The Collector Blu ray – All Region Indicator/Powerhouse 1965/ 1.85:1 / Street Date September 24, 2018 Starring Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar Cinematography by Robert Surtees, Robert Krasker Directed by William Wyler German-born William Wyler was a storyteller who asked the audience not to understand him too quickly. A notorious perfectionist (Bette Davis credited him with…
The Changeling Blu ray Severin Films 1980/ 1.85:1 / Street Date August 7, 2018 Starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas Cinematography by John Coquillion Directed by Peter Medak The success of 70’s shockers like The Devils, The Exorcist and Alien – grindhouse films in big budget drag – opened the door to increasingly explicit…
Paranoid, vengeful, with skin so thin you can see through it, The Invisible Man is the most nakedly neurotic of Universal’s classic monsters (beating out Larry Talbot by a hair). That said, this particular monster was something of a one-note character yet the diligent creators behind the subsequent sequels did their best to introduce a…
Strait-Jacket Blu ray Shout Factory 1964 / 1.85:1 / Street Date August 21, 2018 Starring Joan Crawford, Diane Baker Cinematography by Arthur Arling Directed by William Castle The planets aligned in 1964 as William Castle’s Strait-Jacket premiered in January and Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp was published later that fall. There’s no mention of Castle’s…
The Loved One Blu-ray Warner Archives 1965 / B&W / 1:85 / / 122 min. / Street Date May 9, 2017 Starring: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer. Cinematography: Haskell Wexler Film Editor: Hal Ashby, Brian Smedley-Aston Written by Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood Produced by Martin Ransohoff (uncredited), John Calley, Haskell Wexler Directed by Tony…
I Bury The Living Blu-ray Shout! Factory 1958 / B&W / 1:85 / / 76 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017 Starring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel. Cinematography: Frederick Gately Film Editor: Frank Sullivan Written by Louis Garfinkle Produced by Albert Band, Louis Garfinkle Directed by Albert Band I Bury the Living implicates us…
Rumble Fish Blu-ray Criterion 1940 / B&W / 1:85 / Street Date April 25, 2017 Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane. Cinematography: Stephen Burum Film Editor: Barry Malkin Written by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola Produced by Francis Ford Coppola Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult…
Chamber of Horrors Blu-ray Kino Lorber 1940 / B&W / 1:33 / Street Date March 21, 2017 Starring: Lilli Palmer, Leslie Banks. Cinematography: Alex Bryce, Ernest Palmer Film Editor: Ted Richards Written by Gilbert Gunn, Norman Lee Produced by John Argyle Directed by Norman Lee Near the turn of the century a struggling war…
After The Fox Blu-ray Kino Lorber 2017 / Color / 2.35 : 1 widescreen / Street Date March 22, 2017 Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Martin Balsem, Akim Tamiroff. Cinematography: Leonida Barboni Film Editor: Russell Lloyd Written by Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini Produced by John Bryan Directed by Vittorio De Sica After The…
Elle Blu-ray Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017 / Color / 2.40:1 widescreen / Street Date March 14, 2017 Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling. Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine Film Editor: Job Ter Burg Written by David Birke Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt Directed by Paul Verhoeven Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur…
Multiple Maniacs Blu-ray 1970 / Black and White /96 Min. / 1:66 / Street Date March 21, 2017 Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce and Mink Stole. Cinematography: John Waters Film Editor: John Waters Written by John Waters Produced by John Waters Directed by John Waters Andy Warhol was nothing if not a multi-media…
We Are The Flesh (Tenemos la carne) Blu-ray 2017 / Color / 1:85 widescreen – though the aspect ratio changes at the director’s whim/110 min. / Street Date February 28, 2017 Starring: Noe Hernandez, María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel. Cinematography: Yollótl Alvarado Film Editor: Yibran Asuad and Emiliano Rocha Minter Written by Emiliano Rocha Minter…
The troubled young British director Michael Reeves was credited with only three films and then, just as his star was ascending, died at the age 25. But the James Dean comparison doesn’t end there; Reeves’ signature work, Witchfinder General (released in the US as The Conqueror Worm) is a cry for justice from an angry young rebel,…