Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
The Hitchhiker – The (In)Complete Collection
Editor’s Blog on Alliance’s “Complete Collection,” a new 6-disc set which supposedly features all the episodes from The Hitchhiker, the classic Canadian anthology series from the 1980s. I’ve done a breakdown of what’s so incomplete with this repackage of the American HBO set. Harumph…
Festivals-a-Go-Go: Nov. 24 – Dec.1, 2011
Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, Doc Soup returns to the Bloor Dec. 7, Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre, and where you can still get pretty Guillermo del Toro “Fright Night” posters.
Samuel Bronston, Part I
Editorial blather and film review of Samuel Bronston’s epic production of 55 Days at Peking (1963), recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, plus a review of La-La Land’s new 2-CD soundtrack album featuring Dimitri Tiomkin’s complete Boom-De-Boom score.
Festivals-a-Go-Go!
This weekend’s tally & heads-up of local film festivals & retros in Tranna, plus some editorial blather.
Swan Songs
Review of The Left Hand of God, the weirdly understated drama directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney, and released on a fine DVD by Twilight Time.
Maniac Cop, and The Devils!
Review of William Lustig’s Maniac Cop on Blu-ray (Synapse Films), plus details of the BFI’s upcoming Region 2 DVD release of Ken Russell’s The Devils, with some handy-dandy links for further edification.
Charlton Heston
DVD reviews of two notable films starring Charlton Heston from Warner Home Video: A Man for All Seasons (featuring the filmed play), and Treasure Island (marking Fraser Heston’s directorial debut), plus a link to my recent essay on the music of the original 1925 Phantom of the Opera at Rue Morgue’s Staff Blog.
Nicholas Ray: Part II
Film reviews of Susan Ray’s documentary Don’t Expect Too Much (2011), which recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and David Helpern’s rarely seen Nicholas Ray doc I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1975), plus more epic Editorial Blather.
Nicholas Ray: Part I
Film review of Nicholas Ray’s long unfinished and rarely seen experimental film, We Can’t Go Home Again (1976), recently restored and screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Happy Mittel-Halloween
Idle Sunday news bits about “caring sessions” in two Calgary grade schools in place of Halloween, Mario Bava, spooky movies at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Film Forum, Nicholas Ray at the Lightbox, and a screening of Israel’s first horror film Rabies / Kalevet (2010) at Innis Hall tonight.
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