Monthly Archives: July 2013

Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Erich von Stroheim liked to refer to the traduced and truncated version of Foolish Wives as ‘the skeleton of my dead child.’ Looking at the film today, it’s plain to see there’s still plenty of meat on those bones.” Read … Continue reading →

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Vanishing Waves (Kristina Buozyte, 2012)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Disappear into the hallucinatory dreamscapes of Vanishing Waves‬, looking great and packing some excellent extras on Artsploitation Films’ two-disc DVD set.” Read my review of Kristina Buozyte’s trippy and erotic sci-fi opus, out on DVD this week from up-and-coming distributor … Continue reading →

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The Up Series (Michael Apted, 1964-2012)

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“One of the great social experiments in the history of documentary filmmaking, Michael Apted’s Up series has been reissued by First Run Features in order to include the latest installment, 56 Up.” Read my entire review of the Up series, … Continue reading →

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Heavy Traffic (Ralph Bakshi, 1973)

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Ralph Bakshi’s surreal city symphony blasts onto Blu-ray looking better than ever. More’s the pity, then, that Shout! Factory wasn’t able to scrape together some cogent extras.” Read my review of Heavy Traffic, out last week on Blu-ray in time … Continue reading →

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Hands of the Ripper (Peter Sasdy, 1971)

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Sumptuous as a Merchant-Ivory production and savage as one of George Romero’s zombie movies, Hands of the Ripper mixes the strain of psychological horror evident in Hammer’s filmography (Scream of Fear, for example) with the increasingly graphic levels of gore … Continue reading →

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The Curtis Harrington Short Film Collection (1946-2002)

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Desire and death dwell at the dark heart of Curtis Harrington’s short films in much the same way that implicitly incestuous twins predominate in the first and last of them, both variations on a theme set by Edgar Allan Poe’s … Continue reading →

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Fonda Drive-In Flicks: Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Race with the Devil

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Back in its heyday, the drive-in circuit had its own self-sustaining infrastructure fed by production and distribution companies that specialized in churning out exploitation fare tailor-made for the easily distracted attention spans of audiences otherwise occupied with their own backseat … Continue reading →

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