A mixed bag from Screen Archives

Bone-crunching action in Robert Kaylor's documentary Derby (1971)

The discovery of a previously unknown documentary, Robert Kaylor’s Derby (1971), plus a Blu-ray edition of Stephanie Rothman’s Terminal Island (1973), a rough-and-ready exploitation B-movie, are of much greater interest than Jack Cardiff’s Holiday in Spain (1960), a bloated mainstream Cinerama showcase which dresses its travelogue in a tissue-thin “mystery” plot.

Summer viewing: science fiction

Communing with the sliens in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (2016)

Technical accuracy is not necessarily what makes science fiction satisfying; more important is storytelling, as illustrated by two older, and one recent, movies released on Blu-ray: Byron Haskin’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), Joseph Sargent’s Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016)..

Blasts from the past

Haunted by the past: Karl Marx City (2016)

Entering Other Worlds, part 1

Pete Walker, master of British exploitation

Year End 2011: video

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