Year End 2011

Although I watch more films now than ever before, I hardly ever get out to a movie. Twenty years ago, before I paid much attention to home video (I didn’t own a VCR until 1995!), I saw about 120 movies a year in theatres. This past year, barely 30. But with DVD and Blu-ray, I […]

Blasts from the past

Cursed by Warner Brothers:
The Strange Fate of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)

Flipside: extreme male anxiety

Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher (1999): Criterion Blu-ray review

The Pathology of Power:
Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

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