The second to last feature by the great Italian director Luchino Visconti, Conversation Piece is a witty, darkly humorous and ultimately tragic tale of the unwelcome intrusion of modern life onto a wealthy nobleman (Burt Lancaster), who would prefer to…
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A glorious new reconstruction and 4K restoration of Erich von Stroheim unfinished 1929 epic Queen Kelly. This was a dream project actress Gloria Swanson and her lover at the time Joseph Kennedy (who was bankrolling it) brought to director Erich…
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It’s a new year of beautifully upgraded Blu-rays. Not to mention Blu-rays of some above average films released last year. There’s the Italian gothic The Ghost, the thrilling film noir Narrow Margin, the rousing Errol Flynn swashbuckler Captain Blood, the…
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When actress Lizabeth Scott died on Jan. 31, 2015 at 92, the NY Times obituary (beautifully written by Robert D. McFadden) described her as “a sultry blonde with a come-hither voice cut out for the seething romantic and homicidal passions…
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