The Criterion Collection have outdone themselves with their magnificent, jam-packed seven-disk Blu-ray set of the work of the great French director Jacques Tati
The Complete Jacques Tati on Blu-ray
Author: Kenneth George Godwin
Terence Fisher and science fiction
Renowned British horror director Terence Fisher rarely tried his hand at science fiction; Odeon Entertainment has recently released new Blu-ray editions of his two best SF films, Island of Terror and Night of the Big Heat.
More from Twilight Time
Twilight Time continues to release an interesting assortment of titles, often now with excellent commentaries and impressive supplemental material.
Late summer viewing 2014, part three
The range of my recent viewing covers classic Italian and Eastern European films by Elio Petri and Karel Zeman as well as a pair of 1970s sci-fi/fantasy productions from the BBC, newly released on disk by the BFI.
CarFree: Stories From the Non-driving Life
CarFree: Stories from the Non-driving Life (2014) is a new one-hour documentary from Cagey Films about urban dwellers who consciously choose not to drive and how that decision affects the ways in which they live their lives.
Late summer viewing 2014, part two
A selection of recently viewed films ranges from revisionist horror to horror-comedy to experimental to Hitchcock imitation (or homage), all impressively presented on Blu-ray.
Late summer viewing 2014, part one
Horror, action, mindless violence and exploitation: summer viewing has involved a lot of switching off my brain and watching undemanding genre movies.
Video Nasties Revisted
Video Nasties: Draconian Days, Jake West’s second documentary about Britain’s panic over the evils of home video is a fascinating examination of the political intentions of censorship and the resulting chaotic social impact of the state’s attempts to control personal taste.
Criterion Blu-ray review: Polanski’s Macbeth (1971)
Roman Polanski’s Macbeth stands as one of the finest adaptations of Shakespeare on film, a seamless blend of poetry and harsh realism in its depiction of a cruel medieval world and the futility of ambition.
When “bad” can be good …
There are bad movies and then there are “bad” movies; our relationship with the latter is more complicated than it first appears.
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