Any attempt at making a list of movie best-ofs opens a door for endless arguments because ultimately all value judgments are subjective, as is immediately apparent in CineFix’s attempt to define the 10 best editing moments in film history.
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.
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 […]
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.
