<b>Fat City Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Roger Ebert considered <em class='bbc'>Fat City</em> to be one of director John Huston's finest films. That is saying a lot, considering that Huston directed such classics as <em class='bbc'>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</em>,<em class='bbc'> The Maltese...
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<p>Woody Allen began directing in the late 1960s, and through the '70s and '80s, seemed to average about a film a year. As of 2015, that hasn't slowed for a moment, and we are the beneficiaries.</p>
<p>To place things in context, Sex Comedy (1982), falls within one of the richest periods...
<p>What does one do, when their first film is so good, that it's still being discussed and viewed seriously seventy some-odd years later?</p>
<p>When your screenplays are turned into superb films directed by others?</p>
<p>You keep going.</p>
<p>Between acting -- Noah Cross in Chinatown, to...
<b>10 to Midnight Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>A crime thriller with equal parts suspense and tedium, J. Lee Thompson’s <em class='bbc'>10 to Midnight</em> doesn’t quite have the cracking fast pacing that similar thrillers featuring Clint Eastwood of the 1980s had, and its uneasy mix of fine acting...
<b>At Close Range Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>James Foley’s <em class='bbc'>At Close Range</em> fashions a dysfunctional father and son relationship that is impossible to tear oneself away from so increasingly fetid does it become as the film runs. The movie works wonderfully as a character piece...
<b>Emperor of the North Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>A tough action picture laced with some comedic interludes, Robert Aldrich’s <em class='bbc'>Emperor of the North</em> is one of those movies from the 1970s that it’s hard to imagine not being a big success in its day. Today, it plays like...
Robert Aldrich's Emperor of the North (1973), has arrived from Fox via Twilight Time, and while we should be thrilled to have another hole in the Aldrich filmography plugged with a quality Blu-ray, the film isn't prime Aldrich. I'd love to have his version of The Flight of the Phoenix.
The...
Was wondering if anybody else had ordered Emperor of the North from Twilight Time. Settled in to watch this and my disc is defective. Freezes up about 8 minutes in at the close up of Lee Marvin against the pines just after the director credit for Robert Aldrich appears on the screen. So...
<p>Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning, available from Twilight Time, appears to be another older, but decent transfer from MGM.</p>
<p>Mississippi Burning is a superb film, with Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand and Brad Dourif in the leads, as they inhabit a very specific time and...
<p>Edward Dmytryk's (The Caine Mutiny) 1958 CinemaScope production The Young Lions, is a WWII drama based upon the book the Irwin Shaw.</p>
<p>It's one of those films with a potentially great cast, inclusive of a blonde Marlon Brando, that while entertaining, never seems to hit the notes that...
<b>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Younger readers may find this almost inconceivable, but when Sammy Davis Jr. married the Swedish actress May Britt in 1960, interracial marriage (miscegenation) was illegal in 31 states. In fact, anti-miscegenation laws were not...
<b>Jane Eyre Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>A gothic romance done up in the grand studio style distinguishes Robert Stevenson’s <em class='bbc'>Jane Eyre</em>. Featuring top-notch star performances from both adult and child performers and suffused with enough mood and mystery to thrill even the most...
It's time to celebrate when another Sam Fuller film makes it to Blu-ray, and his mid-1955, 2.55 aspect ratio House of Bamboo is a doozy.
One of the later 4-track mag stereo only releases, the film looks terrific, although you already know that if you've been reading the commentaries and...
<b>A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Woody Allen’s uneven variation on Ingmar Bergman’s magically intoxicating romantic comedy <em class='bbc'>Smiles of a Summer Night</em> arrived in 1982’s <em class='bbc'>A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. </em>While there are the usual...
<b>Summer Lovers Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>There are lots of beautiful people and plenty of exquisite Grecian locations in Randal Kleiser’s <em class='bbc'>Summer Lovers</em>, but unless one is only interested in people watching, there’s nothing much of substance in this pea-brained excursion into...
<b>House of Bamboo Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>A gorgeously set and shot crime drama inside of postwar Japan, Samuel Fuller’s <em class='bbc'>House of Bamboo</em> is such a mixture of the familiar and the offbeat that it sets its own standard. Peopled with a glowing cast of unique character actors...
Just think about it.
You're in your early 20s, vacationing on the Greek island of Santorini with your significant other, and end up sharing far more with a lovely French archaeologist.
Filled with gorgeous locations, and beautiful naked young people -- this may not have been what Frankie and...
Something new for "A Few Words..."
Yet another rating is being added to the score menu.
Adaptability to 4k uprez.
Rated 0 - 5, with 5 being a virtual 4k image, and 0 being, well...
And there may not be a more appropriate film to act as a first recipient of a rating than Stanley Kramer's...
<b>A Month in the Country Blu-ray Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'> </em></p><p> </p><p>
<em class='bbc'>A Month in the County</em> is another fine "small" British film which is not well-known in the United States but has happily been brought to Blu-ray by Twilight Time. It...
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<b>Places in the Heart Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Robert Benton has not been a prolific movie director, with only eleven films on his directorial resume, but his work includes serious dramas such as <em class='bbc'>Kramer vs. Kramer</em>, <em class='bbc'>Still of the Night</em>, and <em...
George Roy Hill's The World of Henry Orient is a delightful film about two teen girls with a crush on a pianist, who doesn't understand that he isn't Cliburn.
The credits are huge. Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, and his daughter Nora;
a score by Elmer Bernstein;
cinematography by Boris...
Based upon the sex and the city-ish, soap novel by Rona Jaffe, Jean Negulesco's CinemaScope production, does everything that one might ask, especially with Joan Crawford in the mix.
Mr. Negulesco directed (mostly) musical shorts from the late 1930s into the '40s, and made his feature debut...
Steve Kloves' is one of those anomalies.
He's a superb screenwriter, (his first produced was Racing with the Moon in 1984), that has, thus far, only a couple of released features as director.
His first was The Fabulous Baker Boys-- and it's a really good one.
The basic plot -- two pianist...
<b>The Fabulous Baker Boys Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Steve Kloves’ <em class='bbc'>The Fabulous Baker Boys</em> is a charmer, a comedy-drama of uncommon class and featuring undeniably ingratiating performances. This kind of character-driven dramedy is pretty much unheard of in today’s marketplace...
<b>The World of Henry Orient Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Director George Roy Hill certainly proved himself throughout his career a versatile director ably handling such diverse movie genres as musicals (<em class='bbc'>Thoroughly Modern Millie</em>), rollicking adventure (<em class='bbc'>Butch...
We watched Twilight Time's stunning Blu-Ray release of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING last night, and were pretty much blown away by it. However, it did get me wondering. I know that Joan Crawford had a show-stopping drunk scene which was cut, although a bit of it is still to be seen in the film's...