Before he was a director, Samuel Fuller fought in World War II and worked as a tabloid journalist. The former experience shaped his politics, the latter shaped his sensibility. If Fuller’s films sometimes seem simplistic, their simplicity is at least born of sincerity. He knows what he believes, and he […]
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Han Gong-Ju (2013) Here’s to the Next Generation of Korean Cinema! (Review)
The Long Goodbye (1973) The Beatnik and Neo-Noir Classic (Review)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): The King of the Horror Remake (Review)
Arrow’s latest release and one of the highlights of the year’s home release calendar is 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It comes with the embarrassment of extra footage, interviews, and making-of videos. The Blu-ray also features a characteristic effort to bring the film into the 21st century with a […]
Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922): Fritz Lang, again, decades and decades ahead of his time (Review)
Cinema in its essence is a visual medium; the silent film can be viewed as nothing but cinema in its purest form. That’s the theory anyhow. Contemporary audiences have written pre-sound cinema as archaic and therefore unworthy of any prolonged attention beyond that which one would pay to a historical […]