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Safe At Home Blu-Ray Round-Up

Jun 22, 2020 Nathanael Hood 0

With the world turned topsy-turvy over COVID-19, now might be the best time to catch up with some of the latest Blu-ray releases of classic and foreign films. Here are ten capsule reviews of new […]

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New Year! New Blu-Ray Round-Up!

Jan 8, 2020 Nathanael Hood 0

A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) (Criterion Collection, Spine #970) ★★★★½ When I first saw Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd over five years ago, I wrote in my journal that the film, while […]

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The Best of Intentions: Nicholas Ray’s THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES

Sep 9, 2019 Jeremy Carr 0

Nicholas Ray’s The True Story of Jesse James (1957) is a film about progressive myth-making, the fabrications and recollections that produce a multifaceted yet never fully realized celebrity figure. Here, the legacy of its notorious […]

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Recast, but Don’t Reenact: THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI

Sep 3, 2019 The Retro Set 0

Review by A.C. Miller The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) in the background. Bombs exploding as British journalist George Hogg, fights through enemy lines to photograph the brutality of war. Innocents lined up and shot down […]

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Kindred Spirits: THE L-SHAPED ROOM

Jul 29, 2019 Jeremy Carr 0

Twenty-seven-year-old Jane Fosset, a French woman several months pregnant played by Leslie Caron, tells her unborn child’s father, an actor, that one “can’t play a part until you’ve lived it.” Fundamentally true or not, it’s […]

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The End of an Era: THE LAST HURRAH

Jul 5, 2019 Jeremy Carr 0

Current impressions will often skew or shape one’s perception of a classic film. It’s hard, forexample, to look back at a historical moment in time and not draw associations between that period’s politics — the tactics […]

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