Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
A “Lucartive” Offer
Ever found an email in your box offering 60% of 48 Billion Euros for simply being swell you? Well, it’s probably coming, as detailed in this satirical Editor’s Blog of something genuinely annoying.
Stagecoach 2.0
Review of Twilight Time’s gorgeous Stagecoach (1966) DVD, plus some editorial blather on remakes, and Kritzerland’s new 2-disc Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) CD set, plus multimedia links.
Urban Decay 1.0: The Regal Constellation Hotel
Short piece on The Regal Constellation Hotel, built in 1962 and recently demolished after nearly 40 years of service by Pearson International Airport. Oodles of image links for fans of Urban Decay.
Soundtrack Reviews & Sundry
Reviews of Silva Screen’s compilation series, featuring Music from the Transformers Trilogy by Steve Jablonsky, The Music of Michel Legrand, and The Music of James Horner, plus La-La Land’s complete presentation of James Horner’s Commando. Also: gorgeous Rue Morgue poster art, Julian Roffman’s The Mask + Guillermo del Toro in person at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and David Cronenberg’s Shivers at The Revue. Sometimes I love my city. Sometimes.
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Part II
In Part II, a film review of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Wages of Fear, The / Le salaire de la peur (1953), plus info on upcoming Nicholas Ray films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, with rare audience introductions by the director’s widow, Susan Ray.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
With a retrospective of French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot underway at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, I’ve added a blog regarding Sunday’s screening of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), and info on upcoming titles currently unavailable on home video.
Hollywood Gothic, Part I: My Cousin Rachel (1952)
DVD review of the little-known (well, certainly for me) 1952 gothic suspense-drama My Cousin Rachel (Twilight Time), starring Olivia de Havilland, and a young fresh-faced snot named Richard Burton.
Screenwriter William Rose: Part I
Reviews of 3 films written by William Rose: The Flim-Flam Man (Twilight Time), It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (MGM), and Genevieve (VCI), plus quick thoughts on the current restoration of the Cinerama catalogue for theatrical and home video.
American Porn Tales I: Meet Monica Velour
Editor’s Blog on Meet Monica Velour (Anchor Bay), and vanilla filmmaker fascination with porn figures in American film, plus Brian Dennehy in Toronto this month, and compatibility issues with Anchor Bay Blu-rays + LG players.
Eros IV: Tinto Brass in HD
Editor’s Blog on Tinto Brass’ recent crossover from film to High-Def, via Cult Epics’ new 2-disc Blu-ray edition of Monamour (2005), and his recent HD short Kick the Cock (2009), starring (and written by) model Angelita Franco. Does the world need to see further details of deltan and back-door hair? That’s up to his fan base, but as a filmmaker expertly versed in compositon and montage, his first effort in HD shows Brass has the ability to transgress between formats, with 3D rumored to be be in his sightlines.
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