If you have ever watched a Julie Andrews film but have not seen S.O.B. then you are in for two shockers. I had heard tales that this film existed but never put two and two together. Don’t worry, I have zero interest in spoiling this for you.
Read more "Blu-ray Review – S.O.B."A Woman’s Face is certainly not the strongest George Cukor film, nor is it the best Joan Crawford film I watched in the last two weeks but it was alright.
Read more "DVD Review – A Woman’s Face"Boy it sure is nice to have historical documents like this Terence Young picture, The Klansman, to look back upon and see just how bad life used to be for people-of-color in the south. What great, unimaginable bounds we have made for the future of the country. Is this clichéd, sarcasm doing anything for you?
Read more "Blu-ray Review – The Klansman"dir. Nate Parker – 2016 – 117 min – 6.40 I was talking with my friend Aaron the other day about how picky I am. The wider my film vocabulary becomes the more I notice how my tastes effect my enjoyment of films. The Birth of a Nation falls victim to this. The film tells […]
Read more "The Birth of a Nation"Below are my suggestions for the Top 15 Home Video Releases. First, I have not watched, nor do I intend to watch, every release this year. While the films themselves are the most important part of all releases there are some times in which the whole package elevates a release beyond what we have become […]
Read more "Top 15 Home Video Releases of 2016"Last week Flicker Alley, in association with Blackhawk Films Collection, released Children of Divorce directed by Frank Lloyd and Josef von Sternberg. The 1927 film starring “IT” girl Clara Bow is now, for the first time, available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. The film is an adaptation of Owen Johnson’s novel of the same name. […]
Read more "Children of Divorce"Do the Right Thing is a film about race in New York City in 1989. The film is about a day in the life of a the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of New York City.do-the-right-thing-DI The first two-thirds of the film is built similarly to many small-town films of the past, the Last Picture Show comes to mind, and is a fairly solid comedy film, through which you meet the cast and learn a little of their lives. In the last act everything everything changes; it is a mirror between the late 80s, now, and, sadly, every other time in American society.
Read more "Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing"Last night I re-watched Mulholland Drive with the new transfer from The Criterion Collection, I suspect that this viewing will prompt more in the future.
Read more "Mulholland Drive Revisited"Thoughts on Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, mon amour and Liv Ullmann’s remake of the play Miss Julie, starring Jessica Chastain.
Read more "Hiroshima Mon Amour and Miss Julie"I can think of several people who will not like this film. There are two clear attributes against it straight out of the gate. The first is running time: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles is two hundred and one minutes long. The second is that it is minimalist cinema at its […]
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