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Criterion Blu-ray review:
Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934)

Posted on November 26, 2014December 10, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

Criterion’s Blu-ray offers a visually rich presentation of Frank Capra’s classic Depression-era romantic comedy It Happened One Night, along with some excellent supplements.

The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray

Posted on November 19, 2014April 2, 2023 by Kenneth George Godwin

The Criterion Collection have outdone themselves with their magnificent, jam-packed seven-disk Blu-ray set of the work of the great French director Jacques Tati

Terence Fisher and science fiction

Posted on November 12, 2014June 22, 2024 by Kenneth George Godwin

Renowned British horror director Terence Fisher rarely tried his hand at science fiction; Odeon Entertainment has recently released new Blu-ray editions of his two best SF films, Island of Terror and Night of the Big Heat.

More from Twilight Time

Posted on November 5, 2014June 27, 2024 by Kenneth George Godwin

Twilight Time continues to release an interesting assortment of titles, often now with excellent commentaries and impressive supplemental material.

Late summer viewing 2014, part two

Posted on October 22, 2014December 10, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

A selection of recently viewed films ranges from revisionist horror to horror-comedy to experimental to Hitchcock imitation (or homage), all impressively presented on Blu-ray.

Documentary and the evolution of movies

Posted on September 17, 2014August 31, 2023 by Kenneth George Godwin

The documentary impulse was integral to the evolution of film and a key element was the application of the new technology to the 19th Century impulse to explore and “conquer” far-off exotic places and cultures.

Criterion Blu-ray review: Vengeance is Mine (1979)

Posted on September 10, 2014May 16, 2024 by Kenneth George Godwin

Vengeance Is Mine (1979). Shohei Imamura’s chilling fact-based film about a serial killer, now on Criterion Blu-ray, is shot through with anger and satirical jabs at post-war Japanese society.