Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
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.
Toronto Film Critics Association Award Winners & Nominees on Home Video
Yup, another list of winners & nominees soon to be and currently available on DVD and Blu-ray.
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.
Award Nominees on Home Video: Part I
Our first tally of newly announced Best of 2012 nominees plus links to available home video editions.
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).
Fritz Lang’s Indian Epics (and thunderous thighs)
Editor’s Blog & review of Fritz Lang’s Indian epic – Tiger of Eschnapur + The Indian Tomb (1959) – which screened this month at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Indian Expressionism series.
Yoav Goren: Creating the Epic Sound of Immediate Music’s Trailer Soundtracks
Podcast with composer / producer Yoav Goren, founder of the speciality trailer music library Immediate Music, plus review of Goren’s latest CD release, Trailerhead: Triumph. Also fresh: Editor’s Blog on the idiotic decision to cancel TVOnatio’s Saturday Night at the Movies.
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.
Canuckle Horror
Just uploaded are a pair of Canuckle horror films from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada – Justin McConell’s supernatural woodsy thriller The Collapsed and John Geddes’ Civil War zombie epic Exit Humanity – and quick notes on Scorpion Entertainment’s release of Death Ship (yes, Death Ship!) on Blu and American Horror.
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