Category: FILM REVIEWS
Festivals-a-Go-Go + Robert Bresson, Part I
As the TIFF Bell Lightbox begins its latest retro – a full-on salute to French filmmaker Robert Bresson – I’ve added a review of A Man Escaped (1956). Also noted: screenings in town, those that ‘hate’ Toronto, Rob Ford’s ‘irrelevant’ fixation, and the latest Lucasified indulgence that no one seems to care about.
Mysterious Island (1961), Twilight Time’s Nick Redman, and readjusting the concept of MODs
Just uploaded is a lengthy interview with Twilight Time co-founder Nick Redman, and related reviews of Twilight Time’s swanky Blu-ray of Ray Harryhausen’s Mysterious Island (1961), plus a review of Bernard Herrmann’s original soundtrack recording. Also packed into the Editor’s Blog – a lengthy editorial on the illusion of value that’s being sold with existing MOD programs.
Yilmaz Güney, Part II: The Poor Ones (1975)
In Part II, I review The Poor Ones / Zavallilar (1975), recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of their series The Way Home: The Films of Turkish Master Yilmaz Güney.
Ti West’s The Innkeepers
Reviews of Ti West’s latest shocker, The Innkeepers, and Jeff Grace’s soundtrack album (Screamworks / MovieScore Media), plus some opinionated blather regarded big stupid actor heads.
John Guillermin at Fox
Reviews of three films British director John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno) made at Twentieth Century-Fox during the 1960s: Guns at Batasi (Fox), Rapture (freshly released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time), and The Blue Max (Fox)
Festivals-a-Go-Go — Cold War Sci-Fi on the Big Screen
This week the TIFF Bell Lightbox launches its 2-month series Attack the Bloc: Cold War Science Fiction from Behind the Iron Curtain, and I’ve added a list of what’s screening, what’s on DVD, and why these films matter.
Yilmaz Güney, Part I – Yol (1982)
Review of Yilmaz Güney’s Cannes-decorated Yol (1982), part of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s tribute to one of Turkey’s most important directors, beginning this week.
Jan Kadar does CanCon – Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Review of Ergo Media’s new DVD of Lies My Father Told Me(1975), Jan Kadar’s film version of Ted Allan’s semi-autobiographical tale of 1920s Jewish Montreal.
Just Don’t Go There…
Just uploaded: reviews of Synapse Films’ snappy new Blu-ray of Frank Henenlotter’s classic Frankenhooker, and a similar themed Frankenstein riff, Ralph Nelson’s Embryo (1976).
Horror Tales + Desert Noir
Cluster upload of 3 horror films on Blu-ray from late 2011: Apollo 18 (Anchor Bay U.S.), Bereavement (Anchor Bay Canada), and Final Destination 5 (Warner Home Video), plus two unique desert noir films: one’s only available widescreen on laserdisc – Carl Colpaert’s superb Delusion from 1991 – and the other’s a hard to pin down hybrid of noir, comic book crime, and a live-action Itchy & Scratchy cartoon – Jonathan Vara’s South of Heaven (Synapse).
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