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Fantômas – Three Film Collection

by Charlie Largent

Fantômas – Three Film Collection Blu ray Kino Lorber 1964, 1965, 1967 / 2.35 : 1 / 322 Min. Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot Directed by André Hunebelle Eighteen years after playing the duel roles of an aristocratic monster and his swashbuckling adversary in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Jean Marais got…

Princess Mononoke

by Charlie Largent

Princess Mononoke Blu ray Shout! Factory 1997 / 1.85 : 1 / 133 Min. Starring Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki spent much of his early career as an artist and animator on children’s fare like Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon and Puss in Boots, each as energetic as a school recess…

Stagecoach (1966)

by Glenn Erickson

Twilight Time goes for a Blu-ray upgrade of the western remake with the all-star cast. Forget that there was ever a John Ford or a John Wayne and it’s a perfectly presentable wild west story, but the mileage may vary for classic western fans inclined to make comparisons to the 1939 classic. Top billing goes…

Men Must Fight

by Glenn Erickson

CineSavant obsesses over yet another obscure bit of cinematic sociology: a glossy pre-Code MGM melodrama about mothers and war, which half-debates issues like pacifism, the losses of world war one, military vigilance, cowardice, chemical WMDs and foolish idealism! But don’t worry, the title statement is the ultimate answer to everything. Oh, it’s also political sci-fi:…

Von Richthofen and Brown

by Glenn Erickson

Freshly divorced from American-International Pictures, Roger Corman leaps into the filmic mainstream with a fairly large-scale World War One aviation picture. He competes with the big studios but retains his nonconformist attitude: his retelling of the story of the Red Baron fixates on the theme of the death of chivalry in combat. For his star…

The Landlord

by Glenn Erickson

It’s the brightest debut feature of 1970, and perhaps the warmest movie ever about the American race divide. Hal Ashby and Bill Gunn’s work is inspired: rich boy Beau Bridges buys a slum tenement and launches a wonderful ensemble comedy-drama in confrontation with the fantastic quartet of actresses — Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey…

The Big Clock

by Glenn Erickson

Clever plotting goes into overdrive for this light-comedy proto-paranoid film noir about a magazine publishing empire so organized that it seems a sci-fi invention from the future. Ray Milland’s charismatic fall guy finds himself embroiled in a murder plot filled with false identities, and a manhunt that he must supervise… to catch himself. Maybe Robert…

The House of the Seven Gables

by Charlie Largent

The House of the Seven Gables Blu ray Kino Lorber 1940 / 1:33:1 / 89 Min. Starring Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, George Sanders Written by Lester Cole Cinematography by Milton R. Krasner Directed by Joe May In 1940’s The House of the Seven Gables, Margaret Lindsay transforms from sunny romantic to stone-faced recluse in the blink…

Robbery

by Glenn Erickson

Why do crime caper films have so much appeal?  Are we all closet criminals, eager to watch less timid souls risk life and limb to get the big payout and live happily ever after?   Peter Yates’ stylish re-telling of England’s Great Train Robbery makes for an excitingly detailed, nonsense-free heist straight from real life,…

The Ghost Lovers

by Lee Broughton

Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of an obscure period chiller expertly assembled by Shen Hsiang Yu. One of the Shaw Brothers’ early attempts at screen horror, this superior gothic romance with a supernatural twist failed to find an audience upon its initial domestic release — a circumstance that led to the studio…

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

by Glenn Erickson

“You crazy rat you croaked him!”  Yes, you’ve probably heard better hardboiled dialogue, but this British imitation of American gangster pictures takes the cake for screwy line deliveries. It’s derived from a book and play that’s already derived from a salacious William Faulkner story. Jack La Rue and Linden Travers try to make a kidnapper-rapist…

FAN SERVICE: AVENGERS: ENDGAME AND SAD HILL UNEARTHED

by Dennis Cozzalio

Haters gonna hate, and yeah, some folks will take, and have taken, their devotion to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to ridiculous lengths, in the same way that just about every pop culture phenomenon since Beatlemania has inspired people to do. But the likelihood is, if you’ve ever felt any kind of investment, however intermittent or…

The Mysterious Island (1929)

by Glenn Erickson

MGM’s gigantic silent sci-fi extravaganza took three years to make, by which time the talkies arrived and everything went to pieces. Lionel Barrymore emotes (EMOTES!) in his early sound footage, and terrific effects take us to the bottom of the ocean where monsters and a race of Donald Duck creatures menace our heroic adventurers. And…

The Nightcomers

by Charlie Largent

The Nightcomers Blu ray Kino Lorber 1971 / 1:85:1 / 96 Min. Starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham Written by Michael Hastings Cinematography by Robert Paynter Directed by Michael Winner Between 1944 and 1992 Jack Clayton directed just nine movies but they included some of the most elegant yet clear-eyed films to come out of post-war…

Summer Stock

by Glenn Erickson

I don’t know if Garland fans still go around chanting ‘Judy Judy Judy’ at her every appearance, but they do have a timeless song ‘n’ dance number to celebrate here. Her last MGM movie is only a so-so vehicle but Gene Kelly and the studio’s top music & dance talent work hard to put it…

Highway Patrolman (El Patrullero)

by Glenn Erickson

The prize for best direction of 1991 ought to have gone to Alex Cox, whose visual economy in this show is to be applauded. Cox’s camera is fluid, expressive yet technically invisible and unencumbered with fancy tricks: the frame never goes static, yet the film has only a couple of hundred cuts! Filmed in Spanish…

The Strange Door

by Charlie Largent

The Strange Door Blu Ray Kino Lorber 1951 / 1:33:1 / 81 Min. Starring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest Written by Jerry Sackheim Cinematography by Irving Glassberg Directed by Joseph Pevney Charles Laughton is a vengeful aristocrat with a secret in the cellar and Boris Karloff is the family servant who holds the key…

My Brilliant Career

by Glenn Erickson

Gill(ian) Armstrong’s breakthrough feature does a leapfrog over stories like Little Women, with heroines that prevail even when adhering to the Meek Sex role of their time. Judy Davis’s Sybylla Melvin knows that she’s a freckle-faced pain in the neck: despite being proud that she’s attracted the local male catch, her every sinew is committed…

Lilith

by Glenn Erickson

There’s no movie quite like Robert Rossen’s adaptation of the J.R. Salamanca book: mental illness and disturbance is neither simplified nor jammed into a preconceived pattern. There is a strong mythical element to Jean Seberg’s enigmatic Lilith, who at times seems the breathing incarnation of elemental human forces — I would imagine the Greeks believed…

Three Coins in the Fountain

by Glenn Erickson

Ah, yes — it’s a hot day in 1954, so what could be better than a cool movie theater projecting beautiful Italian scenery onto an Eee-Nor-Mous CinemaScope screen, with Frank Sinatra warbling an Oscar-winning tune. The simple escapism of Fox’s ‘three girls find love’ epic makes Rome look like a welcoming haven for carefree Americans…

Red Skelton Whistling Collection

by Charlie Largent

Red Skelton Whistling Collection DVD Warner Archive 1941, 42, 43 / 1:33:1 / 78, 74, 87 Min. Starring Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford Written by Robert MacGunigle, Nat Perrin Cinematography by Sidney Wagner, Clyde De Vinnam, Lester White Directed by S. Sylvan Simon One night in 1950 during an especially frenetic episode of The Colgate Comedy…

Melvin and Howard

by Glenn Erickson

What does the American dream mean to you? Hardworking folk just want the job and the house and the family as promised in the ‘old’ Contract With America that began to slip out of reach in the 1970s. To examine the social absurdities at the tacky end of the consumer divide, Bo Goldman and Jonathan…

The Land Unknown

by Glenn Erickson

“Behind A Barrier Of Antarctic Ice…A Paradise Of Hidden Terrors!” Universal-International laid out a pretty penny to film this elaborate spin on The Lost World, modernized to take in discoveries at the South Pole. It’s a showcase for fancy B&W opticals and traveling mattes … but the featured monster stars are a big letdown —…

The Prisoner

by Glenn Erickson

Alec Guinness transfers an acting challenge from the stage to the screen, in this account of a Cardinal forced to knuckle under to a Communist regime — instead of extracting a confession with torture, Jack Hawkins’ Inquisitor uses psychology to find his prisoner’s weakness. The picture is uneven but its key performances are choice, with…

Superman Serials – The Complete 1948 & 1950 Collection

by Charlie Largent

Turn of the century detectives typically dispatched the bad guys with handcuffs or handguns – commonplace but effective best practices. In 1938 the aptly named Action Comics flipped that script with a new kind of crime fighter.  This depression era RoboCop didn’t just brush off bullets – he snatched up getaway cars with one arm while corralling…

The Heiress

by Glenn Erickson

William Wyler and a trio of fantastic actors make indelible movie history from a grim story by Henry James. How much of love is bald opportunism? How many successes married their way into money? And what’s a lovesick woman to do when a beau may not be true? This may be the key Wyler picture,…