Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, oy vey. The TFH movie mavens have us schlepping some wine pairings for three films that bring different views of Jewishness. Hey, tryin’ to be a mensch over here. From 2020,…
John Ford went to Africa and brought home a fine remake of a 1930s pre-Code hit, with its original star Clark Gable. Clark has his hands full juggling leading ladies of the next generation, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly. Gable is still the he-man center of attention; his advancing age is not a restrictive factor,…
René Clément all but invented the resistance movie in France and returned to the topic several times. This story of an American flier and a Frenchwoman avoids political sentiment and escapist excesses, concentrating on Simone Signoret’s luminous performance as a woman facing the worst that Occupied France could dish out. It’s a multi-language production, filmed…
PlayTime 1967 – 123 Min. – 1.78:1 Criterion – 4K Blu-ray Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden Written by Jacques Tati Directed by Jacques Tati PlayTime is work. Work for the audience who must adjust their own understanding as to how a movie should move, and work for the man who conceived the film,…
Upscale country-club noir: James V. Kern’s well-directed psychological drama has become semi-obscure for a number of reasons but has been resurrected in decent shape, yielding a handsome show with some unusual casting. Trying once again to play against type, Robert Young is a troubled architect who may have a murderous skeleton in his closet; cheerful…
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 hit the road for some driving energy. Although we don’t recommend drinking and driving, we have a wine pairing for each film. For when you get home. For one glorious…
Not every John Boorman film landed on target, but this fantastic take on the Arthur legend is a big winner. Beginning the story a generation back with Uther Pendragon deepens our understanding of Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot. Excess romantic pathos is dropped in favor of a return to the mystical roots that would underpin epics…
The stylized visuals in this RKO mini-masterpiece are more extreme than any of the German expressionist classics said to have influenced it. A cub reporter experiences a nightmare of crazy injustice, a psychological payback for his own testimony that convicted a killer on circumstantial evidence. The pale and forlorn face of Peter Lorre haunts this…
Warners’ new 4K remaster of William Wyler’s towering Road Show blockbuster is a feast for the eyes and ears; rich encoding will put the word ‘epic’ back into the home theater experience. Wyler’s tasteful direction of that costume-actor-for-all-eras Charlton Heston makes most Biblical epics look tawdry. That chariot race is an action set-piece that will…
