viewing notes, Winter 2019

Witchtrap (1989)
  Winter viewing: Vinegar Syndrome

Withnail and I (1987)
  Boxed in ... the urge to collect

Without Warning (1980)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
  Summer grab-bag, part three: Vinegar Syndrome partners

Wolf (1994)
  Fall 2023 viewing, part two

Wolf Children (2012)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part two

Wolfen (1981)
  DVD diary: September - part two

Wolfpack (1987)
  Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Wolverine, The (2013)
  Notes on Recent Viewing, part three

Woman in Black, The (1989)
  Spooky

Woman Kills, A (1968)
  Serendipity at the mall: disk discoveries from England and Australia

Woman on the Beach (1947)
  A DVD Addict In Paris

Woman's Secret, A (1949)
  A DVD Addict In Paris

Woman's Torment, A (1977)
  Late winter 2023: Vinegar Syndrome and partners

Woman, The (2011)
  Cannibal feast

Woman’s Vengeance, A (1948)
  Recent Noir releases from Indicator and Arrow

Women in Love (1969)
  New releases from the BFI, 2016

Wonderful London (1924)
  Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, cinema verite and the problem of “actuality”

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
  Folk horror and Argentine noir

World of Drunken Master, The (1979)
  The martial arts of Joseph Kuo

World of Giants (1959)
  Monsters, killers and existential dread on Blu-ray

World of Henry Orient, The (1964)
  Twilight Time: Fantasies of romance

World on a Wire (1973)
  Entering Other Worlds, part 2

World's End (2013)
  Year End 2013

World, the Flesh and the Devil, The (1959)
  DVD of the Week: The World, the Flesh & the Devil (1959)

Wraith, The (1986)
  Serendipity at the mall: disk discoveries from England and Australia

Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
  Recent Arrow box sets

Wrath of the Wind (1970)
  Arrow's Savage Guns: 4 Classic Westerns on Blu-ray

Wrong Box, The (1966)
  More from Indicator

Wrong Move (1975)
  Criterion Blu-ray review: Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (1974-76)

Wyrmwood (2014)
  Viewing notes July-August 2015, part two

X

Y

Year of the Cannibals, The (1970)
  Recent Viewing: April and May, part one

Year of the Sex Olympics, The (1968)
  Nigel Kneale & British genre television

Yellow Handkerchief, The (1977)
  Recent viewing: March-April 2018

Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
  Indicator's Hammer vol. 3: Imperialism, War & Race

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968)
  Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

You Might Be the Killer (2018)
  Year End 2019

You Were Never Really Here (2017)
  Late summer viewing: Spies, Killers and Terrorists

You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967)
  More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Young Lions, The (1958)
  The "good German" in war movies

Young Ones (2014)
  Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks

Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
  Recent Viewing part 1

Your Name (2016)
  Rhyming Pairs

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
  Late winter viewing, part two

Youth Club (1954)
  The revival of Flipside

Z

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
  Summer grab-bag, part four: (almost) all the rest

Zardoz (1974)
  Binging on Twilight Time

Zatoichi (1962-73)
  More random notes: September 2016

Zeder (1983)
  Ghosts Good and Bad
  Re-evaluating Italian horrors on Blu-ray from 88 Films

Zerkalo (1975)
  Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975): Criterion Blu-ray review

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 1

Zombi Holocaust (1980)
  More genre viewing - late Fall 2018: Part Two

Zombie (1979)
  Italian genre beyond Bava

Zombie 3 (1988)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Zombie 4: After Death (1988)
  Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987)
  Winter viewing 1: Vinegar Syndrome

Zombie Death House (1988)
  John Saxon 1936-2020

Zombie for Sale (2019)
  Recent disks from England, part two: Arrow

Zombie Holocaust (1980)
  Winter 2024 viewing, part one: Severin

Zombieland (2009)
  Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
  The joy of B: Sam Katzman's 1950s horrors

Zone Troopers (1985)
  Brief Notes, December Part One

Zotz! (1962)
  Boxed In

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
  Recent disks from England, part one

Zulu (1964)
  A week of DVDs

Zulu Dawn (1979)
  Compulsive Viewing: A Personal Pathology Part 2
  Year End 2013

Blasts from the past

Comedy, disasters, crime and horror: more new releases

Summer viewing, 2023: Vinegar Syndrome

Guest post: William K. Everson & British Film

Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada