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Showing posts with label DVD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DVD. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

REBECCA - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Hitchcock/Selznick Classic on the Criterion Collection

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Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson in creepy crawly Hitchcock/Selznick romance. Rebecca (1940) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock...
Monday, 31 July 2017

PULSE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Profound Kurosawa J-Horror Classic gets Arrow Blu-Ray

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Now I'm alone with my last friend in the world and I have found happiness. Pulse/ Kairo (2001) Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring...
Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Bob le flambeur - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Classic Melville Heist Picture at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox in summer 2017 series "Army of Shadows: The Films of Jean-Pierre Melville" and via the O.O.P. Criterion Collection DVD.

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Aging high-roller takes the biggest gamble of them all. Bob le flambeur (1956) Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville Scr. Melville & August...
Monday, 3 July 2017

RIFIFI - Review By Greg Klymkiw - The greatest heist film ever made screens at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox in the Summer 2017 series "Panique: French Crime Classics" and is also available on a gorgeous Criterion Collection Blu-Ray/DVD

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Rififi (1955) Dir. Jules Dassin Scr. Dassin & René Wheeler Nvl. Auguste Le Breton Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner,Robert Ma...
Sunday, 2 July 2017

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Louis Malle's Taut Fiction Feature Debut at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox in the Summer 2017 series "Panique: French Crime Classics" and, of course, on a gorgeous Criterion Collection DVD

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Babes. Hunks. Cigarettes. Murder. Paris. UNBEATABLE!!! Elevator to the Gallows - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) Dir. Louis Ma...
Saturday, 1 July 2017

Les enfants terribles - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Melville and Cocteau make for strange bedfellows in this oddball 1950 effort at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox in summer 2017 series "Army of Shadows: The Films of Jean-Pierre Melville" and, via the Criterion Collection DVD.

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Can too much Cocteau be too much? Perhaps. Les enfants terribles (1950) Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville Scr. Jean Cocteau & Melville ...
Thursday, 29 June 2017

Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Grim, Haunting Portrait of Collaboration and Resistance at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox in summer 2017 series "Army of Shadows: The Films of Jean-Pierre Melville" and, via a gorgeous (O.O.P. limited availability) Blu_Ray/DVD via the Criterion Collection

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Collaboration is a dirty business. So is Resistance. Army of Shadows AKA L'armée des ombres (1969) Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville N...
Monday, 26 June 2017

THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Argento Debut on Arrow

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The birth of a horror master, and it was a good birth. The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) Dir. Dario Argento Starring: Tony M...
Sunday, 25 June 2017

THEY LIVE BY NIGHT - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Ray Debut Gets Criterion Deluxe Treatment

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Depression-era novel yields perfect post-war Film Noir. They Live By Night (1948) Dir. Nicholas Ray Scr. Charles Schnee, Nicholas R...
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Milestone restores important lost film.

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Any day is a great day to watch and rejoice in this important "lost" piece of cinema history, but Canada's NATIONAL ABORIG...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

MADHOUSE (1981) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Notorious Video Nasty Gets Arrow Lovin'

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Arrow, the Gold Standard of Genre Home Entertainment, serves up delectable Blu-Ray/DVD of notorious "nasty"! Madhouse (198...
Monday, 19 June 2017

GHOST WORLD - Review By Greg Klymkiw - 2001 Zwigoff & Clowes masterpiece on Criterion

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Shirtless Nunchuck Master fortifies with beef jerky. A sad old man waits for a bus that never comes. Teenage girls in this GHOST WORLD...