Listen, I’ve always said I hope I die from “spontaneous combustion” while sitting in a movie theater. The reality is that an air conditioner will probably fall from a window and bash my head in while I’m coming home from…
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Opening at IFC Center on Friday April 29 is Vortex, director Gaspar Noe’s shattering portrait of an elderly couple shakily hanging on by a thread in their cluttered, lived-in flat. The great Italian director Dario Argento plays the husband, with…
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Jayne Mansfield on Blu-ray! What more can one say about the glittering array of Blu-ray treats out this month? Frank Tashlin’s hilarious The Girl Can’t Help (starring Jayne) gets the special Criterion treatment. Two of Vincent Price’s best- the Dr.…
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Now out on DVD from Kino Lorber is director Mark Rappaport’s wonderfully meta take on closeted actor Rock Hudson. Using Eric Farr as a stand-in for Hudson it begins seven years after the actor’s death from AIDs which shocked the…
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