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My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii, 1973)

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“My Name Is Nobody gallops onto Blu-ray looking better than ever, but without so much as a single extra for outrider, from Image Entertainment.” Read my review of the Blu-ray release of the Sergio Leone-produced Spaghetti Western jape My Name … Continue reading →

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“Stage and Spectacle”: The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1953)

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

Upon returning to Europe after spending WWII as a Hollywood exile, where he had turned out studio product ranging from the sublime (The Southerner) to the not-quite-ridiculous (Woman on the Beach, which suffered more from studio interference, by all accounts, … Continue reading →

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Capsule Reviews: June 21 – 23

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1920) – 3.5/5 Sjöström’s silent morality play proves a classic example of style over substance (and not in the pejorative sense). Based on a popular novel written as a hygienic diatribe against “consumption” (TB, not … Continue reading →

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Capsule Reviews: May 9 – 12

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

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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