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The Deer Hunter is a 1979 film, directed by Michael Cimino, which won some awards back in the day. It holds up beautifully. Shout Factory's new 4k - a pleasant surprise there - is a mixed bag. The master apparently comes from Canal +. IMHO, someone cranked the HDR a bit high, making the film...

For The Invisible Man, Blumhouse, in league with director Leigh Whannell, goes beyond base genre, and has created a beautifully re-invented version of the 1933 Universal classic of the same name, starring Claude Rains, as directed by James Whale, from the novel by H.G. Wells. Elizabeth Moss...

Here's a bona fide classic Universal title from Criterion. The wonderful classic from 1939, Destry Rides Again. James Stewart taking second billing to Marlene Dietrich, as directed by George Marshall, who'd been working in film since 1915. One for the ages, so just grab a copy. It's a new...

I've been waiting for this one. A true gangster comedy. Actually, more than that. In all its 4k - it's Real 4k - glory, this release from Universal is more like the Citizen Kane of gangster films. With a wonderful cast -- Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michele Dockery, Jeremy Strong...

Without a doubt, Paramount's 1933 Alice in Wonderland is one of the strangest films to come from the studio during that era. It is known from contemporary interviews, that the author, Charles Dodgson, known as Lewis Carroll, had always wanted his books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the...

Not too many 5s from these quarters lately, so it gives me a huge pleasure to bring your attention to a superb film, and one of Kirk Douglas' best. Lone are the Brave, 1962, in glorious black & white. A few months ago, I was thrilled to be able to screen Universal's gorgeous new 4k restoration...

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Ronald Epstein submitted a new blog post USHE Press Release: Jaws (1975) (4k UHD) Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

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Hitchcock, Lloyd, Keaton, Hawks, Wyler, Wellman... Victor Halperin? Not a name that generally arises in discussions of the cinema, and yet in one arena, he's legendary, most probably based upon the slightly lower budgeted production he directed just before he did Supernatural for Paramount...

Ernst Lubitsch has a very special place in cinema history. Working his way through acting (Max Reinhardt) and filmmaking in Germany during the silent era, his career in the Colonies began in 1923, directing Mary Pickford in Rosita. Over the years, he became known for a certain sensibility -...

Another Wonderful Kino release from the Paramount library, Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll, directed by the great Lewis Milestone, and a screenplay by novelist, Clifford Odets. The 1936 production, photographed by Paramount stalwart, Victor Milner. Great fun, and a major Paramount release of...

Unless one becomes excited by the thought of Techniscope, as used in the 1966 (second) re-make of Beau Geste, there are two that should be of interest. The first, released (silent) in 1926 via Paramount, and based upon the same 1926 novel by P.C. Wren, starred Ronald Colman, as brother "Beau."...

I came to the conclusion many moons ago, that when a new release is publicized as "New (x)k transfer/ master," that it's pretty much meaningless. And so it is with the Gary Cooper, Paramount production from 1935, Henry Hathaway's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Other than what are probably...

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One of the great American musicals, the 1936 Show Boat, with massive talent in the leads, including one of the finest voices ever recorded, Paul Robeson, and original cast member, Helen Morgan. Derived from a safety fgm, Criterion's new Blu, is the best I've ever seen this film look. Gorgeous...

Round about sixty or so years ago, the French decided to hone in on film directors as the main source of inspiration, and credit for filmmaking. Here in the Colonies the concept was heralded by the great Andrew Sarris, and amplified in his book, The American Cinema. The reality is that...

This is smart. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-03-16/coronavirus-universal-to-make-current-theatrical-movies-available-for-home-viewing-on-friday

The 1933 variant of Song of Songs, based upon the novel by Hermann Sudermann, and the resultant play, appears to be the third incarnation of the film. It was first filmed in 1918, and later, in 1924 as Lily of the Dust, a Pola Negri vehicle, which is currently considered lost. The 1933...

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Between 1950, and his final appearance on film in 1980, James Stewart starred in some very high quality westerns - almost 20 of them. While the best known, were probably for John Ford or Anthony Mann, there were others. The Rare Breed, with Andrew McLaglen at the helm, was released in 1966...

In 1957, a new process, which can be considered the offspring of VistaVision and Panavision arrived on the scene. Three films were released in the process that year. The first was Night Passage from Universal, followed by Escapade in Japan (also Universal), and finally Sayonara from Warner...