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My initial thoughts about hearing about this release were... "It's about time." The 2002 Focus Features (Universal) release has been available on DVD only domestically. Especially because of the beautiful cinematography by Edward Lachman, who more than caught the look and textures of the...

Josh Steinberg submitted a new blog post El Paso (1949) Blu-ray Review Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

Sidney Lumet's The Group, is a 1966 production, based upon the bestseller by Mary McCarthy. The novel won millions of fans, as well as naysayers, and still does: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/vassar-sex-single-girl-ivy-league-mary-mccarthy I've not seen The Group in decades...

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I've always thought of Robert Aldrich's The Killing of Sister George (1968) as the love child of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mr. Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. It's definitely an odd one, but has always found a place in my library. Kino Lorber's release, while welcome, is...

Adam Resnick's Cabin Boy is one of those over-the-top comedies that's a fan favorite, and is finally available on Blu-ray via Kino Lorber, as part of their deal with Disney (Touchstone). Quality is superb, and extras will please those fans. Color, grain structure, shadow detail, overall...

Kino Lorber is releasing one of the most important disc sets of 2018, and it's the perfect gift for the serious cinephile. Having handled, nitrate silent films, I can attest to the sheer bravura love and passion that has gone into the production of this set. Those who read my words are aware...

It's a rarity when a studio makes a public domain production available, whether directly or via a license to a sub, but Disney has done just that - twice in a short period of time - and both to a savvy Kino Lorber. John Cromwell's First Made for Each Other, a delightfully heartwarming (don't...

Richard Rush's Color of Night was a problematic, albeit stylish film, when it arrived in 1994. And while I'm not certain how much more positive the 18-minute longer Director's Cut makes it today, it remains an interesting production. The theatrical cut is offered on a second disc. Quirky...

H.C. Potter's 1947, The Farmer's Daughter is a quintessential Selznick production, released via RKO. It's part of Kino Lorber's agreement with Disney to make available the Selznick productions, previously held by ABC, and is a nice step above some of the others in the series in terms of...

Paramount has done Republic proud, with their restoration (from original elements) of Trigger, Jr. the 16th of 19 TruColor westerns from Republic with Roy Rogers in the leads, made between 1947 and 1950. It's a far more interesting film than I might have surmised. At 66 minutes (one record has...

Assistant Right-hand Man Amanuensis Casting representative Note taker Colorist Acting coach Film Worker Leon Vitali is all of those things, and although he's been hiding in the background for decades... More. The word Boswellian comes to mind. After getting an acting gig in Stanley...

The Woman in the Window, a 1944 Fritz Lang film, produced by Nunnally Johnson, and photographed by Milton Krasner, is pure mid-'40s noir. But with a touch of It's a Wonderful Life and Wizard of Oz, thrown in for good measure. I'll not discuss, as to give away a plot line could be devastating...

Josh Steinberg How Do I Love Thee? Blu-ray Review In this notorious flop, Jackie Gleason leads a talented cast (including Maureen O’Hara and Shelley Winters) in a story about love and faith, and the cumulative effects of both on a family where one parent is devoutly religious and the other...

Fistful of Dollars, was the earliest of the Clint Eastwood / Sergio Leone Italian western imports. There were thousands that followed, mostly with unidentified talent, and sold packaged with the better films, if you wanted those for distribution. It was photographed in Techniscope, 35/2. For...

Josh Steinberg Trigger, Jr. Blu-ray Review Roy Rogers and his famous horse Trigger return to screen in the 1950 Republic production of Trigger, Jr., in glorious Trucolor. In the film, Roy and Trigger find themselves sidetracked after a storm. They come upon a local ranch, where both are...

King Vidor's 1952 Ruby Gentry has more than a passing similarity to the earlier huge production by David Selznick, Duel in the Sun. A beautiful, young girl, born on the wrong side of the tracks, with desires to better herself, and playing with relationships, that somehow seem to go awry. Kino...

Cinematographer, John Bailey, turned to direction in 1994, for China Moon, an interesting little film, that many felt was too derivative of the swelteringly sexual and nourish, Body Heat, to capture one's attention. While it does immediately bring to mind, the earlier, film, without all of the...

Josh Steinberg Running Wild Blu-ray Review W.C. Fields headlines this 1927 silent classic, which is more narrative driven than some of his other classics. Though it doesn’t boast any famous routines, the comedy here is often funnier because it is inspired by the plot rather than being built...

Josh Steinberg It's The Old Army Game Blu-ray Review W.C. Fields headlines in this 1926 silent comedy classic, essentially a collection of some of Fields’ best routines stitched together with the thinnest of plots. [review]

Robert Harris A few words about...™ Joan of Arc -- in Blu-ray Victor Fleming's 1948 Technicolor Joan of Arc is an interesting film. Produced with a very large budget, and with three superb cinematographers at the helm, it's a gorgeous film to look at. As a production, it's big on process...

"It's the way I register despair..." Tony Harvey's quite extraordinary 1968 The Lion in Winter, is one of those films that I would take with me, if i knew I was to lost on a desert island. Albeit with electricity and some playback gear. I love the film, and Tony became a friend. After owning...

The Outlaw is a strange one. Although directed by Howard Hughes, it began with Howard Hawks at the helm, before he left to direct Sergeant York. While the film was actually produced in 1941, it did not have an opening until February 1943, before getting itself veritably bitch-slapped by the...

Stanley Kramer's Not as a Stranger, a 1955 medical melodrama is an odd film. Not great, but certainly interesting enough to warrant two hours of your time. The independent production boasts a superb cast, and a plethora of secondary and bit players that will have you repeating, "where do I...

SOME KEY KL STUDIO CLASSICS - Currently in Release MGM Edgar G. Ulmer Sci-Fi Collection [The Man From Planet X (1951) | Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) | The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)] Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema I [He Ran All the Way | Witness to Murder | Big House, U.S.A. | A...

Having been aware of the Dawson City Nitrate find for forty years or so, I really thought that I knew what to expect of a documentary on the subject. Old gold mining territory in Canada. Hundreds of reels of 35mm nitrate film, left at the end of the film distribution trail, much like Australia...

For those unfamiliar with the unusual career of Laird Cregar, time to Bone up. No pun intended. A Fox contract player the early to mid-1940s-- a large gentleman, and a quality actor, who desired to be a leading man, which ultimately seemed to lead to his demise, at age 30. He appeared in...