The great thing about October is that Halloween encourages home video companies to release horror films, and this year many are 4K UHD new incarnations. But this month also includes rare pre-Code murder mysteries, a fictional film set in the…
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Dark Glasses is the first film in 10 years from the 82-year-old Italian master of the macabre Dario Argento and is a glorious return to “giallo” thriller, but with surprising tenderness and compassion alongside the gore. This was a script…
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Nothing thrills me more than attending the NY Film Festival. I used to hitchhike from Provincetown, Mass. in the 1970s and sleep on the couch of the late, great Cookie Mueller (ironically featured on the Nan Goldin poster for this…
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Released in the UK, and on video, as Clockwork Terror, the original Spanish title is translated as: A Drop of Blood to Die Loving. This amazing 1973 film, directed by Eloy de la Iglesia, is set in a futuristic pop…
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“Lingerie and lunacy” is another way to describe this second glorious Blu-ray box set of the films of pioneer female exploitation director Doris Wishman from AGFA and Something Weird. The Blu-ray collection is called The Moonlight Years (the first box…
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Legendary cult British director Michael Reeves was only 25 when he died of an accidental barbiturate overdose, and, in his brief career, directed only three movies. But at the time of his death he seemed on the cusp of a…
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Quite frankly, the 4K release of the sci-fi classic Invaders from Mars should be enough for this month, but there are also other 4K UHD upgrades of many cult classics, not to mention oddball Blu-ray releases of excellent new thrillers…
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When German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died in 1982, I was reminded of the funeral of another director- Ernst Lubitsch in 1947. Afterwards, Billy Wilder and William Wyler were leaving the burial and Wyler said “Well, no more Lubitsch,” and…
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A new 4K restoration of a brilliant 2005 film by one of my favorite directors- Lodge Kerrigan– Keane is getting a run at Film At Lincoln Center opening August 19 and if you’ve never seen it you are really missing…
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Yes, I must confess, I collect movie stills where actors are screaming or trembling with fear. They always make me laugh. Those freeze-frame publicity shots of mock fright and terror. There’s something so ludicrous and wonderful about them. I have…
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