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Safe At Home Blu-Ray Round-Up
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!
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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Two from the Undercrank Vaults
The folks at Undercrank Productions are back again, ready to remind us that they’re among the most dogged and tireless preservers and distributors of weird, under-acknowledged, and misunderstood films from the silent era. This time […]
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THE KINETOPHONE! A FACT! A REALITY!
One of the more curious early experiments with cinematic sound technology was Thomas Edison’s Kinetophone, a massively complicated mechanism involving a cylinder player and a film projector placed at the front and back of a […]
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Terror and Horror from Undercrank
In his seminal “Danse Macabre,” Stephen King defined the difference between Terror and Horror, two terms long mistaken for simple synonyms. “Terror,” he explains, “comes from suspense, the creeping feeling of knowing a monster is […]
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LON CHANEY: BEFORE THE THOUSAND FACES
Long before he was Quasimodo, long before he was the Phantom, long before he was a circus freak, a hypnotist, or any other of his immortal roles, Lon Chaney was just another cog in the […]