Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
Packaged Goods: The Art of the Edit
Editor’s Blog & review of the latest installment of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s Packaged Goods, “The Art of the Edit,” which screened this past Wednesday, and featured a Q&A with award-winning editor Chris Franklin.
Nikkatsu Naughties: Part 2 + Tony Scott R.I.P.
Reviews of another kocking pair of naughty Nikkatsu erotica from Impulse Pictures / Synapse – Debauchery and Eros School: Feels So Good – plus quick thoughts on director Tony Scott’s suicide this past weekend.
Assorted Reviews. Literally.
Minor Editorial Blather, and reviews of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Warner Home Video) on Blu, Elliot Goldenthal’s underrated score for Batman Forever (La-La Land Records), and Tusi Tamasese’s The Orator / O le tulafale, part of First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition at the TIFF Bell Lightbox seroes, ending this weekend.
Space Tales
Minor editorial blather on NASA’s Curiosity rover, and reviews of Outland on Blu-ray (Warner Home Video), Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack on 2CDs (Film score Monthly), and soundtrack reviews of David Newman’s Galaxy Quest (La-La Land Records) and James Horner’s The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony Classical).
Mars: Meet Curiosity
Earlier this morning NASA’s little rover Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars, and sent back two pictures of itself to let everyone know it was alive & well. Wanna see them?
Comic Book Sights & Sounds & Sundries
Blu-ray review of Wrath of the Titans (Warner Home Video), soundtrack reviews of Henry Jackman’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Danny Elfman’s Men in Black 3 (Sony Classical) and odd bits of info.
Rita Hayworth: Part I
Reviews of Twilight Time’s new Cover Girl Blu-ray + Sony’s old, olde Gilda DVD, which is in dire need of a HD overhaul, Criterion-style.
Mini Moguls + Tangerine Dream’s Legend
Editor’s Blog, plus reviews of Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel and The Aggression Scale (Anchor Bay) & Lockout (Alliance / Sony) + CD review of BSX’s new Legend CD.
Architecture in Film: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Review of Chad Freidrich’s excellent 2011 doc The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (First Run Features), America’s controversial public housing project that lived between 1954-1971 before each of the complex’s 33 buildings were imploded. Also added: related review media links.
‘Watch it Without Glasses!’
Editor’s Blog on CinemaScope and reviews of The Robe (Fox) and Demetrius and the Gladiators (Twilight Time), plus Bella Darvi in Hell and High Water (Fox), and soundtrack reviews of Alfred Newman’s The Robe (La-La Land) and Franz Waxman’s Demetrius and the Gladiators (FSM).
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