It’s fall and The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center is back, and not virtual (a word I’ve come to loathe). In the 70s every fall I would hitchhike to New York from Provincetown, Mass. with my tickets for…
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Heartbreaking documentary by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri about Bjorn Andresen, who won the part of Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 Death in Venice. Visconti went on a world-wide search for the beautiful object of obsession for Dirk Bogarde’s Gustav…
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Japanese director Sion Sono has always pushed the envelope in his own crackpot way. One thinks back to Suicide Club with all those Japanese schoolgirls merrily leaping to their death in front of a train; or forever-growing killer hair in…
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Starting in 1995 the US Post Office released a series of “Legends of Hollywood” stamps that were a thrill for collectors and fans. From James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock to Shirley Temple there…
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This month of Blu-ray releases feel like a great big pile of deliriously deranged birthday party gifts. From Luchino Visconti’s wildly controversial The Damned; a pristine version of an early film by Francis Ford Coppola– Dementia 13; a fabulous box…
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