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Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull, 1983)
“Full of sound and fury, signifying precious little, Brainstorm on Blu-ray looks and sounds great for the approximately twenty minutes of its run time shot in 70mm. Otherwise, Warner Home Video’s 1080p presentation is like watching the film through a … Continue reading
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Tagged blu-ray, brainstorm, christopher walken, cliff robertson, douglas trumbull, louise fletcher, natalie wood, slant magazine
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Capsule Reviews: May 9 – 12
Lured (Douglas Sirk, 1947) – 2.5/5 Given the fact that glossy melodramas (or, at least, their trappings) were Sirk’s forte, it should come as no surprise that this early noir fails for the most part to achieve, let alone sustain, … Continue reading
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Tagged a fistful of dollars, abbas kiarostami, akira kurosawa, alan arkin, before sunrise, boris karloff, bruce willis, carnal knowledge, certified copy, christopher walken, cinema, cinema reviews, coen brothers, dan duryea, dashiell hammett, don ameche, douglas sirk, edward g. robinson, elliott gould, ernst lubitsch, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, fritz lang, heaven can wait, herbert j. biberman, hollywood ten, howard hughes, jean renoir, joan bennett, jules feiffer, la chienne, last man standing, last year at marienbad, little murders, lucille ball, lured, mikio naruse, miller's crossing, mother, movie, movie reviews, movies, red harvest, rko, roberto rossellini, salt of the earth, scarlet street, sergio leone, the glass key, the woman in the window, vincent gardenia, voyage to italy, walter hill, yojimbo
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Capsule Reviews: May 1 – May 8
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) – 5/5 De Palma’s masterpiece succeeds brilliantly both as paranoid political thriller and personal rumination on the profound power – the sympathetic magic – that results from putting sounds and images together. Features one … Continue reading
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