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Having not thought about The Story of Ruth in decades until it was brought up here, I recall that upon its initial release, I was impressed by the production, score; performances were certainly sufficiently dignified that it would likely hold up today in comparison with other contemporaneous...

A Certain Smile would be a welcome companion to the other Sagan adaptation, Bonjour Tristesse, which had a nice Twilight Time release. (The song was nominated but that was the year Gigi won for that and all its other nominations.) And I recall being very impressed by The Story of Ruth at the...

That’s a great price considering the exchange rate right now - at Amazon it was showing at >$70. Well worth an order from Powerhouse for anyone so inclined.

Just checked, The Wrong Box is going for an elevated price on Amazon, so may be out of print. 🥲

One release among my very most wanted and which I obtained purely by luck and timing was The Wrong Box (1966), a supremely deft, charming and highly amusing Bryan Forbes comedy with Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, with a sublime extended...

Very. For being one of the late great Ms Sothern’s generation, I think she would proudly wear the distaff noun with pride. By the way, the DVD version of The Killing Kind was no cheap release, as it had many interesting supplements included, which look like they reappear on the Blu-ray. I’m...

That was the year Olympia Dukakis won for Moonstruck, and Sothern’s nomination may have been a nod to her long career as much as for that specific role. But that has happened many times for various male and female actors over the years. (Why is actress a demeaning term anymore? Beats me 🤷‍♂️)

Another obscurity I recently discovered had been released 3 or 4 years ago by Vinegar Syndrome on Blu-ray (and which I received from Amazon about 30 minutes ago) is The Killing Kind from 1973. It’s much higher quality in concept and execution than the typical psycho slasher thriller. The...

I was absolutely delighted when Kino released Murder, He Says with a stellar print; I discovered it quite by accident in the late 70s, and transferred a recorded VHS to a DVD-R because I feared it was a forgotten gem that nobody’d ever heard of. Released the year after Double Indemnity, the...