Tag: Charles Crichton

Ealing Studios

Posted on by Kenneth George Godwin

I recently got to see the final film produced by Ealing Studios, The Siege of Pinchgut (1959), a tense hostage drama made far from the cozy English countryside and villages the studio is often associated with. Directed and co-written by Harry Watt, starring an American (Aldo Ray) and shot on location in Australia, it seems […]

A week of DVDs

Posted on by Kenneth George Godwin

It’s been a bigger than average week for DVDs, thanks to a couple of packages from Amazon UK, plus the usual Tuesday field trip to the local stores. (I first learned that Tuesday is “new release day” from my friend Sheldon when we were at the Canadian Film Centre together in 1998 and have quite […]

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Home-Grown Horrors

Nelson Pereira dos Santos’ ethnographic satire:
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)

Criterion Blu-ray review: Harold Lloyd’s Speedy (1928)

Random thoughts: May 2017

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