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Showing posts with label 1977. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1977. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 October 2015

A SPECIAL DAY - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Italian Kitchen-Sink Love Story now on Criterion

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A gay dissident. An overworked housewife. Can happiness, no matter how brief, be far behind? A Special Day (1977) Dir. Ettore Scola ...
Monday, 16 February 2015

THE ASCENT and WINGS - Reviewed By Greg Klymkiw - Susan Sontag called Larisa Shepitko's harrowing anti-war film THE ASCENT "the most affecting film about the horror of war I know." Shepitko focused on suffering, slaughter and senseless strife and did so in a stunning allegorical portrait of Christ and Judas during the German occupation of Belarus. The movie was miraculously rendered under Communist oppression in the Soviet Union. With WINGS, Shepitko delivered a powerful, romantic look at Russia's fighting women of the Second World War in a post-war world. Shepitko's eye, like a mad pit bull's jaws, always clenched furiously on its quarry and never, ever let it go.

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This is a perfect time to take another look at two films about war by the late Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko (a protege of Dovzhenko a...
Friday, 11 April 2014

SORCERER (New Digital Restoration of the 1977 Classic, Supervised By Director William Friedkin) - Reviewed By Greg Klymkiw in his Colonial Report on Cinema from the Dominion of Canada in the super-cool movie mag in the UK, "Electric Sheep - a deviant view of cinema".

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SORCERER ***** (1977) Dir. William Friedkin Starring Roy Scheider Francisco Rabal Bruno Cremer Amidou Reviewed By  Greg Klymkiw In 197...
Tuesday, 21 January 2014

PARAMOUNT GAME NIGHT COLLECTION - Baseball Films Reviewed By Greg Klymkiw: FEAR STRIKES OUT & Original BAD NEWS BEARS Homeruns, BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY & MAJOR LEAGUE Ball Fours, HARD BALL, BAD NEWS BEARS sequels & remake all Strikeout.

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It's the middle of a cold, dark winter. Hockey is in full swing. Baseball is a dim memory. It seems as good an excuse as any to ha...
Wednesday, 25 December 2013

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - Review By Greg Klymkiw - It's been 36 Years Since I First Saw.....IT?

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Aside from being a great science fiction picture, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is one of the most evocative tales of obsession ever ...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013

THE MESSAGE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Inspirational Epic of Islam now on Anchor Bay Ent. Canada Blu-Ray

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ZORBA the ARAB It ain't all Greek to His Holy Swarthiness! Mohammed, the Prophet, receives a Holy Message from God via the angel G...
Friday, 21 December 2012

TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING by the great Robert Aldrich joins Greg Klymkiw's 10 Best List of Blu-Ray/DVD Releases of 2012 - Today's Accolade is none other than one of the most criminally forgotten political action thrillers of the 70s - gorgeously restored and made available on Blu-Ray from the visionary Olive Films (and in Canada, via the equally visionary Mongrel Media).

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APOCALYPSE THEN, NOW AND THE FUTURE - through the eyes of Robert Aldrich and a great all-star cast. The Best Blu-Ray and DVD Releases o...