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A picture needs a thousand words …

Posted on May 7, 2014December 10, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

Flicker Alley’s welcome Blu-ray edition of The Most Dangerous Game garners real interest from the inclusion of the 1931 exploitation travelogue Gow The Headhunter.

Blu-ray Review: Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925)

Posted on March 26, 2014January 1, 2023 by Kenneth George Godwin

Criterion follows up last year’s Safety Last! with a richly produced edition of Harold Lloyd’s biggest hit, The Freshman.

Thorold Dickinson

Posted on November 29, 2010December 3, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

In his Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thompson has a very brief entry on the English director Thorold Dickinson. He implies that Dickinson was a kind of failure, unable to make films and so turning to teaching. Thompson sees him as a sad character, his talent wasted on unworthy students no doubt unaware of who […]

Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO

Posted on October 22, 2010August 4, 2024 by Kenneth George Godwin

Seeing Psycho projected on a big screen for the first time in decades was almost like seeing a new film for the first time; Hitchcock’s images have a remarkable visceral power when seen large.

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