Newly restored to 4K by Arrow, Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino’s True Romance has been released as a limited-edition Arrow Video Blu Ray. It’s a tale as old as time. Boy meets Girl. They hit it off. The girl reveals she’s a call girl hired for Boy’s birthday but has fallen […]
Reviews
Adoption (1975) A Personal Film from an Unsung Female Director (Review)
Released to Blu-ray by Second Run this week is Adoption, or Örökbefogadás to give it its native Hungarian title. A 1975 film from director Márta Mészáros, it tells the story of Kata (Katelin Berek), a forty-three-year-old factory worker embroiled in a longing-standing love affair with a married man, Jóska (László […]
Straight Shooting (1917) and Hell Bent (1918): John Ford quietly establishes the Western’s essentials (review)
The history of silent cinema is famously patchy, and it’s not surprising when you look at how these films were churned out. Straight Shooting, the first film in Eureka Masters of Cinema’s double-bill of silent-era John Ford films, is the earliest surviving film from the future director of The Searchers. […]
Flowers of Shanghai (1998) a Beautiful, Languid Taiwanese Movie for the patient viewer (Review)
One-Armed Boxer (1972) The Good, The Shaft and the Okinawan Karate Vampire (Review)
But I’m a Cheerleader! (1999): the best John Waters film Waters never made (Review)
Encounters of a Spooky Kind (1980) Funny and Spooky, the perfect antidote to a bad day (Review)
The Night of the Hunter (1955): The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First (Review)
By the late 1940s, it seemed that Charles Laughton, that great Scarborough-born star of the silver screen, was losing interest in acting. Believing his performances in films like The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Rembrandt (1936) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) were […]