Category: FILM REVIEWS
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.
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.
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.
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).
Dolph Lundgren IS Red Scorpion
Review of Synapse’s swanky Red Scorpion Blu-ray, starring Dolph Lungren
A Weaker Mystique for Denmark’s The Killing / Forbrydelsen, Season 2
Nit-picky review of the issues faced by the writers of The Killing / Forbrydelsen: Season 2 when the producers cut the episode run from 20 to 10, and perhaps waited too long for a follow-up season + quick thoughts on that familiar-looking Skyfall poster.
Lorne Balfe scores Prince Harry’s Arctic Heroes
Time’s tight today, so there’ll be no editorial blather, and just the facts. Uploaded is a podcast interview with composer Lorne Balfe regarding his recent scoring of the BBC documentary Harry Welcomes Arctic Heroes [M] (2011) in which four British war vets ski to the North Pole under the sponsorship of Prince Harry for the […]
Packaged Goods and Fall / Winter TIFF Bell Lightbox Highlights!
Quick review of this past Wednesday’s Packaged Goods: The Evolution of the Music Video, and highlights of the Fall / Winter programmes at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Besides Bond there’s Indian Expressionism (Lang!), other spy films (Puppet on a Chain!), post-apocalyptic dystopian nihilism (Logan’s Run!), zombies, slashers, opera, exhibits, and many other great films on Fridays & Saturdays I won’t be able to see.
Detroit on the Big Screen
Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.
The Mystique of Denmark’s The Killing / Forbrydelsen
Review of the Danish TV series The Killing / Forbrydelsen: Season 1, which U.S. network AMC recently remade with very mixed results. Søren Sveistrup’s 3-season series is superb, and Sophie Gråbøl found the role of her career as divorced single mom Det. Lund in this lengthy ode to complex, infuriating and addictive detective thrillers.
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