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Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies, 1936)
“Declamatory dialectics and dazzling visuals in about equal measures, Things to Come makes its high-definition home video debut in a crisply clean Blu-ray transfer, together with an excellent batch of explanatory supplements, from the Criterion Collection.” Read my review of … Continue reading
Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979)
“One of director Alan Clarke’s most uncompromising docudramas, Scum rises to the top with a sterling new Blu-ray transfer that’s been freshly struck from original elements, as well as an impressive array of supplemental materials, from Kino Lorber.” Read the … Continue reading
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Tagged slant magazine, kino lorber, blu-ray, Scum, Alan Clarke, Ray Winstone
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Shoot First, Die Later (Fernando Di Leo, 1974)
“One of the great, bleak European crime films of the 1970s, Shoot First, Die Later gets a suitably high-caliber Blu-ray transfer and a full clip of informative supplements from Raro Video.” Read my full review of this Eurocrime masterwork, out … Continue reading
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (Brian Clemens, 1974)
“By the early 1970s, Hammer Film Productions’ flagship Dracula and Frankenstein franchises were suffering from a severe case of enervation—a certain bloodlessness, if you will. One tack taken by Hammer was to open up production facilities to non-studio talent with … Continue reading
Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973)
“Scarecrow embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon.” Read my entire review of this lesser known New Hollywood masterwork, playing for one week starting tomorrow at the Film Forum in NYC, at Slant Magazine.
The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977)
“An obsessively detailed chronicle of obsession, The Duellists gets a sumptuous Blu-ray transfer from Shout! Factory, along with a solid new supplement, as well as some choice carryovers from the earlier DVD, even though there are one or two lamentable … Continue reading
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Tagged blu-ray, harvey keitel, Joseph Conrad, Keith Carrdine, Ridley Scott, shout! factory, slant magazine, The Duellists
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