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‘Hitchcock Waltzes from Vienna’
In tandem with the release of Danny Elfman’s score to Hitchcock (Sony Classical) I’ve uploaded a release of a rarely seen Alfred Hitchcock film – Waltzes from Vienna (1934) – his only, er, musical. Also added: minor Editor’s Blog on best-of lists, and the need to acknowledge Dumb Moves and Missed Opportunities by labels large & small.
Christian Petzold’s Barbara (2012)
Running at the tIFF Bell Lightbox us Christian Petzold’s excellent and very intimate drama Barbara, starring Nina Hoss as an East German doctor quietly waiting for her chance to escape from under the evil Communist thumb. Uploaded in tandem with the film review are mobile editions of three other Petzold films reviewed at KQEK.com – Yella (2007), Gespenster / Ghosts (2005), and Wolfsburg (2003). Oh yeah: and Happy New Year!
Too Good for TV, Part I
Sometimes a TV series seems too good for TV, and in spite of genuine promise and positive critical reviews, it just vanishes from the network – a victim of the budget-cutting, hard-line cancellation or non-renewal axe. Just uploaded are reviews of two British gems – the 1995 supernatural series Chiller (Synapse), and Ultraviolet (Palm) from 1998.
Leith Stevens’ Destination Moon + Chapter 2: The Making of BSV 1172
Quick Editor’s Blog and review links for Leith Stevens’ Destination Moon (1950), recently released on CD by Monstrous Movie Music, plus related material at KQEK.com Mobile. Also added: Chapter 2 of the Making of BSV 1172 at Big Head Amusements regarding burns, spots, and splotches on vintage tube video cameras.
Toronto Film Critics Association Award Winners & Nominees on Home Video
Yup, another list of winners & nominees soon to be and currently available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Bonjour tristesse: Preminger, Seberg, and Sagan
Long & windy review of Otto Preminger’s production of Bonjour tristesse, adapted in 1958 from the best-selling novel by Francoise Sagan, and newly released on Blu-ray from Twilight Time.
Award Nominees on Home Video: Part I
Our first tally of newly announced Best of 2012 nominees plus links to available home video editions.
Enemy Mine comes to Blu
Review of Wolfgang Petersen’s Enemy Mine, that flawed 1985 sci-fi drama newly minted on Blu-ray from Twlight Time, and an Editor’s Blog on the issues with creating an alternate version.
Soundtrack Reviews
Just uplaoded: soundtrack reviews of Ernest Gold’s Ship of Fools (Monstrous Movie Music), Franz Waxman’s Crime in the Streets (Varese), and from La-La Land Records we have Dimitri Tiomkin’s The Fall of the Roman Empire, Victor Young’s Shane, and J.C. Zamecnik’s Wings.
The TFCA 100K Cash Prize Facelift + Eros on Film, Part VII
Brief Editor’s Blog on on Rogers Communications’ recent increase of the top Toronto Film Critics Association prize from $15,000 to a whopping $100,000, and in Part 7 of Eros on Film (You thought this series was dead? Ha!) we look at Tinto Brass’ Cheeky! / Trasgredire (Cult Epics) now on Blu, Salvatore Semperi’s Dark Side of Love / Fotografando Patrizia (One 7 Movies), and Walter Boos’ Schoolgirl Report #9: Mature Before Graduation / Schulmädchen-Report 9: Reifeprüfung vor dem Abitur (Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films).
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