Monthly Archives: October 2014

The Vincent Price Collection II (Various, 1959-1972)

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Budd Wilkins

“The Vincent Price Collection II trumps the sophomore slump through the inclusion of several top-notch films, an overall excellent audio-visual presentation, and a bevy of bonus materials from Shout! Factory.” Read my whole review of Shout! Factory’s admirable followup, out … Continue reading →

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Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski, 2013)

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Budd Wilkins

“Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur is a deceptively simple two-hander. Superficially, the film seems to unfold as a textbook study of role reversal (that staple of the psychodrama) in the tragicomic mode.” Read my whole review of Polanski’s perversely engrossing … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Budd Wilkins

“Like the anonymous entwined bodies glimpsed in its opening moments, things tend to commingle in Alain Resnais’s revolutionary first feature, Hiroshima Mon Amour. Marguerite Duras’s oblique script builds on an ever-shifting groundwork of spatial and temporal indeterminacies, a structural technique … Continue reading →

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Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis, 1970)

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Budd Wilkins

“Cotton Comes to Harlem swaggers onto Blu-ray with a superfly transfer from Kino, accompanied, unfortunately, by nothing more contextual than the trailer.” Read my whole review of this entry in Kino’s ongoing Studio Classics series, out last month on Blu-ray, … Continue reading →

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