‘Dead of Night’ Haunts Above and Beyond Its Imitators
Film anthology Dead of Night's influence went far beyond what its creators must have imagined.
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Hard, Fast, and Beautiful: The Legacy of Director Ida Lupino
The four restored films in Kino Lorber's Blu-ray box. Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection, give viewers a fresh opportunity to consider the career of Ida Lupino, the only woman directing Hollywood features in the 1950s. Woman in Hiding (also from Kino Lorber) is an example of the work Lupino did as an actress for hire, and which allowed her to finance her own films.
‘The Night Stalker’ Crept Through the 1970s Constraints of Made for TV Film
In the '70s there was something sinister sneaking into suburban homes between the sitcom and the 11 o'clock news where the real horrors played out. The made for TV horror film The Night Stalker would be among the best.
Godard’s Sci-fi/Noir Alphaville’ Is Witty and Subversive
Alphaville's pulpy sci-fi plot acts as a warm coat of familiarity as Godard slyly subverts one genre trope after another.
10 Old-School Halloween Horror Movies: Blu-rays That Go Bump in the Night
Reader, we’ve sifted through many of this year’s ghastly Blu-ray offerings so that you don’t have to. Venture in for watchable goods for your macabre marathons and blood-curdling binges.
David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway’ Loosens Our Grip on What and Whom We Think We Know
We move through life among strangers whom we try to make less strange, and we might even say we “know” a person. Lost Highway shows we no nothing.
New York Film Festival 2019: ‘Bacurau’
Loony anti-colonialist Brazilian satire Bacurau doesn't always balance its humor with its bite, but its communitarian soul, oddball wit, and dark vision of the future still hits home.
Hitchcock Breaks the Sound Barrier in Early Films ‘Blackmail’ and ‘Murder!’
Hitchcock's motif of treacherous toying with filmgoers is intriguing to spot in his early silent-to-talkie thrillers, Blackmail and Murder!
A Private Revolution: Jean-Luc Godard’s Second Wave
Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic oddities First Name: Carmen, Détective, and Hélas pour moi, newly released on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, embody the vast landscape of possibilities open to the director during the '80s and '90s.
Doris Day Plays Kit and Mouse in Hitchcock Imitator, ‘Midnight Lace’
Followed on a foggy night, a menacing voice on the telephone, trapped in an elevator… Doris Day’s Kit Preston verges on a nervous breakdown in Midnight Lace.
Brilliant Moral Science – and Dinosaurs – from the Yeaworth-Harris Trilogy!
From the makers of The Blob, Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr .and Jack H. Harris, 4D Man and Dinosaurus! (restored by Kino Lorber) give film fans a can't-look-away sci-fi gaze into the victims of progress.
Men and Women Behaving Badly: ‘Pursuit’ and ‘The Girl Most Likely To’
Made for TV programs of the '70s really knew how to dish it out. Michael Crichton's Pursuit is all about men conquering each other; whereas Lee Philips' The Girl Most Likely To is a poisoned bon-bon about making pain palatable.