It’s a dive into an intoxicating, anarchic slice of the 20th-century, the brief era that was Weimar Germany. The society still reels from crushing defeat and dark political forces are gearing up for a malign future. Berlin’s nightlife churns with experimental art, debauched revelry and untempered vice. Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer and Achim von Borries’…
Sure, it’s a TV landmark. To liberals it is a dream vision of how responsible government, run by practical idealists, ought to work. The show’s seven years of rational ups and downs were aired mostly during the Bush administration, and still managed to hold out hope for America. It’s a crowning achievement for creator Aaron…
The Ladykillers 4K ULTRA HD + Blu-ray Kino Lorber 1955 / 91 min / 1.37:1 & 1.66:1 Starring Alec Guinness, Katie Johnson, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers Written by Alexander Mackendrick, William Rose Photographed by Otto Heller Directed by Alexander Mackendrick British comedy has always depended on an understated quality, and nothing was as understated as…
The Warner Archive’s latest MGM Technicolor bon-bon is this strained musical bio — Mickey Rooney as Lorenz Hart? — that nevertheless can boast an impressive revue lineup of performances: Judy Garland, Betty Garrett, Lena Horne, Mickey Rooney, Mel Tormé et al. The showstopper is one of Gene Kelly’s earliest ‘music ballet’ extravaganzas — he dances…
There’s been somewhat of a vogue for dialogue-free genre films in the past decade, including titles such as John Woo’s Silent Night, No One Will Save You, Boy Kills World and, of course, A Quiet Place. These movies eschew language to focus on pure visual cinema, hearkening back to silent film and the primacy of…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we have wine pairings for a trio of films featuring everyone’s favorite Babs. Up the Sandbox, released toward the end of 1972, had Barbara Streisand as a New York City housewife…
Corporate culture had been around for years when the ‘Office Hell’ genre arrived, and this sleek fable from cubicle-land is both one of the best and one of the least seen. The much abused office temps Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow and Alanna Ubach don’t have the luxury of cubicles, or even desks of…
No sooner do we dig up an old review for this horror masterpiece, than StudioCanal remasters it with a 4K scan and Kino adds some quality extras — just in time to start off the CineSavant Halloween season. College professor Peter Wyngarde refuses to believe that his missus Janet Blair has secured his high academic…
Jackie Chan’s legendary ‘Project A’ pictures reach 4K in a boxed set as lavish as home video can get. Chan’s pals Sammo Hung and Biao Yuen, and the amazing Chan Stunt Team assemble two of the most frenetic, athletic & death-defying comic action thrillers ever; the first is a Marines-vs-pirates epic and the second a…
