Year End 2014

Despite perennial predictions of the demise of movies-on-disk, 2014 offered a rich and varied selection of new and old titles in often impressive editions from many different companies, though not necessarily from major distributors. The cream came from specialty labels like Criterion, the BFI, Arrow, Eureka/Masters of Cinema, Shout! Factory, Olive Films, Kino Lorber, Flicker Alley and Twilight Time.

Blasts from the past

Blaxploitation and historical counter-narrative

Robert M. Young’s The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982): Criterion Blu-ray review

Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and other horrors

Mikio Naruse

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