Monthly Archives: July 2020

The Mad Fox (Tomu Uchida, 1962)

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Budd Wilkins

“Making its Blu-ray debut, Tomu Uchida’s film is a highly stylized ode to love and disorder.” Read my review over at Slant Magazine.

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Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Budd Wilkins

“A superlative Blu-ray upgrade from the Criterion Collection gives new life to Abbas Kiarostami’s lovely, understated rumination on existential quandaries.” Read my entire review over at Slant Magazine.

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The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Budd Wilkins

“Preston Sturges’s farce, delightfully marked by its verbal pyrotechnics and pure slapstick, remains a canny deconstruction of romantic-comedy tropes.” Read my entire review over at Slant Magazine.

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Two from Paul Bartel

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Budd Wilkins

Not for Publication and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills are now available on Blu-ray for the first time. Read my full review over at Slant Magazine.

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Murder by Decree (Bob Clark, 1979)

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Budd Wilkins

“New to Blu-ray, Bob Clark’s atmospheric marrying of fact and fiction still resonates with its themes of political corruption and abuse of power.” Read the rest of my review over at Slant Magazine.

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