Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011)

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“A tale of two Terences, The Deep Blue Sea gets the deluxe Blu-ray treatment from Music Box Films, with an exemplary transfer and an assortment of illuminating extras.” Read my review of the achingly lovely new Terence Davies film, out … Continue reading →

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Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954)

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“Middling noir bolstered by strong central performances and some canny subtext, Private Hell 36 looks reasonably spiffy in Olive Film’s no-frills Blu-ray package.” Read my review of Don Siegel’s hit-or-miss noir, out last week on Blu-ray from Olive Films, at … Continue reading →

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Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2012)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“Another globetrotting ‘think piece’ from the director of Baraka, Ron Fricke’s sumptuous Samsara likewise focuses on transcendence and temporality, using exquisite time-lapse photography and immersive 70mm cinematography to examine manifestations of spiritual aspiration around the world.” Read my review of … Continue reading →

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Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome. Where the earlier film pioneered disturbingly anatomical ways to interface with the televisual, Cosmopolis delivers an excursion into the immersive ubiquity of the … Continue reading →

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If I Had A Sight & Sound Film Ballot: Budd Wilkins’ Top 10 Films of All Time

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“Bearing in mind the fundamentally mercurial nature of any such list (at least as far as I’m concerned), apt to alter its constituent membership with the swiftness of a weathervane buffeted by hurricane-force winds, I hereby present the 10 films … Continue reading →

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The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“When the world is running down, you make the best of what’s still around. Cinema Guild gives Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse a magisterial monochromatic Blu-ray transfer, supplied with a bounteous cornucopia of mostly retrospective supplements. ” Read my review of … Continue reading →

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