Blu-ray Round-Up for June FOREVER AMBER (Twilight Time) ★★★ Twilight Time is notorious for its generally unclassifiable catalogue of classic films. While other boutique Blu-ray labels like Kino Lorber or Vinegar Syndrome are more or […]
There are few constants in life: death and taxes; the swelling and sighing of the tides; and the continual expansion of the Criterion Collection, perhaps the world’s greatest purveyor of boutique cinema releases. On a […]
“Genius – is to make a critic change his mind.” It’s perhaps fitting that the first shot of Ingmar Bergman’s All These Women consists of a single static take of the inside of an opulent […]
There’s genres, and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres. I like to think of deformity and its impact on society as a sub-sub-genre birthed through horror and further removed as paradoxical exercises in bigotry, racism, small-town fear; perhaps […]
Woody Allen has been making movies for so long, most may not remember when his career was divided into just two distinct periods; the mature work and the early “funny ones.” This was circa 1980, when […]
Around the time Husbands and Wives was released in 1992, Woody Allen had tap danced himself into the crosshairs of the media and the public. Overshadowing his take on Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage was […]
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