Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
Ottawa, Part I: Tulips & Pretty Little Flowers
Editor’s Blog on absolutely nothing filmic, but rather Ottawa’s 2011 Tulip Festival, with pictures. Why? Because I can…
Soundtrack Reviews + News
Some brief soundtrack news, and reviews of The Symphonic Celtic Album (Silva Screen), Kristopher Carter’s Yesterday Was a Lie and Abel Korzeniowski’s Copernicus’ Star (both from La-La Land Records)…
The Works of Radley Metzger: Part I
Lengthy Editor’s Blog on the first in (another) ongoing filmmaker series, timed with the release of two Radley Metzger classics in erotic cinema: The Image (Synapse Films) and The Lickerish Quartet (Cult Epics)…
Argento at the TBL and Anthony Gilbert’s “The Woman in Red”
News: Toronto may have been blessed, because July 2nd the TIFF Bell Lightbox will be screening Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) and Opera (1987). Reviews: two versions of Anthony Gilbert’s novel “The Woman in Red” were made into films: the underrated My Name is Julia (1945) and Arthur Penn’s last great feature film, Dead of Winter (1987)…
Moguls & Studios: Part I
In Part I of yet another series, we have a review of the TCM mini-series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (Warner Home Video), plus bonus editorial blather!
Images of Colonial Foolishness
Editor’s Blog on Building Big in rustic areas during the colonial boom, with plenty of image and film links for Beira’s once majestic Grande Hotel, plus links to Bokor Hill Palace, a similar effort in European ego set in Cambodia…
Hot Docs: Part I
Reviews of three films from Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival: Lotte Stoops’ debut, Grande Hotel (2010), Robert-Jan Lacombe’s short documentary Goodbye Mandima (2010), and Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright’s doc Das Block / The Block…
Eros III – ‘Somewhere There’s a Heart…’ + VOTE TODAY
It’s Federal Election Day in Canuckleland, so don’t forget to vote! To sweeten the deal (of course it’s all related), here are DVD reviews of Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Secret of Marijuana (1971) and Schoolgirl Report #7: “What the Heart Must Thereby…” / Schulmädchen-Report 7: Doch das Herz muß dabei sein (1974) from Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films…
Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds: Part I
In this first part examining Orson Welles’ 1938 radio drama of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, I’ve a review of The Art of Time Ensemble’s 2011 stage production + director Andrew Burashko, and related reviews of The Night America Trembled (1957) and Without Warning (1994)…
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